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Win a copy of Gloria, the brand new choral work from Karl Jenkins!

We have teamed up with EMI Classics to offer you the chance to win a copy of Gloria, the brand new choral work from Karl Jenkins, the most prolific and performed composer in the world today. Karl Jenkins has also been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list with a CBE for services to music.

Breaking new ground, Gloria will receive its world premiere performance at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 July 2010 by Britain’s largest choral society The Really Big Chorus, with the English Festival Orchestra and student vocal soloists conducted by Brian Kay. On 12 July, EMI Classics will release a studio recording of Gloria, paired with Jenkins’s Te Deum featuring the composer conducting the National Youth Chorus of Great Britain and the London Symphony Orchestra with star soloist Hayley Westenra.

Jenkins’s Gloria is in five movements and takes as its main text the Latin version of the hymn of praise to God from the traditional Christian Mass. Jenkins says, “Gloria in excelsis Deo (Latin for Glory to God in the highest) is the title and opening line of an ancient hymn that begins with the words that the angels sang when the birth of Christ was announced to shepherds in Luke 2:14. The second work on the studio album is Jenkins’s Te Deum, composed in 2008. Sometimes known as the Ambrosian Hymn, the Te Deum is an early Christian Latin text praising God. The title is taken from the opening line, Te Deum laudamus, which translates as We praise you, O God. The text has been set to music by many composers, including Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Bruckner, Dvořák, Britten, Byrd, Tallis Purcell, Handel and Elgar. Gloria is the first commission by The Really Big Chorus, Britain’s largest choral society, which is made up of singers from hundreds of different choirs all over the UK, as well as thousands of individuals.

For more information please visit www.karljenkins.com. Watch Karl Jenkins talking about his life and music at http://www.boosey.com/podcast/12614

To win a copy of the album, please answer the following question:

Who is making a special appearance on the album?

1) Katherine Jenkins
2) Hayley Westenra
3) Charlotte Church

For your chance to win, simply send your name, address, email address and telephone number to comps@whattodowiththekids.co.uk with the name of the competition in the subject.

The closing date for competition entries is 31st July 2010

Good Luck !

Five winners will win a copy of the album. Open to UK residents aged 18 and over. Only one entry per household. Prize is non-transferable and non-refundable.