MUSIC FOR STATE OCCASIONS
Sunday 15 November | 3:00pm
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
Leeds Baroque Choir & Orchestra
Peter Holman director
Philippa Hyde soprano
We celebrate our founder Peter Holman’s 80th birthday with a programme of ceremonial music from the seventeenth and eighteenth-century English court. Seventeenth-century state occasions are represented by Matthew Locke’s great polychoral anthem ‘Be thou exalted, Lord’, written in 1666 to celebrate a victory over the Dutch, and the two matching anthems written for James II’s coronation in 1685, John Blow’s ‘God spake sometime in visions’ and Henry Purcell’s ‘My heart is inditing’. Eighteenth-century coronations are
represented by Handel’s ‘Zadok the Priest’ and ‘My heart is inditing’ (George II, 1727) and anthems by William Boyce (George III, 1761).
IN DULCI JUBILO
Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Pudsey, LS28 5UJ
Sun 13 Dec 2026, 3:00PM
Peter Holman, director
Members of Leeds Baroque Choir
Join members of the period-instrument choir and orchestra, Leeds Baroque, for the special free seasonal performance of Music for Advent and Christmas by the noted early 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius (1571-1621).
The programme, which will include some familiar favourites and some lesser-known repertoire, will be introduced by Musical Director Peter Holman MBE in a short talk outlining the life and music of Praetorius and his contribution to music for a Lutheran Christmas, music that is still being performed today.
The concert will be followed by seasonal refreshments and an opportunity to donate to our Christmas Campaign.
This event forms the Grand Finale to our fundraising Big Give campaign to support our 2027 season, "A Journey of Musical Discovery"
SEATS ARE VERY LIMITED, AND BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
