Lea Singers Festival Concert - Shakespeare 400

Lea Singers

The Lea Singers Summer Singing Festival will take place at St Nicholas Church, Harpenden, on 25 June 2016. The festival provides an opportunity for local singers to meet, discover and sing together.

This year’s festival will have a Shakespearean theme, to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.The festival will end with a concert by the inimitable Lea Singers, with their musical director Benjamin Goodson. We will be joined by the St Nicholas Church children’s choir for a concert of a capella choral music, inspired by the works of Shakespeare.

Choral Concert Programme: Shakespeare 400

Paul Mealor Let Fall the Windows of Mine Eyes
Huw Watkins The Phoenix and the Turtle
Frank Martin Songs of Ariel
Charles Wood Full Fathom Five
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs
Jarko Mantijarvi Shakespeare Songs
Leonard Bernstein Medley from West Side Story
Lin Marsh Stars, hide your fires