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Gwseppe Verdi (1813 — 1901)
Verdi was bornin Le Roncole,
an Italian village near Busseto,
Duchy of Parma, into a family
of small landowners and inn-

keepers. He displayed musical
talent very early, receiving his

first organ lessons at the age of
7 and even playing the organ at

a local church. Verdi's parents
moved from Le Roncole to
Busseto when he was 10, and
the following year Verdi began
to study composition privately
with Ferdinando Provesi. By the age of 15 he had already
started composing and had become an assistant church
organist. At the age of 20 he moved to Milan, but was
rejected by the Conservatory of Music there so studied

privately with Vincenzo Lavigna. In Milan he also came
under the patronage of Antonio Barezzi, a rich merchant
and the President of the local Philharmonic Society and
whose daughter, Margherita, was Verdi's student and later
his wife. Verdi became the most prominent of young Italian
composers and dominated the world of Italian opera from
his first triumphant success at La Scala, Milan, with

Nabucco (1842), until his final two Shakespearean
masterpieces, Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893, when he
was 80), both of which were staged at the same opera
house.
Among the other best-known of his 28 operas are Macbeth

(1847), Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853), La Traviata
(1853), La Forza del Destino (1862), Don Carlos (1867) and
Aida (1871).
Verdi's career coincided with the rise of Italian nationalism

during the Austrian occupation. His operatic output of
stirring melody, and tragic and heroic situations, struck a

chord in an Italy struggling for freedom and unity, causes
which he embraced. (Va, pensiero, the famous Chorus of

the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco, became a popular song
among supporters of Italian unification; they would also
shout "Viva VERDI!" as a clandestine slogan at many of his

opera performances, the letters ‘V.E.R.D.I’, standing for
Vittorio Emanuele Re d’ltalia, the King of Sardinia, who

would be placed on the throne of a united Italy.)
After an extended excursion to Paris in 1853, Verdi
returned to Busseto, where he wrote Simon Boccanegra
(1857) and Un Ballo in Maschera (1859), both of which
embroiled him further in politics. By this time he had been
elected representative of Busseto in the provincial
parliament. In 1861, after Victor Emmanuel became King of
Italy, he entered the country’s newly-formed national
parliament, ultimately serving as a senator, but did not
stand for re-election when his term expired in 1865,
preferring to devote his time to music.
Verdi lived in Milan during the last years of his life, revered
and honoured in both his homeland and throughout the

world. At his state funeral in 1901, the cortege was
accompanied not only by immediate family and friends, but

also by members of the Italian royal family and parliament,
civic dignitaries, foreign diplomats and fellow composers,
among them Puccini, Mascagni and Leoncavallo. Led by
Arturo Toscanini, the forces of La Scala sang Va, pensiero

joined by the muted voices of the thousands of people
lining the black-draped streets, paying their last respects to

the man who had dominated the Italian musical scene for
half a century.

Gunseppe Verdi (1813 — 1901)
Verdi was bornin Le Roncole,
an Italian village near Busseto,
Duchy of Parma, into a family
of small landowners and innkeepers. He displayed musical
talent very early, receiving his

first organ lessons at the age of
7 and even playing the organ at

a local church. Verdi's parents
moved from Le Roncole to
Busseto when he was 10, and

the following year Verdi began
to study composition privately
with Ferdinando Provesi. By the age of 15 he had already
started composing and had become an assistant church
organist. At the age of 20 he moved to Milan, but was

rejected by the Conservatory of Music there so studied
privately with Vincenzo Lavigna. In Milan he also came
under the patronage of Antonio Barezzi, a rich merchant
and the President of the local Philharmonic Society and
whose daughter, Margherita, was Verdi's student and later
his wife. Verdi became the most prominent of young Italian
composers and dominated the world of Italian opera from

his first triumphant success at La Scala, Milan, with

Nabucco (1842), until his final two Shakespearean
masterpieces, Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893, when he
was 80), both of which were staged at the same opera

house.
Among the other best-known of his 28 operas are Macbeth
(1847), Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853), La Traviata
(1853), La Forza del Destino (1862), Don Carlos (1867) and
Aida (1871).

Verdi's career coincided with the rise of Italian nationalism

during the Austrian occupation. His operatic output of
stirring melody, and tragic and heroic situations, struck a

chord in an Italy struggling for freedom and unity, causes
which he embraced. (Va, pensiero, the famous Chorus of
the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco, became a popular song

among supporters of Italian unification; they would also
shout "Viva VERDI!" as a clandestine slogan at many of his
opera performances, the letters ‘V.E.R.D.I’, standing for
Vittorio Emanuele Re d’ltalia, the King of Sardinia, who
would be placed on the throne of a united lItaly.)
After an extended excursion to Paris in 1853, Verdi
returned to Busseto, where he wrote Simon Boccanegra
(1857) and Un Ballo in Maschera (1859), both of which

embroiled him further in politics. By this time he had been
elected representative of Busseto in the provincial
parliament. In 1861, after Victor Emmanuel became King of

Iltaly, he entered the country’s newly-formed national
parliament, ultimately serving as a senator, but did not
stand for re-election when his term expired in 1865,
preferring to devote his time to music.
Verdi lived in Milan during the last years of his life, revered
and honoured in both his homeland and throughout the
world. At his state funeral in 1901, the cortege was
accompanied not only by immediate family and friends, but
also by members of the Italian royal family and parliament,
civic dignitaries, foreign diplomats and fellow composers,
among them Puccini, Mascagni and Leoncavallo. Led by
Arturo Toscanini, the forces of La Scala sang Va, pensiero

joined by the muted voices of the thousands of people

lining the black-draped streets, paying their last respects to
the man who had dominated the Italian musical scene for

half a century.

The origins of the Messa da Requiem
In 1868, when Verdi was in his mid-fifties, the great Italian
composer Gioachino Rossini, famed especially for his
39 operas, died. Verdi, who eulogised Rossini as “one of
the glories of Italy,” proposed a musical tribute by Rossini’s
colleagues: a requiem mass, the individual sections of
which would be composed by 13 leading Italian composers

of the day, each of whom would contribute one movement.
Verdi himself set about writing the closing Libera me, and
assigned the remaining sections of the mass to the other
12 composers according to an overall tonal and textural
plan. Nearly all were influential church musicians, but most

had also written for the stage — although they and their
music are largely unknown today.

The project was completed early in 1869, when all of the
individual movements were gathered in Milan, and
submitted to Ricordi, Verdi’s publisher in the city. Verdi’s
original proposal was to have the Messa per Rossini

performed in Bologna, on 13 November 1869, the first
anniversary of Rossini’s death. After this first and only
performance, the score would be sealed and placed in the

vault of Bologna’s Music School as a monument to Rossini,
who had spent much of his career in that city.

