Stroud Choral Society Autumn Concert: George Dyson's The Canterbury Pilgrims

Conductor: Simon Bell
Stroud Choral Society
Soprano: Felicity Tomkins, Tenor: Thomas Elwin; Bass: Felix Kemp
Orchestra: The Bristol EnsembleCome with us to the Tabard Inn where a group of pilgrims are preparing to travel to Canterbury. Join us in this colourful oratorio written in 1931 using words inspired by Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to create vivid portraits of a number of the pilgrims. Meet the honorable Knight, the Nun, the earthly pleasure-loving Monk and the learned Clerk of Oxenford amongst other hopeful travellers.