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A rousing night to end the season
Halifax Choral Society and the Black Dyke Band Carmina Burana Victoria Theatre, Halifax Halifax Choral Society chose Carl Orff's Carmina Burana to conclude its 192nd season.
Composed in 1937, this mercurial celebration of life is demanding technically and requires huge resources: soprano, high tenor and high baritone soloists, choir, children's choir and, in the society's groundbreaking new version by Roy Newsome, a virtuoso brass band with a battery of percussion instruments and a piano instead of the orchestra.
Under John Pryce-Jones's energetic direction, the brilliant Black Dyke Band and young voices from Rastrick High School and City of Leeds Youth Choir joined the society to capture the ever-changing moods of this explosive work.
The thunderous opening and concluding chorus, O Fortuna, spine-tinglingly evoked the mighty Wheel of Fate. Glamorous soprano Amanda Forbes subtly conveyed her role's tenderness and eroticism while tenor Daniel Norman feted the joys of drinking.
After the interval John Pryce-Jones became band leader, raconteur and Sir Henry Wood. The youth choir conducted by Alison Pryce-Jones sang beautifully. Then the flags were out for Rule Britannia, Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory.
Julia Anderson
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Thursday 09 February 2012
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