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Nov
12
Sat
Highgate Choral Society sings Brahms German Requiem @ All Hallows Church
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.

Nov
11
Sat
Mozart Mass in C Minor K427 @ All Hallows Church
Nov 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre – 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking
Jun 5 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre - 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking

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
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre – 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking
Jun 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre - 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking

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
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre – 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking
Jun 19 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre - 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking

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
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre – 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking
Jun 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre - 4 week course on Turning Points in Modern Jewish History @ Highgate (N6) Venue details confirmed upon booking

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)