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A Voice of His Own

BBC SO Total Immersion: Discovering George Walker

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Photo of George Walker resting his head in his hands

A voice of his own: the BBC Singers perform the vocal music of George Walker and his contemporaries.

Beginning a day of Total Immersion in the music of the American modernist composer George Walker, the BBC Singers present a concert devoted to his vocal music – and the poetry, ranging from Shakespeare to the Bible, upon which he exercised a far-ranging musical imagination.  

'Any kind of creative effort must attempt to say something new' said George Walker, but he found his voice amid a generation of American idealists, experimenters and visionaries, all determined to speak directly to their time, and their society. This concert focuses on small-scale music with a big personality, including works by Samuel Barber, and fellow pupils of Walker’s early mentor Rosario Scalero. 

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This performance will finish at approximately 2pm

Produced by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Programme

  • George Walker   Praise ye the Lord
  •   A Babe is Born
  • Samuel Barber   Reincarnations
  • George Walker   Oh Western Wind
  •   The Bereaved Maid
  •   Take, o those lips away
  • Samuel Barber   Two Choruses: No 1, On the Death of Antony
  • George Walker   Stars
  • Samuel Barber   To be sung on the water
  • George Walker   O Lord God of Hosts
  • Ned Rorem   Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love
  • George Walker   Blow, blow thou winter wind
  • Samuel Barber   Two Choruses: No 2, On the Death of Cleopatra

Performers

  • BBC Singers  
  • Grace Rossiter   conductor
  • Caroline Jaya-Ratnam   piano

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Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

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Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

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We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

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