The Music Makers
A brief introduction to one of Elgar’s lesser known works. On Sunday 14th June, we will perform Elgar’s ‘The Music Makers’ as part of Glasgow’s West End Festival. As many may be unfamiliar with this piece, these few words might be helpful First performed in October 1912, The Music Makers is a cantata for contralto, […]
Eric Whitacre
Fourth and final post about the lives and works of the composers featured in our upcoming concert on 11th May in Stonehouse. Although he studied music intermittently as a child, according to Wikipedia, when he rather reluctantly joined the college choir, young Eric Whitacre could not read music. Worthy of recalling when, so often new […]
Bob Chilcott
Bob Chilcott, ‘contemporary hero of choral music’ celebrates his seventieth birthday on 9th April 2025. Born in Plymouth and raised in Watford, he was a boy chorister at King’s College Cambridge and subsequently spent several years as a member of the King’s Singers during which time he also provided them with arrangementsHe left The King’s […]
Gabriel Faure
Number 2 in our series of posts to introduce our spring programme. Whilst his music needs little introduction, the face of Gabriel Fauré, our first composer, may be less familiar. Early Life Born in the Ariège department in 1845, the youngest of six children of a schoolmaster, the young Gabriel demonstrated his musical talent at […]