Canterbury Choral Society presents Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius - Canterbury Cathedral

This event is organised, managed and delivered by Canterbury Choral Society. Priority booking for Canterbury Choral Society Benefactors open on Wednesday 23 September 10am, Canterbury Choral Society Friends' priority booking will open on Wednesday 30 September 10am. Public sales open Wednesday 7 October 10am. This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved, and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory. So wrote Elgar, quoting Ruskin, on the final page of the score of The Dream of Gerontius . Many works followed, some of which, it could be argued, reached even greater heights, but Gerontius remains thoroughly Elgarian, filled with moments of touching, searing beauty and the majestic climaxes for which he is known. None is more powerful than its closing stages, sung by the Angel as Gerontius enters Heaven. At the moment when Gerontius ‘sees God’, there is a blinding and deafening flash of sound, with the entire orchestra instructed to play ‘for one moment’ at its fullest power. Come and hear for yourself in the glorious setting of Canterbury Cathedral. Canterbury Choral Society will be joined by the London Mozart Players and an outstanding team of soloists. Canterbury Choral Society CCS Youth Choir London Mozart Players Richard Cooke, conductor Thomas Elwin, Gerontius (tenor) Anna Stephany, Angel (mezzo-soprano) Trevor Eliot Bowes, Angel of the Agony (bass)