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WVD 2024 Parody from NCVS
World Voice Day 2025
Dear World Voice community! WVD 2025 campaign is on!
The new motto is
EMPOWER YOUR VOICE!
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Robert T. Sataloff, Johan Sundberg, Mara Behlau,
Ian DeNolfo, Mauro Fiuza and Thays Vaiano
WVD Committee
The 24
Concert/Performance
Helena Daffern
2024-04-24
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, Heslington, York, UK
York, England YO10 5FS
United Kingdom
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Robert Hollingworth conductor
Howells Requiem
Brahms Fest und Gedenksprüche
Bernard Hughes Precious Things
Kim Porter Pulchra Es Et Decora
Joanna Marsh Batter my heart
Reena Esmail TaReKiTa
Mark Edgley Smith Love is more thicker than forget
Howells’ Requiem has a truly iconic place in the twentieth-century English choral tradition. With translucent two-choir textures that for all the world ‘sound’ like different coloured light coming through stained-glass windows, the story behind the piece is the death of the composer’s son, Michael. Brahms’ two-choir textures are more festive though touch the heartstrings. The other five composers each bring strong responses to text: Bernard Hughes in deliberate simplicity to allow a famous poem to speak for itself or in the textures of the gold, helium and oil of Precious Things; Kim Porter in a luxurious approach to the Song of Songs text, Joanna Marsh in the urgency of John Donne’s appeal to God to ‘batter his heart’ while Reena Esmail’s TaReKiTa is practically a choralised piece of rhythm, based on Indian classical instruments