audiences can hear a complete performance of one of the greatest and most popular of all oratorios on Saturday.

All Saints' Festival Choir and Orchestra will be performing Mendelssohn's Elijah.

The soloists will include Margaret Feaviour, a member of the BBC singers, Rachel Lloyd and Philip Pooley, who sings with the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. The role of Elijah will be taken by Julian Empett, from Orpington, who is a member of the choir of Westminster Abbey.

November 24, All Saints' Festival Choir and Orchestra, Orpington Parish Church of All Saints, Bark Hart Road, Church Hill, Orpington, 7.30pm, £2.50-£7.50, 01689 871925.

November 12, 2001 19:34

Joan Gardner