Summer Serenade | 6 June 2026

Hope Metropolitan Orchestra

Hope Metropolitan Singers

Conductor: Helen Thomas

Director: Richard Lea

A concert to celebrate the Anglo-Irish summer in all weathers.

Programme:

Doreen Carwithen: Suffolk Suite

Coates: Summer Days Suite

Stanford (arr. Dunhill): Songs of the Sea

with music by Delius and Cooke

This programme of lighter music includes Doreen Carwithen’s Suffolk Suite which develops tunes the composer originally used in her music for the 1954 film “East Anglian Holiday”, Eric Coates’ Summer Days Suite, and Stanford’s (arr. Pitfield) Songs of the Sea for chorus and orchestra with the aptly titled song, ‘O Devon in wind and rain’!