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Recent WorkEclectic English
This performance included work by Handel, Britten, Vaughan Williams and
other English composers, at the the Actor's Church, Covent Garden. |
| Eclectic Voices performed at St James's Piccadilly, and launched the new CD, recording of Scott Stroman's Jazz Mass |  |
| On Friday 2nd February 2007, Eclectic Voices led a
concert in Christ Church, Highbury with special guest Cleveland
Watkiss. The programme included Byrd, Bach, and Gospel music,
plus the unique sound of Cleveland creating wonderful harmonic
and rhythmic textures by recording and re-recording his own voice, live
at the concert. |
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On Friday 17th November at 7.30 pm, Eclectic Voices presented a concert featuring Mozart's Requiem. Eclectic Voices, under their inspirational conductor Scott Stroman, and with a professional orchestra of 20 period instruments, give their interpretation of one of the most significant works of the choral repertoire to mark the 250th year since Mozart's birth. After the concert a choir member received the following email from a friend in the audience: I wanted to write straight away to say how lovely the concert was – all of the choir and orchestra should be proud of their performance, it was beautiful. And so lovely to see you after hearing so much about the choir. Let us know about other concerts. I loved the flamboyance of the conductor too – he brought many a smile to my face and made it a really special event! |
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Eclectic Voices led a major concert at St John's, Smith Square, Westminster, together with the Furaha Swahili choir, Highbury Young Singers and the Tritonus choir from Ochsenhausen. Soloists James Bobby, Fiona Clarke, Catharine Rogers and Sam Boden, and string orchestra Opus 20, completed the lineup. The programme featured Johann Sebastian Bach's B Minor Mass (excerpts), Benjamin Britten's Cantata Misericordium, arrangements of African songs by Scott Stroman, African Easter, and Opus 20 played John Reeman's Paschalis from Passion. |
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Following a concert to a packed house, we received the following email.
" The concert was absolutely wonderful, your performance impeccable as usual, but it's the joy and enthusiasm that really makes it. We were especially thrilled at how the children were able to join in The Messiah, and their voices were so effective. What splendid soloists, beautiful voices. Thank you all so much. We have been to many perfomances of The Messiah , but none I've loved more than EV & HYS on Dec 16!"
In November, Eclectic Voices joined the choirs Off Beat from Tübinger, and Chocolate from Schorndorf in a celebration of Gospel and Jazz music, culminating in a live concert before 800 audience. Each choir performed music from its repertoire, and joined together for a rousing finale. See http://gomeja.chocolate-schorndorf.de/ for information about the event (in German) .
Eclectic Voices and HYS performed a concert featuring Bernstein's Chichester Carols, and Charlie Beale's Jazz arrangement of Faure's Requiem, dedicated to the memory of Charlie's mother. We received the following message from one of our supporters:
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I came with a friend
and both of us have sung the Faure at least twice. I wasn't sure
whether she would like it, but we both found it a most beautiful
tribute to the mother of the arranger and a most astonishing and
enlightening performance of the music. I was at Dartington when Scott
and several members of the choir took us through a challenging and
exciting week, so it was hard to keep quiet when you sang 'Sing my
way to heaven'. It is the spirit of the singers as well as their
skill, young and old, that sends an audience away with music in our
steps and in our heads. Many thanks.”
