Our performance with Polyphony of Messiah has become a popular traditional closing concert for the Christmas Festival at Smith Square Hall (formerly St, John’s, Smith Square).
“I come to hear this every year. For me this is when Christmas begins.” So said the man sitting next to me, as we waited for the performance of Handel’s Messiah that by tradition ends the Christmas Festival at St. John’s Smith Square – the beautiful, glowingly white Baroque deconsecrated church that is so utterly right for this work… It was sublime, and as the man said, it felt as if the Christmas season was truly beginning.”
– Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph, December 2022
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