Journeyings A choral voyage of discovery

7.30pm, Tuesday 12 July 2022

Carpenters’ Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ

A choral voyage of discovery bringing together varied music (including piano and violin solos) from across the centuries, to create a fascinating programme with something for everyone to enjoy.

City Chamber Choir’s concert in the beautiful surroundings of Carpenters’ Hall, explores journeys both physical and spiritual.
The choir is honoured to be giving the first performance of a new work by its award-winning President, Cecilia McDowall. Commissioned by Geoffrey Smeed for CCC and its conductor Stephen Jones, Good news from New England, for choir and solo violin, is inspired by the Mayflower voyage and draws on the journal of William Bradford, the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts for its text.

Programme
McDowall Good news from New England | Mathias Full fathom five | Hughes Three swans | Jackson A ship with unfurled sails | Clarke My spirit like a charmed bark doth float | Grainger Shallow Brown | Lauridsen Sure on this shining night | Whitacre The seal lullaby Gibbons The silver swan | Chilcott Even such is time | Weelkes Thule, the period of cosmography; The Andalusian merchant | Vaughan Williams Valiant for truth

This concert is in support of the Carpenters’ Company Charitable Trust.

Tickets: £20.00, £10.00 concession (under-18s/students/unwaged); under-12s free.

Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil Op. 37

7.00 pm, Tuesday. 22 March 2022

St Katharine Cree, 86 Leadenhall Street London EC3A 3BP

Stephen Jones conductor

‘Even in my dreams I could not have imagined that I would write such a work.’
Sergei Rachmaninov, after the first performance

The fifteen movements of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil were written in the space of just two weeks, in 1915. The composer drew on the a cappella tradition of Russian Orthodox church music, weaving authentic chants into nine of the movements and creating his own ‘conscious counterfeits’ in the others.

Join the award-winning City Chamber Choir for a performance of this moving and uplifting twentieth-century masterpiece in the beautiful surroundings of the church of St Katharine Cree.

We are delighted that at this concert, through the generosity of our audience’s donations to a retiring collection, we raised well over £300 for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

Workshop on Rachmaninov: All Night Vigil (Vespers) Op. 37

Saturday 5 March 2022

St Mary-at-Hill, Lovat Lane, Eastcheap
London EC3R 8EE

Stephen Jones Workshop leader and director of City Chamber Choir
Philip Shannon Accompanist
If you are an enthusiastic amateur singer, who would like to explore this a cappella masterpiece, brush up on singing technique and find out about the historical and musical context of the All-Night Vigil during the course of an enjoyable day, then this is for you.

10.00am                        Doors open for registration, coffee and music distribution
10.30am–12.30pm       Workshop session 1
12.30pm–1.30pm         Lunch (own arrangements)
1.30 pm–3.30 pm         Workshop session 2
3.30pm–4.00pm           Tea and cake
4.00 pm                         Informal sing-through

You can download a brochure with all the information you need about this workshop here.