9
July
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9
July
7PM
7PM
Love in Bloom
Love in Bloom
Fourth Choir
For its Pride Concert this year, The Fourth Choir, London’s LGBT+ classical choir, is celebrating that endlessly fascinating subject, LOVE!
What is love? Well, come and hear what Kate Rusby and Michel LeGrand have to say on the subject. Shakespeare and Shelley also have some thoughts they want to share with you, as well as Leonard Bernstein and Robbie Burns, Cecilia McDowall and Judith Weir. The concert will also feature a performance of The Hymn to St Cecilia, an astonishing twelve-minute masterpiece by those queer geniuses, Benjamin Britten and WH Auden, which asks whether love should be chaste or sexual - St Cecilia or Aphrodite.
A word from Fourth Choir:
The Fourth Choir is thrilled to be performing at Stone Nest, scene of the Limelight, London’s most hedonistic nightclub in the 1980s. We can just feel the aura of Boy George, Bob Geldof, George Michael and the international glitterati who used to hang out there. And because we’re performing in the heart of the West End, we’ll be celebrating music theatre with wonderful choral arrangements of pieces from Rent and West Side Story.
The Fourth Choir
The Fourth Choir is London's LGBT + chamber choir for non-professional singers. Focusing on performing great choral works from early music to contemporary masterpieces, the Choir was formed in September 2013 with the aim of representing the LGBT+ community on London's classical music scene. The Choir has performed in many of London’s iconic cultural venues including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain, Shakespeare’s Globe and Kings Place as well as at The Jazz Cafe, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London. The Choir has had the honour of performing twice at the National Holocaust Memorial Ceremony, which in 2019 was broadcast on BBC2. Overseas, the Choir has performed at the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, at the Palazzo Doria Pamphili in Rome and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
For its Pride Concert this year, The Fourth Choir, London’s LGBT+ classical choir, is celebrating that endlessly fascinating subject, LOVE!
What is love? Well, come and hear what Kate Rusby and Michel LeGrand have to say on the subject. Shakespeare and Shelley also have some thoughts they want to share with you, as well as Leonard Bernstein and Robbie Burns, Cecilia McDowall and Judith Weir. The concert will also feature a performance of The Hymn to St Cecilia, an astonishing twelve-minute masterpiece by those queer geniuses, Benjamin Britten and WH Auden, which asks whether love should be chaste or sexual - St Cecilia or Aphrodite.
A word from Fourth Choir:
The Fourth Choir is thrilled to be performing at Stone Nest, scene of the Limelight, London’s most hedonistic nightclub in the 1980s. We can just feel the aura of Boy George, Bob Geldof, George Michael and the international glitterati who used to hang out there. And because we’re performing in the heart of the West End, we’ll be celebrating music theatre with wonderful choral arrangements of pieces from Rent and West Side Story.
The Fourth Choir
The Fourth Choir is London's LGBT + chamber choir for non-professional singers. Focusing on performing great choral works from early music to contemporary masterpieces, the Choir was formed in September 2013 with the aim of representing the LGBT+ community on London's classical music scene. The Choir has performed in many of London’s iconic cultural venues including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain, Shakespeare’s Globe and Kings Place as well as at The Jazz Cafe, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London. The Choir has had the honour of performing twice at the National Holocaust Memorial Ceremony, which in 2019 was broadcast on BBC2. Overseas, the Choir has performed at the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, at the Palazzo Doria Pamphili in Rome and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
