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    Thursday, May 09, 2024

    A choral tour of England and France

    Chorus of Westerly music director Andrew Howell (Chorus of Westerly Facebook)

    For those of you still bitter that you didn’t travel anywhere fun over the winter months — while friends and co-workers blasted off to Florida or Switzerland or wherever — take some gorgeous aesthetic revenge: On Saturday and Sunday, the mighty Chorus of Westerly presents “Choral Gems of England & France.”

    The program, under the baton of COW music director Andrew Howell, features a fine and imaginative program:

    Vierne’s Kyrie (Messe Solennelle); Duruflé’s Ubi Caritas; Langlais’s Sanctus (Messe Solennelle); Fauré’s Agnus Dei (Requiem); Terry’s For the Fallen; Proulx’s Amazing Grace; Boulanger’s Cantique; Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia; Coleridge-Taylor’s Beside the ungathered rice he lay; Howells’ Collegium Regale, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; and Smith’s Preces and Response.

    And you don’t have to bring passports.

    The Chorus of Westerly, 7 p.m. Sat. and 3 p.m. Sun., George Kent Performance Hall, 119 High St., Westerly; $15-$60; chorusofwesterly.org, (401) 596-8663.

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