Spitalfields Music: Cries of London
Red Byrd, Fretwork
St Leonard’s, Shoreditch. 4 December 2015

Spitalfields Music approach their 40th anniversary year with an ever increasing reputation of inspired support and encouragement for music in the Tower Hamlet area of east London. Alongside their Summer and Winter Festivals, they run an enormous programme of community projects, reaching some 30,000 people a year. Their latest Winter Festival opened (in Shoreditch parish church) with a very apt programme based on the early 17th century vogue for composing music based on the hubbub of London’s street sellers and criers, reflecting a tradition of loudly publicising wares that exists to this day in placed like the nearby Petticoat Market.

In a well-planned programme built around Orlando Gibbons’ Cries of London and Richard Dering’s Country Cries Continue reading →