ARMENIAN INSTITUTE - HEAR MY SONG a festival of choral music
ARMENIAN INSTITUTE
HEAR MY SONG
a festival of choral music
Friday 19 June 2009, 7.30 pm
St Yeghiche Armenian Church,
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Choir of St Yeghiche
Aris Nadirian, director
A programme including the music of Komitas
and other Armenian composers
Maspindzeli
Geoff Burton and Lucy Gibson, directors
Sacred and ritual songs of the polyphonic tradition of Georgia
Choir of St Barnabas Dulwich
Riccardo Bonci, organ
William McVicker, director
Mass of St Barnabas Tigran Grigoryan
Hear my Prayer Mendelssohn
Blessed be the God and Father Wesley
A new work by young Armenian composer Tigran Grigoryan provides the centrepiece of this evening’s concert of sacred music. Three choirs from contrasting traditions perform music from their own repertoire and heritage, showing the range of beauty and power of religious music. In the anniversary year of Mendelssohn, St Barnabas Choir also performs one of his best-known choral works. The Maspindzeli is a London-based Georgian choir whose members are not necessarily Georgian themselves but have trained in the tradition. They have performed in Georgia and through concert tours in the U.K. have inspired new choirs to form in the same tradition Beginning our concert tonight will be the Choir of our host church, St Yeghiche, singing the sacred music of the most loved Armenian composer, Komitas.
Admission: £10, £8 for Friends of the Armenian Institute;
students £5 and children free
Organised by the Armenian Institute
We are grateful to the Manoukian Foundation for the use of this beautiful church.
Please click on the link below for the event flyer:
http://www.armenia.cswebsites.org/Libraries/Local/757/Docs/090619ChoralMusic.pdf
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