Take a musical tour as the Addison Singers’ classical choirs are set to take to the stage with their Sing, Mortals! concert on Saturday 16 March.
Kicking off the concert at 7.30pm at St Peter’s Church, in Southfield Road, Acton Green, the group’s choirs will open with a command to Sing, Mortals! by 20th century British composer Arthur Bliss.
Matthew Thomas Morgan, conductor of the Addison Singers, explains: “Bliss’s music has a unique harmonic pallet, synonymous with mid twentieth century English styles. It is a challenging, rousing opening to our concert programme.”
The singers will continue with a celebration of the patron saint of music and musicians, St. Cecilia, with works by US composer and mathematician Charles Giffen and British composer Herbert Howells.
The group’s 40-strong chamber choir will perform an interlude of Spanish works between these pieces.
They will present two works by 16th century Seville-born composer Cristóbal Morales and a “short but ravishingly beautiful setting” of Ave Maria by Joaquín Rodrigo, who died in 1999.
After the interval, the larger oratorio choir of 100 voices will perform a duo of well-loved works from Austrian composers Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert.
Haydn’s Te Deum in C and Schubert’s Mass in G will complete the evening of choral music as part of the concert, which the Addison Singers will take on tour to Spain in May.
Local music fans can get involved with the Addison Singers choirs – which launched in 1971 – each Wednesday evening, with rehearsals for the auditioned chamber choir taking place from 6.30-7.45pm and the non-auditioned oratorio choir from 7.30-9.30pm.
They rehearse each week at the Polish Social and Cultural Association centre in King Street in Hammersmith.
Book tickets from Ticket Lab for the Addison Singers’ spring concert priced £19.10 for general admission, and £3.38 for under 16s.
