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James Macmillan, Little Mass with the Macmillan Choir
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The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) creation of the MacMillan Choir for two performances in February 2016 of James Macmillan’s Little Mass conducted by our principal conductor, Kirill Karabits.
Little Mass will provide the BSO with a unique opportunity to create a 150 strong choir from young people from Bournemouth, Poole and Bristol to champion high level singing and contemporary repertoire. Little Mass will create a first point of access to contemporary classical music for many of the young people involved. It will provide unique professional coaching and performance opportunities and the inspirational experience of working with an internationally renowned composer and conductor on developing the work.
‘I was keen to write a substantial work for young voices and orchestra. There are not many pieces which give a special focus to children’s voices on their own, with orchestral accompaniment. Therefore, I hope that the new work breaks new ground in that respect. To do this, I had to be careful that the material for the young voices was not too onerous or continuous for them. Therefore the orchestral writing is prominent and the vocal material is treated as another component in the general palette’. — James MacMillan — Composer
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) are co-commissioners of this new work with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
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