2008-2009

A SEASON of Conflagration & Remembrance:
Haydn’s Mass in a Time of Anxiety;
a REQUIEM FOR THE LOST CHILD;
THE VERDI REQUIEM;
ARMISTICE DAY Concert in HOLLAND; Songs of Love & Death,
& Mendelssohn’s Fiery Oratorio ELIJAH.

Season Highlights:

HAYDN’S NELSON MASS (MISSA IN ANGUSTIIS)
- MASS IN A TIME OF ANXIETY
THE CRY - A REQUIEM FOR THE LOST CHILD - a huge antiwar rock oratorio for 4 choirs & orchestra PREMIERED LIVE in ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL raising more than £25,000 for the charity SAVE THE CHILDREN
VERDI REQUIEM with The Forest Philharmonic Orchestra
FIRE IN THE BLOOD - Songs of Love & Death
Two Concerts on REMEMBRANCE DAY on tour in HOLLAND
Mendelssohn’s ELIJAH with SIR THOMAS ALLEN
in THE BARBICAN
Shakespeare Concert with HELEN BAXENDALE from “FRIENDS”

Choir Membership 2008-2009

CONCERTS

Sunday SEPTEMBER 7th 2008

Tone & Performance Art
WORKSHOP

GREYCOAT HOSPITAL SCHOOL, WESTMINSTER

Saturday OCTOBER 18th 2008

CHORAL CLASSICS

ST. JOHN’S. SMITH SQUARE

Programme

OCTOBER 25-26th 2008

FRENCH TOUR

LONS

Programme

Sunday NOVEMBER 16th 2008

THE CRY

ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL

Programme

“We are only children, we did not cause this pain
But we want to stop this madness we want to start again.
Like Anne Frank all these years ago we wait for peace
She didn’t live to see it - Oh will we?”

“Stop the fighting, stop the war! Do not hurt us any more!
Stop the hatred, stop the pain! Let me be a child again!”
”When will this madness cease? I dream of peace.”

“The earth will reveal the blood shed on her.
Hide, Oh people, the Lord burns with anger”
”Where are you? What have you done?” “ANSWER!”

“All my hopes are pinned on Thee, Lord have mercy now on me”
”Oh, Lord Jesus, King of Glory, free the souls of the faithful dead
Lead them forth into thy holy light!”

“Brown rivulets trickle away,
washing sadness down”
Forgetting in the damp and grey,
that by and by
The sun will shine.”

“And a child shall lead them to a land of freedom where darkness is forever turned to day. Where the world was broken, wounded, weeping, then a child shall kiss the tears away.”

“I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.”
”Will the waiting be long?” “When I close my eyes I dream of Peace”