Sounds and Sweet Airs
Music for choir and harp with texts by Shakespeare and others.
Oxford Pro Musica Singers
Alis Huws (harp)
Mark Jordan (conductor)
Concert Programme
James Bassi - Harpsonnets
Cecilia McDowall - A Fancy of Folksongs
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Shakespeare Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Three Shakespeare Songs
David Hamilton - Caliban's song
Herbert Murrill - O Mistress Mine
Holst - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Group 3)
Summer in Oxford is typically the season of garden Shakespeare, and Oxford Pro Musica Singers is pleased to present our version of this beguiling combination for our summer concert: a programme of inventive Shakespeare settings and enchanting music for choir and harp, followed by relaxed drinks in the beautiful garden of St Michael and All Angels, Summertown.
We are delighted to welcome the former Royal Harpist, Alis Huws, to join us for this concert. Read more about Alis :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65470140
The centrepiece of our programme is James Bassi’s Harpsonnets, which sets four sonnets of great contrast in tone and mood celebrating different facets of the poet’s love. We will also sing imaginative settings of Shakespeare by the Finnish composer Mäntyjärvi, the Englishman Murrill and New Zealander David Hamilton, demonstrating the international reach of his enduring words.
Alis will join us again for Cecilia McDowall’s Fancy of Folksongs, a rhythmically vital, almost dance-like compendium of four characterful English songs, and Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Group 3), a compelling setting of the elemental Hindu sacred text for female voices and harp.
We warmly invite you to join us on this summer evening to enjoy these magical ‘sounds and sweet airs’, with which we’ll be pleased to serenade you.
Full details:
https://opms.org.uk/event/sounds-and-sweet-airs/
Tickets £18, £8 concessions
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxfordpromusica
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