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The Open University Choir 2010

Advance booking advisable (see below for details)

We are delighted to welcome the Open University Choir and Quorum to St Mary & St Giles Church for their Spring 2010 concert.

24th April 2010 (Saturday)

7.30 pm, St Mary & St Giles Church, Stony Stratford

The Open University Choir

joined by

Quorum

The OU choir and Quorum are visiting our church to take advantage of the favourable acoustic and to help the Organ Fund. The content of the concert will also celebrate the history of our Willis Organ, as music by William Bowie, who was organist on the instrument when it was at St George's Church, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, will be included in the programme.

The programme includes music by Bach, Blitheman, Bowie, Britten, Gabrielli, Kuhnau and Schutz

The choir will be making use of the galleries to sing the 12 part Magnificat by Andrea Gabrielli and Psalm 100 by Heinrich Schutz.

For more information about the OU Choir, please see http://www.open.ac.uk/wikis/ouchoir/Concerts

Entrance by programme:
Adults: £10 (£8 concessions)
Children under 16: £1

To obtain vouchers which can be exchanged for a programme at the door please contact Dai Evans on (01908) 561984
or visit Odell's Shop in Stony Stratford.
Alternatively please complete the Contact Form and put ‘OU Choir concert vouchers’ in the Message box.
Please note that vouchers will not be available until early February 2010. Advance booking advisable.

There will be Refreshments at the concert.

This event will be listed on Concert-Diary.com