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2024-03-05 09:02:00
A dynamic performance where singers & instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers: Scherzo Ensemble presents a danced version of Haydn's The Creation
A new danced version of Haydn's The Creation is being presented at New Hall Winchester and St John's Smith Square on 6 and 7 April 2024 by Scherzo Ensemble, and we are we are promised a dynamic performance where singers and instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers!Matthew O'Keeffe conducts the Orpheus Sinfonia with soloists Anna Gregg and Sam Harris as Gabriel and Uriel, and Michael Temporal Darell and Caroline Blair as Adam and Eve. The staging is a collaboration with Welsh choreographer Osian Meilir Jones (currently artistic associate of the National Dance Company of Wales), and designer Jennifer GregoryScherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for emerging singers, best known for managing Longhope Opera in Hampshire where they are performing Donizetti's Don Pasquale on 6 and 7 July 2024, (see the ensemble's website) Further information on Haydn's The Creation from TicketSource (Winchester) and St John's Smith Square's website,
2024-02-09 08:56:00
Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square
St John's Smith Square2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach's St John Passion, and St John's Smith Square will be marking this with a performance from Stephen Layton, Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with James Gilchrist as the Evangelist on Friday 29 March 2024 as the culmination of this year's Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square.The festival, which runs through Holy Week, also includes the National Youth Choir in Fauré's Requiem, whilst the Southbank Sinfonia is joining forces with the Purcell Singers and conductors Mark Ford and Jonathan Schranz for a concert that pairs Mozart's Requiem with Eric Whitacre's When David Heard, Knut Nystedt's Immortal Bach and Kerry Andrew's O Nata Lux.Lunchtime concerts include organist Roger Sayer in Marcel Dupré's Symphonie-Passion plus music by Bach and Alfred Hollins, and the Civil Service Choir, conductor Stephen Hall, in masses by Schubert and […]
2024-01-19 10:14:00
An evening of bold & adventurous programming: wind & brass from Southbank Sinfonia & Britten Sinfonia combine under Nicholas Daniel at St John's Smith Square
Percy Grainger in the uniform of a US Army bandsman, 1917Copland, Mozart, Lindberg, Stravinsky, Alberga, Grainger; Southbank Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Daniel; St John's Smith SquareReviewed by Florence Anna Maunders, 18 January 2024An enormously successful collaboration between two leading chamber orchestrasCombining the wind, brass and percussion players from two fantastic orchestras together into one ensemble, this was an evening of bold and adventurous programming featuring the combined forces from two different exciting and engaging ensembles. At St John's Smith Square on 18 January 2024, members of Southbank Sinfonia and Britten Sinfonia combined under conductor Nicholas Daniel to present a kaleidoscopic and vibrant selection of music originally written for, or specially arranged for, wind and brass (with a sprinkle of percussion too), with music by Copland, Mozart, Magnus Lindberg, Stravinsky, Eleanor Alberga and Percy Grainger.Things began with a strikingly lyrical performance of Copland's Fanfare For The Common Man, in which the legato, open […]
2024-01-08 08:00:00
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