St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB.
Hereford Chamber Choir performs its critically acclaimed 'Dymock Poets Re-imagined'. This innovative concert focuses on seven contemporary composers and their choral settings of works by the Dymock Poets.
Tickets: £15. Please see below for booking details.
Booking in person: at the Hay Festival Box Office. During the run up to the Festival, the Box Office is located in The Drill Hall, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5AD. Normal Box Office opening hours are 9.30am–5.00pm, Monday to Friday. From Wednesday, 22 May the Box Office moves to the Festival Site on Brecon Road, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5PJ. Tickets booked in person are exempt from the £3.50 booking fee.
Booking by telephone: 01497 822629 - Monday - Friday, 9.30am - 5.00pm. Booking fee applies.
Box office for non-members of Hay Festival opens 1200, Friday, 15 March.
For all other information about the 2024 Hay Festival go to https://www.hayfestival.com
Programme
Each setting is preceeded by a reading of the relevant poem.
Liz Dilnot-Johnson: Rain (poem by Edward Thomas)
Susannah Self: The Guest (poem by John Drinkwater)
Kerensa Briggs: Tree at my Window (poems by Wilfred Wilson Gibson)
Simon Perbody: I The Tree; II Girl’s Song (poems by Wilfred Wilson Gibson)
Fraz Ireland: Another Road
Esther Kay: Two Sea Pictures (poems by Wilfred Wilson Gibson)
Arush Panwalkar: All last night (poem by Lascelles Abercrombie)
Eoin Jenkins: Song (poem by Rupert Brooke)
Robert Peate: I Interval; II Will you come? (poems by Edward Thomas)
Founded in 1983, Hereford Chamber Choir consists of 25 mixed voices. Under its Music Director Simon Harper, the choir has gained a reputation for performing exciting programmes of choral music from the Medieval era to newly commissioned works.
The choir gives approximately six concerts a year in venues across Herefordshire. In the summer of 2023 the choir performed its critically acclaimed 'Dymock Poets Re-imagined' concert at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, nine newly-commissioned works based on the texts of the Dymock poets. Other recent events have included a come-and-sing Mendelssohn’s Elijah in celebration of the Choir’s 40th anniversary, a performance of Maurice Duruflé's Requiem at the All Souls' Service at Hereford Cathedral and a concert of music and readings for Advent. 2024 promises to be an extraordinary year for the choir: in addition to its choral workshop in February and singing various concerts and evensongs across Herefordshire, the choir is set to perform its 'Dymock Poets Re-imagined' concert once again on a world-famous stage: the Hay Festival 2024.