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# 2012-04-16 20:44:00, ulaca
If you are at a loose end at 7.30pm on Thursday 3 May and are in the vicinity of the MethodistInternationalChurch on the junction of Queen’s Road East and Kennedy Road in Wan Chai, then why not shell out HK$150 of your hard-earned on the Cecilian Singers’ spring concert?This will be an all-English programme (well, they’re letting a Welshman in – Ralph Vaughan Williams), with not a scintilla of Latin about, apart from the odd title or two – there’s Herbert Howells’s Magnificat and Stanford’s magnificent Te Deum. (Okay, Stanford was another Celt.)Come and join us on this musical tour that starts in the time of Henry VIII with Thomas Tallis, journeys into the Elizabethan era with the madrigals and motets of William Byrd and Thomas Morley (including the chart-toppers “Now is the Month of Maying” and “April is in my Mistress Face”) and ends in the new Elizabethan age with Howells’s “Hymn to Saint Cecilia” – appropriately enough.