The David Ross Education Trust is thrilled to welcome the BBC Singers as special guests to its Choral Festival, featuring over 400 voices of the Trust’s primary and secondary school choirs in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.
The concert features some of the most well-known pieces of choral music, including extracts from Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Verdi’s Requiem and traces the history of choral singing from Hildegard von Bingen’s O Euchari to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s You’ll Never Walk Alone and Pete Letanka’s brilliant Hope and Glory. At the centre of the concert is a complete performance of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, showcasing the virtuosity of the BBC Singers as well as the thrill of hundreds of voices singing together.
The concert will be compèred by BBC Radio Northampton’s Martin Heath and lasts around 75 minutes.
The choirs of Abbey CE Academy, The Arbours Primary Academy, Bobby Moore Academy, Briar Hill Primary School, Bringhurst Primary School, Cedar Road Primary School, Charnwood College, Eastfield Academy, Falconer’s Hill Academy, Greenfields Primary School, Kings Heath Primary Academy, Lodge Park Academy, Malcolm Arnold Academy, Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School, Newnham Primary School, Rockingham Primary School and Welton CE Academy.
DRET Staff Choir, Charles MacDougall conductor
BBC Singers
Simon Toyne conductor