Alumni 'Come and Sing' Choral Evensong

This year's Alumni 'Come and Sing' Choral Evensong, hosted by Director of Music, Nick Danks, will be taking place on Sunday 22 June. 

Always an enjoyable event, it is open to all formers members of the Corpus Chapel Choir, and alumni members of College who didn't sing with the Chapel Choir at the time but who have since taken up choral singing, are invited to join us for an afternoon of singing and fellowship. Alumni are also welcome to bring a family member, partner or friend to sing and join the day's activities. 

The timetable for the day is as follows:

14.30 - 15.30: visiting singers rehearsal around the piano in the McCrum Lecture Theatre

15.30 - 16.00: tea break in the McCrum Lecture Theatre Foyer

16.10 - 17.10: full rehearsal with Chapel Choir in choir stalls in Chapel

17.30 - 18.30: Choral Evensong in Chapel followed by a drinks reception in the Fellows' Garden (Old Combination Room if wet)

Optional:

19.30 High Table Dinner to which alumni with Corpus MA Dining Rights are welcome to exercise their dining rights (with up to one guest as per standard procedures for exercising dining rights). Please note that dining at High Table requires pre-booking via hightable@corpus.cam.ac.uk

The music for Evensong, designed to be an accessible and 'good sing' will be:

Introit: Never weather beaten sail - Richard Shephard
Responses: Philip Radcliffe
Canticles: Noble in B minor
Anthem: Achieved is the glorious work (from 'The Creation') - Haydn
And a psalm chant and hymn arrangement by John Bertalot (m.1955).

Please click here to register for this event. 

Registration closes at 12 noon on Tuesday 6 May. 

For any questions relating to this event, please email development@corpus.cam.ac.uk

We look forward to singing with you!