Hope Metropolitan Singers – Amazing Grace

18 Oct 2025

Capstone Theatre

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Amazing Grace – Music from three continents
The Mark Julius Memorial Concert
Hope Metropolitan Singers, Richard Lea, Director 

Programme to include:

Trad. – Amazing Grace
Garcia – Ave Maris Stella,  
Garcia – Alleluia, Angelus Domini
A Coleridge Taylor sequence: Viking Song, O, The Summer Music, The Lord is My Strength and piano solos    
Trad. South African  – Thuma Mina, Siph’ Amandla
Trad. Zulu arr. Moseley – Lullaby
Trad. South African – We shall not give up the fight
Parry – My soul, there is a country 
and other choral and piano works.

This concert is a memorial to one of the most long-standing members of the Hope Metropolitan Concert Society, Mark Julius. Mark was very eager to promote Black History Month which is why this memorial concert is being presented now.

Last year Hope Metropolitan Orchestra performed two symphonies by French composer Joseph Bologne. Now it is the turn of our singers to present a wide-ranging concert with music spanning three continents.

The piano pieces are by the well-established Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, much admired by Elgar. The concert also includes some evocative and poignant melodies from South Africa together with choral music from the European tradition.