LAUNCESTON TODAY | NEWS | Heavenly music for Holy Week from St Mary’s Church Choir

Local News

This Week

View online

News

Heavenly music for Holy Week from St Mary’s Church Choir

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

CHOIR: Choir members are pictured at St Mary’s Church, Launceston, back row from left: Bill Robinson, Mike Warne, Robin Stubbs, Andrew Dunning and Bernard Pink. Front row from left: Sharon Wormwood, Judith Lamble, Pam Jasper, Brenda Mitchell, Pat Tremain, Kath Hooper, Valda Sharpe and Amber Newton. Picture: Paul Hamlyn, Launceston.

ST MARY Magdalene Church Choir, Launceston, surely the best church choir in the diocese, under its Musical Director, Robin Stubbs, thrilled its audience recently is a special celebration of music written for Holy Week.
The whole programme was performed to the highest standard from the well known ‘Wash me throughly’ by Wesley, ‘Thou knowest Lord’ by Purcell and the haunting ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ by Byrd to the challenging but revelatory ‘Drop, drop, slow tears’ by William Walton.
The voices of the sopranos and altos in the choir soared in the ‘Stabat mater’ by Pergolesi, the stunning evocation of Christ’s mother contemplating her son on the cross made all the more real by being sung by female voices only.
For a full report, and a round up of the area news and sport, please see this week’s edition of the ‘Post’.

All content © of Cornish & Devon Post unless stated otherwise.

Comments on this news item:

Be the first to comment using the form below.

Add your comment:

Submit your comment below :
Your Name (required) :

Your Email*(required) :

Your Location (required) :

Security question (required) : 5 + 3 =

Your Comment (required) :

Maximum Number of characters for this text box is 400.

You have 400 characters remaining for your description...

I agree to the terms and conditions and comment rules (required) :

The Cornish & Devon Post may edit your comments and not all comments may be published.
Your comments may be published on any Tindle Newspaper Ltd. media.
*Your email address will not be displayed.

Enter the code as it is shown below (required):

Adverts