Come & Sing! Jubilate

Saturday 9th November 2019

9.15am registration for 10.00 start - 5.30pm; informal concert 4.30pm


Music for All @ SMSG warmly invites singers to our seventh great Come & Sing! day here at St Mary & St Giles Church in Stony Stratford, conducted for the third year running by Jonathan Kingston.

Under Jonathan’s lively direction we will learn and perform two Festival Canticles: Haydn’s majestic C Major Te Deum, and Benjamin Britten’s ebullient Jubilate. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ beautifully colourful setting of ‘Toward the Unknown Region’, with accompaniment on the Father Willis pipe organ, completes the programme.

Joseph Haydn’s Te Deum in C major No. 2 was written for SATB chorus and organ, with no need for soloists. It was commissioned by the Empress Marie Thérèse, who was a great admirer of Haydn’s music. It is one continuous piece in three parts: Allegro, Adagio and Allegro moderato and is a joy to sing. 
‘Toward the Unknown Region’ was the first major choral piece composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1906 and is warm and inspirational music.
Benjamin Britten’s buoyant Jubilate Deo in C major was composed in 1961 at the request of the Duke of Edinburgh for St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

All funds raised will go to support the ongoing maintenance of the restored Willis pipe organ, so that it always sounds as good as it does now!
This will be a splendid opportunity to sing with the wonderful Willis pipe organ.

Singer tickets £19 (concession £9 for full time students and job seekers) - tickets include score hire and tea/coffee and cake throughout the day.
Audience tickets £3 (concession free for full time students and job seekers).
 
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Venue
St Mary and St Giles Church
Church Street
Stony Stratford
MK11 1BD