Hepton Singers

St Mary’s Church, Todmorden, Saturday November 16

Calder Valley-based chamber choir Hepton Singers will be performing in Todmorden for the first time in 15 years on Saturday.

The concert, which will be held in St Mary’s Church, is a fundraiser for Overgate Hospice.

The programme includes choral works by Vaughan

Williams, Holst and the 20th century British composer Edmund Rubbra, alongside several works by living composers.

The choir will be singing Drop Down Ye Heavens, a short piece by the Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir, one of Britain’s most eminent composers.

Also featured is an arrangement of the folk song Black is the Colour by Amy

Bebbington, a setting of a poem by Emily Dickinson by Chris Legg, and amodern choral work by Kerry Andrew, O Nata Lux. The choir will also be performing choral works from US-based composers Morten Lauridsen and Ola

Gjeilo.

The choir will also offer arrangements of three spirituals, Steal Away, Deep River and Didn’t It Rain.

The Hepton Singers’ musical director Richard Bunzl said: “Our last concert paid tribute to European choral music, and now we

Hepton Singers are offering a transatlantic mixture of both sacred and secular music.

“As well as firm favourites like the three spirituals, we’ll also be offering performances of pieces much less frequently heard. “There is a fantastic range of good a capella choral music being written for choirs at the moment which we are reflecting in the programme. There should be something for everyone.”

Tickets for the concert are available online at heptonsingers.co.uk or on the door, and are priced at £9/£6, with a special £1 ticket for under 18s.

The Hepton Singers will also be staging its autumn concert at Heptonstall Church, at 7.30pm on Saturday November 30. Tickets for this concert are also available online.