After its debut concert in October, the 20-member choir will perform some familiar and maybe not so familiar holiday works, beginning with Benjamin Britten’s 1942 “A Ceremony of Carols.”

Source: https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/music/new-colorado-springs-choir-will-showcase-its-20-members-in-holiday-concert/article_cf28c868-945c-11ee-85f7-272530d0fef8.html

Auden’s words, set to Britten’s music and crisply recited by Rutter, reminded us of a time when trains worked and post was delivered on time.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/11/jephtha-royal-opera-house-london-review-oliver-mears-allan-clayton-7-deaths-of-maria-callas-marina-abramovic-eno-english-national-opera-coliseum-perfection-of-a-kind-britten-v-auden-queen-elizabeth-hall-southb

For the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury theatre, Benjamin has passed his baton to Corinna Niemeyer (praised for her conducting of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia).

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