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Pick of the week Wintersongs 2011 Experimental collaboration developing the fruitful recent relationship between elegiacally hip saxist Andy Sheppard and The Voice Project Choir The Guardian December 2011		Ideas of Flight Saturday May 11th 8pm Norwich Cathedral Tickets £20, £15, £10, £8 Click here to book tickets Composed by Barbara Thompson, Orlando Gough, Jonathan Baker and Karen Wimhurst The Voice Project Choir Conducted by Sian Croose Sianed Jones soprano Rebecca Askew mezzo-soprano Sian Croose alto Jeremy Avis tenor Jonathan Baker bass Andy Sheppard - saxophone Trio Zéphyr - string trio Ideas of Flight is devised and directed by Sian Croose and Jonathan Baker Starling Roost Here are the sky-nails they asked you for so long ago and this their purpose, in fixing our eyes to the heavens a moment the heart lifts. Maura Dooley The Voice Project returns to fill Norwich Cathedral with the sounds of flight in this new work, co-commissioned by The Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Accompanied by elegiacally hip saxophonist Andy Sheppard (Glossolalia) and the dazzling strings of Trio Zephyr, (The Proportions of the Temple) over 100 voices will rise and lift, loop and drift, exploring the experience of the solo avian traveller and the flock with the words of Andrew Motion, Don Paterson, Wendy Cope , David Morley, John Fuller, Katrina Porteous , George Szirtes , Martin Figura and Maura Dooley, poets who have all contributed works to this piece which explores our fascination with the vertical, the skybound, birds in flight. Performance runs c 75 mins Presented in association with the RSPB Sunday 12th May 8pm Salthouse Church Cross Street, Salthouse On the hill in the beautiful church at Salthouse, overlooking the sea - Ideas of Flight with The Voice Project Quintet and Trio Zéphyr. Tickets £10/£8.50 http://norwichartscentre.co.uk/ideas-of-flight-sun-1/ Monday 13th May St Benet's Abbey Nr Ludham, Norfolk Boat leaves from Horning Church Staithe at 7.30pm Tickets must be booked in advance for this performance. In the heart of the Broads, travel by boat to an open air concert of Ideas of Flight in the ruins of St Benet's Abbey with The Voice Project Quintet and Trio Zéphyr. Tickets £12.50/£11.00 http://norwichartscentre.co.uk/ideas-of-flight-mo-13/ Photo: David Tipling Find out how to sponsor the Voice Project City of Strangers December 15th 2012 (photo: Phil Sayer) NORFOLK AND NORWICH FESTIVAL 2012 Singing the City - Dusk (photo: Phil Sayer) Click here for the 'Journal of the Voice Project'
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