Next Concert:

SPRING CONCERT
Saturday, 20th March 2010

Gloria (Vivaldi),
Gloria (Poulenc),
Messa di Gloria (Puccini)

Mote Hall, Maidstone

At 7.30.pm.

After the hard winter we have all suffered, this Spring Concert of glorious music should lift the spirits. Its theme is the glory of God and is, of course, very appropriate for the joyful Easter season.

Vivaldi’s Gloria is very popular and will provide an uplifting start to our spring concert. Its crisp texture and restrained lyricism afford the perfect foil for Poulenc’s much grander setting, with powerful vocal writing and expansive orchestration. It’s a mature masterpiece, one of Poulenc’s final works. In complete contrast, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria was the composer’s first major work, and it is clearly a young man’s music- direct in its approach and full of vigour.

We hope that you will come and enjoy the music and look forward to seeing you there.