The Open University Choir: Songs of love and parting

For its summer concert The Open University Choir presents a miscellany of short pieces, unaccompanied and piano-accompanied, for men’s, women’s and mixed voices. While several of the texts are drawn from the Elizabethan period, the music travels across the centuries, ranging from two sacred pieces by sixteenth-century Scottish composer Robert Johnson, in a new edition by Elaine Moohan of The Open University’s music department, to the present day, with the first performance of Songs of Parting by Open University Choir member Stephen Potter.

Along the way we present a selection from Charles Villiers Stanford’s Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Edward Elgar’s O Happy Eyes and American composer Amy Beach’s Three Shakespeare Choruses. This eclectic programme also includes pieces by lesser-known figures such as William Bowie, another Scot. Themes of love and parting predominate, with some naughty nautical diversions.

The concert will take place on 27 June from 1pm–2pm in the Hub Theatre on The Open University's Walton Hall campus.

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Admission to the concert is free and open to all, and includes a printed programme. The venue is accessible and there is free parking on the campus. Tickets for the concert can be booked in advance via this Eventbrite channel - tickets on the door are subject to availability.

Accessibility: If you are a wheelchair user or have limited mobility please book tickets and email us at [email protected] to let us know you will be attending so we can ensure that an appropriate space is reserved for you. You will also need a ticket for anyone who accompanies you.

Covid safety: In the interests of performers and audience members, we ask that you do not attend the concert if you or someone in your household has tested positive for Covid, or if you are feeling unwell on the day.

More information and updates on the concert can be found at:

https://www.open.ac.uk/wikis/ouchoir/Songs_of_love_and_parting

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