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From Moondog to Pastiche, Parody and the Erotic, London Concord Singers at Hampstead Town Hall, 15 M
Added: (Wed Feb 06 2008)
For their concert on Saturday 15th March at 7.30pm at Hampstead Town Hall, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP, London Concord Singers (conductor Malcolm Cottle) will be presenting a lively and entertaining mix of music ranging from pastiche and parody, to the remarkable and the erotic. The programme features music by Elgar, Moondog, John Gardner, Philip Cranmer, Mary Jane Leach, Michael Mullen and a world premiere by Robert Hugill. Tickets, price £9 (concessions £5), are available in advance from Islington Music, telephone 020 7354 3195, or on the door price £10 (concessions £6)
Michael Mullen’s entertaining Missa Sonus Musicae is a pastiche of a renaissance mass, but based on themes from the musical The Sound of Music. Philip Cranmer’s 3 Parodies on “Lloyd George Knew my Father”, takes the well known hymn Onward Christian Soldiers and creates 3 witty parodies - of a Palestrina motet, a madrigal by Morely and an anthem by Sullivan; each parody setting Cranmer’s own words. Cranmer’s contemporary, John Gardner, sets 5 diverse poems by American poet Wallace Stevens including his wryly erotic depiction of St. Ursula in her garden. The choir will be joined by French horn player, Patrick Clements for the premiere of Robert Hugill’s setting of Dylan Thomas’s poem, Do not go gentle into that good night. Finally London Concord Singers will be singing a group of madrigals by Moondog, the remarkable self taught blind American poet and composer who, for much of his life, lived on the streets of New York wearing his own home-made clothes based on the Norse God Thor.
Complete programme:-
Moondog - Madrigals
Elgar - As Torrents in Summer
Elgar - Go, Song of Mine
Mary Jane Leach - Song of Sorrows
Michael Mullen - Missa Sonus Musicae
Philip Cranmer - Three Parodies on “Lloyd George Knew my Father”
John Gardner - Five Part-songs to poems by Wallace Stevens
Robert Hugill - Do not go gentle into that good night