Unfortunately this grandiose gesture was sabotaged by a
lack of available funds and by Italian musical/political
rivalries between the cities of Bologna and Milan. The
performance, although scheduled, was cancelled by the
organising committee only days beforehand. Thus although
the requiem was compiled and completed, it was not
performed during Verdi's lifetime (but see postscript).

Verdi briefly considered writing a complete mass himself,
but abandoned the idea as he had important opera

commissions to fulfil, not the least of which was writing
Aidato commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal.
However, the death of Alessandro Manzoni in 1873
rekindled Verdi’s interest in writing a requiem mass.

Manzoni was a towering and venerated literary figure, the
author of novels, plays and poetry and a leading voice of
the Catholic spiritual revival that took place in 19th-century
ltaly. In common with Verdi, he was also an ardent
supporter of the struggle for Italian independence and
unification.

Verdi read the Manzoni obituaries with disappointment.
“Not one sounds the way it should,” he said, “Many words,
but none of them deeply felt.” He then wrote to his
publisher, Giulio Ricordi, saying “I would like to show my
love and esteem for that great man... ... to compose a
Messa da morto to be performed next year on the
anniversary of his death. This mass would be of quite vast
proportions...” Verdi was so serious about the project he

offered to conduct it himself and even to pay the copyist’s
fees.

Unlike the ill-fated Messa per Rossini, this requiem mass

came to splendid fruition. Using the Libera me and his
sketches for a Dies irae prepared for the abortive Rossini
memorial, Verdi spent much of the next year composing his
Messa da Requiem. He completed the score in April 1874
and conducted its first performance in the Church of San
Marco, Milan, on 22nd May, one year after Manzoni’s
death and exactly as he had intended.
The response to the premiere was so enthusiastic (at least
three movements were encored) that the Milanese
demanded three more performances, produced at no less a
venue than La Scala. Similar enthusiasm was seen at
subsequent performances when, shortly afterwards, Verdi
took the work on an international tour which included

Paris, London and Vienna, as well as venues throughout

ltaly and Germany.

emotionally charged style of Italian opera. In the texts of the
requiem mass he found a ready-made, dramatic and
operatic ‘libretto’ that covered the entire range of human

But predictably, there were dissenting voices, mainly from

emotions, from terror, shame and sadness to hope and

critics who found Verdi’s treatment of the Latin texts too

exaltation. Thus Verdi’s Requiem stands as an honest

“operatic” and overtly theatrical (a reaction with ample

spiritual testament from a man who naturally conceived and

historical precedent — Handel’s Messiah being just one work

described his experiences in powerful, direct and

castigated on precisely the same grounds).

unashamedly theatrical terms.

Among those hostile to the work was the famous conductor

Postscript: For more than a century, the Messa per Rossini

Hans von Biilow, a champion of both Wagner and of

was known only as the first chapter in the story of Verdi’s

Verdi’s great contemporary Johannes Brahms. Perhaps

Reguiem. However a complete score, together with several

thinking he was defending Brahms’ £in deutsches Requiem

autograph scores of the individual movements, was

against an Italian rival, and despite choosing to miss the

discovered in 1970 by American musicologist David Rosen,

concert, von Biilow wrote an article deriding the piece as

while he was in Milan researching Verdi. The mass had long

Verdi’s “latest opera, though in ecclesiastical robes.” A

been supposed lost, but had in fact been gathering dust in

succinct rebuttal came from Brahms himself who, having

the Ricordi archives. It was finally given its world premiere

actually heard it, said “only a genius could have written

in 1988 at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart, by

such a work.”

Helmuth Rilling and the Gachinger Kantorei — a mere
119 years behind schedule!

When von Biilow finally heard Verdi’'s Requiem some

18 years later, he was moved to tears. He wrote to the
composer to apologise, whereupon Verdi wryly remarked
that he may have been right the first time!

What had escaped von Bilow and other critics is that the
composition’s most overtly dramatic moments also provide
its most moving and even devout passages. Verdi certainly

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Messa da Requiem — The Music
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Requiem and Kyrie

Il.

Sequenza (Dies irae)

/ll. Offertorio (Domine Jesu)
IV. Sanctus

V.

Agnus Der

VI. Lux aeterna

VIl Libera me

I. Requiem and Kyrie

The work begins quietly: muted cellos establish the
solemnity of the movement, followed by the opening
Requiem, the prayer for eternal rest, from a hushed choir.
Te decet hymnus is a four-part melody for unaccompanied
choir which shows Verdi to be a master of the art of
counterpoint; this is followed by a repeat of the hushed
opening music. The four soloists then enter one by one at
the Kyrie eleison, a prayer set to a noble, flowing prayer for
divine compassion.

Il. Sequenza (Dies irae)

Verdi’s setting of the sequence text Dies irae is both
complex and lengthy, its nine widely contrasting sections or
themes occupying more than one-third of the entire piece.
i) Dies irae: The movement opens dramatically with four
staccato chords on the bass drum followed by full fortissimo
orchestra and chorus, revealing the terror of the dreaded
and awe-inspiring Day of Judgement. (Verdi may have been
inspired, in part, by the similarly massive setting of the Dies
irae in the Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts of 1837.) The
mood quietens at Quantus tremor est futurus, which leads
directly into:

ii) Tuba mirum: Trumpet fanfares echo between the
orchestra and offstage trumpets, building to a climax with

the choir and orchestra. By contrast, Mors stupebit shows
the fear of the bass soloist, standing aghast at the
resurrection of all dead souls, his voice catching repeatedly
on the word Mors (death).

iii) Liber scriptus: This powerful mezzo-soprano aria was

written for the London premiere of 1875 to replace a choral
fugue felt by Verdi to be lacking in drama, especially as it is
followed by a brief reprise of the Dies irae.

iv) Quid sum miser: A bleak trio of lamentation for the
three upper solo voices, including a haunting
accompaniment by a solo bassoon.

v) Rex tremendae majestatis: The opening text, with its
distinctive dotted-note rhythm, is thundered out by the
basses, followed by Salva me, a plea for mercy from all four
soloists, who are then joined by the full chorus for a great
emotional climax.

vi) Recordare: A prayerful duet for soprano and mezzosoprano, followed by arias for the male soloists. In all three
sections, Verdi gives his gift for melody free reign.
vii) Ingemisco: The tenor soloist takes up the penitential
prayer in a mood of tender lyricism evoked by reference to
the pardoning and redemption of the sinner Mary
Magdalen.

viii) Confutatis maledictis: The bass soloist pleads for
mercy at his hour of death in an expressive aria before the
chorus again interjects with a blazing final reprise of the
Dies irae.

