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Flute & Piccolo Concert Dates 2026
A busy year is shaping up with flute and piccolo performances in and around Exeter. Here are some dates for your diary: Saturday 28th March – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Smetana Vltava, Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2, Dvorak Carnival Overture, plus Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5. Southernhay United Reformed Church, Exeter. Tickets here. Saturday 18th… Continue reading
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Three Choirs Festival this Friday
This Friday, a special late-night meditation on the Rig Veda will take place at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the prestigious Three Choirs Festival. The concert weaves together Vedic chant with choral settings of these Hindu texts. Jean Coulthard, a student of Vaughan Williams, exults the mystery of creation, while delicate music of contemporary composers… Continue reading
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‘From Flanders’ at University of Exeter this Wednesday
On Wednesday 12 December, the accomplished University of Exeter Chapel Choir will perform From Flanders as part of their Nine Lessons and Carols at the Mary Harris Memorial Chapel. This special performance of From Flanders marks the centenary of the WWI Armistice. All are welcome at this beautiful and traditional candlelit carol service, which will be… Continue reading
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Summer Singing Day 2016
Following the success of last year’s summer singing day, Peter Nickol and Anna Matthews are once again holding a gathering of singers in Exeter to work through some of their own choral compositions. The date is set for Saturday 3rd September. We are on the look out for keen singers in all voice parts –… Continue reading
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Christmas performances this week
Anna’s carol From Flanders, commemorating 100 years since the First World War Christmas truce, will be performed by Exeter Philharmonic Choir in two concerts at Exeter Cathedral this week. The programme will feature carols old and new and a chance for some audience participation with the classics. Wednesday 10th and 11th December, 7:30pm, tickets available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/exeterphilchoir or… Continue reading
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BBC Radio Berkshire and forthcoming performances
Performances of ‘From Flanders’ are already scheduled for the following dates: Wokingham, 9th November 2014 9:30am, St Paul’s Church, Remembrance Day service. Exeter, 10th & 11th December 2014 7:30pm, Exeter Cathedral, Exeter Philharmonic Choir carol concerts. More information and tickets from www.exephil.org.uk – book early to avoid disappointment. Listen to today’s Mike Read show on BBC Radio Berkshire… Continue reading
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A Carol from Flanders published – available soon
Great news: A Carol From Flanders is to be published by Recital Music and will soon be available for purchase. The work, for SATB choir and organ, has been written especially for the centenary of the First World War ‘Christmas Truce’ which famously took place on Christmas Day 1914. If you are starting to think about… Continue reading
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New: Carmichael setting for double choir
Waverley Turner Carmichael was an African-American poet born in Alabama in the late 19th century. His poem ‘Keep me, Jesus, keep me’ has an attractive call-and-response structure which lends itself ideally to song and particularly to a setting for double choir. Indeed, a collection of Carmichael’s poems was published in 1918 under the title, “From… Continue reading
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