Sussex Concerts

Concert Details


Title: All That Jazz
Performed by: Billingshurst Choral Society
Time: Saturday, 25 June 2011, at 7:30pm
Place: Weald Recreation Centre, Billingshurst
Description: As the programme includes:- Will Todd’s very popular, brilliant, foot-tapping “Mass in Blue” and his “Te Deum” ... the evening will “go with a swing”!
We are thrilled that the composer will again be accompanying the BCS along with a full jazz band sound, the “Will Todd Ensemble” as well as the “Will Todd Trio”. We are also delighted to welcome back the enchanting and lovely Bethany Halliday [soloist]. Also joining BCS will be a local group of young voices, “The Weald Singers”.
Conducting with an ingenious baton is Musical Director, George Jones.
This is the first time that the “Mass in Blue” and “Te Deum” have been performed together - everyone [including Will Todd] is very excited and looking forward to what is promising to be an energetic concert!
The musical style of the Te Deum is not as overtly blues/jazz as Mass in Blue, but the scoring is very similar, with terrific energy and the underlying theme is that of "Hope"!
The Mass in Blue is a brilliant fusion of driving jazz grooves and clear, strong, choral writing against which the solo piano and solo soprano voice weave and blend in a delightful aural tapestry. The music is effervescent, energising, inspirational, and also reflective, poignant, tranquil; and the emphatic final chords of the work leave the listener not in quiet contemplation but uplifted!
To complete the concert, Will Todd, Bethany Halliday and the Will Todd Trio will be performing and entertaining us with ... “A Jazz Set”.
Tickets: Tickets cost £12; £6 [students]. Tickets and more details are available by ringing 01403 741576; Email tickets@billingshurstchoralsociety.org and from Henry Adams, Billingshurst. Tel: 01403 782991 or at the Door
Contact: Val Clift

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