Saturday 27 June 2026, 7.30pm
St George’s Church, Buxton Road,
Stockport SK2 6NU

Copland: In the Beginning

Rutter: Sprig of Thyme

Thompson: Frostiana

Billings: O Praise the Lord of Heaven, I am the Rose of Sharon

The year 2026 sees the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, an act which severed the political ties with Britain and created a new nation.

In this concert we focus on the musical history of this new country, and present a selection of choral works from across the centuries that help tell the story of America through song: from British folk songs that the Pilgrim Fathers and other early adventurers would have known and could well have taken with them to that distant shore across the ocean, up to sacred and secular choral works by American composers of the modern age, works which have in their turn travelled back across the oceans to Europe and beyond.

Pre-Concert Talk

Neil Taylor and Rosemary Broadbent will explain more about the background to the works to be performed in their highly-popular pre-concert talk. Entrance is included in the ticket price and there is no need to book for the talk which will take place in the side chapel in the Church at 6.45pm.