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We are delighted to be invited to take part in the David Ross Education Trust Choral Festival, featuring over 400 voices of the Trust’s primary and secondary school choirs in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.The concert features some of the most well-known pieces of choral music, including extracts from Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Verdi’s Requiem and traces the history of choral singing from Hildegard von Bingen’s O Euchari to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s You’ll Never Walk Alone and Pete Letanka’s brilliant Hope and Glory. At the centre of the concert is a complete performance of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, showcasing the thrill of hundreds of voices singing together.
The concert will be compèred by BBC Radio Northampton’s Martin Heath and lasts around 75 minutes.
Featuring the choirs of: Abbey CE Academy, The Arbours Primary Academy, Bobby Moore Academy, Briar Hill Primary School, Bringhurst Primary School, Cedar Road Primary School, Charnwood College, Eastfield Academy, Falconer’s Hill Academy, Greenfields Primary School, Kings Heath Primary Academy, Lodge Park Academy, Malcolm Arnold Academy, Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School, Newnham Primary School, Rockingham Primary School and Welton CE Academy. With Charles MacDougall conducting DRET Staff Choir.
Conducted by Simon Toyne.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Royal and Derngate Northampton, Car Park, Northampton, NN1 1, United Kingdom,Northampton, Northamptonshire
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