Portsmouth Baroque Choir

Chamber choir exploring & performing a wide repertoire from the late Renaissance to the present day. Posts by Chris

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🎶 Love choral music from Byrd to Britten? Join Portsmouth Baroque Choir, friendly auditioned chamber choir singing great music past & present. Rehearsals Monday eve in Portsmouth. New singers welcome!
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PBC offer observed
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@FestOfChi

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American in Paris - Aaron Copland when studying with Nadia Boulanger, 1 of about 600 Americans who did so. Wrote 4 motets there, delights in 1st half of our #USA250 concert on July 4th in @FestOfChi

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William Billings “carver” of melodies, associate of Samuel Adams and Mather Byles, bohemian character with loud singing voice, opens & closes our Celebration of American Choral Music on July 4th.

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No celebration of American music complete without Charles Ives, ‘Psalm 67’ in our folder July 4 concert, a student work foreshadowing mature Ives. Latest PBC blog post explains.

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During the half-term break from rehearsing for our next concert on July 4th, Pru Bell-Davies invites you to share some of the thrilling musical discoveries of her American road-trip in 2001.
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Remembering our former MD Chris Burgess

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Impressive line-up on @PortsmouthGhall stage for #portsmouth100 Gala last Saturday

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Choir warm-ups - 10 of the most popular from Jonas Rasmussen

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WP Saturday May 9 @PortsmouthGhall @PjSaggers ‘Stone, Sand & Song’, #Portsmouth100 commission. Mvts 3&4 set Tina MacNaughton & Simon Armitage.

So, STOP…

We and 200 other musicians would love to see you

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STOP - @PortsmouthGhall May 9
Portsmouth musical ensembles celebrate city’s centenary - @buk_band @PCUChoral @BaroqueChoir @F_Philharmonic @PGS_Musicians @solentso: Copland, Walton, Parry, @johnmrutter, @CeCe_Notes_Yeah, Saint-Saëns, @PJSaggers, Swain. 🎟️ https://t.co/TdWROsHdGr

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Very sad to report death in early hours of Thur morning (16th April) of Chris Burgess, conductor Drayton Choral Soc from September 1978, changing their name to Portsmouth Baroque Choir, led until June 1989. Also directed Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia A fine bass vocalist too. RIP.

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Make sure green room cheerfulness transfers to the stage entrance. Good advice on the essential E component of choral concerts from Clare Stevens https://t.co/fHcTSfWKvb

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Shuke organ (1982) St. George's, Eisenach (largest in Thuringia) where Bach sang & Telemann & Johann Christoph Bach played. Different prospect at Portchester Methodist but sounds glorious: hear Peter Gould next Saturday in our concert Bach family motets.

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Blog notes re BWV 118, curtain-raiser for our March 14th concert, including suitable & practical replacements for litui, existential angst for the tenors and comparison with its pugnacious, elder sibling, BWV 101.
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Bach motets: what do we know about the circumstances of their composition and how was Bach motivated by pride in his family’s musical connections to arrive at his singular approach to writing music?

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Bach’s forebears set a precedent with their motets - the response was extraordinary
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Prelude & taster for our concert of Bach family motets in Portchester Mar 14, which of these is the more numerous?

a. the number of Bachs who earned their living wholly or partly from music between the early sixteenth century and the mid-nineteenth?

b. types of German sausage?

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Brightly shone the moon last night
Our term’s work done
In the small quiet church at the turn in the lane
To hear the legend of our play…

Tonight at 7pm the Portsmouth Baroque Choir Christmas concert at Havant United Reformed Church. See poster for highlights & tickets.

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Vivaldi's Magnificat headlines our Xmas concert - concise, extrovert, bright, brisk and clear. Did it involve teamwork with the celebrated female choir of the Ospedale della Pietà? Harriet Constable's 2024 novel 'The Instrumentalist' has got us thinking. https://t.co/6JB3EUHsEl

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Tapping once again into the endless resource that is new choral music for Christmastime - a peculiarly British phenomenon? Portsmouth-area composers Ian Schofield and Philip Drew pull some crackers with Joanna Marsh, Bob Chilcott and John Tavener. https://t.co/H8ZbJxxu6D