O n 22 June 2025 DKP performed a programme of choral music called "Sing, Sing a song!" on the theme of singing at the German embassy school in Beijing . The first half – “Singing the same song – in old and new style” – paired compositions that set the same or similar texts to music, highlighting the stylistic contrasts between eras. Cantate domino by Claudio Monteverdi, John Rutter and Johann Sebastian Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190 Sing we and chant it by Thomas Morley and Bob Chilcott Various songs of praise: Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré, Ihr He iligen, lobsinget dem Herrn by Johann Hermann Schein, Exsultate jubilate by Karl Jenkins. The second half – “Singing the songs of life” – explored music as a mirror of human experience. All the opera songs featured characters who are actually singing a song in the excerpt scene. As for the two middle pieces by Ravel and Parry, their authors simply entitl...
DKP is an international choir based in Beijing China