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The Fourth Choir: 'A Meeting Place'

Add to my Calendar 30-10-2021 19:30 30-10-2021 21:30 36 The Fourth Choir: 'A Meeting Place' A Meeting Place is a collaborative performance project between The Fourth Choir and an ensemble of Deaf professional musicians and performers, led by Dr Paul Whittaker OBE. The concert aims to takes a step beyond interpretation and create a fully bilingual and bicultural programme that deeply explores how to marry sung and signed performance and create a musical "meeting place" between the Deaf and hearing world. We will premiere an innovative new choral commission by Kate Whitley, that uses an original British Sign Language poem by DL Williams as its source text. ​With stunning a cappella music spanning over 450 years sung in the Guildhall School's state of the art chamber music venue, this will be a voyage of discovery with something new for everyone. Milton Court Concert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Milton Court Concert Hall
Silk St
Barbican
London
EC2Y 9BH
England

Programme

Thomas Tallis – If ye love me
William Byrd – Justorum animae
Thomas Weelkes – As Vesta Was, from Latmos Hill Descending
Samuel Barber – Heaven-haven (A Nun Takes The Veil)
Kate Rusby – Underneath the Stars (arr. J Clements)
Stuart Beatch – Girl Hours
Kate Whitley – Novel Meetings
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Nils Lindberg – Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Manning Sherwin – A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square (arr. J Clements)
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story: 'Somewhere' (arr. Robert Edgerton)

Performers

Nicholas Chalmers – Conductor
Paul Whittaker – Signer

The Fourth Choir

Programme Note

A Meeting Place is a collaborative performance project between The Fourth Choir and an ensemble of Deaf professional musicians and performers, led by Dr Paul Whittaker OBE.

The concert aims to takes a step beyond interpretation and create a fully bilingual and bicultural programme that deeply explores how to marry sung and signed performance and create a musical "meeting place" between the Deaf and hearing world.

We will premiere an innovative new choral commission by Kate Whitley, that uses an original British Sign Language poem by DL Williams as its source text.

​With stunning a cappella music spanning over 450 years sung in the Guildhall School's state of the art chamber music venue, this will be a voyage of discovery with something new for everyone.

The Fourth Choir

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