The Anglican Church of Luxembourg has announced the complete programme for its upcoming Arts Festival that is taking place on Sunday 12 February 2017 from 13:30 - 20:00 in Cents Church.
The new event is being organised to raise money for the various charities it supports and comprises a mix of music, drama and poetry, with activities planned for children, various kinds of food and drink and a book sale.
PROGRAMME
Workshops
14:00 – 15:00 Movement and dance for children, led by Claudia Mirica and Evelyn Sweerts. Body expression workshop with elements of dance/movement therapy, to place your children in their best environment for creative movement, to help them learn and develop a good self image and healthy relationships with others. Claudia Mirica is a certified psychotherapist and trainer, specialised in communication and movement therapy. Her experience with movement ranges from martial arts such as kung fu and tai chi, to ballet, contemporary dance and Argentine tango.
15:00 – 16:00 Mindfulness, led by Esmee Chengapen
16:00 – 17:00 Children's Musical Theatre workshop, led by Lisa Dishman. Acting out stories with music on a pirate treasure hunt theme, for children of all ages.
17:00 – 18:00 Story writing for children, led by Jess Bauldry, Fanély Gouguet and Evelyn Sweerts. Stories feel wonderful especially when you write them. Come discover how with a bit of imagination you can make magic with words in this workshop for 7 to 10-year-olds.
Performances in the main church
14:00 – 14:30 The Art of Music: The road from simple tunes to sophisticated composition. Long before music came to be sung in parts, unaccompanied melodies were sung: songs in the secular world, and – in church – psalms and hymns set to Gregorian chant. When the first music in parts (polyphony) was composed – in the Middle Ages – it built on existing melodies, incorporated into polyphony in various ways. This approach continued to be widely applied in the 15th and 16th centuries, for example in music by Dufay, Taverner and Tallis. The Art of Music ensemble will demonstrate how this worked, presenting examples by these three composers. At first, religious music adapted plainchant melodies, but eventually tunes from songs that were far from religious were used even to compose such solemn music as Mass settings.
14:30 – 15:00 Berliner Grundtheater. Three short plays directed by Tony Kingston and produced by June Lowery-Kingston.
15:00 – 15:30 First Sunday Group and child musicians, with some songs for all ages to sing.
15:30 – 16:00 A Carnival of Animals. Poems for the whole family compiled and read by Ann Overstall, Robin Alder, Dorothy Allen, Ginette Kremer and Joanna Kremer.
16:00 – 16:30 The Duke of Orleans show (excerpts). Performed by the Melusina Consort. This is a short preview of a show due for performance in May: the story of two celebrities from 15th century France, Joan of Arc and Charles Duke of Orleans. Their stories are told, interspersed with music, some from the period and more recently, including settings of the Duke’s songs written during his 25 years of captivity in England.
16:30 – 17:00 Cents church choir. This mixed choir, founded in 1968, sings regularly at services in Cents church and also holds concerts and social events. Conducted by Noémie Desquiotz-Sunnen, it will sing works by L. v Beethoven, D. Bortnianski, Karl Jenkins, D. Schulte, L. Mayrhofer, Laurie Klein and Giuseppe Verdi.
17:00 – 17:30 The Virtuoso Horn Duo. Kerry Turner and Kristina Mascher perform love songs from the 1930’s and 1940’s. A beautiful rendition of “The Lord is My Shepherd” by Henry Sharp will start this portion of the concert. There is also an original composition by Kerry entitled “Intermezzo - For Kristina”. Their contribution to this event is about love in all its
forms.
17:30 – 18:00 Weiler-la-Tour church choir. The choir, conducted by Horatiu Dragan, will perform a variety of songs, both sacred and secular.
18:00 – 18:30 Intermedii. Intermedii has chosen a program to honour Valentine’s Day. Madrigals, English part songs and ballads about love will be performed with the usual vigour, precision and high musicality which has become the trademark of this top level vocal octet.
18:30 – 19:00 Anglican church choir, conducted by Ovidiu Dragan
19:00 – 20:00 Favourite hymn and Hallelujah chorus, sung by everyone, conducted by Ovidiu Dragan
Tickets for performances will be on sale on the day (€5 for 1 performance, €15 for the whole afternoon, children under 13 free). Workshop places must be booked and paid for in advance (€3 children, €5 adults). For more details see www.anglican.lu
