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Elgar: Dream of Gerontius
Saturday 30th July 2016, 7.30pm
Kendal Parish Church

Here is Clive Walkley's review of our performance of "The Dream of Gerontius", published in the Westmorland Gazette on 4th August, together with some photographs taken on the night.

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To launch Cumbria Festival Chorus and to open the 2016 Lake District Summer Music Festival, we will present our inaugural event, a performance of Elgar's wonderful Dream of Gerontius. We will be joined by three superb soloists and one of the finest orchestras in the North West, the Northern Chamber Orchestra.

Tickets price £16 (under-18s/students/unwaged half-price) from LDSM's website or at the door.

Soloists:
Joyce Tindsley (mezzo-soprano) as the Angel, Joshua Ellicott (tenor - Gerontius) and Alex Ashworth (bass-baritone as the Priest and the Angel of the Agony)
with The Northern Chamber Orchestra and Amabile Girls' Choir (the Angelicals)
Conducted by Ian Jones

Joyce Tindsley (mezzo soprano)
Joshua Ellicott (tenor)
Alex Ashworth (bass-baritone)

First rehearsal, Saturday 16th April

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    • 2022
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      • Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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        • Wordsworth 250
        • New Year's Eve 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019 >
        • Berlioz Te Deum
        • Early Music Day
        • New Year's Eve 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Parry Centenary Concert
        • New Year's Eve
      • 2017 >
        • Mozart: Requiem
        • Choral Day
        • Elijah
      • 2016 - More Haydn Messe-Fest events
      • 2016 - Dream of Gerontius
      • 2015
  • Staging for Hire
  • CCI archive
    • 2014 - WWI Centenary >
      • Britten: War Requiem >
        • Acknowledgement of grants
      • New Year's Eve
    • 2013
    • 2012 >
      • July 2012 - The Song of Hiawatha >
        • Hiawatha - Pre-Concert Activities
        • Hiawatha - Concert Photographs
      • New Year's Eve 2012 - Cartmel Priory
    • 2011 - Sing Out for Marie Curie >
      • 2011 - New Year's Eve photographs
    • 2010 - 10th Anniversary Concert - Out of Darkness >
      • "Out of Darkness" - Photographs
    • 2009 - New Year's Eve in Cartmel Priory >
      • New Year's Eve 2009 Photographs
    • 2008 - Vaughan Williams Festival >
      • Vaughan Williams Festival Events
    • 2007 - July - Poulenc Gloria and Berlioz Messe Solennelle
    • 2005 - November - Britten's War Requiem
    • 2004 - Voices Raised and Carmina Burana >
      • Voices Raised
      • Carmina Burana
    • 2002 - July - Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony
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