Rock Festival Choir to perform Advent concert in Alnwick
Rock Festival Choir is to perform some beautiful Advent music in St Paul’s Church, Alnwick.
The event takes place on Sunday, November 29 at 3pm.
The programme will begin with Allegri’s sublime ‘Miserere mei, Deus’.
The choir will also perform Monteverdi’s ‘Beatus vir’, Bruckner’s ‘Ave Maria’, Lauridsen’s ‘O magnum mysterium’, a stunning anthem by contemporary composer Jonathan Dove, ‘Seek him that maketh the seven stars’, and Advent carols by Taverner, Joubert, Jackson and Gardner.
The concert will feature a carol originally collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Dunstan, near Craster, arranged by choir member Margaret Watchorn, with Andy Watchorn playing the Northumbrian smallpipes in accompaniment.
Margaret and Andy, who are renowned folk musicians, will then play two pieces, ‘Dunstan Hall’ and ‘Dunstanburgh Castle’, on fiddle and Northumbrian smallpipes.
The choir’s Musical Director is Peter Brown and organist Alan Gidney.
Tickets will be available on the door (£12, cash only please).