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Music Programme Spring/Summer 2008
| Bursary award | Lunchtime Recitals |
| Evening Concerts | Organ recitals |
| Parish Music | Special Event |
| Visits outside the Parish | Future Events |
Bursary Award
The SMMA is offering up to £500 to support the musical training and education of a young musician in the parish under the age of 25. The bursary will run from September 2008 - August 2009. Written applications will be considered by a specially appointed sub-committee. Please contact SMMA Chairman, Caroline Goulder on S.W. 523173 or email: for an application form.
Parish
Music*
Sunday 16 March
4.00pm Choral Evensong for Palm Sunday
Walmisley in D minor
Rawsthorne: Hosanna to the son of David
Thursday 20 March
8.00pm Choral Eucharist for Maundy Thursday
Darke in F
Elgar: Ave Verum
Good Friday 21 March
2.00 ;3.00pm
Parish Church Choir takes part in final hour
of 3 hour devotion
Sunday 23 March
10.00am Choral Eucharist for Easter Day
Rawsthorne
Ley: The strife is o’er
and at 4.00pm
Choral Evensong for Easter Day
Stanford in B flat
Lloyd: Jesus Christ is ris’n today
Sunday 20 April
6.30pm SMMA Festal Evensong
Brewer in D
Dyson: Let all the world
Sunday 11 May 3.15pm
Choral Evensong for the Friends of Saffron
Walden Parish Church
Stanford in C
Harris: Come down O love divine
Thursday 22 May
8.00pm Solemn Eucharist for Corpus Christi
Harwood in A flat
Malcolm: Ave Verum
Sunday 8 June
6.30pm Choir sings Evensong at Holy Trinity, Littlebury
Harris in A minor
Bach: Awake us Lord
Sunday 7 September Patronal Festival
10.00am Choral Eucharist
Darke in E
Britten: Hymn to the virgin
and at 6.30pm Choral Evensong
Wood in E flat
Carter: A maiden most gentle
Visits outside the Parish
Monday 7 April 5.30pm
Choir sings Evensong at
Salisbury Cathedral
Noble in B minor
Rawsthorne: O praise God in his Holiness
Lunchtime Recitals
All recitals start at 1.10pm with sandwiches available from 12.30pmAdmission free, retiring collection
Wednesday 28 May
Richard Cook Organ
Wednesday 18 June
Andrew Malcolm Harpsichord, Recorder
Wendy Watts Piano, Flute
Jane Cursiter Oboe, Guitar
Wednesday 2 July
Sue Sylvester Bradley Soprano
Janet Evans Piano
Wednesday 16 July
Saffron Walden County High School pupils
Wednesday 30 July
Siân Newman Soprano
Emma Watts Trumpet, Soprano
Wendy Watts Piano
Wednesday 6 August
Diana Hoy Contralto
Wendy Watts Piano
Organ Recitals
With big screen. All recitals start at 7.30pmAdmission on the door £6, students free
Saturday 26 April
Keith Reas St Mark’s, Washington
FIRST ORGAN RECITAL OF THE 2008 SEASON 7.30pm
by Keith Reas, St. Mark's Church, Washington.
Admission on the door: £6, students free.
Saturday 24 May
Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower, London
Programme:Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Passacaglia and Thema Fugatum in C minor, BWV 582
Flor Peeters 1903-1986 Two Choral Preludes:
- With love comes great suffering
- Now rest beneath night's shadow
C. H. H. Parry 1848-1918 Fantasia and Fugue in G
Alfred Hollins 1865-1942 Intermezzo in D flat
Francis Jackson b. 1917 Impromptu (for Sir Edward Bairstow on his 70th birthday)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert 1877-1933 Harmonies du Soir (from Trois Impressions)
Percy Whitlock 1903-1946 Plymouth Suite:
- Allegro risoluto
- Lantana
- Chanty
- Salix
- Toccata
Saturday 7 June
Daniel Hyde Director of College Music, Jesus College, Cambridge
Apparition de l'Eglise éternelle - O Messiaen
A Song of Sunshine - A Hollins
Praeludium in D - D Buxtehude
Villanella - J Ireland
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C - J S Bach
Peaen - K Leighton
Reflections - P Whitlock
- After an Old French Air
- Pazienza
- Dolcezza
Carillon-Sortie - H Mulet
Saturday 28 June
Elizabeth Day,
London
- Organ Concerto in F (Opus 4, No. 4) G.F. Handel (1685-1759) Allegro-Andante-Adagio-Allegro arr. H. Keller (1885-1967)
- A Fancy W. Byrd (c.1540-1623)
- Three pieces from Clavierübung III: J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Dies sind; 5 con pedale pro Organo pleno BWV 552,2
- Choral no.3 in A minor C. Franck (1822-1890)
- Prière du Christ montant vers son Père O. Messiaen (1908-1992)
- from L’Ascension Conversations I. Farrington (b. 1977)
- Nocturne From Fiesta! Toccata on Nu La Oss Takke Gud E. Hovland (b.1924) (Now Thank We All Our God)
Saturday 19 July
David Cook St Mary’s, Saffron Walden
Concert
Overture in C minor A
Hollins
Caprice in B minor A Guilmant
Choral-Improvisation sur le “Victimae Paschali” C
Tournemire
Trio Sonata No.1 in E flat (BWV 525) J S Bach
- i) Allegro moderato
- ii) Adagio
- iii) Allegro
G Phillips(1908-1991)
Voluntary No.2 in G S Wesley
- i) Moderatly slow
- ii) Lively
- iii) With Spirit
Saturday 6 September
Keith Hearnshaw Concert Organist
Londonderry Air Trad arr J.
Stuart-Archer 1866-1953
Occasional Overture G. F. Handel
1685-1759
Salut d’ Amour Sir E. Elgar 1857-1934
Prelude & Fugue in D major BWV 532 J.S.
Bach 1685-1750
Suite Gothique L. Boellmann 1862-1897
Introduction, Minuet, Priere a Notre- Dame, Toccata.
Crown Imperial Sir W. Walton
1902-1983
Adagio for Strings S. Barber
1910-1981
“Organ Wizardry” from Harry Potter J.
Williams b.1932
Scherzo in G minor E. Bossi 1861-1925
Evening Concerts
Saturday 10 May7.30pm Saffron Walden & District Music Club and SMMA The Orlando Consort (A Capella Quartet)
The English Choral Tradition from Dunstaple to Byrd
Tickets: At the door or SW Tourist Information Centre
Saturday 14 June
7.30pm Saffron Walden Choral Society
Ticket Secretary Angela Finbow 01279 812849
Saturday 5 July 6.00pm Summer Concert St Mary’s Choir, St Mary’s Brass Group and Uttlesford Orchestra
Programme to include Pergolesi Magnificat and Mozart Missa Brevis
Tickets: At the door or SW Tourist Information Centre
Future Events
Sunday 5 October6.30pm Harvest Evensong Sunday 9 November
11.15am Service of Remembrance
Sunday 30 November
6.30pm Advent Carol Service
Sunday 21 December
6.30pm Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
Special Event
Sunday 4 May5.00pm ‘Meditation for Ascension’
David Cook plays Messiaen’s L’Ascension
With readings to mark the centenary of Messiaen’s birth
Free admission
Music at services is subject to change