Local Life - St Helens - May 2018

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100 years
The 14th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the
Arts is right around the corner, with a special
performance planned.
More than 100 singers are expected to join the Robert said: “Six thousand soldiers were stationed
Prescot Festival Chorus to commemorate the at Prescot before leaving to fight in the Great War,
centenary of the end of World War One this June. and many of the town’s sons gave their lives.
The ‘Come & Sing’ choir will perform Gabriel Fauré’s “It is only right that a century later we remember
stirring Requiem under conductor James Luxton, of them in this way.
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on Saturday, June “All soprano, alto, tenor and bass singers are invited
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to join us for this special occasion.
Festival director Dr Robert Howard’s short work “We regularly attract a hundred or more choristers
Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine and Ave verum for the yearly ‘Come & Sing,’ and you’re welcome
corpus will also be featured.
whatever your ability or experience.”
In the second half of the programme, Haydock Male More details about the festival from Friday, June 15
Voice Choir will continue its varied programme with to Sunday, June 24 in Prescot are online at www.
wartime songs too.
prescotfestival.co.uk
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