ix) Lacrymosa: In essence, the closing scene of this religious
drama’s first act. A simple and prayerful lament is heard first
from the mezzo-soprano soloist and then taken up by the
chorus. Pie Jesu Domine is a short unaccompanied passage

for solo quartet and the section closes with a hushed Amen,

VI. Lux Aeterna

a sobering conclusion to a movement that began with

The brief Lux aeterna, a tremulous, almost chant-like trio for

images of fire and brimstone.

the three lower solo voices, is remarkable for some of the

l1l. Offertorio (Domine Jesu)

Verdi.

most ethereal, luminous orchestral scoring ever used by
The entire movement is a showpiece for solo quartet and
comes as a refreshing contrast to much of the preceding

VII. Libera Me

Dies irae, as the supplicants entreat for deliverance of the

As with the Dies irae, the Libera me is complex and lengthy

faithful dead from the pain of hell. One of the great

in structure. This powerful final movement, for soprano and

moments of the work comes well into the movement with

chorus, is based on that which Verdi wrote for the Rossini

the entry of the soprano, as Michael the holy Standard-

Requiem of 1869. However, much of the musical material

Bearer, on an E sustained for an entire five bars. This is

used in the earlier movements of this Manzoni Requiem is

followed by the first of two fugue-like statements of the

reprised here, especially some of the most striking and

music for Quam olim Abrahae
— a reminder to the Lord of

memorable themes: the tempestuous Dies irae and the

his promised redemption. Following the tranquillity of the

opening Requiem aeternam, magically re-scored in a

central Hostias comes a repeat of Quam olim Abrahae and

breathtakingly beautiful setting for unaccompanied chorus

the movement ends with the soprano floating on a high A

led by the soprano soloist. The work draws to an end with a

flat.

sprightly fugue on Libera me, Domine but concludes with a
hushed and intense prayer for deliverance. This palpably

IV. Sanctus

lacks the serenity that comes from a certainty of salvation

The movement begins with a trumpet fanfare and energetic

and in all likelihood reflects the uncertainty of this

exclamations from the chorus, after which Verdi again

composer over his own ultimate destiny.

displays his skill in contrapuntal writing: the chorus then
sing the entire Sanctus, Benedlictus and Hosanna in an
animated, unbroken double fugue (eight-part counterpoint
for two choirs) which bounces along joyfully, in striking

contrast to anything heard thus far in the work.
V. Agnus Dei

This, the shortest movement of the Requiem, is also the
simplest, beginning with the soprano and mezzo-soprano

soloists who sing in octaves, unaccompanied. The chorus
then enters, also in unison octaves, but with sparse

orchestral accompaniment, and a series of exchanges

ensues during which the music grows in warmth and
lushness.

(There will be no interval in this performance.)

The Requiem
I. Requiem and Kyrie
Quartet and Chorus:
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,

Grant them eternal rest, Lord,

Et lux perpetua luceat ers.

And may perpetual light shine on them.

Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et

Thou, Lord, art praised in Sion, and

Tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem

A vow shall be paid to Thee in Jerusalem.

Exaudi orationem meam:

Hear my prayer,

Ad te omnis caro veniet.

To Thee all flesh shall come.

Kyrie eleison.

Lord have mercy upon us.

Christe eleison.

Christ have mercy upon us.

Il. Sequenza

Chorus:
Dies irae, dies illa,

Day of wrath, that day

Solvet saeclum in favilla,

Will dissolve the earth in ashes

Teste David cum Sibylla.

As David and the Sibyl bear witness.

Quantus tremor est futurus,

What dread there will be

Quando judex est venturus,

When the Judge shall come

Cuncta stricte discussurus!

To weigh all things strictly.

Bass and Chorus:
Tuba mirum spargens sonum,

A trumpet, spreading a wondrous sound

Per sepulcra regionum,

Through the graves of every land,

Coget omnes ante thronum.

Will drive all before the throne.

Mors stupebit et natura,

Death and Nature will be astonished

Cum resurget creatura,

When all creation rises again

Judlicanti responsura.

To answer to the Judge.

Mezzo-soprano and Chorus:
Liber scriptus proferetur,

A book of writing will be brought forth

In quo totum continetur,

Containing everything for which

Unde mundlus judicetur.

The world shall be judged.

Judex ergo cum sedebit,

Therefore when the Judge takes his seat

Quidquid latet apparebit:

Whatever is hidden will appear.

Nil inultum remanebit.

Nothing will remain unavenged.

Dies irae, dies illa,

Day of wrath, that day

Solvet saeclum in favilla,

Will dissolve the earth in ashes

Teste David cum Sibylla.

As David and the Sibyl bear witness.

Soprano, Mezzo-soprano and Tenor:

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?

What then shall | say, wretch that | am,

Quem patronum rogaturus,

What advocate entreat to speak for me,

Cum vix justus sit securus?

When even the righteous are not secure?

Solo Quartet and Chorus:
Rex tremendae majestatis,

King of dread majesty,

Qui salvandos salvas gratis:

Who freely savest the redeemed,

Salva me, fons pietatis.

Save me, fount of pity.

Soprano and Mezzo-soprano:

Recordare, Jesu pie,

Remember, merciful Jesu,

Quod sum causa tuae viae:

That | am the cause of Thy pilgrimage,

Ne me perdas illa die.

Do not forsake me on that day.

Quaerens me, sedisti lassus;

Seeking me Thou didst sit down weary,

Redemisti crucem passus:

Thou didst redeem me on the Cross,

Tantus labor non sit cassus.

Let not such toil be in vain.

Juste judex ultionis:

Just and avenging Judge,

Donum fac remissionis

Grant remission

Ante diem rationis.

Before the day of reckoning.

Tenor:
Ingemisco tamquam reus,

| groan like a guilty man,

Culpa rubet vultus meus;

| blush for my wrong-doing,

Supplicanti parce, Deus.

Spare a suppliant, God.

Qui Mariam absolvist,

Thou who didst absolve Mary

Et latronem exaudsti,

And hearken to the thief,

Mihi quogue spem dediisti.

To me also hast given hope.

Preces meae non sunt dignae,

My prayers are not worthy,

Sed tu, bonus, fac benigne,

But Thou in Thy merciful goodness grant

Ne perenni cremer igne.

That | burn not in everlasting fire.

Inter oves locum praesta,

Place me among Thy sheep

Et ab haedis me sequestra

And separate me from the goats,

Statuens in parte dextra.

Setting me on Thy right hand.

Bass and Chorus:

Confutatis maledictis,

When the wicked are confounded

Flammis acribus addictis,

And consigned to bitter flames,

Voca me cum benedictis.

Call me with the blessed.

Oro supplex et acclinis,

| pray in supplication on my knees,

Cor contritum quasi cinis:

My heart contrite as ashes.

Gere curam mei finis.

Take care of my end.

Chorus:

Dies irae, dies illa,

Day of wrath, that day

Solvet saeclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sibylla.

Will dissolve the earth in ashes

As David and the Sibyl bear witness.

