This term at Vox – The Year of Jubilee

Posted on April 4, 2016 by voxholloway

Rehearsals for this term start on Tuesday 12 April with sign-up from 7pm for a 7.30pm singing start.  Here is some info if you are considering joining us for the first time.

This term we will be singing The Year of Jubilee: a programme of old and new spirituals, telling the amazing story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers – the first slaves to be educated, who then formed a choir and toured the world to raise funds to build their University.

First rehearsal: Tuesday 12 April, sign-up from 7pm for a 7:30pm singing start, St Luke’s church.
Concert: Sunday 26 June, 7:30pm, St Luke’s church.

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A Hum about Mine Ears concert, Sunday 6 March

Posted on March 2, 2016 by voxholloway

Join us this Sunday 6 March for our concert, A Hum about Mine Ears, taking place in the Barbcian.

A composition by Clara Sanabras, orchestrated by Harvey Brough, which sets Shakespeare’s The Tempest in new surroundings.

Vox Holloway will be performing with the Chorus of Dissent and the Britten Sinfonia. The performance will be conducted by Harvey Brough.

Tickets are £5 and are available to buy through the Barbcian.

Performance start: 6pm

 

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Spring 2016 – A Hum About Mine Ears – join us!

Posted on January 3, 2016 by voxholloway

Rehearsals for this term start on Tuesday 12 January with sign-up from 7pm for a 7.30pm singing start.  Here is some info if you are considering joining us for the first time.

This term we will be singing A Hum about Mine Ears, a composition by Clara Sanabras, based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Our performance will be in the Barbican on Sunday 6 March.

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Music on the Mind – SOLD OUT

Posted on November 28, 2015 by voxholloway

Tickets for our Music on the Mind concert have now sold out (both online and paper ticket sales at rehearsal). There will likely be some return tickets available on the door, but we cannot guarantee this.

Thank you for your support.

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Music On The Mind premieres Sunday 29th November

Posted on October 31, 2015 by voxholloway

MUSIC ON THE MIND
Songs of mania, madness, and melancholy, including a new choral setting of Kay Redfield Jamison’s ground-breaking memoir, An Unquiet Mind. A new choral work by Harvey Brough & Justin Butcher

“A musical work that blends the voices of some of the finest poets in our language with the work of Kay Redfield Jamison, my own personal hero in the arena of bipolar disorder — well, that seems to me like a simply fantastic project.”
Stephen Fry

“It’s fantastically refreshing to have visionaries like Harvey Brough and Justin Butcher commit their art to an examination of one of our most precious possessions: our minds.”
Emma Thompson, Vox Holloway patron

Premieres Sunday 29th November 2015 at 7.30pm at St Luke’s Church, Hillmarton Road, London N7 9RE, featuring the 100-strong choir of Vox Holloway,
Mind and Soul Choir (director Lea Cornthwaite), Soloists Clara Sanabras (mezzo-soprano) & Nicholas Garrett (baritone). Conducted by Harvey Brough.

All proceeds to Islington Mind and Soundwell Music Therapy Trust
Tickets: £15 (£10 concession): http://musiconthemind.bpt.me / 0800 411 8881

Donations can be made here.

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