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2008 is the 150th anniversary year of the first formation of the Leeds Festival Chorus. It promises to be one of our busiest and most exciting years. Thank you for your past support. We hope that you will enjoy listening to us or singing with us in the year ahead. |
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Chorus comrades learn Russian
Chorus member Ryszard ‘Rickie’ Biedka is drilling his ‘comrades’ in such useful phrases as "Yes, we smashed their warships to kindling wood" and "He who fell for Russia in noble death shall be blest by my kiss". Rickie says he has chosen old Siberian Russian pronunciation for his reading of the text. Let’s just hope that any Russians in the audience don’t decide that old Siberia is the place for Rickie after hearing the concert. He is cheerful about it, "If they don’t like my Russian, there’s also the wonderful sound of Elgar’s The Music Makers in the same programme." The whole concert is conducted by Simon Wright. He is no stranger to the Elgar - he has made one of the top rated CDs of the piece - and no stranger to getting the chorus to sing in foreign tongues, with concerts in Polish and Hebrew not long ago. You can hear Rickie reading the text by clicking on this Russian link (6.5Mb). To find out what it all means, come to this Leeds International Concert Season event on Saturday 17 May at 7.30pm. Tickets are £14, £18, £22.50, £24.00 and £27.50 with usual concessions from members of Leeds Festival Chorus or City Centre Box Office: tel 0113 224 3801. | ||
In a nutshellOur star soloist for our last concert this season on 17 May is Sara Fulgoni. As a committed concert artist she has sung under such conductors as Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Giuseppe Sinopoli. In opera, her renowned dramatic performances have taken her to such places as San Francisco, Beijing, Amsterdam, New York and Salzburg, and she appears regularly at Covent Garden. For full biographical details click here. Our 2007-2008 programme shows the range of music making we have undertaken this season. It also gives useful background information about the Chorus, including comments from critics and handy details about joining us as a singing member or supporter. Click to download a copy of the Leeds Festival Chorus 2007-2008 Brochure (three A4 pages). Looking to next season, we have a glorious programme of French music coming up at Ripon Cathedral on 12 July 2008. The programme features Fauré’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Gloria. Booking opens in April. | ||
Leeds Festival Chorus members are having a crash course in Russian. They
are learning the mighty choruses in the cantata Alexander Nevsky. This is
based on the score the composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote for the iconic
Eisenstein film seventy years ago. Now the Chorus joins forces with the
Leeds Philharmonic Society and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to bring the
huge work to the concert platform in Leeds Town Hall.
Free under 26 membershipIf you were aged under 26 on 1 September 2007 and pass our audition, then you can join Leeds Festival Chorus for free for the year 2007-08. If you were over 26 but are still a student, then you can benefit from our concessionary subscription. Click here for further information. |
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