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Anniversary commissions

Oratorio & Chamber Choirs - programme

Jazz Choir & Ensemble - programme

Concerts

Premières

Premières given by the Addison Singers

World premières

Kenneth Hesketh - Carol
Graham Redwood - How the Flute Was Born (Addison Singers commission)

David Wordsworth's 10th Anniversary commissions:

William Bolcom - Two Meditations on Poems by George Herbert
Gavin Bryars - A la Dolce Ombra
Jill Jarman - The Listening Tree
Cecilia McDowall - Carol: Run Shepherds, Run
Howard Skempton - The Great Breath

UK premières

John Harbison - O Magnum Mysterium
Ned Rorem - Three Motets on Poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
Ned Rorem - Little Lamb, Who Made Thee

London premières

Gavin Bryars - And so ended Kant's Travelling
Colin Matthews - The Shepherd's Carol
Mark-Anthony Turnage - Leaving

Premières for 2006/7

Bob Chilcott - 'Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head' (arranged for The Addison Singers Oratorio Choir)
Howard Skempton - new work for the Chamber Choir
Howard Skempton - That Music Always Round Me (world première of the version for choir and organ)

Howard Skempton is the Addison Singers' featured composer in 2006/07.