A special night with KES composer-in-residence
A SHAKESPEARE Celebration is the Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society’s next concert on Saturday, 19th March, in Holy Trinity Church, at 7.30pm.
The society tell us it is a fitting setting for such a concert in such an important year, which also happens to be its own 180th anniversary.
It will be a memorable occasion. Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture opens the concert, which is based on Shakespeare’s life and words, and which features two works, both for chorus and orchestra, that have been specially-commissioned by the society.
It will be the first performance of the work A Shakespeare Cantata, written by Toby Young, who has been composer-in-residence at King Edward VI School.
Toby was Guardian/BBC Proms Young Composer of the Year in 2006 and 2008, and university lecturer at Oxford and Warwick.
Time’s Glory, composed by the society’s present conductor, Stephen Dodsworth, consists of five settings of Shakespeare’s words taken from sonnets and plays.
The work was first performed in March 2000. Tickets are £15, £8 students, and will be available on the door, or from the ArtsHouse box office on 01789 207101, or in person from the Holy Trinity Bookshop.