Royal Northern Sinfonia announce Share the Stage: A Child of Our Time.
This is an extraordinary opportunity for people from across the North East to join one of the biggest performing groups the region will have ever seen.
Share the Stage is based around Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, a deeply moving work for orchestra and chorus that encourages different communities to understand one another more deeply. The project aims to create community through the joy of performing music together. Share the Stage will climax with a performance of A Child of Our Time at The Glasshouse on Sunday 24 November.
Royal Northern Sinfonia are looking for people who love to sing to take part. It doesn’t matter whether this would be your first public performance or your 100th; it doesn’t matter whether you can read music or prefer picking things up by ear. This is an opportunity for music lovers who want to be part of an event to remember.
Everyone singing will be supported by the friendly, fantastic Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and their leader Tim Burke.
Royal Northern Sinfonia are also looking for people to play their instruments alongside them, side-by-side.
The project was imagined by Royal Northern Sinfonia’s Principal Conductor, Dinis Sousa, a dynamic young conductor who has recently made debuts at Salzburg Festival; Musikfest Berlin; Carnegie Hall, New York; and Harris Theater, Chicago. And it follows The People’s Requiem, which brought together hundreds of performers after the global pandemic to mark loss and suffering with a powerful performance of Verdi’s Requiem.
This project celebrates the power and collective humanity in bringing together large groups of people to perform great works of classical music.
Dinis Sousa said: “This project is a celebration of music as a central part of our community. As with our Verdi Requiem in 2021, we want people to have the time and space to really get inside the music, with support from our wonderful orchestra and chorus, as we prepare for a monumental performance at The Glasshouse. Making music together, in such a welcoming but stretching environment can be a life-affirming experience, and I know that we will all treasure these weeks we spend together bringing “A Child of Our Time” to life.”
Tim Burke, Chorus Master of the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia, said: “If you’ve ever wondered about standing on the stage of Sage One this is your chance. We’re not auditioning singers and we’ll have rehearsals for those who read music and others for those who don’t, so everybody really can take part and share in this fantastic experience. It is such a vital piece of music, a modern classic.”
Weekly rehearsals will begin in September.
To register your interest and find more details visit https://theglasshouseicm.org/share- the-stage/
Next week The Glasshouse will start a two-week focus on the joy of singing and ways everyone can get involved at the music centre.