Events over the next few weeks

The end of the School year is fast approaching but there is still plenty going on in the Vaughan's Music Department.

 

Over the next three weeks lots of boys in the Lower School will be busy rehearsing their small ensembles for the Chamber Music Competition on Wednesday 18 June. This is always one of the most enjoyable evenings of the Vaughan's musical year.

Before that, on June 10, the trebles of the Schola are singing at the Royal Festival Hall with the Bach Choir  in a concert of the Berlioz Te Deum and a new work by Jonathan Dove. More details in the last blog post.

On Saturday 28 June the Big Band will be appearing at Ronnie Scott's famous jazz club in Soho. Further details on how to obtain tickets for this performance (which last time sold out in a couple of days) will be available soon.

The Summer Concert will be in Addison Hall on Thursday 3 July and will offer the usual selection of musical offerings with refreshments afterwards in the New Hall.

The Schola will sing at the Vigil Mass at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday 5 July, the choir's final visit this academic year. 

The year will end with the annual musical production which this year is to be Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.  There will be three performances, 17-19 July at 7.30 pm in the New Hall.

This video above will hopefully get everyone in the mood for West Side Story!

Schola to sing in Jonathan Dove World Premiere

On Tuesday June 10 the younger members of the Schola are to join forces with the Bach Choir, the Philharmonia and the Tri Borough Young Singers for a concert at the Royal Festival Hall. The programme includes Berlioz's spectacular setting of the Te Deum and also a new work, entitled Psalms for Leo by leading British composer Jonathan Dove.

Dove's music is known to the Schola - his anthem Seek that Maketh the Seven Stars is a piece that the choir has sung recently and we are currently working at the composer's Missa Brevis for a Mass at Westminster Cathedral later this term.

The concert at the Festival Hall will be conducted by David Hill. Below is a video of him in conversation with the composer, Jonathan Dove, about the new work.