Information for singers

Information for singers 2017

Choir and individual singers are both invited. Singers should have sung „Messiah“ before.

Please bring vocal scores of Handel’s „Messiah“ in English with you. Every English edition can be used, instructions however refer to the Bärenreiter edition.

Dress Code: Ladies in black with a „friendly – coloured“ Accessoire. Gentlemen wear a dinner jacket, white shirt and a coloured tie.

Folgende Chorstücke werden in der Reihenfolge der New Yorker Aufführung des Westminster Choir und des New York Philharmonic Orchestra unter Leonard Bernstein aus dem Jahr 1956 gesungen:

* And The Glory Of The Lord
* And He Shall Purify
* O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion
* For Unto Us A Child Is Born
* Glory To God

* Lift Up Your Heads

* Let All The Angels Of God Worship Him

* How beautiful are the feet / Break forth into joy (ab Takt 105)
* Their Sound Is Gone Out

* Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
* Hallelujah

* Behold The Lamb Of God
* Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
* And With His Stripes
* All We Like Sheep
* He Trusted In God

* Since By Man Came Death

* O Death, Where Is Thy Sting - But Thanks Be To God
* Worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain

* Amen

"Concert Evening" on Friday,  April 21st, 2017

The participating choirs are invite, to present themselves at the Imperial Evening on Friday, 21st April, 2017 with their own program. 
The music to be performed has to be submitted to us latest by 8^th March 2017. Organ or Piano are available. You can bring your own instruments by yourselves.

Compulsory pieces: A. Bruckner: "Lucus iste" and GF Handels „Hallelujah“ from „Messiah“.

Version of April 2016. Changes may occur.