CANTORES Chamber Choir with String Ensemble presents a varied programme in Cirencester Parish Church on Saturday, June 23 at 7.30pm.
The headline work, ‘Music’s Praise’, was composed by Michael Hurd, born in Gloucestershire in 1928. Written for the Stroud Festival in 1968, the work sets four poems for chorus and string ensemble or piano.
In celebration of the choir’s 20th anniversary in 2011, musical director John Holloway set ‘Six Poems of John Drinkwater’. Drinkwater was one of the so-called Dymock poets, who lived near the Gloucestershire village in the years preceding WW1.
In contrast, the programme includes three Baroque masterpieces: Handel’s famous coronation anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’, Purcell’s ‘My Heart is Inditing’ and Bach’s ‘Lobet den Herrn’.
Tickets £15, via cantores.net, Andrew on 01242 573193 and on the door.
Concessions available. U16s free.
Cantores will present the same programme again on Saturday, June 30 in Forthampton Parish Church (near Tewkesbury) at 7.30pm. For tickets telephone 01684 292401.
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