The Really Big Chorus exists because we believe that everyone who wants to sing should be given the chance to be part of a really professional choral experience. We want everyone to ‘come and join in’. So each year we promote three major concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, the most famous being the annual ‘Messiah from Scratch’ which regularly attracts over 3,000 singers to a single performance, usually on Advent Sunday. Other celebrated choral works are frequently performed: settings of the Requiem by Verdi, Mozart, Fauré and Brahms; Orff’s Carmina Burana; Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and Haydn’s Creation. Contemporary choral music also features in our concerts: Karl Jenkins The Armed Man and John Rutter’s Requiem have both been sung recently, and we have just commissioned a brand-new work by Karl Jenkins which will have its world première in July 2010.
Through our organising arm, Concerts from Scratch, TRBC also runs occasional choral workshops, and organises choral weekends in other European cities such as Leipzig, Venice, Prague, Seville and Rome, and musical cruises to the Baltic, the Caribbean, the Norwegian Fjords, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. With the expert help of our travel partners, Specialised Travel, we have sung Messiah in Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, Mozart’s Requiem in Salzburg Cathedral, Mendelssohn in Leipzig and Handel in Halle, and choruses from Aida in the Temple of Rameses III in Egypt. We premièred The Armed Man in a Croatian fortress and sang Creation in Cape Town. We offer you the chance to sing stunning music in spectacular places: join us and ‘sing the world’!
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