Solo Quartet and Chorus:
Lacrymosa dies illa,

Tearful that day

Qua resurget ex favilla,

When from the dust shall rise

Judicandus homo reus.

Sinful man to be judged.

Huic ergo parce, Deus.

Therefore spare him, God.

Pie Jesu Domine:

Merciful Jesu, Lord,

Dona eis requiem.

Grant them rest.

Amen.

Amen.

I1l. Offertorio
Quartet:

Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae:

Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,

Libera animas omnium fidelium

Deliver the souls of all the faithful dead

Defunctorum de poenis inferni

From the pain of hell

£t de profundo lacu;

And from the deep pit.

Libera eas de ore leonis;

Deliver them from the lion's mouth,

Ne absorbeat eas tartarus,

That hell may not swallow them up,

Ne cadant in obscurum.

That they not fall into darkness.

Sed signifer sanctus Michael

But may the holy standard-bearer, Michael, lead them into

Repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam.

the holy light;

Quam olim Abrahae promisisti

Which Thou didst promise of old to

£t semini ejus.

Abraham and his seed.

Hostias et preces tibi, Domine,

Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,

Laudis offerimus.

Sacrifices and prayers we offer Thee,

Tu suscipe pro animabus illis,

Lord; receive them for those souls

Quarum hodie memoriam facimus.

Whom we commemorate this day.

Fac eas, Domine,

Let them, Lord,

De morte transire ad vitam,

Pass from death into life,

Quam olim Abrahae promisisti

Which Thou didst promise of old to

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Abraham and his seed.

Libera animas omnium fidelium

Deliver the souls of all the faithful dead

Defunctorum de poenis inferni;

From the pain of hell;

Fac eas de morte transire ad vitam.

May they pass from death into life.

IV. Sanctus

Double Chorus:
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus,

Holy, holy, holy

Dominus Deus Sabaoth.

Lord God of Hosts;

Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.

Heaven and Earth are full of Thy glory.

Hosanna in excelsis!

Hosanna in the highest.

Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.

Blessed is he who cometh in the name

Hosanna in excelsis!

Of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

V. Agnus Dei

Soprano, Mezzo-soprano and Chorus:
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundl,

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins

Dona eis requiem.

of the world, grant them rest.

Agnus Dej, qui tollis peccata mundl,

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins

Dona eis requiem sempiternam.

of the world, grant them everlasting rest.

VI. Lux aeterna

Mezzo-soprano, Tenor and Bass:

Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,

May eternal light shine upon them, Lord,

Cum sanctis tuis in aeternam;

With Thy saints for ever,

Quia pius es.

For Thou art merciful.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,

Grant them eternal rest, Lord,

Et lux perpetua luceat efs.

And may perpetual light shine upon them.

VII. Libera me

Soprano and Chorus:
Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna

Deliver me, Lord, from eternal death,

In die illa tremenda,

On that fearful day

Quando coeli movend/ sunt

When the heavens are moved

Et terra: dum veneris

And the earth: when thou shalt come

Judlicare saeculum per [gnem.

To judge the world by fire.

Tremens factus sum ego et timeo,

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Dum discussio venerit atque

And the wrath to come,

Ventura ira,

When the heavens and the earth

Quando coeli movend| sunt et terra.

Shall be moved.

Dies irae, dies illa calamitatis et

Day of wrath, day of terror, calamity and

Miseriae,; dies magna et amara valde.

Misery; that great and bitter day.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,

Grant them eternal rest, Lord,

Et lux perpetua luceat eis.

And may perpetual light shine upon them.

Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna

Deliver me, Lord, from eternal death

In die illa tremenda;,

On that fearful day.

Quando coeli movend/ sunt

When the heavens are moved

Et terra: dum veneris

And the earth when thou shalt come

Judlicare saeculum per jgnem.

To judge the world by fire.

Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna

Deliver me, Lord, from eternal death

In die illa tremenda.

On that fearful day.

Libera me.

Deliver me, Lord.

Future Vivace Chorus concerts include:
15th Nov

Vivace

Chorus

2014 Bach Mass in B minor at Guildford Cathedral.

7th March 2015 A programme of Mendelssohn, Delius and Stanford,
with Tasmin Little playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

at G Live, Guildford.
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23rd May

2015 Todd’s The City Garden and Chilcott’s Salisbury Vespers

at Guildford Cathedral.

Claire Seaton

Kate Symonds-Joy

Soprano

Mezzo-soprano

Born in Wolverhampton, Claire

Kate Symonds-Joy graduated with a

Seaton studied at the Birmingham

First Class Music degree from

School of Music, at the Royal

Gonville and Caius College,

Academy of Music with Rae

Cambridge and a DipRAM from the

Woodland and Kenneth Bowen,

Royal Academy Opera course.

and subsequently with Linda EstherGrey. She joined Kent Opera during
her final year at the Academy, was awarded the Wessex

Glyndebourne Association Prize in 1998 and in 1999 made
her Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut singing the role of
Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito).

Further engagements at Glyndebourne included covering
the roles of Ellen (Peter Grimes) and the Countess (Le nozze
di Figaro), followed by contracts with Opera de Lyon and

Opera Europa. Claire’s work in the early music field

includes performances with The Tallis Scholars and the
Gabrieli Consort, with whom she made her BBC Proms
debut in Handel’s Dixit Dominus. She has also recorded the
soprano solos in Allegri’s Miserere for Regent Records.

Claire’s oratorio experience includes performances of
Verdi's Requiem, Brahms’ Requiem and Mozart's C Minor
Mass. Recent engagements have included Strauss’s Four
Last Songs in Sherborne Abbey and Mahler’s Symphony

No 8 at the Royal Albert Hall with the RPO. In addition to
the Allegri, Claire’s discography includes the role of The
Believer in Rutland Boughton’s Bethlehem for Naxos,
Brahms’ £in deutsches Requiem with Jeremy Backhouse
and the Vasari Singers for Guild, and the world premiere of

Jonathan Dove’s The Far Theatricals of Day with Nicholas

Cleobury.

She was the winner of the 2011
Thelma King Vocal Award and was awarded the Basil A
Turner Prize for her role Bianca in Britten’s 7he Rape of

Lucretia for BYO.
Operatic roles include Mrs Herring in Britten’s Albert

Herring
for Britten-Pears in Aldeburgh, Wild Girl in Delius’
A Village Romeo andJuliet for Wexford Festival Opera,
Britten Noye’s Fludde in the Thaxted Festival, Dorabella in
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte for RAO, Koukouli in Chabrier’s

L ’Ftoile for Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Opera Comique
Paris, the title role in Bizet's Carmen for Regents and
Kentish Opera, Medea in Cavalli’s Giasone for RAO

conducted by Jane Glover, Ino in Handel’s Semele for RAO
with Sir Charles Mackerras, and Florence Pike in Britten’s
Albert Herring for RAO directed by John Copley.
Concert work includes Rutter’s Feel the Spirit
at the

Barbican, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in Cadogan Hall, a
recording of Giles Swayne’s Stabat Materfor NAXQOS,
Handel’s Messiah with Bordeaux Opera, Mozart's Requiem
in Snape Maltings and extracts as Carmen with Sir John Eliot

Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir at LSO St Luke’s.
Recent recitals include the Wigmore Hall as part of the
Royal Academy Song Circle, Janacek's Diary of One who
Disappeared at Kings Place, Ravel’s Chansons madecasses

at the Purcell Room, Schumann Lieder with Malcolm
Martineau on the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme,
Berio’s Sequenza /Il in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival

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and Berio Folk Songs with the Psappha Ensemble.

