Opus Anglicanum at the Two Moors Festival
Oct
23
4:00 pm16:00

Opus Anglicanum at the Two Moors Festival

Opus Anglicanum will be performing their programme Song of Angels at the Two Moors Festival.  A celebration of angels as invisible companions and guardians, as spiritual warriors, muses of creativity and as messengers, heralds, and healers.  With specially composed music by Diana Burrell and Howard Skempton.

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Opus Anglicanum: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sept
24
7:30 pm19:30

Opus Anglicanum: A Midsummer Night's Dream

This entertaining sequence places the most beautiful moments from Shakespeare’s popular and masque-like play, with music from Renaissance Italy,  Elizabethan London and works by Elgar, Schubert, and Brahms.  A feature is Gordon Crosse’s Spring Awakening of 2009, setting Bottom’s Dream from the play.  The sequence concludes with Wilbye’s exquisite Draw on Sweet Night.

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Opus Anglicanum: David Jones, 1916 Mamet Wood
Jul
22
6:00 pm18:00

Opus Anglicanum: David Jones, 1916 Mamet Wood

The story of the 1916 Battle of Mamet Wood read from David Jones’ poem In Parenthesis of 1937.  Music from Schubert, Palestrina, Josquin and two new works: Cheryl Frances-Hoad In the crypt of the wood, composed with inspiration from David Jones’ drawing Vexilla Regis.  Wain Park's Sequence: In Parenthesis brings together snatches of tunes referred to by David Jones in the poem, including Welsh and English songs and hymns, music hall and soldiers trench songs.

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Opus Anglicanum: Mediaeval Music for The New Chaucer Society
Jul
13
8:00 pm20:00

Opus Anglicanum: Mediaeval Music for The New Chaucer Society

In association with the New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, which is being held at Queen Mary 11-15 July 2016, Opus Anglicanum (five male singers who perform unaccompanied musical and narrative sequences) will present a sequence on St Radegund and Venantius Fortunatus, including new compositions by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

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Opus Anglicanum:  Merrily Sing Our Harvest Home
Mar
19
7:30 pm19:30

Opus Anglicanum: Merrily Sing Our Harvest Home

A celebration for Droitwich Concert Club in their final season after 43 years of music making. A joyful and festive sequence of music by Handel, Byrd, Purcell, Sullivan, Parry, Elgar, Folksong and Music Hall, with entertaining and enlivening readings on music and celebration from Dickens, Burton, Milton, Lear and Johnson.

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