On This, A Winter’s Night is a creative performance project for upper primary schools conceived as a celebration of song, verse, music and light to mark the turning of the year and the transformation of the autumn season into the magic of winter.
Love Music’s artistic director, Stephen Deazley, has selected and arranged songs from around the world from a rich mix of genres, in which class choirs join together in a massed schools choir alongside a professional band.
Children participating in the project have created poetic and artistic responses to winter and its many varied festivals. The performance will include original verse, poems and prose by the children, crafted into a new work by writer and poet Elspeth Murray. Lanterns created by the children, and designed by Hilary Matthews, will decorate and light up The Queen’s Hall stage.
Schools participating: Corstorphine, St Marks RC, The Royal High, St John’s Vianney RC, Pencaitland, Oaklands and Castleview.
With special guests Louis Abbott and Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow).
Supported by The Cruden Foundation, Grant’s of Bathgate, Culture & Business Fund, Scotland, Dr David Summers Charitable Trust, The Ettrick Trust and Queen's Hall Members.
Presented by The Queen’s Hall in collaboration with Love Music Productions.
On This, A Winter's Night