Sherborne
Week One 28 July to 4 August
Week Two 4 to 11 August
The George Hurst Orchestral Conducting Course
Weeks 1 & 2 extra curricular activities
Score Learning and General Musicianship skills
Week 2
Choral Course
Songs of Faith, Fate and Destiny
Katie Thomas conductor accompanist Simon Gregory
This year we welcome the vibrant, dynamic young conductor Katie Thomas, to direct our second week choral course. For her first visit to the summer school Katie has chosen to centre her programme around three ‘sumptuously perfect’ smaller choral works by Brahms, his songs of Fate, Destiny and Faith. These will form the core of a concert with orchestral accompaniment to be given by the course at the end of the week.
To complement this trio of masterpieces, she has chosen the lively and joyful Jubilate Deo by Benjamin Britten and the atmospheric Hope, Faith, Life, Love by Eric Whitacre, along with two uplifting and life affirming motets by Schütz and Rheinberger. The icing on the cake is the beautiful, “serenely reflective”, Tristis est anima mea by Johann Kuhnau.
A truly luxurious banquet, not to be missed!
Britten
Brahms
Brahms
Brahms
Whitacre
Kuhnau
Schütz
Rheinberger
Jubilate Deo in C (1961)
Schicksalslied, Op.54 (Song of Destiny)
Begräbnisgesang, Op.13 (Funeral Hymn)
Gesang der Parzen, Op.89 (Song of the Fates)
Hope, Faith, Life, Love
Tristis est anima mea
Selig sind die Toten, SWV391
Abendlied,Op.69, No.3
Chester/Hal Leonard
Kalmus/Alfred Music
Special Edition
Kalmus/Alfred Music
Walton Music/Hal Leonard
Special Edition
Bärenreiter (BA 7983)
Special Edition
Special Editions will be available in the summer school Music Shop or before the course from the summer school administration offices