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Welcome to Antiphon's Web
site!
Antiphon, which is
based in and around Hexham and the Tyne Valley, grew out of a few singers meeting to sing
early church music.
Judy Lloyd has a keen
interest in performing sacred music of the Renaissance in the context of the church
services for which it was originally written. This has given the choir the opportunity to
sing in a number of beautiful Northumbrian churches from Bellingham and Thorneyburn to
Corbridge, Warden and Brinkburn Priory. There have also been invitations to sing in
churches in Gateshead and Newcastle. In 2006 we sang the
Byrd 4 part Mass in the Basilica of St Francesco in Assisi.
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included the Tallis and White Lamentations, masses by Josquin,
Dufay and Palestrina and Victoria's
Requiem as well as a wealth of motets and anthems by composers of the English and
continental Renaissance. |
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Concerts have also been organised
on both a formal and informal basis in a variety of venues ranging from Hexham Abbey to
private country houses and church halls allowing the choir to extend its repertoire to
folk songs, madrigals and modern secular works to collaborate with instrumentalists and to
reach audiences all over the county. We
are a sociable bunch of around 16 members and although we
are not recruiting we are always pleased to hear from good
singers who share a love of early music and can sight sing well and hold a part. We practise on a Tuesday night in St John
Lee church hall which is about 3 miles outside Hexham and
our conductor is John Roper. |
Next events:
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