TO CELEBRATE HM QUEEN’S 90TH BIRTHDAY, Sunday, 19 June 2016, 6pm at St Mary’s Church

St Mary’s Choir perform Handel’s Zadok and Vivaldi’s Gloria

The combined choirs of St Mary’s Church in Barnes will perform a feast of baroque music on Sunday 19th June at 6pm. Accompanied by period instruments, the choirs will join in the national celebrations of HM Queen’s 90th birthday by singing one of Handel’s much loved Coronation Anthems. Zadok’s justly famed rousing introduction and exciting choral entry was first performed for the coronation of King George II and has been heard at every coronation since. Vivaldi’s Gloria was composed for an orphanage in Venice and was immediately well-received, thanks to the composer’s typically joyous and vigorous rhythms allied to evocative harmonies.

The concert is in aid of the church’s Music Fund which supports scholarships for sixth-form musicians who aspire to choral and organ awards at university. Commenting on the preparations for the concert, Director of Music at St Mary’s, Daniel Turner said “preparing these wonderfully rhetorical works is so good for a choir like St Mary’s as they have to live every word and note. The choristers must express the dance-like rhythms and sheer exuberance of this style of music or else the whole thing does not really come alive as it should. It is very exciting for us to work with baroque instrumentalists as their sound and articulation really brings out the dynamism of the musical writing.”

The tickets are £12 each. Those under 16 will be admitted free of charge.

Cheques should be payable to St Mary Barnes, with ‘Baroque‘ written on the back, please.To secure tickets, please send or drop a cheque into St Mary’s Church, Barnes, SW13 9HL. Confirmations will be sent out after 24 May.

For further information please email [email protected]
or telephone 020 8741 5422.