00:01Hi, I'm talking to Mike Aronson from the Waverley Singers, and he's going to tell us all about the concert
00:06at St Lawrence Church on the 27th of June, which is called Crowning Glory.
00:12Yes, hello. Well, thanks, Paul. I mean, this is going to be a terrific concert. We're all looking forward to
00:16it. It's always lovely to sing in summer, and St Lawrence Church in Alton is such a fantastic place to
00:21sing.
00:22But we call this one Crowning Glory because pretty well all the music is associated with coronations of one kind
00:28or another.
00:29So we've got a piece by Handel from the coronation of King George II, a piece by Boyce from the
00:36coronation of King George III.
00:40Phil Scriven on the organ is going to play Walton's Crown Imperial, which is more contemporary.
00:45And we're also singing a piece by Roxana Pnufnik, which King Charles III commissioned for his own coronation in 2023.
00:53But the main work in the concert is Mozart's so-called Coronation Mass, which wasn't actually written for a particular
01:01coronation,
01:02but was performed at the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor towards the end of the 18th century.
01:09And the best thing about this concert is we've got four fantastic young vocal soloists from the Guildhall School of
01:16Music and Drama.
01:18They're really inspiring to talk to.
01:22We've done a podcast with two of them on our website and above all to hear singing.
01:29I mean, these young people, the amount of dedication, the amount of energy and skill they put into their craft,
01:35it's really quite inspiring.
01:36So I strongly recommend anyone who wants to have a real musical treat, come along to St. Lawrence Church in
01:43Alton on Saturday, the 27th of June at 7pm to listen to the Waverley Singers and our young soloists perform
01:51Crowning Glory.
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