Holy Trinity ChurchSloane StreetLondon SW1X 9BZ

Saturday19 October, 20196.00pm

ROYALCHORALSOCIETY

Tickets £20* (unreserved seating)

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Royal Choral Society Conductor Richard Cooke

RAMIREZMisa Criolla

Navidad Nuestra

BERNSTEINChoruses from

West Side Story

HOLSTChoral Hymns from

the Rig Veda

BRITTENThe Ballad of Little Musgrave

and Lady Barnard

GRAINGERI’m Seventeen Come Sunday

Shallow Brown The Lost Lady Found

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Argentinian Ariel Ramirez’s evocative Misa Criolla, premiered by the Royal Choral Society in the UK in 1995, is the centrepiece in a concert that celebrates the universal beats, melodies and rhythms of vernacular folk music. Written in 1964, Misa Criolla (Mass for Latin Americans of Spanish descent) combines the sacred mass with the deeply-rooted musical rituals and dances of Latin America. Ramirez’s beautifully melodic Navidad Nuestra, an uplifting folk drama of the nativity, is similarly based on the traditional music of Hispanic America; both will be performed with a vibrant guitar and percussion accompaniment.

From South America, the programme moves to New York, where the rhythmic colours of Puerto Rican immigrants jostle against the jazz of American youth in the choruses of Bernstein’s hugely popular West Side Story. Thence to England where the folk song revival of the early twentieth century stimulated an outpouring of music by composers such as Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten and Percy Grainger, who kept these hallmarks of rural culture alive with their stirring choral arrangements. Holst also turned to India for inspiration: his Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda are based on a traditional Sanskrit text set to western classical music in a unique east/west fusion.

There is something for everyone in this celebration of musical and cultural traditions from around the world.

Misa CriollaCelebrating Rhythms & Cultures

RAMIREZ Misa Criolla &

Navidad Nuestra

BERNSTEIN Choruses from

West Side Story

HOLST Choral Hymns from

the Rig Veda

BRITTEN The Ballad of Little Musgrave

and Lady Barnard

GRAINGER I’m Seventeen Come Sunday

Shallow Brown The Lost Lady Found

Holy Trinity Church • Sloane Street • London SW1X 9BZTickets £20 (unreserved seating – transaction charge may apply)Book via www.cadoganhall.com

Saturday 19 October, 20196.00pm

Royal Choral SocietyConductor Richard CookeTenor William MorganBaritone William Townend

Piano Richard PearcePiano Jonathan BeattyRoyal College of Music Guitar Quartet

ROYALCHORALSOCIETY