Just as the tide was flowing
7:00pm, Sun, 25 May 2025
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Type of event: Concert Start time: 7:00pm End time: 9:20pm Venue: Christ Church West Didsbury
Darley Ave
Manchester M20 2ZDSee map below Ticket pricing/options: £15 adult / £12 concessions / £5 students Tickets: 
Description: 
Just as the tide was flowing is the intriguing title for our Summer '25 offering. We offer for your consideration an entertainingly varied programme of music showcasing the versatility of the William Byrd Singers.
The choir will be accompanied by harp to perform our librarian's favourite choral work ever, Gustav Holst's shimmering, scintillating Choral Hymns of the Rig Veda (Group 3), for women's voices and harp, setting texts that Holst translated from the original Sanskrit himself. Surrounding this, music by Vaughan Williams (his English Folk Song settings); Poulenc (Chanson à boire); Saint-Saens (Calme des nuits); and Matyas Seiber (Nonesense Songs) contrast wonderfully with works by Byrd, Shaw and MacDowall, and we end with Bob Chilcott's lovely arrangement of the famous Londonderry Air (O Danny Boy).
