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23 echo Choir

Part of the Ryedale Festival Summer 2019

Add to my Calendar 17-07-2019 21:45 17-07-2019 23:45 36 23 echo Choir Poetry and music on the theme of mortality, as echo join Roger McGough in a programme that ranges from the profoundly moving Funeral Sentences that Purcell composed for a much-loved monarch to iconic songs by The Smiths, alongside poems that muse with wit and wisdom on the end of life. All Saint's Church, Kirkbymoorside DD/MM/YYYY

Details

All Saint's Church
Church Street
Kirkbymoorside
North Yorkshire
YO62 6AZ
England

Programme

Henry Purcell – Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z.860
Henry Purcell – Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences, Z.50
Robert Ramsey – When David Heard
Edgar Leslie Bainton – And I saw a new heaven
Edward Elgar – They Are At Rest, anthem
Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek
The Smiths – There is a light and it never goes out
The Smiths – Cemetery Gates

Performers

Roger McGough – Reader

Echo Choir

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Programme Note

Poetry and music on the theme of mortality, as echo join Roger McGough in a programme that ranges from the profoundly moving Funeral Sentences that Purcell composed for a much-loved monarch to iconic songs by The Smiths, alongside poems that muse with wit and wisdom on the end of life.

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