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Instant Verdi Requiem – 9th February 2015

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Come and sing… an instant

Verdi Requiem

Verdi

Bring a score and join in a sing along in the Great Hall, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Monday 9 February 7.30pm

Entry free, donations welcome – proceeds to Barts charities

Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra
Conductor: John Lumley – Leader: Margaret Banwell

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield EC1A 7BE
Tube: Barbican, Farringdon or St Paul’s

Barts Great Hall is an impressive historical environment with a distinctive acoustic. If you have a voice and like an informal approach to singing, please join us – we welcome new members.

2015 Concert Dates

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Some dates for your diary

  • Monday 9th February 2015 – Verdi Requiem from Scratch
  • Monday 23rd March 2015 – Easter Concert * 
  • Monday 20th July 2015 – Summer Concert
  • Monday 5th October 2015 – Autumn Concert
  • Monday 21st December 2015 – Christmas Concert

* please note date – there is no concert on 2nd March!

All concerts at 7.30 pm in the Great Hall at Barts and tickets at the door

Christmas Concert 2014

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Monday 15th December  2014 at 7.30

The Great Hall, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

  • HAYDN SYMPHONY No 93
  • EXCERPTS FROM HANDEL’S MESSIAH
  • CHRISTMAS CAROLS

Leader:  Margaret Banwell
Conductor: John Lumley

Admission £10 – Concessions £5
Proceeds in aid of Barts Cancer Unit

Come and enjoy the evening and bring your friends

Other dates to note…

Instant  Verdi Requiem:  Monday 9th February 2014- 7.30pm turn up and bring a copy!
Spring Concert: Monday 23rd March 2014

New Choir Members

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Barts Friday evening Choir welcomes all voices – small, friendly group, just starting to prepare Dvorak Requiem for performance 31 March – if you can sing in tune and have lots of enthusiasm you are welcome, no audition or musical tests. Fridays 7.00 – 9.00, Barts-the-Less (just on the left inside the Hospital Henry VIII Gate, opposite Smithfield Meat Market) – come along (copies available)

ALSO – Instant performance of the Requiems of Mozart and Faure – Barts Great Hall, 7.30 Monday 10 February – bring your own copies

For more information, call 020 7588 3635

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

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MONDAY 16th DECEMBER 2013 at 7.30 p.m.

THE GREAT HALL, St BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL

Mozart – Bassoon Concerto

Schubert – Symphony No. 3

Elgar – The Spirit of England

Tippett – Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time

Leader: Margaret Banwell Conductor: John Lumley

Admission £10 – Concessions £5 Proceeds in aid of Barts Cancer Unit
Tickets available at the door.

Come along and join us and bring your friends!

Spring Concert: Monday 31st March 2014