This weekend, Stationers’ Hall (one of London’s most historic City livery halls) hosts the annual St Ceciliatide Festival in honour of music’s Patron Saint.
This festival – one of London’s best kept secrets – oozes with quintessentially English culture. Tucked away in the splendid 17th-century livery hall where Henry Purcell once performed pæons of praise to [...]
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London’s best kept secret?
pre-Christmas concerts
As Christmas approaches, the Fiori calendar is full of delights.
For starters, November wouldnt be complete without Fiori’s annual visit to the St Ceciliatide Festival in the City of London. This year’s celebrations take place on Sunday 18 November, and include: a Festal Eucharist in honour of St Cecila at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, followed by the traditional procession up Ludgate Hill to Stationers’ Hall for a lunchtime concert of Purcell and Dowland, given by the exciting young recorder ensemble Wolken.
The Festival grand finale is Fiori’s evening concert of Mozart and Haydn – when the Fiori Musicali Choir & Players will be joined by exquisite soprano, Grace Davidson (reception 6.30pm for 7pm concert – and of course the opportunity to push the boat out and dine afterwards in the splendour of the gilded 18th-century Court Room at Stationers’ Hall).
Fiori’s burgeoning new residency at the Castle Theatre in Wellingborough moves up a gear. After our recent popular lunchtime concerts, there’s Handel & the English Baroque on Saturday 24 November – an orchestral concert with . . . .
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FIORI clocks in for the Diamond Jubilee!
Concerts at Culworth on 9 June and Suborough on 10 June
Time waiteth for no man, says the proverb, and preparations for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations have been in hand for some considerable time.
One man whose planning takes some beating is . . .
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