The People’s Passion – Music for Easter 2012

For Easter 2012, BBC Radio 4 has a series of dramas and features entitled ‘The People’s Passion’. For this project they have commissioned two choral works – an ‘Easter Anthem’ and a ‘People’s Passion Mass’. The poet Michael Symmons Roberts and composer Sasha Johnson Manning have collaborated to produce two beautiful pieces of music. The aim is to have as many choirs and groups of people across the country – and even the world – to sing and perform this music over Easter this year.
Our little singing group – Cantorion Gelliwastad – is busy learning one section of the Mass – the Agnus Dei. Our hope is to sing this at the united service on Good Friday with the help of three young instrumentalists to accompany us. The service will be held at St. David’s Uniting Church, Gelliwastad Road, Pontypridd at 10.30am on April 6th 2012 and everyone is welcome to come.

For more information about the People’s Passion project see its home page at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/peoples-passion/
For an update on what’s happening around the country, and a list of performances, follow the links below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2012/03/are_you_singing_the_peoples_pa.html
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/peoplespassionchoirs.pdf