Category Archives: Come & Sing

Come and sing… Verdi’s Requiem

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Image of Giuseppe Verdi with text Verdi Requiem

AN INSTANT CONCERT!

SUNDAY 27th NOVEMBER 2022
at 2 PM

The Great Hall
St Bartholomew’s Hospital
West Smithfield
London EC1A 7BE
(next to The Maggie’s Centre)

Bring your own score
and enjoy an afternoon in the company of
Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra
conducted by John Lumley
with Margaret Banwell as Leader

– listeners are welcome too!

• Entry is free entry but donations to
Barts Cancer Unit are most welcome •
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The Great Hall is an impressive historical environment for our concerts.
Ascend the stairs and marvel at the Hogarth paintings before being seated amidst benevolence past and present.

TRANSPORT
St Pauls | Barbican | Farringdon | City Thameslink (Holborn Viaduct exit)

If you enjoy singing and like an informal approach, join our choir – we welcome new members.  For information, message us via our Contact Us page.

SAVE THE DATE – 50th Anniversary Concert
Monday 12th December, 7.30 pm in The Great Hall at Barts Hospital

Coming up this Summer term

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After Easter, we start rehearsing Mendelssohn’s Elijah on Friday 22nd April for our Come & Sing afternoon and later on, our full concert to close the season.

If you enjoy singing and like an informal approach, join our choir – we welcome new members.  For information, message us via our Contact Us page.

SAVE THE DATE
Come & Sing | MENDELSSOHN: Elijah
 – Sunday 12th June at 2.00 pm
Summer Concert | MENDELSSOHN: Elijah
 – Monday 11th July at 7.30 pm

Our Come & Sing and Easter Concert

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Congratulations to members of the orchestra, choir and soloists who struggled and won against severely-reduced public transport to join in the Come & Sing in The Great Hall at Barts on Sunday afternoon!

It turned out to be the best way to spend a wet Sunday afternoon. Wonderful music and enthusiastic musicians joined together to produce an enjoyable performance.

Thanks to all involved.

Join us for our Easter Concert of Bach’s St John Passion, written for the Good Friday Vespers service of 1724.

Baton down at 7.30 pm on Monday 28th March in The Great Hall at Barts Hospital. Tickets are available at the door and all proceeds go to Barts Cancer Unit for the benefit of the patients.

Bring a friend and let Bach’s dramatisation give a different perspective to your Easter.

The Great Hall | Barts Hospital | West Smithfield | EC1A 7BE

The Great Hall at Barts is an impressive historical environment for our concerts.
Ascend the stairs and marvel at the Hogarth paintings before being seated amidst benevolence past and present.

TRANSPORT
– Train: City Thameslink (Holborn Viaduct exit)
– Tube: St Pauls (Central), Barbican, Farringdon (Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan)
– Bus: 46 56 (Bart’s Hospital), 8 25 521 (City Thameslink), 100 (King Edward Street)

If you enjoy singing and like an informal approach, join our choir – we welcome new members.  For information, message us via our Contact Us page.

URGENT! Tonight’s rehearsal cancelled

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Friday 18th February – due to travel disruption and weather conditions, tonight’s choir practice is cancelled.

Plans for the Instant Puccini & Haydn event on Sunday 20th February are still in place.

Hope to see you then.

Come & Sing… Puccini & Haydn

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Sunday 20th February 2022 at 2.00 pm
in The Great Hall, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
West Smithfield, EC1A 7BE

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MUSIC!

All singers welcome, no rehearsal – straight in at 2 pm
Join us and bring your friends

No tickets required!
* Donations to Barts Cancer Unit welcome *

The Great Hall at Barts is an impressive historical environment for our concerts.
Ascend the stairs and marvel at the Hogarth paintings
before being seated amidst benevolence past and present.

TRANSPORT
– Train: City Thameslink (Holborn Viaduct exit)
– Tube: St Pauls (Central), Barbican, Farringdon (Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan)
– Bus: 46 56 (Bart’s Hospital), 8 25 521 (City Thameslink), 100 (King Edward Street)

If you enjoy singing and like an informal approach, join our choir – we welcome new members.  For information, message us via our Contact Us page.

SAVE THE DATE
Easter Concert | BACH: St John Passion
 – Monday 28th March at 7.30 pm in The Great Hall at Barts Hospital

Great to be singing & more to come…

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Thanks to all those who came to sing in the choir and play in the orchestra on Sunday – for the Mozart Requiem from scratch!  There was a good buzz of enjoyment all round, and it was clear that so many of us are delighted to get back to singing and playing again.

John Lumley outlined the plans for next year which will be the 50th year since BAFCO (Bart’s Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra) started.  Dates are still to be confirmed, but as soon as they are – the plans will be put on this website so as many of you as possible can join our current choir for a great choral year!

Don’t forget that singers can join us again on Sunday 28th November at 2 pm, to sing Handel’s Messiah – again from scratch – look out your music and put the date in your diary!