{"id":7491,"date":"2016-05-16T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:42:49","slug":"a-summer-evening-concert-at-canterbury-castle-with-minerva-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/16\/a-summer-evening-concert-at-canterbury-castle-with-minerva-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"A summer evening concert at Canterbury Castle with Minerva Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next week, Minerva Voices<\/strong> presents a summer evening performance set amidst the historic grounds of Canterbury\u2019s eleventh-century castle, on Tuesday 24 May.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"WP_20160428_007_web\"The castle is amongst Britain\u2019s most ancient, begun around 1070 to replace a motte-and-bailey construction built as one of several fortifications protecting the Roman road from Dover to London. The keep and surrounding walls are all that remain, and the site surfaces like a blunt reminder of Canterbury\u2019s military history.<\/p>\n

As the sun sets, the ancient flint and sandstone walls of the surviving keep will ring to the upper-voice chamber choir\u2019s colourful programme, which includes medieval plainsong, a contemporary Norwegian folksong, Veljo Tormis\u2019 filigree Spring Sketches<\/em>, Bob Chilcott\u2019s scintillating Song of the Stars<\/em>, and pieces by Mozart, Holst and Gounod. The concert will conclude with a dramatic Norwegian telling of the Song of Roland<\/em>, for which the choir will be joined by percussionist Cory Adams<\/strong>.\"WP_20160428_014_web\"<\/p>\n

\"WP_20160428_012_web\"Admission is free; the concert starts at 7.30pm, and is with the kind permission of Canterbury City Council<\/strong>. Please note that there is no seating at the site, so you might like to bring a blanket or folding-chair; the performance will last approximately fifty minutes. Join Minerva Voices as the sun sets over the historic site for a musical odyssey across the centuries.<\/p>\n