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Auckland Welsh Choir to give audience the Royal treatment
Roll out the Royal Blue carpet...
The annual collaboration between the Auckland Welsh Choir and the Devonport Chamber Orchestra is dedicated to one of 2013’s biggest arrivals – Prince George of Cambridge (in Welsh, Tywysog George o Caergrawnt).
The programme ‘Music for a Prince’ will be performed at St Matthews-in-the-City in November. The concert will showcase the anthems Handel wrote almost 300 years ago for the coronation of an earlier George, King George II and his wife Caroline, and the choir will perform a range of music for the infant future king, including lullabies and favourites from its cornerstone Welsh repertoire.
The royal family would likely approve of the concert’s philanthropic motive, too. Proceeds will go to support the 2013 Christmas Appeal of the nearby Auckland City Mission, which in 2012 distributed more than 2,500 food parcels and 5,000 children’s Christmas presents and hosted a lunch for 2,500 at the Viaduct Events Centre. Demand is expected to be even stronger this year.
More information, including ticket details, can be found in the attached media release. Chairman and chorister Philip Morgan Rees, a native of South Wales and longtime resident of New Zealand, is available for interview.
What: The
Auckland Welsh Choir’s Coronation
Anthems
When: Saturday 23 November,
3pm
Where: St Matthews-in-the-City, 187
Federal Street,
Auckland
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