Congratulations to Emma (year 13) who has been awarded the position of principal horn in this year’s NYO, and to Will (year 12) who will be an NYO Associate member this year.
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Open Morning is tomorrow
Thank you to those of you who are coming along tomorrow to help out in the Music Department.
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Rise in Glory remembers kings and queens, mentors and friends—people whose lives inspired some of the most moving music from the 16th to the 21st century.
First half
We open with music written for royalty and state occasion: Alonso Lobo’s luminous Versa est in luctum for Philip II of Spain; Henry Purcell’s grave and tender Thou knowest, Lord, from his funeral sentences; and Judith Weir’s serene Like as the Hart, heard at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. We then hear composers saluting their own: Josquin’s Nymphes des bois, mourning Ockeghem; William Byrd’s Ye Sacred Muses, in memory of Tallis; and Schütz’s Das ist je gewisslich wahr, honouring his friend Schein. The half closes with Herbert Howells’ great elegy, Take him, earth, for cherishing, written in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination.
Second half
John Tavener’s Funeral Ikos sets ancient Orthodox words of consolation—plain yet piercing. Parry’s At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners, blazes with 19th-century splendour on John Donne’s apocalyptic poetry. Bach’s motet, Komm, Jesu, komm, is a plea for rest that blossoms into radiant trust. We end in quiet triumph with William Harris’s Bring us, O Lord God, a vision of heaven crowned by one of English church music’s most glowing “Amens.” Between these works, Susannah Wells offers brief solo meditations for cello that thread the programme together.
Entry is by donation at the door (suggested £15; £5 for students and job-seekers).
Matilda The Musical fans
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And finally …
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