PERSHORE Choral has an exciting evening in store for music lovers of all ages who attend the concert in Pershore Abbey on Saturday at 7.30pm with a programme including Elgar's inspiring masterpiece The Music Makers, Andrew Carter's melodic Te Deum and the rousing Spitfire Prelude and Fugue by William Walton.

The concert will begin with Walton's famous Spitfire Prelude and Fugue written during the Second World War when Walton was mainly writing the film and ballet scores which were to establish him among the greatest composers for the screen. Born in Oldham in 1902, Walton became a chorister at Christ Church Oxford and was essentially self-taught. While at Oxford he met the Sitwells who gave him moral and financial support enabling him to become one of the most popular composers of the 20th century. He died aged 80 in 1983.

Elgar's Music Makers is the grand finale of the programme.

First performed, when Elgar was 55, at the Birmingham Festival in 1912, this is Elgar's last substantial work for chorus and orchestra,

It is written with unmistakable passion, greatly enhanced by the detailed masterly orchestral comment.

The talented West Midlands Sinfonia, conducted by Andrew Wilson, will accompany the choir. Soloists Jenny Nex (soprano) and Helen Foster Brookes (mezzo soprano) complete the picture.

Tickets cost £10 for adults for the Central Aisle and £8 for the Side Aisles (children and students half price) from the ticket secretary Carole Oliver on 01386 860389 or 07808 887715, from A la Carte, Royal Arcade, Pershore, Maxine's Bookshop and Blue, Broad Street, Pershore, or from any member of the choir.