Chester Music Society Choir: 'Come and Sing' Open Day
Sat, 04 Mar
|St Mary's Creative Space
Renaissance to Reformation
Time & Location
04 Mar 2023, 09:30 – 17:00
St Mary's Creative Space, St Mary's Hill, Chester CH1 2DW, UK
About the event
A sing-through of some of the hits of the 16th and 17th centuries, sacred and profane.
Singers of all abilities and all voice parts are invited to join Chester Music Society choir with Music Director Graham Jordan Ellis and accompanist Graham Eccles in a day of fun and musical frolics: from Renaissance to Reformation.
Works to be performed include:
Thomas Tallis : Salvator mundi
William Byrd : Lullaby, my sweet little baby
Tomkins : When David heard that Absalom was slain
Thomas Tomkins : Oh yes!
Giles Farnaby : Sometimes she would
John Dowland : Fine knacks for ladies
Francis Pilkington : Amyntas with his Phyllis fair
Ariano Banchieri : A Musical Concoction
Josquin des Près : El Grillo
Selections from “King Arthur” by Henry Purcell
Telephone 0151 336 5088 or email choirmembers@chestermusicsociety.org.uk for more information.
Download an application form here.