Too Glorious Christmas! London’s LGBTQ+ Chamber Choir Winter Concert, 14 December 2024
All-new repertoire takes in classical, musical and pop genres in a joyous celebration that will get everyone in the festive mood.
London’s original LGBTQ+ chamber music ensemble – Diversity Choir – has unveiled its winter concert set list – and it’s going to be a ‘Too Glorious Christmas!’.
The two-hour show takes place at the gloriously decorated Victorian St Paul’s Church in Knightsbridge – one of London’s most beautiful church buildings – on 14 December at 7.30pm. It promises seasonal atmosphere aplenty, featuring familiar and less well-known works to inspire, entertain and delight.
Following its sell-out Summer Concert at St Mary-At-Hill Church in June and performances at the Hand in Hand LGBTQ+ Choir Festival in Bristol in August, Too Glorious Christmas! sees the 50 strong ensemble take on a Gloria by British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth – along with melodies by Haydn, Lauridsen and Holst.
In a nod to its West End revival, there will be a song from ‘Oliver!’ – and a rousing standard from ‘La Cage Aux Folles’.
Diversity Choir Chair Corinne Iten said: “Too Glorious Christmas! is about celebrating these wonderful composers and showcasing our love of music in our trademark joyous style.
“It’s going to be a concert that’s by turns dramatic, passionate, soulful, thoughtful and fun – and will really put our audience in the Christmas mood.”
Too Glorious Christmas!
Diversity Choir Winter Concert
St Paul’s Church, 32a Wilton Place, London SW1X 8SH. (tube: Hyde Park Corner)
Saturday 14 December 7.30pm (doors 6.30pm)
Tickets: in advance £15 (£12 concessions).
On the door £18 (£15 concessions)
Bar and raffle.
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/23129/too-glorious-a-winter-concert-by-diversity-choir
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