Venue: St Anne's Church, St. Anne's Hill, Lewes, BN71SD Find it here Car parking it available free after 6pm in the County Hall car park adjacent to the church
How often: Every Monday in term time, excluding
bank holidays.
Time: 7.30 - 9.30pm
Autumn term 2020
Fees are normally £165 per annum (£55 per term) and we would prefer members to sign up for a complete concert season for planning and budgeting purposes. Temporarily reduced to £30 per term
Female concert dress: Black shirts (with collars) worn with either black trousers or long black skirts. Black shoes.
Male concert dress: Open necked black shirts and black trousers.
Music: May be hired at a small cost, or purchased from the music secretary.
Other: Black folders will be needed for concerts
Date | Session content |
14th September | Movements from Handel’s Messiah and chorales from St Matthew Passion. How do composers use the keys they choose to send emotional/subliminal messages? |
21st September | Short discussion on the key characteristics of these works |
28th September | Music and Grief: passages/movements from Brahms and Duruflé Requiems, how Duruflé uses plainsong (worth buying the Brahms for future performance) |
5th October | Planned for St Anne’s - now online only Elgar Part 1: a thoroughly British composer? “In the Bavarian Highlands” |
12th October | Elgar Part 2: sight singing techniques |
19th October | New Music Part 1: what does it mean? Berio, Rutter, Dove, Macmillan, Weir |
26th October | New Music Part 2: short discussion on music we’ve sung, what it means to us |
2nd November | This session may be at St Anne’s Composers of colour Part 1: Coleridge-Taylor + short pieces from New Music session |
9th November | Composers of colour Part 2: Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast Choral pieces by composers of colour, which to choose to perform next season |
16th November | Early Music Part 1: how do we perform it? Tallis, Victoria, Byrd |
23rd November | Early Music Part 2: how do we fill in the blanks of dynamics and tempi? |
30th November | Christmas Part 1: excerpts from Honegger’s “Cantate de Noel”, Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on Christmas Carols”, John Williams’ songs from “Home Alone” |
7th December | This session may be at St Anne’s Christmas Part 2: ditto |