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Andrew
Carter
Andrew
Carter
was born in 1939 in Leicester, England. After reading for a music
degree at Leeds University, he sang bass for seven years in the daily
services at York Minster, while directing music in various schools.
In 1965 Andrew founded the mixed voice Chapter House Choir at York
Minster. During his seventeen-year conductorship, the group became
nationally well known. Following a year of
conducting and
adjudicating in New Zealand in 1984, he returned to York with his
family to concentrate on composition.
Many of
Andrew's
early choral arrangements are published by Banks of York. Over the
last twenty years Oxford University Press have published more than
fifty of his pieces. A maiden most gentle is
amongst several
of his carols to be included in the Christmas Eve broadcast from
King's College, Cambridge. Of the six larger scale commissions for
choir, soloists and orchestra, Benedicite has been
very widely
performed on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Antipodes.
Andrew’s
music
is accessible and jovial. You will really enjoy the performance.
Horizons
Horizons
was
Commissioned by St Neots Choral Society to celebrate its Silver
Jubilee, 1971-1996, and was conducted by Richard Searle, its
Director, at the first performance on 30th
November 1996.
It is scored for mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra. It
sets poems with the sea as their theme. The music has wonderful
breadth and spaciousness, a yearning, and a sense of eventual arrival
in Tennyson's words 'When I have crossed the Bar'.
Where
lies the
land? Arthur Hugh Clough
My soul
is
Awakened Anne Brontë
Roadways John
Masefield
Exultation
Emily Dickinson
The Long
Trail Rudyard Kipling
Now
Voyager,
Depart Walt Whitman
Crossing
the Bar Alfred Tennyson
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