OCS Christmas Concert "Gloria"
7:30pm, Sat, 3 Dec 2022
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Type of event: OCS Concert Start time: 7:30pm Venue: St Andrew's Church
Oakshade Road
Oxshott
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Enjoy Puccini's operatic and melodic Messa di Gloria. Then suitably refreshed, raise your voices as you join to sing favourite carols and listen to Christmas songs . . .
Suitably refreshed? Wine and soft drinks are available for purchase (cash only) and include the traditional mince pies and sausage rolls.
Our soloists are John Upperton (tenor) and Geoffrey Horton (baritone) as well as our keyboard players, Stuart Whatton and David Harvey.
This year we are supporting Cobham Foodbank, whose work you can read about here ►
"Giacomo Puccini's Messa or Messa a quattro voci (currently more widely known under the apocryphal name of Messa di Gloria) is a Mass composed for orchestra and four-part choir with tenor and baritone soloists. Strictly speaking, the piece is a full Mass, not a true Messa di Gloria (which contains only the Kyrie and Gloria and omits the Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei).
Puccini composed the Mass as his graduation exercise from the Istituto Musicale Pacini. It had its first performance in Lucca on July 12, 1880. However, the Credo had already been written and performed in 1878 and was initially conceived by Puccini as a self-contained work. Puccini never published the full manuscript of the Messa, and although well received at the time, it was not performed again until 1952 (first in Chicago and then in Naples). However, he re-used some of its themes in other works, such as the Agnus Dei in his opera Manon Lescaut and the Kyrie in Edgar." (Source: Wikipedia)
