Bristol Bach Choir will explore choral music from the USA across many of the styles to emerge from that nation’s musical heritage. These will include evocative and highly emotional works from Samuel Barber, Randall Thomson and Morton Lauridsen, sensual sound works from Rene Clausen, traditional American songs, and gospel-inspired arrangements. The remarkable range of compositional languages is perhaps to be expected in a nation of such a size and with such a mixed cultural history, and this should be a fascinating taste of some of these styles.