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LSO Singing Day: Immortal Bach

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LSO Singing Day

Join the LSO Choral Director Simon Halsey to spend a day singing music by JS Bach’s and the composers he inspired.

Join the LSO Choral Director Simon Halsey to spend a day singing movements from JS Bach’s Magnificat and pieces by Mendelssohn, Rutter and Nystedt with roots in Bach's music.

Bach made a big mark on choral music with works like the St John and St Matthew Passions, over 200 cantatas and the brilliant Magnificat in D. He paired exuberant choral fantasias with meditative hymns, and the beauty and immediacy of his music has inspired composers ever since.

Rutter’s Magnificat shares the buoyant mood and driving rhythms of Bach’s setting, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah is a large-scale concert work modeled on the Passions. In Immortal Bach, Knut Nystedt spins out one of Bach’s chorales into a time-stopping rumination on sound and harmony.

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Whether you sing in a local choir, or haven’t sung since school, this is an opportunity to try something new or rediscover your hobby. We’ll be singing from the score – experience reading music and some knowledge of sight-singing will help! The day will be accompanied by piano.

Please choose your vocal part type when booking. Spectator tickets can be purchased for the final run through at the end of the day. Price includes music hire.

The day is expected to finish around 4.30pm

Programme

  • Knut Nystedt   Immortal Bach
  • JS Bach   Movements from Magnificat in D
  • JS Bach   Komm, süßer Tod, komm, selge Ruh
  • John Rutter   Movement one from Magnificat
  • Mendelssohn   Movements 15 & 32 from Elijah

Change of repertoire
The music in this workshop no longer includes Tippett’s Spirituals from A Child of Our Time, as originally advertised.
Posted Wednesday 10 July 12pm

Performers

  • Simon Halsey   conductor

LSO St Luke's

Location
161 Old St
London
EC1V 9NG

Nearby public transport
The closest London Underground station is Old Street.The nearest National Rail station is Old Street (for Great Northern services), with Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Blackfriars and City Thameslink all within walking distance. Bus services running to LSO St Luke's are 55, 243 (stop nearest to LSO St Luke's), 43, 76, 141, 205, 214, 271. 

Car and bicycle parking
The nearest paid car parking is at the Barbican. There are occasionally disabled parking spaces available at the venue, but these must be booked in advance by calling LSO St Luke's on 020 7490 3939. The nearest TfL Bicycle Hire docking station is at Old Street tube station.