Come and Sing! Choral workshop with Ralph Allwood. Saturday 21st May 2016
Come and Sing! Choral workshop with Ralph Allwood.Saturday 21st May 2016 St Thomas the Apostle ChurchBoston Road, W7 2ADRegistration from 10:30amWorkshops 11 am to 1 pm and 2pm to 4pm.Light lunch and refreshments provided.Informal concert 4:30pm to 5:15pm. (Audience welcome.)Please join us at St Thomas the Apostle, Boston Road, Hanwell, for a day of choral workshops, culminating in an informal performance of some established favourites and new pieces from the Anglican choral tradition. We are keen to share these pieces not just with experienced singers, but also with those who are new to this kind of choral singing – so do come along if you haven’t sung this kind of music before. We very much want to share the pleasures of this music-making with others – whether you are an Anglican, from another Christian denomination, of another faith, or of no faith. We will be singing:G.F. Handel: Zadok the PriestHubert Parry: I Was GladVaughan Williams arrangement of ‘the Old Hundredth’ - All People that on Earth do Dwell.Will Todd: Softly – a simple and beautiful new anthem, rather quieter than the rest of the programme.David Willcocks: Sing! A choral arrangement of the Toccata from Widor’s ‘Organ' Symphony (No. 5)We will be providing musical scores on the day – it helps if you can read music, but isn’t essential, and there will be experienced singers at the event to lead and support. You can also find recordings and videos of the pieces on streaming music services and youtube – in some cases with the individual parts picked out. We are very pleased that Ralph Allwood MBE will lead the event. Ralph was for 26 years Director of Music at Eton College and is now a freelance choral director. Ralph is Director of the Eton Choral Courses, Junior Choral Courses, and Director of the Rodolfus Choir, which has produced over 20 CDs; Gramophone magazine described their singing as ‘unspeakably beautiful'. Ralph is also founder and conductor of Inner Voices, a choir made up of some of the very best singers from state schools across London. He is also Director of Music at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. www.ralphallwood.com St. Thomas the Apostle Church is on Boston Road, about 800m north of Boston Manor underground station, and served by E8 and 195 bus services. St Thomas’s is a grade II* building, widely acknowledged as one of the finest new churches built between the wars. The event is part of celebrations marking the restoration of St. Thomas’s magnificent Walker pipe organ, and the programme has a slant towards pieces that combine choral singing with powerful organ accompaniment. www.thomashanwell.org.ukWe will serve a simple lunch of vegetarian soup with bread, but you are very welcome to bring your own lunch, particularly if you have special dietary needs. We want to make the event open to all, but we have suggested a donation of at least £10 to cover the costs of the day (and more generous contributions are very welcome!)Please email to Natalie.Hyacinth.2015@live.rhul.ac.uk to register for the event by Thursday 19th May 2016, giving your name, your singing voice (Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Bass), and your contact details. The event is supported by Making Suburban Faith, a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as a part of its ‘Connected Communities’ programme, and based at University College London and Royal Holloway, University of London. The research project examines the creativity of different suburban faith communities particularly as expressed in architecture, material culture, ritual, music and performance. www.makingsuburbanfaith.org
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