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NEWS
September 11th 2010
Antiphon will
be singing newly composed music to celebrate Northumbria's saints
Do drop in
and listen
part of the
Northumbria Historic Churches Trust
annual Sponsored Steeplechase event
See
poster
for details of times and churches
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Who are We?
Antiphon, which is
based in and around Hexham and the Tyne Valley, grew out of a few singers meeting to sing
early church music.
Judy Lloyd has a keen
interest in performing sacred music of the Renaissance in the context of the church
services for which it was originally written. This has given the choir the opportunity to
sing in a number of beautiful Northumbrian churches from Bellingham and Thorneyburn to
Corbridge, Warden and Brinkburn Priory. There have also been invitations to sing in
churches in Gateshead and Newcastle. In 2006 we sang the
Byrd 4 part Mass in the Basilica of St Francesco in Assisi and in October
2008 Antiphon toured some of the 12th century Romanesque cathedrals of
Burgundy, singing Mass settings by Josquin, Dufay and Victoria. |
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included the Tallis and White Lamentations, masses by Josquin,
Dufay and Palestrina and Victoria's
Requiem as well as a wealth of motets and anthems by composers of the English and
continental Renaissance. |
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Concerts have also been organised
on both a formal and informal basis in a variety of venues ranging from Hexham Abbey to
private country houses and church halls allowing the choir to extend its repertoire to
folk songs, madrigals and modern secular works to collaborate with instrumentalists and to
reach audiences all over the county.
We are also
available to sing at weddings in the area and special events. Do ring
to enquire.
We
are a sociable bunch of around 20 members and we are always pleased to
audition good
singers who share our love of early music
and can sight sing well and hold a part. We practise on a Tuesday night in St John
Lee church hall which is about 1 mile outside Hexham and
our conductor is John Roper. |
Next events:
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