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London, England, Jun 9, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Some of St. John Henry Newman’s best-loved words will be heard on Thursday as they have never been heard before.
They will feature in a new work by the composer Sir James MacMillan performed publicly for the first time on June 10 at Farm Street Church in London, England.
The piece, “Nothing in Vain,” is a setting of a meditation written by the English saint on March 7, 1848, that includes the famous line “God has created me to do Him some definite service.”
MacMillan, one of the world’s leading composers, told CNA that he was struck by how much drama Newman packed into the brief reflection.
A new vision for a reimagined National Concert Hall
about 2 hours ago
Robert Read became chief executive of the National Concert Hall (NCH) in February, since when he has been running “this wonderful national organisation from my kitchen table in northwest London”.
His slant is positive. The situation “forces us all to be creative, to think about how we can do things in different ways. And aren’t we fortunate to live in a world where technology allows us to connect with each other in this kind of way.”
He comes to Ireland from Kings Place in London. Kings Place is a building that opened in 2008, just a few minutes walk from King’s Cross Station. It’s both a 26,000sq m commercial office block, with tenants including the Guardian newspaper, and an independent arts and conference centre, with two small concert halls. Kings Place has the Aurora Orchestra as its resident orchestra, and its “artistic associates” include the Brodsky Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Orc
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Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled
Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s
Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s
Sibylline Prophecies
2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents
Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising
Vom Pagen und der Königstochter Op. 140,
Des Sängers Fluch Op. 139,
Requiem für Mignon Op. 98b, and
Nachtlied Op. 108. View here.
2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Wigmore Hall’s 120th anniversary sees the Hall’s Associate Ensemble joined by soprano Mary Bevan for Fauré’s