Concerts
From ouchoir
Autumn 2011
Ouchoir-nov09v2.pdf
Thursday 24 November 2011
Hub Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall at 1pm
Mozart's 'Coronation' Mass was written shortly before he left Salzburg and as such sums up all that is best about his youthful style. Although it evokes a festive mood with trumpets and drums it was not written for a coronation, but presumably for a major Feast, possibly Easter 1779. It gained its nickname from a performance given by Mozart's supposed rival Salieri at the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in 1791.
Bruckner, surely one of the most pious and self-effacing composers of the nineteenth century, wrote motets throughout his life, from the age of 11 through to his late sixties. Our programme will include one of the earliest published, Affertentur regi, one of the most popular, Locus iste, and one of the most spectacular Ecce sacerdos.
Spring 2012
Thursday 22 March 2012
Hub Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall at 1pm
Following a concert in 2010 in which the choir performed some of the published anthems of William Bowie, a student in the OU Music Department located the music he wrote in 1961 for his Durham MMus exercise. This turned out to include a setting for soloists, chorus and orchestra of the ballad 'Thomas the Rhymer' by Walter Scott which has now been transcribed by the choir's conductor, Bill Strang, with a view to giving it its first performance at this concert.
The programme will also include Bowie's arrangement of the Scottish folksong The De'il's Awa' and older Scottish music in which he took an interest when it was being edited and re-published in the mid-twentieth century while Bowie was active as a teacher and performer in Edinburgh.
Summer 2012
Thursday 28 and Friday 29 June 2012
St Michael's Church, Walton Hall at 1pm
Choral music by women composers. The programme will include a surprise birthday present written by Clara Schumann for her husband Robert in 1848, and simple negro spiritual arrangements and a virtuoso anthem by Undine Smith Moore.
