THE SONG OF ANGELS
A concert by OPUS ANGLICANUM
Five men singing
unaccompanied and a narrator
Saturday 18th May at 6.00pm
All Saints Church, Writtle
Enjoy a magical
summer’s evening of music and words performed by the pure voices of Opus Anglicanum
The programme
celebrates angels as invisible companions and guardians, as spiritual warriors, muses of
creativity, as messengers, heralds and healers.
With music specially
composed for Opus Anglicanum by Howard Skempton and Patrick Larley, with the chant
of the night office for St Michael and All Angels together with
Russian Orthodox chant and
works by Palestrina, Byrd and Victoria along with readings from Spencer, Suso, Eliot,
Traherne and Alcuin.
Founded in 1988, Opus
Anglicanum have performed for BBC Radio 3 and Three Choirs Festivals in
Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester. In Essex they have sung at the
Thaxted Festival and the
Chelmsford Cathedral Festival. And I recall one magical event in St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell.
Their speciality is in
presenting themed programmes combining the spoken and the sung word from a very wide
variety of sources.
Saturday 18th May at
6.00pm
All Saints Church,
Writtle
Tickets: £12 (inc
light refreshments)
from Alison Woollard
01245 421729
a.woollard@virgin.net
56 Mayfield Road,
Writtle, Essex, CM1 3EL
(cheques A Woollard)
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