Author Archives: Shelagh Connolly
November 2, 2018
World Premiere of James MacMillan’s All the Hills & Vales Along
James MacMillan’s affecting memorial to the dead of World War I was commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions. This new work, commissioned to commemorate 100 years since the Armistice of 1918, remembers
September 24, 2018
New season underway
Season Opening Concert London Symphony Chorus join the London Symphony Orchestra for Britten’s Spring Symphony, his second-biggest choral work after the War Requiem. Music Director Sir Simon Rattle conducts an all-British programme to launch the
April 19, 2018
LSC at BBC Proms 2018
The BBC PROMS Season for 2018 includes two major appearances by the London Symphony Chorus. The first of these at 7.00 pm on Sunday, 22nd July, is Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, the so-called Symphony of a Thousand. This was a title that Mahler never gave t
February 23, 2017
Social Mash Up
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March 12, 2018
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
A highlight of the London Symphony Chorus’s year will be this concert in which Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic complete their 2018 residency at the Barbican with two pieces that are full of promise and expectation. The concert opens wit