Daniel Joy
Tenor
Daniel studied music at Durham University
where he gained a first class music degree,

was awarded the Eve Myra Kisch Price Prize
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for outstanding academic achievement and

was a choral scholar at Durham Cathedral, before studying
on the postgraduate vocal course at The Royal College of

Music, and recently graduated with distinction from the
opera course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Daniel made his professional stage debut as Kozak in
Statkowski's Maria for Wexford Festival Opera. He has
returned to Wexford to perform The Poor Horn Player
(Delius' A Village Romeo and Juliet) and Gherardo (Gianni

Schicchi), and elsewhere the title role in Albert Herring at
GSMD, cover of various roles in Monteverdi's
Lincoronazione di Poppea for Glyndebourne Festival,

cover of Cassio (Otello) for Opera North,
Adolfo/Gobin/cover Prunier in Puccini’s La rondine for

Opera di Peroni/Go Opera, The Duke (Rjgoletto) and Goro
(Madama Butterfly) both for Opera Brava, cover of
Remendado (Carmen) for Scottish Opera and Alfred (Die
Fledermaus) for Kentish opera.
Recent concert performances include Finzi's Dies Natalis
(Britten Sinfonia), Handel's Messiah (Cadogan Hall), the

Evangelist in Bach's ¢ John Passion (St Martin-in-the-Fields),
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1670 (The English Cornet and
Sackbutt Ensemble), Haydn's Missa Sancti Nicolai
(European Union Chamber Orchestra), Finzi's /ntimations of
Immortality (West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge),
Evangelist and arias in Bach's Christmas Oratorio (Armonico
Consort) and Verdi’'s Requiem (Worcester Cathedral).

David Stout
Baritone
A former Head Chorister of Westminster

Abbey, David studied Zoology at Durham
University, sang with the choir of St. John’s

College, Cambridge University and studied
Opera at the GSMD with Rudolf Piernay.
His operatic roles include Dr. Falke Die Fledermaus, Ping
Turandot, Papageno Die Zauberfléte, and Schaunard
La boheme (Welsh National Opera); Pish-Tush 7he Mikado
and Monterone Rigoletto (English National Opera); Robin

Oakapple Ruddigore (Opera North); Baron Douphol
La traviata and Flemish Deputy Don Carlos (Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden); Angelotti 7osca, Roucher Andlrea

Chénier and Gratiano The Merchant of Venice (Bregenzer
Festspiele); Don Juan From the House of the Dead (Teatro
Massimo di Palermo); The Dark Fiddler A Village Romeo
andJuliet and Axel Oxenstierna Cristina, regina di Svezia

(Wexford Festival).

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David’s concert repertoire includes recordings of 7he
Creation with New College, Oxford and also with Musica

Saeculorum; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with

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Orchestra of the Swan. He has performed Beethoven 9

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Brahms Requiem (Hallé Orchestra); Sea Symphony (RPO),

St John Passion (King's Place), Belshazzar’s Feast (Royal
Festival Hall).

Future plans include Beethoven 9% Symphony
at the Royal

Festival Hall, Sancho Panca Don Quichotte (Grange Park
Opera), Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (English Concert at the
Bristol Old Vic), Figaro The Marriage of Figaro and Fritz
Kothner Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg (English National
Opera) and recordings with Sir Mark Elder and Maurizio
Benini for Opera Rara.

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Jeremy Backhouse

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Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

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leading conductors of amateur

Orchestra, and Britten’s War Requiem.

choirs. He began his musical

He is totally committed to contemporary music and to the

career in Canterbury Cathedral
where he was Senior Chorister.

In 1980 he was appomted Music Editor at the RNIB, where
he was responsible for the transcription of print music into
Braille. He has worked for both EMI Classics and later

Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers as a Literary Editor, but
now pursues his career as a freelance conductor.
Jeremy has been the sole conductor of the internationally-

renowned chamber choir Vasari Singers since its inception
in 1980. Since winning the prestigious Sainsbury’s Choir of

the Year competition in 1988, the Vasari Singers has
performed regularly on the South Bank and at major
concert venues in London, as well as in the many of the
cathedrals and abbeys of the UK. Jeremy and the Vasari

the Terrible, Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand” (No. 8) in

commissioning of new works. He and Vasari have
commissioned over 25 new works in their recent history,
from small anthems to works of the grandest scale. This

enthusiasm has spread to the Vivace Chorus who, in May
2009, commissioned and performed the premiere of Will

Todd's 7e Deum and have recently commissioned a 20minute work from Francis Pott, the choir’s accompanist.

Jeremy has also worked with a number of the country's
leading choirs, including the BBC Singers, the Philharmonia
Chorus, the London Choral Society and the Brighton
Festival Chorus. For six years, to the end of 2004, Jeremy
was the Music Director of the Wooburn Singers, following
Richard Hickox and Stephen Jackson.

Singers have broadcast frequently on BBC Radios 3 and 4,

In January 2009 Jeremy took up the post of Music Director

and have a discography of over 25 CDs on the EMI, Guild,

of the Salisbury Community Choir. His first

Signum and Naxos labels.
Recordings with the Vasari Singers have been nominated for
a Gramophone award (Howells and Frank Martin), received
two Gramophone Editor’s Choice awards (Marcel Dupré
choral works), a top recommendation on Radio 3’s
‘Building A Library” (Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor),
and two recent CDs (Gabriel Jackson’s Requiem and A
Winter’s Light, a disc of Christmas carols) both achieved
Top Ten status in the Specialist Classical Charts.

major engagement with them was the opening concert of
that year’s Salisbury International Arts Festival, in Salisbury
Cathedral, premiering a vast new work by Bob Chilcott
entitled the Salisbury Vespers. In 2013 the choir celebrated
its 21st Anniversary with a major concert in Salisbury

Cathedral in October, featuring the world premiere of a
specially-commissioned community work by Will Todd, 7he
City Garden, which in subsequent years they are touring to
Lincoln (2014), Guildford (2015) and elsewhere.

In January 1995, Jeremy was appointed Music Director of

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the Vivace Chorus (then the Guildford Philharmonic Choir).

