British boys to touch hearts with musical versatility

Trinity Boys Choir, among the busiest and most successful in the world, intends to touch people's hearts with a 110-minute mixture of genres and styles at the Zhuhai Huafa & CPAA Grand Theatre on July 27.

The choir will be in China for a ten-concert tour, starting in Guangzhou and finishing in Beijing. It has had a high professional profile and enormous popularity at home and abroad for almost 50 years. The boys are best known for renditions of Another Country (1984), Lord of the Flies (1990), and Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017).

Trinity Boys Choir

They have appeared on such prestigious English stages as Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera and various other houses abroad. They frequently participate in renowned festivals and international projects. The boys are especially well known for their contribution to Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which they have presented in over 150 professional performances, and they feature as well in both the Warner DVD and on the Virgin Classics CD of the opera.

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Repertoire

Queen：Bohemian Rhapsody

Sting：Fields of Gold

Richard Peat：All These Things

i. Lullaby

ii. Dance

ii. Dance

iv. Lament

v. Lullaby

Henry Purcell: Turn Then Thine Eyes

GF Handel: Where'er You Walk

John Rutter: A Flower Remembered    

Eric Whitacre: The Seal Lullaby

John Rutter: Magical Kingdom        

Andrew Simpson: Tomorrow

Simpson: Go, Catch a Falling Star      

Astor Piazolla arr. Iscalada: Libertango

Interval

Lennon-McCartney arr. David De Warrenne: Eleanor Rigby

Simon & Garfunkel arr. De Warrenne: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Richard Rodney Bennett: The Bird's Lament

Londonderry Air arr. Swinson: Danny Boy

Simon & Garfunkel arr. Ehret: Scarborough Fair

Trad arr. de Warrenne: Lavender's Blue

Trad arr. de Warrenne: Dashing Away With the Smoothing Iron

Grayston Ives: On a Summer's Morn

i. The Turmut Hoer

ii. Cader Idris

iii. Ca' the Yowes

iv. Phil the Fluter's Ball

Showtime: 8 pm, Friday, July 27 (110 minutes including 15-minute intermission)

Venue: Zhuhai Huafa & CPAA Grand Theatre (Shizimen Central Business District)

Ticket Price:

680 yuan ($106)/480 yuan ($75.10) for VIP, 280 yuan ($43.80), 180 yuan ($28.20), 100 yuan ($15.60);

Booking Hotlines: 400-930-1218 / 0756-8338113 / 0756-8338123

Official website: www.zhgt.org

Note: Children below 1.2 m (3.9 ft) will not be allowed into the venue.  

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