SCC News
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Capturing our best angles
Some new photos of SCC were long overdue! Thanks to Jim Johnson Photography who took on the not insignificant challenge of capturing our best side during our concert back in July. You can see many of the photos on various pages of the website, but if you’d like a look at more of them, have a look…
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Our long awaited birthday celebration
What an occasion our anniversary celebration concert was! We were so pleased finally to be able to perform Bach’s great B minor mass on 18 March, and to an audience of nearly 500 – thanks to all our audience for supporting us, and to our wonderful soloists and orchestral players. Here’s to the next 40…
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Join us for a Bach celebration!
Tickets are now on sale for our celebration concert on 18 March! Join us for one of the greatest works in the repertoire, along with a period orchestra of some of the finest players in the country, and four top soloists. With virtuosic choruses in multiple parts, arias and duets, instrumental solos, and an incredible…
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We’re back!
There was great excitement & relief to have all the choir in the same room for the first time in 18 months when we had our first full rehearsal last week! We had a great first rehearsal and welcomed some new members too! From Palestrina to Matthew Martin via Howells & everything in between, we’ve…
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Celebrating Great English Music
Our June concert is a celebration of some wonderful English choral music. The centre piece is Hubert Parry’s heart-felt and truly amazing Songs of Farewell, which we include to mark his centenary year. Additional works include: Byrd Justorum animae, Elgar They are at rest, Finzi Lo! The full, final sacrifice, Ireland Greater love, Lewis The souls of the righteous, Parry Songs of Farewell, and Tomkins When David heard. We will…
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Concert Chat
Hear more about the background to our March 2018 concert programme as Gawain Glenton, Director of In Echo, and Rachel Greaves, Chair of SCC, discuss our forthcoming concert with Jenny Devitt on Abbey 104‘s ‘Local World‘.
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German Baroque for Lent & Easter
Passion and Glory in Sherborne Abbey on 17 March For our first concert of 2018, we’re delighted to be collaborating with top period band, In Echo, for a musical journey of German Baroque music through Lent and Passiontide, leading to the triumph of Easter Day. Formed by international cornetto player Gawain Glenton, who luckily for us lives…
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Hear our tour programme in Sherborne!
After a wonderful trip to Croatia, we’re back in Sherborne for the last concert of our season, in Sherborne Abbey this Saturday, 24th June. We spent a week in the World Heritage Site of Trogir, singing for mass and giving a concert in the historic churches there for local audiences and the many overseas visitors in Trogir.…
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SCC’s Grand Tour
We’re off on a European tour this March, though will be doing it from the safe confines of the Abbey! No politics, just great music! Join us on 18th March as we travel from Spain to Poland, Italy to Norway, with music from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Scarlatti’s wonderful multi-part Stabat Mater and…
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Sherborne Abbey Festival
We’re looking forward to being part of Sherborne Festival Chorus’s tenth anniversary concert during Sherborne Abbey Festival on 2nd May in Sherborne Abbey. Both choirs will be performing an all-English programme by two of our best-loved twentieth century composers, including Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region and his own favourite choral work, Sancta Civitas. Top violinist Ruth Rogers…