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The Tudor Consort in 2021
Kia ora koutou katoa! We are back and rehearsing for our first concert of 2021 - Music for Holy Week - which will take place on Good Friday April 2.
Due to the uncertainty of these Covid times, we are NOT offering a Subscription for our concerts this year, but each will be a stand-alone concert. This allows us to avoid a situation where we are unable to honour cancelled concerts due to lockdowns, as happened last year.
We do however have an interesting year of music planned: after our Good Friday performance, we will tackle works by John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Sergei Rachmaninov and Georgy Sviridov in a programme named ICONIC, scheduled for Saturday June 26. 2021 marks the 500th anniversary of the deaths of Josquin Desprez and Robert Fayrfax, and we will present a programme of music from these two illustrious composers on Saturday August 14.
We have two more concerts planned for later in the year too, so stay tuned!
Friday 2 April, 2021
The Tudor Consort returns for 2020
Hello to our wonderful supporters!
Though we have unfortunately had to cancel the 2020 Subscription Series due to Covid-19, we are very happy to announce that we have emerged from lockdown and will perform two concerts over the coming months!
Our first concert, INVOCATIONS, explores music that was written in the midst of plague, reminding us that pandemics have been negotiated by humankind for centuries. This will take place on Saturday 29 August at 7pm at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul - see here for details on Facebook. Note that this concert will NOT feature a pre-concert talk, but Michael Stewart will introduce the pieces during the concert.
The second concert is one that we have taken from the 2020 Subscription Series that is really pertinent to this year - the FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD celebrates the 500th anniversary of the famous summit meeting between Henry VIII and Francois I of France, and features music by the prominent composers of France and England at that time including Robert Fayrfax, Jean Mouton, and Henry VIII himself. Again this concert will be at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on Saturday November 7 at 7.30pm (pre-concert talk at 7pm).
And we round out the year with MESSIAH with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - see here for more details.
Hope to see you at our upcoming concerts!
Wednesday 22 July, 2020
Update re Music for Holy Week
To all our wonderful Tudor Consort supporters,
What a difference a few days can make. Last Thursday I advised that, although we would not open the Good Friday concert to the public on April 10, we were hopeful that the choir could continue rehearsing with a view to either livestreaming or producing some form of recording of our current Music for Holy Week programme. Once PM Ardern announced that the level on the COVID-19 alert system was to be raised to 3 with a complete lockdown of the country tomorrow, we of course had no choice but to suspend our rehearsals to guarantee the safety of our singers and to join the national effort in curbing the spread of the disease.
What I am hoping to do is broadcast an archived recording from The Tudor Consort and make that available to you so you can listen to us on Good Friday. In the meantime, you can access some of our recordings at the MP3 section of our website here.
Kia kaha everyone, stay safe and please do abide by the regulations of the lockdown. We look forward to being able to perform for you in the flesh as soon as we can!
Best wishes,
Michael Stewart
Music Director, The Tudor Consort
Tuesday 24 March, 2020
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