George Law in Christ Church, Spitalfields, East End of London - 23 June, 2005, 07:00 PM
from 'On Spital Fields' thank-you messages:
[Email dated 27 June 2005]
Many congratulations to you and the rest of the team for a wonderful and enjoyable summer festival, even better than last year, which is saying something.
I have just returned from a long weekend with the music from Thursday’s performance of On Spital Fields still ringing in my ears. This is symptomatic of the immense enjoyment which I, and everyone else that I have talked to, derived from every concert that we went to.
'On Spital Fields' thank-you messages. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1597829895366 accessed: 26 November, 2024 (We are grateful to Judith Serota, OBE, for making available materials relating to the production and evaluation of ‘On Spital Fields’, including access to private letters, postcards and emails from audience members and others involved with Spitalfields and the wider community.)
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| Date/Time | 23 June, 2005, 07:00 PM |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
The aim of the ‘On Spital Fields’ project was to devise, rehearse and perform a community cantata involving older people, adults and children from Tower Hamlets and a team of professional musicians and animateurs. The twelve pieces comprising the cantata tell the story of Spitalfields, based on fictional texts and historical documents relating to East End London. Makers included composer Jonathan Dove, librettist Alasdair Middleton, Gerry Cornelius conductor and Clare Whistler, director. Pupils from Osmani and St Anne’s primary schools and Mulberry School for Girls formed the children’s choirs (pupils from additional local schools participated in workshops to develop the project). Also performing were the Wessex Singers (Tower Hamlet’s choir for the over 50’s), The Joyful Company of Singers, an SATB choir and a community chorus, students from the Royal Academy of Music and Chroma Ensemble. The Society of Royal Cumberland Youths rang the bells of Christ Church, Spitalfields, its completed restoration celebrated by ‘On Spital Fields’, before both evening performances on 22 and 23 June 2005. Dove’s score is dedicated to Christopher Robert Vaughan (1961-1999), a passionate supporter of Spitalfields Festival. Vaughan left a legacy that helped to fund ‘On Spital Fields’. The community cantata was intended to celebrate Vaughan’s life.