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Spring Concert

Category: Concerts

When: 08 May 2010 at 19:30

Where: Lichfield Cathedral (Lichfield)

Description

Programme:

  • Brahms, Requiem
  • Dvorak, New World Symphony

The ever popular Requiem by Brahms is a large scale choral work completed in 1868.It is a setting of uplifting texts selected from the Lutheran Bible, emphasising comfort for the living, beginning with the chorus “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted” and later the familiar “How lovely are thy dwellings”

More correctly Symphony No. 9, From the New World is another much-loved work, dramatic and lyrical. It was composed whilst the Czech composer was living in America.

Tickets: £17.50, £15.00, £10.00, £7.50. Find out how to purchase tickets.
(Under 19s: 1 free ticket with 1 adult ticket purchased or
free standby opportunities on the day of the concert, subject to availability.)

What People Say

‘An evening of many soul-stirring moments.’

Lichfield Mercury
(3 December 2005)