BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 3.5.3//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_157767@guildfordchoral.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230610T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230610T213000 SUMMARY:Sunrise Mass DESCRIPTION:\nAs we approach the mid-summer solstice\, very aptly at the he art of this programme will be the evocative and beautiful Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo. Also in the programme\, which brings together music from the c lassical\, romantic and contemporary periods\, will be Haydn – ‘Little Organ’ Mass and Hierusalem by Sir George Dyson\, one of the most underr ated of late-Victorian English composers.\n\nJoining Guildford Choral for this concert amidst the beauty and lovely acoustic of Holy Trinity Church will be soprano soloist Charlotte Kennedy and the strings of Southern Pro Musica. \n \n“Sunrise Mass” by Ola Gjeilo\n\nOla Gjeilo\, born in 1 978\, is a Norwegian composer and pianist\, currently living in the United States. One of his major works is “Sunrise Mass” which is orchestrate d for strings and choir. It is a hauntingly evocative piece. “It creates images and emotions by taking the listener on a journey” PianistMusings .com\n\nOla Gjeilo wrote about his piece:\n\n“The reason I used English titles\, seemingly unrelated to the (mostly) Latin texts\, for the movemen ts in the setting of the Mass has mainly to do with the initial idea behin d Sunrise Mass. I wanted the musical development of the work to evolve fro m the most transparent and spacey\, to something completely earthy and gro unded\; from nebulous and pristine to more emotional and dramatic\, and ev entually warm and solid - as a metaphor for human development from child t o adult\, or as a spiritual journey.\n\nMost of my favourite composers are film composers working in America today\, and this piece is partly influe nced by movies and film scores from the past few years that I love dearly. ”\n\n \n\n \n\n“Hierusalem” composed in 1956 by Sir George Dyson ( 1883 - 1964)\; an English musician and composer\n\nAs a teacher\, broadcas ter\, author\, administrator and public figure\, Sir George Dyson played a n influential role in British musical life for nearly 50 years. He was a Y orkshireman of working-class origin who owed none of his success to birth of influence. He won a scholarship to the RCM in London where he studied w ith Stanford.\n\nDyson’s “Hierusalem” is lyrical\, even romantic\; t he scoring (for both voices and instruments) not merely competent\, but ma sterly\; there is a dramatic streak\; a sense of colour\, of fitness of so und\, of beauty of sound: Dyson is a poet\, not a pedant (he disliked pret entious solemnities of all kinds\, within music and without) and clearly a lover of the good things in life.\n\nHierusalem” was written in the com poser’s old age\, but isn’t an old man’s music. Remarkably\, Dyson ’s music grew younger as the years advanced.\n\nExtracts by Christopher Palmer 1985\n\n \n\nMissa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo by Joseph Haydn (1 832 - 1809)\n\nHaydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string qu artet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have lead him to b e called “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet ”. Interestingly\, like Dyson\, Haydn also came from a poor background.\ n\n\n\nThe missa brevis (short mass) was written around 1774. Scored modes tly for soprano\, four-part mixed choir\, two violins\, organ and bass\, i t is known as the Kleine Orgelmesse (Little Organ Mass) due to an extended organ solo in the Benedictus movement.\n\n \n\nCharlotte Kennedy - Sopra no\n\nWe are delighted to have as our soprano soloist\, Charlotte Kennedy. Charlotte is a British Soprano and is in the first year of her Master of Performance at The Royal College of Music studying with Janis Kelly and Ca roline Dowdle.\n\nAt the RCM\, Charlotte has played Venus in the Opera stu dio’s production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld\, La Bergere /La Chouette in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges and is covering the lead role of Jenny Lind the their summer production of Libby Larsen’s B arnum’s Bird.\n\nhttps://www.charlottejanekennedy.com/\n\nOn Twitter: @c harlottesop\nDOWNLOADS\nPoster PDF / JPG\nFlyer PDF / JPG\nSeating Plan\n\ nFor full event details\, visit: https://www.guildfordchoral.org/sunrise-m ass LOCATION:Holy Trinity Church\, Trinity Churchyard\, Guildford GU1 3RR URL:https://www.guildfordchoral.org/sunrise-mass END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR