{"id":6492,"date":"2015-03-16T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2015-03-16T16:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:16:24","slug":"then-comes-the-day-chamber-choir-crypt-concert-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/03\/16\/then-comes-the-day-chamber-choir-crypt-concert-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Then Comes The Day: Chamber Choir Crypt Concert this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no respite in the calendar of performing commitments; fresh from Saturday’s epic\u00a0Colyer-Fergusson Concert, the University Chamber Choir<\/strong> returns to the Cathedral Crypt this coming Friday for an evocative programme, Then Comes The Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The title of the concert is taken from a line in the Hymn to the Virgin<\/em>, ‘Darkest night \/ Then comes the day,’ which features in the concert,\u00a0representing the triumph of optimism over despair in a programme that commemorates European countries involved in the First World War. Your Loyal Correspondent will be joined in conducting duties by fourth-year Music Scholar Emma Murton<\/strong> to fill the ancient and echoing spaces of the Cathedral Crypt with what promises to be a vividly expressive sequence of music.<\/p>\n

\"Chamber_Choir_2014web_square\"<\/a>From the Renaissance austerity of Tallis’ Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter<\/em> through to the contemporary\u00a0colours of Jussi Chydenius, Friday’s concert travels through England, France, Germany, Italy and Finland, and will include Schutz’\u00a0glorious Jauchzet den Herren, <\/em>earthy part-songs by Lassus, Stanford’s purple-hued The Blue Bird<\/em> and works by Purcell, JC Bach and Elgar. Second-year Music Scholar Anne Engels will join the Choir, performing pieces for solo flute including Debussy’s lissom Syrinx<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The concert starts at 7.30pm; more details and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To whet your appetites, here’s Stanford’s The Blue Bird, <\/em>sung by the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n