Event listing: Calton Consort | Canongate Kirk | Sat 17 Nov 2012 at 19:30

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Canongate Kirk153 Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 8BN, United Kingdom

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Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	Hymn to St Cecilia, Op.27b
MacMillan, Sir James (b. 1959)	Strathclyde Motets
Bax, Arnold (1883-1953)	Mater ora Filium
Tavener, John (1944-2013)	Song for Athene

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Calton Consort

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Calton Consort: Translated Daughters

Alan Coady, 20th November

From the altar of their customary home in Edinburgh’s 1691 Canongate Kirk, Calton Consort presented an a cappella concert enigmatically entitled “Translated Daughters”. The enigma dissolved upon hearing W.H. Auden’s text for Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia. It features the arresting couplet: “Translated Daughter, come down and startle / Composing mortals with immortal fire.

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