The Hastings Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Marcio da Silva, sing Schubert's Mass in G and Saint-Saƫns' Oratorio de Noƫl.
Hastings Philharmonic Choir are singing at All Saints' Church on Saturday 7 November, with the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra accompanying them. The concert, titled Songs of Light, starts at 7:00pm.
The evening centres on two choral works written by composers who were barely out of their teens when they composed them. Schubert's Mass in G was the second of his six masses, written in just six days in early March 1815 when he was 18. Saint-Saƫns' Oratorio de Noƫl followed in less than a fortnight and had its first performance at La Madeleine in Paris on 24 December 1858, when he was 23. The choir has grown to more than 90 singing members and now gives four classical concerts a year across Hastings and St Leonards, with the autumn show pairing major choral works with contrasting instrumental pieces.
Those instrumental pieces are Debussy's Danses sacrƩe et profane and Copland's Clarinet Concerto. The whole programme is conducted by Marcio da Silva, with a full line-up of soloists: sopranos Beth Yates and Helen May, contralto Kerry Gentleman, tenor John Twitchen, and baritone Geoff Williams, plus Boyan Ivanov on clarinet and Elin Samuel on harp.
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All Saints' Church is a new venue for the choir ā a medieval church where the audience sits in the pews, so a cushion is recommended. Advance tickets are Ā£22.50 for adults, Ā£18 for under 18s, Ā£13 for students, Ā£10 for under 10s, and Ā£5 for under 18s. Entry is free for Universal Credit and JSA recipients. You can book through the choir's website or at The Bookkeeper and Book Buster on the seafront.
