An alert for today, August 16, in Haworth:Via Nova Musical Ensemble presents
Old Words, New Music
a new musical setting of the very earliest Brontë texts by Paul Zaba
Haworth Parish Church
Wed Aug 16 2017 at 07:30pm
Birmingham-based choir Via Nova will be in Haworth Church to stage the first-ever world performance of choral works inspired by the village’s famous literary family, the Brontës, and the county’s coal heritage on Wednesday, August 16th.
Viva Nova will be undertaking a four-day tour of Yorkshire when they will sing at Haworth Parish Church, the National Coal Mining Museum in Middletown near Wakefield and Wakefield Cathedral.
Their four-concert series starts at Haworth Parish Church and their offering includes the first-ever public staging of new choral works that have been inspired by the Brontë legend and Yorkshire’s contribution to the nation’s coal-mining legacy as well as a UK premiere of a choral piece composed by organist Philip Moore, the former organist and Master of Music at York Minster.
Featured within the programme will be pieces influenced by the coal mines by Georgia Denham and pieces by Jonathan Bielby, Philip Moore, David Emerson, and Daniel Galbreath. missed!
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