After the sucess of last year’s concert of music from the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, members of the Music Department and friends return with a concert devoted to the comics operas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. From the high seas of H.M.S. Pinafore to the fariy realms of Iolanthe, our performers present a programme of some of the creature partnerships best-known numbers.
Free admission with a retiring collection for Southwell Minster Choir Association.
Music in the State Chamber began as Music in the Crossing at 8pm on Sunday 16 May 1976 when the Southwell Singers gave a concert beneath the Minster’s central tower. The concert was arranged by their baritone Alan Thorpe as a one off fundraiser for the Minster Choir but a regular series quickly emerged, organised by Alan Thorpe for over twenty years.
In the 1990s concerts moved to the Great Hall (now referred to as the State Chamber) with six concerts each year on Sunday evenings at 8pm, usually for about an hour. Now held at the earlier time of 7.30pm, the concerts are held to provide financial support to the Minster Choirs as part of the fundraising activity of the Southwell Minster Choir Association. The series’ artistic policy is to provide a platform for local musicians and especially
for young artists.