Jeremy Backhouse

Alongside the standard classical works, Jeremy has

Claire Seaton

Benjamin Ealovega

conducted the Vivace Chorus in some ambitious

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Anthony Gould Davies

programmes, including Howells” Hymnus Paradisi and

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Vivace Chorus is a flourishing
and adventurous choir based in

Guildford, Surrey.
The choir has come a long way

since it began 67 years ago as the
Guildford Philharmonic Choir, gaining over time an
enviable reputation for performing first-class concerts across

a wide range of musical repertoire.

Since 1995, Vivace has thrived under the exceptional
leadership of this evening’s conductor, Jeremy Backhouse.
Jeremy’s passion for choral works and his sheer enthusiasm
for music-making are evident at every rehearsal and every
performance. He is supported by Francis Pott, who is not
just a very fine rehearsal accompanist but is also a composer
of international repute and an accomplished concert
pianist.

“The atmosphere at times was electric and could have been
cut with a knife.

A monumental undertaking performed

brilliantly.”

“The Requiem was beyond wonderful; the pause before the
applause at the end, when no one wanted to break the
spell, said it all.”

In addition to our own concerts, we also sing in various

charity concerts and, with our regular orchestra, the
Brandenburg Sinfonia, take part in the Brandenburg Choral
Festival each year in St Martin-in-the-Fields.
We also, on occasion, venture further afield. We have
visited Germany many times over the years to sing with the
Freiburg Bachchor. Other trips abroad have included a tour,

in June 2009, of north-west France when we sang in the
cathedrals of Paris (Notre-Dame), Rouen and Beauvais,

while in June 2012 we headed across France to Strasbourg,

Our repertoire spans more unusual works such as

Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky as well as the great choral
masterpieces of Bach, Brahms, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and
Verdi, and the more intimate works of Fauré, Tavener,
Allegri and Lauridsen. We also actively promote the classics
of the future with our ‘Contemporary Choral Classics’ series,
commissioning new works when funds allow.
Particular successes have included a sell-out performance in

May 2011 of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of
a Thousand’, here at the Royal Albert Hall, and a highly
acclaimed performance in November 2012 of Britten’s
War Requiem, which prompted the following comments
from members of the audience:

giving concerts there and in Heidelberg and Freiburg. We

are off on our travels again this summer, this time to ltaly,
where we will give three concerts, in Verona, Mantua and
Venice.

For further information, visit our website, vivacechorus.org,
where you can also sign up to receive information about
our concerts, email us at info@vivacechorus.org or follow
us on Facebook or Twitter.
Vivace Chorus
President:

Sir David Willcocks CBE MC

Music Director:

Jeremy Backhouse

Accompanist:

Francis Pott

Chairman:

James Garrow

Lists of singers and instrumentalists in this programme were correct at time of going to press.

Vivace Chorus
Soprano 1

Valerie Thompson

Andrea Dombrowe

Jon Scott

Christine Wilks

Celia Embleton

John Thornely

Frances Worpe

Elizabeth Evans

Pam Alexander

Valerie Garrow

Bass 1

Polly Andrews

Alto 1

Jo Glover

Phil Beastall

Helen Beevers

Penny Baxter

Margaret Grisewood

John Britten

Joanna Bolam

Monika Boothby

Carol Hobbs

Richard Broughton

Mary Broughton

Jane Brooks

Beth Jones

Simon Browning

Elaine Chapman

Margaret Dentskevich

Margaret Mann

Michael Dudley

Rachel Edmondson

Liz Durning

Pamela Murrell

Derek Fisher

Calli Hayes

Kate Emerson

Jacqueline Norman

Michael Golden
Brian John

Rebecca Kerby

Valentina Faedi

Beryl Northam

Mo Kfouri

Atalia Fuller

Sheila Rowell

Jeremy Johnson

Ruta Mikasauskaite

Anne Jackson

Prue Smith

Jon Long

Alex Nash

Jean Leston

Jo Stokes

Malcolm Munt

Susan Norton

Judith Lewy

Rosey Storey

Chris Newbery

Robin Onslow

Lois McCabe

Pamela Usher

Adrian Oxborrow

Margaret Parry

Clare McKinlay

Anne Whitley

Peter Pearce

Kate Rayner

Kay McManus

Anna Williams

Chris Peters

Gillian Rix

Christine Medlow

June Windle

Robin Privett

Carol Terry

Catherine Middleton

Elisabeth Yates

David Ross

Joan Thomas

Rosalind Milton

Hilary Vaill

Mary Moon

1
Tenor

Penny Muray

Bob Bromham
Bob Cowell

Philip Stanford
Kieron Walsh

Soprano 2

Gill Perkins

Jacqueline Alderton

Linda Ross

Barnie Darby

Roger Barrett

Anna Arthur

Lesley Scordellis

Owen Gibbons

Alan Batterbury

Grace Beckett

Catherine Shacklady

Nick Manning

Norman Carpenter

Ginny Heffernan

Carol Sheppard

Martin Price

Geoffrey Forster

Marianne lllsley

Ann Smith

Chris Robinson

James Garrow

Krystyna Marsden

Marjory Stewart

John Trigg

Stuart Gooch

Rachael Moore

Hilary Trigg

Debbie Morton

Maggie Woolcock

Tenor 2

Michael Jeffery

Alison Newbery

Bass 2

Nick Gough
John Bawden

Eric Kennedy

Alison Palmer

Alto 2

Peter Butterworth

Neil Martin

Gillian Palmer

Valerie Adam

Tony Chantler

Roger Penny

Kate Peters

Geraldine Allen

Geoff Johns

Clive Perry

Isobel Rooth

Evelyn Beastall

Stephen Linton

Michael Taylor

Paula Sutton

Sylvia Chantler

Peter Norman

Barbara Tansey

Mary Clayton

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Liszt's A Faust Symphony and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

Founded in 1947, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely

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regarded as one of Britain's finest choirs, consistently
meeting with great critical acclaim. It has performed under
leading international conductors for more than 65 years and
made numerous recordings for CD, radio and television. It
makes many appearances at the Royal Albert Hall each
year, including Raymond Gubbay’s Classical Spectacular

Last year, it performed Elgar's 7he Apostles with Sir Mark
Elder and Howells's Hymnus Paradisi under Martyn

A well-travelled choir, it has visited numerous European

countries and performed in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and
Perth, Australia. Most recently, members of the choir

performed Weill's 7The Threepenny Opera in Paris, with a
repeat performance in London. In 2012, it appeared at the

and Christmas concerts.

Touquet International Music Masters Festival in France, and

Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic

Mozart's Requiem.

Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the
UK and abroad. In 2012/13, concerts with the LPO
included Rachmaninov's The Bells, Haydn's Nelson Mass,

Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, Brahms's Ein
deutsches Requiem and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

the Choir will be returning again in May 2014 to perform

The Choir prides itself on achieving first-class performances

from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life.
For more information, including details about how to join,
please visit www.lpc.org.uk

As part of the Southbank Centre's ‘The Rest is Noise’
festival, the Choir performed Part's Magnificat and Berlin

Mass, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar), Poulenc's
Stabat Mater, Britten's War Requiem, Stravinsky's Symphony
of Psalms, Orff's Carmina Burana, Tippett's A Child of Our

London Philharmonic Choir

Patron:

HRH Princess Alexandra

President:

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Artistic director:

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Accompanist:

Jonathan Beatty

So far in 2014, it has performed Julian Anderson's Afleluia —

Chairman:

Andrew Mackie

Choir manager:

Tessa Bartley

which it premiered at the reopening of the Royal Festival
Hall in 2007 — and Beethoven's Symphony No.9 under
Vladimir Jurowski, repeating the latter the following day at

the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Paris.
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David Hodgson

Victoria Denard

Jenny Adam

Rylan Holey

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Sally Donegani

Deirdre Ashton

Yaron Hollander

Pippa Alderson

Philippa Drinkwater

Phye Bell

Aidan Jones

Sarah Bindon

Emma Hancox

Yvonne Cohen

John Luff

Laura Buntine

Georgina Kaim

Liz Cole

Richard Miller

Whitney Burdge

Suzannah Lipmann

Carmel Edmonds

Ashley Morrison

Alana Clark

Rosalind Mann

Marjana Jovanovic Morrison

Will Parsons

Sally Cottam

Victoria Mattinson

Andrea Lane

David Regan

Emma Craven

Marj McDaid

Ayla Mansur

John Salmon

Sarah Deane-Cutler

Carmel Oliver

Miranda Ommanney

Daniel Snowman

Lucy Doig

Kathryn Quinton

Carolyn Saunders

Peter Sollich

Antonia Davison

Rebecca Schendel

Catherine Travers

Trevor Watson

Claudie Gheno

Victoria Smith

Susi Underwood

James Wilson

Rachel Gibbon

Jenny Torniainen

Jenny Watson

John Wood

Jane Hanson

Julia Warner

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based on Siegfried Sassoon poems.
TCS last performed Verdi’s Requiem at the Rose Theatre,
Kingston in 2012 and, in 1991, Christopher Herrick

conducted massed choirs including TCS in a performance at
the Royal Albert Hall.
For details of forthcoming concerts, please see the website,

accompanist, Freddie Brown.

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Twickenham Choral Society has the privilege of working

with top-ranking professional soloists, and orchestras such

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as the Brandenburg Sinfonia. Michael Cox, principal flautist

President:

Tristan Fry

of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, will play solo flute pieces

Chairman:

Chris Britton

at the summer concert of 20th century song. Concerts are

Conductor:

Christopher Herrick

staged three times a year in local venues and TCS takes part

Assistant Conductor:

Freddie Brown

Gale Davies

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Carol Caporn

Rosemary Fulljames

Gillian Beauchamp

Sarah Cheshire

Julie Hall

Barbara Cook

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Nancy Lee

Julia Coomes

Margaret Hamilton

Maggie Crisell

Tony Alderton

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Catherine Gash

Elaine Thawley

Katrina Lidbetter

Sarah Herrick

Evelyn Houseman

Monica Darnbrough

Mark Damerell

Julia Primarolo

Mary Jewkes

Emma Jay

Mary Egan

Colin Flood

Andy Godfrey

Dinah Shoults

Wendy Johnson

Catherine McManus

Margaret Garnham

Adrienne Tallents

Victoria Nurse

Deborah Meyer

Ann Gray

Clive Hall

Sarah Taylor

Mary Somerville

Jane Newman

Erica Hamnett

Andy Pitcairn

Bronwen Thompson

Becky Thurtell

Barbara Orr

Bessie White

Penelope Skinner

Susan Jacobs
Rosemary Jeffery

Chris Waine

Beatrice Tilt

Jo Underdown

Catharine Larcombe,

Tenor 2

Emily Toon
Alison Williams

Alto 1

Lindsey Waine

Susan McCarty

David Amos

Candy Williamson

Lisa Colclough

Liz Walton

Alicia Ooi

Chris Britton

Elizabeth Woodgyer

Helen Coulson

Natasha Woollard

Anne Stephens

Michael Gilbert

Simon Lambourn

David Underdown

Keith Long

Peter Midgley
Malcolm Todd

Bass 1

Mark Underwood

Robert Bell

Bob Vickers

Chris Bennett

Richard Welton

David Bostock

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Brian Elliott

Richard Grafen
Martin Harting

Tim Lidbetter

John Saunders
John Tatam
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established and flourishing
auditioned amateur choir
and although Wimbledon

based, since the demolition of the local Town Hall in 1988,
the choir has been forced to perform mostly outside its
home in the Borough of Merton. Far from this triggering its

demise, the choir seized the opportunity to broaden its
horizons and now performs in all the major London concert
venues and elsewhere, supported by professional orchestras

and soloists.

In addition to their three main concerts each year, the choir
undertakes numerous other engagements with varying
numbers of singers. These range from corporate Christmas
music entertainment, festival appearances, providing choirs

‘Saturday night's concert was the best | have ever heard

from the Wimbledon Choral Society and [New Queen'’s
Hall] Orchestra. The combination of the choir’s excellence

and the colour and fibre of the NQHO's instruments and
players revealed Verdi's great work as can rarely have

happened in sixty or seventy years. | can promise you that
there was no wishful thinking in overhearing the many
spontaneous comments on the artistic and spiritual integrity

of the evening: one which like all great musical occasions
must have left the audience changed and very different

from the complacency of their arrival two hours earlier."
Wimbledon Choral Society

President

lan Partridge CBE

Musical Director

Neil Ferris

Accompanist

Michael Higgins

Chairman

Neil Dennis

for weddings and various promotional and civic events.
Amongst the more high profile achievements by the Society
are its recording of the Football World Cup theme music for

CHORAL SOCIETY

BBC Television and ensuing TV appearances, as well as prematch entertainments for the Rugby League Finals at
Wembley. It regularly forms the main choir at the Royal
British Legion’s annual Festival of Remembrance at the

Royal Albert Hall. On 30t March 2015, almost 100 years to

CELEBRATING
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the day since the inaugural concert of the Wimbledon &

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accolades received by the choir:

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‘What a joy to see the Cathedral packed and to witness
such a superb performance. The absence of any coughing

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from the audience between movements said it all. We were
absolutely spellbound from the hypnotic opening to the

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

regular walls ofsound that hit us during the many climaxes
throughout the piece."”

