Is a CCA choral course in Cambridge on your Christmas wishlist? Maybe you love someone enough to treat them too? We can keep a secret if you want to apply on behalf of a loved one!
To fill up the last few places on our first Epiphany Singing Retreat (3-5 January), we’re offering a £50 discount when you mention FRANKINCENSE in your application! Please share this with your choir!
Join us for a cosy, candle-lit weekend singing course of stimulating choral training and musical indulgence! The choral repertoire for Epiphany is almost as rich as for Christmas, and for this special course we include sumptuous anthems by John Shephard (Reges Tharsis) and an extract from Mendelssohn’s (incomplete) Oratorio Christus – There Shall a Star from David Come Forth. In his lecture going ‘Behind the Music’, Artistic Director Dr Edward Wickham will explore the medieval music traditions of the post-Christmas period, which produced some of the most ground-breaking music of all time. Meet Dr Edward Wickham (CLICK HERE) for a taster to whet your appetite for the course.
“The post-Christmas period… produced some of the most ground-breaking music of all time”
This course is hosted at Cambridge’s historic Sidney Sussex College, where in pre-Reformation times, early English composers Robert Fayrfax (MusB, 1501; DMus 1504) and Christopher Tye (MusB, 1536) took their degrees. Later, the great Elizabethan composer William Byrd would have been well-known to the foundress, Lady Frances Sidney, and two very fine elegies by Byrd survive for her nephew, the poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney. Alongside services in historic chapels and a feast of repertoire for Epiphany, we’ll also be wassailing, trying King Cake and merry-making at our Twelfth Night Dinner.
Delights in store include:
Candle-lit Compline in Sidney Sussex College Chapel, Evensong in Peterhouse under Graham Walker and Queens’ College chapel under Nicholas Morris, and a 3-course Twelfth Night formal dinner. There’s daily voice training and vocal health sessions, and warm camaraderie with a friendly group of like-minded people.
Find out more at www.cambridgechoral.com
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