Event
- Title:
- Venetian Pageant
- When:
- Sat 25 September 2010 7:00pm
- Where:
- Towcester, St Lawrence - Towcester
- Category:
- Concert
Description
Grand ceremonial performance of spectacular music from 17th-century Venice with the Fiori Choir and members of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts. Presented as part of the BBC’s project to encourage choral singing across the UK.
The sumptuous surround-sound of multiple choirs, resounding brass and the ring of bells, with children dancing and pageantry will create a musical evening as memorable for the audience as for the participants.
See the Fiori Musicali BBC Choral Ambition Workshops page for details of how to participate.
Music to include:
Monteverdi – Cantate Domino
Monteverdi – Adoramus te, Christe
A Gabrieli – La Battaglia
G Gabrieli – Exaudi Deus
G Gabrieli – In Ecclesiis
Fiori Musicali Choir and Workshop Choirs, members of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, pupils from local schools, Penelope Rapson director
To ask about taking part, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 01327 360931.
Tickets £10 (participant, under 25s free), £12 (audience)
Book tickets here
Supported by BBC Performing Arts Fund, South Northamptonshire Council and Maud Elkington Charitable Trust
Venue
- Venue:
- Towcester, St Lawrence - Website
- Street:
- Chantry Lane
- Post code:
- NN12 6YY
- City:
- Towcester
- County:
- Northamptonshire
- Country:
-
Description
The church of St Lawrence Church stands in the middle of the town, in a fine group of buildings which also includes the Rectory, Chantry House and Town Hall. It has a 12th-century ground plan and foundation, probably overlaid on a Saxon 10th-century stone building.
Its ecclesiastical heritage may well relate back to Roman times as St Lawrence was patron saint of the Roman Legions, and Towcester itself stands astride Watling Street. The building was reconstructed in the Perpendicular style 1480-85 when the church tower was added. Permission to quarry stone from Whittlebury Forest for the restoration work was granted by Edward IV. This was later confirmed by Richard III on his way towards Leicestershire and his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
The church contains a 'Treacle' Bible, a table tomb and cadaver of Archdeacon Sponne, Rector 1422–1448. The Archdeacon started what was thought to be the oldest Grammar school in Northamptonshire, which was merged with the old Secondary Modern School in Towcester to form the Sponne School.
It is thought that the tower contains more bells than any other parish church in the land: a fine peal of 12 bells and a chime of 9 bells which ring the hours and chime tunes at frequent intervals.
Fiori Musicali are one of the UK’s principal providers of baroque and classical music outside London.
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