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‘Misa Latina’ – a programme note
In advance of the first performance of ‘Misa Latina’ by London Docklands Singers on Saturday 25th June at All Saints, Poplar, here is the programme note for the piece. Tickets are available on the door or in advance from http://carminaburana2016.brownpapertickets.com. The title of this mass setting is a terrible pun. The ‘latin’ of ‘Latina’ owes more…
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Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose’ stories
The ‘Cinq pieces enfantines’ that make up Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose Suite’ illustrate moments from fairy tale narratives. Apart from the last (The Fairy Garden), each is subtitled with a line or two from the text of a story. Three of these are well known stories: Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast (all…