Mercury Glee Club - Japanese Male Voice Choir

24 August 2010, London

Part of the continuing AJSW classical music concert series promoting and supporting Japanese musicians drawn from a variety of environments be they professional, students, visiting or home based.

Admission Free

Mercury Glee Club – Japanese Male Voice Choir directed by Hirosi Nagai August 25th

Mercury Glee Club（MGC）： Founded in 1999 by former members of Chor Merkur, the all male-choir of Tokyo’s Hitotsubashi University. Under the leadership of Hiroshi Nagai, the resident conductor of MGC since its foundation, and under the technical guidance and training of Nobuyuki Tanaka, one of the top choral conductors of Japan and a guest conductor of MGC since 2005, the Club has gained
an excellent reputation both in Japan and abroad through regular concerts of its own in Japan and concert tours in France, Germany and Italy every other year so far.

Programme

English Choral Music：　 Agnus Dei from Mass for Three Voices by William Byrd

Greensleeves arranged by John Leavett

Japanese Contemporary music : Etudes for Chorus by Michio Mamiya

Japanese Folk Songs： Aizubandaisan

Chugokuchiho no Komoriuta

Hakone Hachiri

Saitarobushi

International Songs: Coro di Schiavi Ebrei from Nabucco (G.Verdi)

Funiculi-Funicula by L. Danza arranged by H.Yoshioka

	24 August 2010, from 1:15pm to 2:00pm
	Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TJ
	Tel: 020 72374445 Email: godfreyking316@btinternet.com
	www.ajsw.org.uk
	Anglo-Japanese Society of Wessex