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LOCATION:Elvet Methodist Church, Old Elvet, Durham
SUMMARY:Durham Singers: 40th Anniversary Concert
DESCRIPTION:Join the Durham Singers as they celebrate 40 years of music ma
 king with a wide-ranging programme of English music from the renaissance t
 o the present day, including works by Byrd, Parry, and Howells.The choice 
 of music also reflects the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: the choir will p
 erform two of Handel’s Coronation Anthems, for which they will be jo
 ined by trumpeters, and "Behold O God Our Defender", written by Herbert Ho
 wells for Elizabeth II’s coronation. The concert concludes with "Ble
 st Pair of Sirens" by Hubert Parry, a stirring setting for double choir an
 d organ of a poem by John Milton about the forces of earth and heaven maki
 ng music together, and which was one of the pieces sung at last year&#8217
 ;s royal wedding.  The choir was founded in 1972 by the late Dick Addison,
  with 16 singers, with a mission to perform a wide range of unaccompanied 
 music to as high a standard as possible. Forty years later, this is still 
 the choir’s guiding principle, and the 40th anniversary concert prog
 ramme includes two of the choir’s favourite unaccompanied works from
  recent seasons: Parry’s "At The Round Earth’s Imagined Corner
 s" and "Christus est Stella", written for the choir by local composer Will
  Todd.  Tickets £12 (£10 concessions) available from Gala Theatr
 e Box Office (0191 332 4041 or www.galadurham.co.uk), from the choir or on
  the door.   For more information contact the choir on info@durham-singers
 .org
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