Bray Choral Society

Bray Choral Society

Season’s Programme 2018-19

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As always the Bray Choral Society has an exciting programme of performances in the coming season.  We hope that this programme may entice some singers to join us, all who can hold a note are welcome.  If not a singer, but someone who likes to hear great works performed well then here is a summary of the concerts with dates for your diary, further details closer to the individual events.  Do check back regularly as there may be other concerts added to the programme as the season progresses.

Meet and Greet – Tuesday 28th August, Esplanade Hotel, Strand Road Bray, from 7.30pm.  Learn more about the society and check us out.

First rehearsal of the season – Tuesday 4th September – St. Kilian’s Community School, 7.30pm.  If new, just turn up, you will be made welcome.

Come and Sing – Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man – Sunday 11th November, Christchurch Bray, 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day WWI.

Christmas Carols – Saturday 15th December, Holy Redeemer Church, Bray, proceeds in aide of a local charity.

Irish Premiere of Howard Goodall’s Invictus: A Passion – Saturday 9th February – St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin.

Second performance of Invictus – Sunday 10th February – Holy Redeemer Church, Bray.

Summer Concert – Saturday 18th May, Mozart’s Requiem and the Hummel Mass, Holy Redeemer Church, Bray.

 

Summer Concert – The Peacemakers by Karl Jenkins

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For this year’s summer concert Bray Choral Society have chosen a contemporary work, The Peacemakers by Karl Jenkins.  This work follows Jenkins more famous anti-war work The Armed Man.  In The Peacemakers Jenkins puts the words of many famous peacemakers, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Sister Theresa, St. Francis etc., and extracts from religious texts to music to create a work of short movements all under the theme of the necessity for world peace.  It is an appropriate work in the current climate of international political volatility.

The concert will be performed in the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Main Street, Bray on Saturday the 5th May at 8.00pm.  The choir will be accompanied by an orchestra.  Tickets are the usual good value at €20 (€15 concession), available at the door on the night or from a choir member in advance.

The concert will also feature the shorter work of John Rutter’s Gloria.  The work has been described as “exalted, devotional and jubilant”.  It is performed at a brisk pace with plenty of brass accompaniment.  Appropriately, this work is being performed on the anniversary of its premiere on the 5th May 1974.

Give yourself a treat on the bank holiday weekend and come along to hear great singing and music which will lift your spirits for the summer.

Summer Concert – Mozart Extravaganza

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You can never have too much Mozart.  From the beautiful simplicity of the short Ave Verum Corpus to the complexity of the Great Mass in C minor, there is nothing quite like Mozart.  His different works have the ability to both energise us and to calm us.  There are studies which suggest it can lower our blood pressure and even help us in exams.

So why not come along on the 3rd June to the Holy Redeemer Church in Bray for a Mozart Extravaganza and experience it live for yourself.  The society accompanied by the Degani Orchestra lead by Alan Smale will perform the Great Mass in C minor along with other choral and instrumental Mozart works.  The Great Mass is considered one of the big challenges for a choir and the society’s members are rehearsing well for what promises to be a vibrant concert.

Save the date, tell your friends and come and join us on the night, you won’t regret it.  Remember the wonderful music of the movie Amadeus, well this will be more of the same!