A BECCLES schoolboy has been chosen to sing the treble solo in Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C, when it is performed in Snape Maltings on Sunday.Jamie Minns will join the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir and the Britten Sinfonia.
A BECCLES schoolboy has been chosen to sing the treble solo in Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C, when it is performed in Snape Maltings on Sunday.
Jamie Minns will join the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir and the Britten Sinfonia.
Jamie was selected by the choir's conductor Ralph Woodward, from a group of children from four Suffolk Schools, who are also singing in the concert.
It is believed that this will be the first performance of the Te Deum in Snape Maltings, as there is no record of it having been sung there before.
Paul Kildea, internationally acclaimed Australian conductor and former head of music at the Aldeburgh Festival, produced a new edition of it in 2001.
The work was originally composed by Britten when he was only 20 years old, in l934, in two versions: one for choir and organ, the other for choir, harp and strings, the latter being the one to be performed.
The evening's progamme will also include the Faur� Requiem and the Durufl� Requiem.
Soloists for these works are Diana Moore, mezzo soprano and Robin Moore, baritone.
The concert is at 7pm. Tickets at �18, �15 and �12 are available from Aldeburgh Music box office on 01728 687110.
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