16 October 2021 | Workshop on Handel: Messiah
16 December 2021 | The CCC Christmas Concert
Choral Workshop on
Handel: Messiah
Saturday, 16 October 2021
St John the Baptist Church, Ripe, East Sussex
Our workshop features some of the less well known choruses from Handel’s great oratorio.
With City Chamber Choir | Stephen Jones: Director | Philip Shannon: Accompanist
Sessions: 10.00am–1.00pm, 2.00–5.00pm. Coffee, tea and cake included. Please bring your own lunch.
Scores: We will be using the Novello edition, edited by Watkins Shaw. Please bring your own copy. (NB other editions may not contain all the choruses that we are studying.)
Please study the music before you come. Here is a link to a note-learning website: http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Handel/Messiah/messiah.html
Choruses to be studied (time permitting)
4. And the glory
7. And he shall purify
12. For unto us
24. Surely he hath born our griefs
25. And with his stripes
26. All we like sheep
28. He trusted in God
35. Let all the angels of God
37. The Lord gave the word
39. Their sound is gone out
50. O death, where is thy sting
51. But thanks be to God
Appendix Break forth into joy
The CCC Christmas Concert
16 December 2021
St Katharine Cree, Leadenhall Street, London EC3A 3BP
Details to follow.