• Spring Concert - 17th May 2003, starting at 7.30pm

  • Tickets (£10, or £5 for under 16) available by calling 01435 863414

  • Venue: "State Hall" (King's Church), Station Road, Heathfield, TN21 8LD. (Ample free parking in Budgen's car park immediately behind the venue.)

  • The choir will again be joined by the superlative Surrey Sinfonietta

A programme of popular choral and orchestral items, including Handel’s splendid coronation anthem, Zadok The Priest, and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade To Music. This was composed for the Jubilee of Sir Henry Wood and first performed by a very distinguised round-up of soloists in 1938. Orchestral pieces included in this concert are Grieg’s Holberg Suite and also Albinoni’s Adagio with Gavin Stevens, the choir’s accompanist, playing the organ.

Central to the concert is a performance of Joseph Haydn’s Missa Brevis Sancto Joannis de Deo, known more colloquially as the “Little Organ Mass”. Actually, the performance of the Mass will not be quite so little as Joseph Haydn intended. In its original form, the second movement (the Gloria) was only 31 bars long: that’s about a minute! Shortly after its completion in 1775, to suit the requirements of Salzburg Cathedral, Joseph’s younger brother Michael extended this movement to the full length, and this is the version chosen for this concert.

Programme:

Handel	Zadok the Priest (4 voice version)	Choir, Orchestra, Organ	8 minutes
Grieg	Holberg Suite	Orchestra	18 minutes
Vaughan Williams	Serenade to Music (OUP C9353)	Choir, Orchestra, Organ	14 minutes
Pearsall	Lay a Garland	Choir	5 minutes
Albinoni	Adagio	Orchestra, Organ	7 minutes
Haydn	Little Organ Mass	Choir, Orchestra, Organ, Soloists	24 minutes

Soloists:

• Katherine Sargent (Soprano)
• Dawn Taylor (Mezzo Soprano)
• Rob Little (Tenor)
• John Allpress (Baritone)
• Gavin Stevens (Organ)

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