SERENADE TO MUSIC
English Choral Masterworks
Saturday, February 25, 2016, at 8:00pm, at [link to venue page] Trinity Parish Church, Seattle
Pre-concert lecture begins at 7:30
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In the first half of the twentieth century, English composers wrote some of the most richly beloved masterworks in choral history. Centerpieces include Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Shakespearean Serenade to Music, composed for sixteen soloists, and Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, to a text by W.H. Auden. We also include the five spirituals that Michael Tippett extracted from his wartime oratorio A Child of Our Time. The concert also includes masterworks large and small by Arnold Bax, Frederick Delius, William H. Harris, and William Walton. You will hear gentle pastoralism, soft lament, and vigorous acclamation.