# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Choral Pilgrimage 2026: Derby
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: The music of the Spanish Renaissance is the focus of this year’s tour, ‘Lead, Kindly Light’. From sadness to great rejoicing, the wealth of emotions is captured beautifully in selected works by Crisóbal de Morales and Sebastián de Vivanco. 

This year’s tour takes it’s title from a poem by Saint John Henry Newman - a personal plea for divine guidance during times of uncertainty and personal crisis. Kerensa Briggs explores these emotions in her piece specially commissioned for this year’s tour, complemented by James MacMillan’s emotive setting of Newman’s words ‘Nothing in Vain’.

Programme:
Vivanco: Christus factus est pro nobis
Morales: Emendemus in Melius
Vivanco: Assumpta est Maria
Morales: Gaude et laetare Ferrariensis civitas
Kerensa Briggs: Lead, Kindly Light (new commission)
Vivanco: Magnificat Octavi toni
Morales: Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Vivanco: O quam suavis est, Domine
Morales Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix
Morales: Lamentabatur Jacob
Vivanco: Caritas Pater est
James MacMillan: Nothing in Vain (Commissioned in 2021 by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen)
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/derby/the-choral-pilgrimage-2026-derby/200029667402214
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://thesixteen.com/event/the-choral-pilgrimage-2026-derby/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=derby-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Derby
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Derby Cathedral
- **lat**: 52.924821134011
- **long**: -1.4773580431938
- **full address**: Derby Cathedral, 18-19 Iron Gate,Derby, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: The Sixteen (https://allevents.in/org/the-sixteen/10372947)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Derby Cathedral, 18-19 Iron Gate,Derby, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Sixteen
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Choral Pilgrimage 2026: Derby ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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