"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything
new." (Albert Einstein)
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three performances on London's Euston Road as part of the
LONDON FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHURCH MUSIC
(May 7 - May 15)
St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, NW1
tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1461
email: st.pancras@lineone.net
web: www.stpancraschurch.org
nearest rail and tube station: Euston
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SUNDAY 8 MAY 10.00am *Choral Eucharist*
introit - Howard Skempton: 'Rise up, my love'
mass - Antony Pitts: 'Missa Exspectationis'
psalm - Christopher Batchelor: Psalm 68:1-10
sermon - The Right Revd Peter Wheatley, Bishop of Edmonton
motet - Tarik O'Regan: 'Gratias tibi'
voluntary - Francis Pott: 'Toccata & Fugue'
more info on 'Missa Exspectationis':
http://www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk/TPmsc111.html
(scores of the Mass setting available @ £11.80 per copy)
MONDAY 9 MAY 9.00pm *Compline*
responses - Christopher Batchelor:
Paul Ayres: 'Te lucis ante terminum'
psalm - Christopher Batchelor
nunc dimittis - Antony Pitts: 'St Pancras Canticles'
David Buckley: 'Save us, O Lord, waking'
voluntary - Sebastian Forbes: 'Reflections'
more info on 'St Pancras Canticles' (a 2003
Festival Commission):
http://www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk/TPmsc171.html
(scores of the Canticles available @ £3.75 per copy)
SATURDAY 14 MAY 8.00pm *The Clerks' Group*
7.30pm Pre-concert talk by director Edward Wickham
Just as wood from the desert between Egypt and Israel was
overlaid with gold in order to be used in the Tabernacle by
the
Israelites, so European composers in the 15th and 16th Centuries
took the most earthy of secular songs and stretched them out
as a
'cantus firmus', enacted all kinds of refined mathematical games,
carved into them a sacred text, and finally covered them with
layer after layer of the purest counterpoint. The popular tune
L'homme armé with its all-too-human associations of violence
and
fear was frequently used as musical scaffolding in this way...
Robert Morton: 'Il sera pour vous/L'homme armé'
Jean Ockeghem: 'Missa L'homme armé' / Kyrie & Gloria
Gabriel Jackson: 'The armed man'
Antony Pitts: 'Credo (symbolum super voces musicales)'
Steve Martland: 'Jenny Jones'
Antoine Busnois: 'Fortuna desperata'
Josquin Des Prez: 'Consideres mes incessantes/Fortuna'
Ludwig Senfl: 'Herr durch dein Blut/Pange lingua/Fortuna'
Josquin Des Prez: 'Missa Fortuna desperata' / Sanctus &
Agnus Dei
Robert Saxton: 'The Dialogue of Zion and God'
Gabriel Jackson: 'Te Deum'
tickets: £10 (£7 concessions)
more info on 'Credo (symbolum super voces musicales)'
http://www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk/TPmsc150.html
(scores of 'Credo' available @ £3.00 per copy)
ADVANCE BOOKING NOW OPEN *The True Story...*
a mediaeval love story with songs by Guillaume de Machaut
Wednesday 6 July in Penshurst Place, Kent
(email: guillaume@cd.tp)
Wednesday 13 July at the York Early Music Festival
(tel: 01904 658338)
more info on 'The True Story...':
http://www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk/TPmpc.html
Next month: a new release by TONUS PEREGRINUS on Hyperion...
Thank you for listening,
Antony Pitts
www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk
