{"id":906,"date":"2012-05-22T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/?p=906"},"modified":"2012-05-22T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:32:26","slug":"the-final-term-ave-maria-and-a-summer-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2012\/05\/22\/the-final-term-ave-maria-and-a-summer-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"The final term: Ave Maria and a summer Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chamber Choir is now heading into its final performing commitments of this academic year, the first of which is Friday 8 June<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Part of the University’s ‘Summer Music<\/strong>,’ a five-day festival of musical events celebrating the end of another academic year, the Chamber Choir comes together with the Cecilian Choir for a programme of music in praise of the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n

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Ave Maria<\/em>, on Friday 8 June at 7.30pm at St Mildred’s Church, Canterbury, includes Schutz’s lively Jauchzet den Herren<\/em> for double-choir, and a combined performance of Gorecki’s epic Totus Tuus<\/em>. Other pieces in the concert include Rachmaninov’s Bogoroditsye Dyevo, <\/em>the ‘Kyrie’ and ‘Sanctus’ from Victoria’ Missa O Magnum Mysterium<\/em>, and we’ve replaced Victoria’s version of the motet with Lauridsen’s beautiful setting, together with Lauridsen’s light-footed En une seule fleur<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After the concert, should the weather be fine and summery, we’ll be spilling out onto the greensward behind the church for al fresco<\/em> refreshments, which may even include some impromptu music-making as well…<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a lovely occasion, in the fine acoustics of St Mildred’s, and the penultimate choral commitment of the Chamber Choir’s year; we’ll be making a final appearance in the Music Society Sunday concert, Music for a Summer’s Day<\/em>, on Sunday 10 June<\/strong>, in a boisterous finale together with the Concert Band, Chorus and Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Details about Ave Maria<\/em>, together with all the events in Summer Music, online here<\/strong><\/a>. Don’t miss it…<\/p>\n