Saturday March 3rd 2012, 7.30pm - We will be performing in a joint concert with the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus at Sheffield City Hall. This is a celebration of Sheffield music as part of the nationwide Olympic cultural festival. We will perform one short piece on our own and a piece written specially for the occasion for orchestra, choir and other ensembles by Tim Allen.
| Event: | Alight Concert |
| Date: | Saturday March 3rd 2012 |
| Time: | 7.30pm |
| Venue: | The City Hall Barkers Pool Sheffield S1 2JA |
| Featuring: | Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Sheffield Music Academy students, Inyourface, Sheffield’s two university big bands, Sheffield Music Service Intermediate Orchestra, Concord Youth Music Ceremonial Fanfare Team, Sheffield Cathedral Choir, BeVox (featuring prominent pop songs by local bands), Concord Youth Music and Sheffield City Opera |
| Tickets: | £12 adults, £6 under 16s |
| Sales: | Contact Sheffield City Hall box office: phone 0114 278 9789 |
| Programme: | A varied programme including the premier of Alight composed by Timothy Allen |
A successful outcome to the bid for Arts Council funding to support Sheffield’s Music Nation event Alight as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad means the city will indeed be alight on March 3.
The festival, a full day of music, dance and visual arts, draws together a wide range of performers from children singing and dancing, to choirs and music groups like BeVox, OutAloud, Bleat Beat and Babel Songs.
Events will take place at various venues in the city, among them the Winter Garden, the Town Hall, City Hall, Victoria Hall and The Hubs.
A daytime plethora of community events in ‘festival’ style from noon includes Sheffield City Giants performing music and dance using the two 20-foot Catalans-style giants at the Town Hall.
Weston Park Museum will witness members of Sheffield Music Academy augmenting Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals with some their own, such as “Arctic Monkeys,” and a puppet show aimed at primary school children being developed by students at Sheffield Hallam University.
And Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, administering the day, give the premiere of one of two works specially commissioned for the day, Yaron Hollander’s Everyone Sang, at an off the beaten track concert of music.
The Endcliffe Orchestra will play a leading role in the second commission, “based around a three-word theme Unite – Arise – Alight,” according to its composer Timothy Allen, is premiered at what promises to be a spectacular show in the evening at the City Hall with around 600 performers and projected backdrop images.
The show, in the process of being written, will be directed by Mark Langley and takes the form of a history of Sheffield since it was designated a city in 1893.
In addition to the Endcliffe Orchestra and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, the performers are Sheffield Music Academy students, Inyourface, Sheffield’s two university big bands, Sheffield Music Service Intermediate Orchestra with the Philharmonic Chorus, Concord Youth Music Ceremonial Fanfare Team, Sheffield Cathedral Choir, BeVox (featuring prominent pop songs by local bands), Concord Youth Music and Sheffield City Opera.
The day continues after and eventually ends at The Hubs where Sheffield Hallam University students, as part of an undergraduate Events degree course, present the ‘best of the best’ bands from a pre-Alight audition day.
Alight is Yorkshire’s Cultural Olympiad project for Music Nation, a BBC/ LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) countdown event for the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.
