Nov
12
Sat
Nov 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
The opening concert in our 2016-2017 season has a sombre feel, commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Starting with The Banks of Green Willow by George Butterworth, who was killed in action on 5th August 1916, aged 31, this work is complemented by Ronald Corp’s The Somme – A Lament. The mood lifts with the choral arrangement of Serenade to Music by Butterworth’s contemporary, Vaughan Williams and the programme closes with Brahms’s glorious German Requiem.
May
6
Sat
May 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Throughout 2017 the 50th anniversary of the death of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kódaly is being marked. In 1945, while hiding with his wife and many others in the cellar of the Budapest Opera House during the Nazi occupation, he completed his Missa Brevis, which had originally been an organ mass. Its first performance was in the cloakroom of the Opera House, later receiving its official première at the 1948 Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.
By the time of this concert Highgate Choral Society will have been on its tenth tour abroad, to Naples, Sorrento and Pompeii, where they will have performed sacred and secular pieces by Finzi, Mascagni, Puccini, Rossini, Vaughan Williams and Verdi, as well as Campion, Palestrina and Tallis.
The soloist in the Missa Brevis will be young soprano Iúnó Connolly, who will also sing a selection of English and Italian songs accompanied by organist Edward Batting.
Nov
11
Sat
Works written for two very different occasions form the opening concert in Highgate Choral Society’s 2017-2018 season. Following the recovery from illness of his fiancée, Constanze Weber, Mozart promised to write a mass of thanksgiving. Although it was never completed the Mass in C minor was premièred, in its incomplete state, with Constanze as one of the soprano soloists, in Salzburg on 26th October 1783 and harks back to the Baroque world of Handel and Bach.
Originally commissioned by the Polish-born art collector Bronislaw Krystall to write a requiem commemorating his wife’s death, Karol Szymanowski decided to change the contract and instead composed what is considered to be his greatest masterpiece. The inspiration for his Stabat Mater was the tragic death of his niece, Alinka and the subsequent suffering of his pregnant sister, who was soon to lose another child. Completed in 1926, Stabat Mater is of fundamental importance in the history of Polish music after Chopin.
Jun
5
Wed
Jun 5 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Turning Points in Modern Jewish History
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre presents:
A new engaging, four week course tracing the tumultuous journey of the Jews in modern times.
Focusing on four pivotal moments in history: The Dreyfus Affair, the Kishinev pogrom, Kristallnacht and the Six-Day War.
Presented by Shirli Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Southampton (largest Modern History department in Europe)
Jun
12
Wed
Jun 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Turning Points in Modern Jewish History
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre presents:
A new engaging, four week course tracing the tumultuous journey of the Jews in modern times.
Focusing on four pivotal moments in history: The Dreyfus Affair, the Kishinev pogrom, Kristallnacht and the Six-Day War.
Presented by Shirli Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Southampton (largest Modern History department in Europe)
Jun
19
Wed
Jun 19 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Turning Points in Modern Jewish History
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre presents:
A new engaging, four week course tracing the tumultuous journey of the Jews in modern times.
Focusing on four pivotal moments in history: The Dreyfus Affair, the Kishinev pogrom, Kristallnacht and the Six-Day War.
Presented by Shirli Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Southampton (largest Modern History department in Europe)
Jun
26
Wed
Jun 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Turning Points in Modern Jewish History
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre presents:
A new engaging, four week course tracing the tumultuous journey of the Jews in modern times.
Focusing on four pivotal moments in history: The Dreyfus Affair, the Kishinev pogrom, Kristallnacht and the Six-Day War.
Presented by Shirli Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Southampton (largest Modern History department in Europe)
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