Monday mornings make ‘Music for May’

Throughout the past cold and snowy winter, Uxbridge’s women’s choir, the Monday Morning Singers, under director Anne Mizen, has been busy preparing a concert for spring, and on Sunday, May 3, hopes to share its “Music for May” concert with an audience.

The choir celebrated its 24th anniversary in 2024, and continues working to bring people together to make music for Uxbridge audiences.

The choir will be joined by acclaimed organist Ian Sadler, who will play the organ at St. Paul’s Anglican Church.

The performers are excited to present the work of what they call “one of the 20th century’s most significant and remarkable composers, Benjamin Britten.”

Missa Brevis in D is a setting of the Latin Mass, originally written in 1959 for the treble choir and organ at Westminster Cathedral in London, England. “The music is dramatic and intense, full of colour and life,” says the Monday Morning Singers..

The programme also includes a range of pieces from different eras, from early music of William Byrd and Henry Purcell to more contemporary works by Randall Thompson and Canadian composer, Saul Irving Glick. Other music includes Canadian folk music by Connie Kaldor, as well as by the popular American composer, Morten Laurdisen.

All this happens on Sunday afternoon, May 3, beginning at 3 p.m., at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Uxbridge. Tickets are $30 cash at the door.