| Miserere: A festival of music and drama in aid of Reprieve at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London
12.02.07
St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, is hosting a series of classical concerts, including Allegri’s Miserere Mei and Steiner’s Crucifixion, in support of UK charity Reprieve which fights for the lives of people facing the death penalty and other human rights abuses.
The series of five concerts begins on Ash Wednesday (21 February) with Allegri’s hauntingly beautiful setting of Psalm 51, Miserere Mei, and Whyte’s Lamentation, a sublime and moving setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
The concerts’ themes of suffering, redemption and hope have been specially chosen to reflect Reprieve’s essential work in exonerating prisoners whom the State seeks to put to death. They are sung by St Bride’s renowned professional choir.
The Lent series climaxes with Handel’s Messiah on Wednesday 18 April, where the St Bride’s Choir is joined by the Saraband Consort.
Full details of concerts are below.
Lent Concerts
Wednesday 21 February (Ash Wednesday): Allegri’s Miserere mei; Whyte’s Lamentations.
Wednesday 7 March: Carissimi’s Jeptha & Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater
Wednesday 21 March: Howells’ Requiem & Take him, Earth, for Cherishing
Wednesday 4 April: Stainer’s Crucifixion
Wednesday 18 April: Handel’s Messiah
Concerts start at 7pm at St Bride’s Church, just off Fleet Street by Ludgate Circus. Tickets: £10 & £12; www.stbrides.com/ticket or from 18.30pm on the door.
Other events
Reprieve is also staging a series of other events at St Bride’s, as part of the Lent Festival.
Wednesday 28 February: Witness from Death Row. Nick Yarris, exonerated after 23 years on US death row tells his story.
Wednesday 14 March: Can the Death Penalty ever be Justified? Debate led by Reprieve legal director Clive Stafford Smith.
Wednesday 28 March: This is a true story. Monologue written by Nick Harrington and Tom Wright, tells the story of Howard Neal who has an IQ of below 60 and been on death row for 25 years.
Tickets for Reprieve events are £10. Tickets from Caroline Morten at Reprieve, 020 7353 4640. Tickets available on the night from 18.30pm at the door.
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