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Carole Boothman

Charlotte Ennis

Jean Pinchin

Geoffrey Newman

Society

Jane Bradbury

Sarah Harris

Jenny Reid

Damien O'Malley

Sue Bridgford

Sally Hopkins

Sian Richards

Robert Owen

Soprano 1

Sheelagh Brown

Alison Hughes

Tilly Richardson

Richard Simon

Fiona Best

Deborah Crosby

Noriko Inman

Laura Stewart

Emily Blaxland

Harriet Dale

Janet Jones

Cathy Bolton

Avril Draudt

Lynn Jordan

1
Tenor

Caren Buchanan

Helen Edwards

Jill Kibler

Peter Burton

Kathryn Clapp

Christine Evans

Amanda Moore

Christian Dingwall

Bass 2

Sian Coekin

Janis Guthrie

Jenny Morgan

Julian Harvey

John Bright

Lynn Conolly

Amanda Hamlyn

Gail Moss

Steffen Loevholen

Alan Brough

Annette Cowley

Isobel Hammond

Mukaka Mulenga

David Lewitt

Paul Chambers

Geraldine Ellis

Sarah Hendry

Liz Neale

Pete Townsend

Jeremy Collis

June Gilmore

Maggie Hicks

Helen Orchard

Martyn Wake

Bill Cox

Emma Harry

Alice Hine

Izas Ozerin

Simon Wood

Penny Homer

Stephanie Hitchens

Michelle Pelly

Jane Jeffreys

Kate Homan

Rosanna Salbashian

Tenor 2

Neil Dennis

Therese Kennedy

Nicola Hutton

Isla Smith

John Aveson

Joe Driver

Pat Keep

Marion Stewart

Anthony Booth

Peter Giriffiths

Laing

Robert Tate
Jeremy Tayler
Peter West

Peter Cunliffe
John Davey

Hilary Leacock

Jessica Kohler

Joan Tagg

Alex Economides

Colin Lambert

Ann Mortlock

Alison Martin

Diana Tsung

Weihao Fu

Geoffrey Park

Angela Wake

Ide O'Sullivan

Jane Maybury

Mary Padden

Tracey McClelland

Nick Hitchens

Alexander Peake

Malcolm Kyte

Julian Radowicz

Deborah Raymond

Sophie Rice

Alto 2

Michael Mackintosh

Nathaniel Rodwell

Marion Renault

Heather Roberts

Sonia Ross McCall

Corina Benedicto

Tony Marshall

Ben Turner

Colleen Spalding

Anne Blanchard

Matthew Sterlini

Sarah Skan

Liz Webber

Birgitta Bruening

Art Wangcharoensab

Jan Smith

Linda West

Maureen Carter

Ashley Spalding

Fiona Wickens

Naomi Frater

Bass 1

Salendar Tay Ashcroft

Janet Gout

Dominic Beecher

Elaine Walker

Alto 1

Carolyn Harrison

Roger Brown

Becky Wheaton

Shanika Anzsar

Sarah Henderson

Edward Clare

Kizzy Wilburne

Kate Arnold

Rosemary Hills

John Gale

Laura Carruth

Vicky Isaacs

Tim George

Jenny Cocking

Elizabeth Jerden

Desmond Hancock

Soprano 2

Brigid Aglen

Mary Coggins

Su Lambert

John Hewitt

Jill Atcheson

Yvonne Connolly

Sarah Morrison

Peter Hickson

Sue Baxter

Christine Denwood

Isobel Penny

Stephen Jack

This charity provides ongoing help to a composer who is a good
friend of amateur and professional musicians in the UK and
around the world — Will Todd. Will lives in Guildford, and is a

well-known choral composer. He was commissioned to write a
piece for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee service at St. Paul’s
Cathedral in 2012, and his first major choral work, Mass in Blue,
is a fixture in the repertoire of hundreds of choirs.
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raise money for them.

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Boulevard des Italiens, near the Opéra, which is the street where
Verdi stayed when he began composing the Requiem. Sadly, the
hotel is no longer there, but it was as close as they could get!
After starting the ride with beautiful sunshine in France, the

cyclists battled with rain all the way from Gisors to the Royal
Some of tonight’s singers were at the Royal Albert Hall only a few

Albert Hall, but the weather didn’t dampen their spirits at all.

weeks ago in very different uniform. A group of 11 cycled from

Their planning was spot-on and, despite plenty of punctures and

Paris to London over four days to promote the concert, but also to

a couple of falls, they reached each day’s end point pretty much

raise a significant amount of money for Surrey-based charity,

to time. They particularly enjoyed their entry to Guildford on

Rainbow Trust.
Where did that idea come from?

Vivace Chorus tenor, Owen Gibbons, works for the WWF, so is

Sunday 27th, where they were greeted by a huge crowd, a
fanfare from the Surrey Advanced Brass ensemble and a welcome
from Anne Milton MP and Rowan Todd - the ride’s mascot.

no stranger to fundraising. It was his idea to ride from the hotel

A night in their own beds was followed by a triumphant ride up to

where Verdi began composing his Requiem to the Royal Albert

the Royal Albert Hall, where more fans awaited, and the group

Hall, where Verdi himself conducted the first British performance.

handed a cheque to the Rainbow Trust for nearly £9,000 — an

Having had the idea, Owen just needed to recruit some

amazing sum but they would love to make it to £10,000 in the

enthusiastic cyclists, plan a route, organise a back-up driver,

end. The Singing Cyclists’ donation page is still open, so if you

manage the training process and keep everyone’s enthusiasm

would like to contribute, please go to

levels up in the rain, on the hardest of Surrey’s hills.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Vivace-Singing-Cyclists.

Why raise money for charity?

It has been a magnificent challenge, a great cross-choir team-

It’s all very well cycling over 200 miles to raise the profile of our

building event and has raised valuable funds for a deserving

concert, but this was too good an opportunity to miss as far as

cause. What more could we ask for? Ten members of the team

fundraising goes. The group decided very quickly to support

are singing tonight, so give them an extra cheer at the end!

Rainbow Trust — a charity based in Leatherhead that supports

families whose children have life-threatening or terminal illness.

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London’s disadvantaged

Travel Counsellors (0845 058 7924), who arranged
our travel, hotel and most importantly, our food!

children and young people

We'd also like to thank Evans and Giant, the specialist

by supporting Tom’s Trust

cycle stores in Guildford, for their help and advice

Find out how we help young people and

along the way.

support our work by visiting our website
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Born friends celebrates the special friendship of brothers
and sisters. It’s about showing how important your sibling is

to you. And it’s about raising awareness of the importance

of supporting siblings when a child has a life threatening or
terminal illness.

Sabrina, a Rainbow Trust Family Support Worker helped Mitchell’'s mum look
after both boys during long hospital appointments to treat Mitchell’s eye
cancer. Sabrina also takes both boys out and have fun together, as brothers.

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