Virtual Vox sings Everything Must Change – songs of liberation and transformation
The third term in the life of Vox Holloway’s online offspring – Virtual Vox – features a musical exploration of what many are thinking, as the pandemic enters its second year: everything must change.
How can music help us with this? Through a legacy of powerful songs, which articulate our anger and sadness but also our hopes for a better future.
Some, like Rodgers and Hart’s “Spring is Here”, are wistful. Some, like Kurt Weill’s “Pirate Jenny”, imagine revenge against social injustice. Others – such as Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam”, composed after the death of four young black girls in a church bombing in 1963 – are simply howls of pain and rage.
All have been re-arranged by Vox’s own maestro Harvey Brough in new choral versions which will be led by our stellar soloists Christina Gill and Clara Sanabras.
Our spring term of ten online rehearsals starts on Tuesday 19 January at 7pm. Anyone anywhere in the world can join and signing up has never been easier.
Altogether now (in the words of the one and only Nina Simone):
Everything must change,
Nothing stays the same.
Winter turns to spring.
Wounded heart will heal.
From Kurt Weill to Johnny Cash and Nina Simone, a concert that struck every chord of our challenging time
Arranged and directed by Harvey Brough
With soloists Christina Gill and Clara Sanabras
Streamed from Friday 26 March to Friday 2 April
New arrangements by Harvey Brough of standards by Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hart, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone and more…
With soloists, Christina Gill (alto), Clara Sanabras (soprano), Wills Morgan (tenor), Michael Henry (bass) and Rick Leigh (tenor), who were last seen together in our Hackney Empire gospel hit, Freedom Song.
Harvey Brough conducts an all-star band of Liam Dunachie (piano), David Le Page (strings), Oli Hayhurst (bass), Eleanor Turner (harp) and Chris Vatalaro (drums).
The concert is free, but all donations to our JustGiving page will go to our brilliant team of professional singers and musicians.
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