Grainger Concert News
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Tuesday 12
June
19.30
Melba Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Southern Cross Philharmonia Orchestra
Repertoire includes:
Three Gothic Pieces
arranged for strings
Alleluia Psallat; Canon; Angelus ad Virginem
Friday 4 July
19.30
Location: Town Hall, Cheltenham
Event No. M1
Artists: BBC Philharmonic
Michal Dworzynski - Conductor
Priya Mitchell violin
Cheltenham Bach Choir
Repertoire:
Britten // Suite: A time there was - 14'
Grainger // Pastoral;
Gum-Suckers March
Ralph Vaughan Williams // The Lark Ascending - 13'
Holst // The Planets - 55'
Sunday 6 July
15.00
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
Artists: Matthew Rose - Bass
Gareth Hancock Piano
Repertoire:
Percy Grainger //
Shallow Brown - 6'
Benjamin Britten // Folksong Settings
1. Down by the Salley Gardens - 3'
2. The trees they grow so high - 4'
3. Little Sir William - 3'
4. O Waly, Waly - 4'
INTERVAL
George Butterworth // A Shropshire Lad - 8'
Ralph Vaughan Williams // Songs of Travel - 24'
Sunday 6 July
18.00
Drawing Room, CheltenhamTown Hall
Event No. M10
Meurig Bowen - Artistic Director
Audio Tour of Percy Grainger's world
Sunday 6 July
19.00
Town Hall, Cheltenham
Event No. M11
Artists: Ailish Tynan - Soprano
Daniel Norman Tenor
Gareth Hancock - Conductor
Repertoire:
Percy Grainger // The
Warriors - 18'
Steve Reich // Sextet - 20'
Alan Opie - Baritone
INTERVAL
Carl Orff // Carmina Burana - 60'
Tuesday 8
July
19.30
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
Event No. M17
Artists: The Schubert
Ensemble
James Gilchrist - Tenor
Repertoire:
Grainger // Songs
Gurney // Songs
Vaughan Williams // On Wenlock Edge - 23'
Martin Butler // Sequenza Notturna - 23'
Dvořák // Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 - 29'
Tuesday 15
July
15.00
Pittville Campus, Cheltenham
Event No. M50
The Noble Savage & Bert, A Personal Memoir - Barrie Gavin's film portrait of
Percy Grainger
Tuesday 15 July
19.30
Town Hall, Cheltenham
Event No. M51
Artists: The Band of HM Royal Marines
Major J A Kelly - Director
Repertoire:
Gustav Holst // Second
Suite - 12'
Joe Duddell // The Redwood Tree WP
INTERVAL
Percy Grainger // Lincolnshire Posy - 16'
Ralph Vaughan Williams // English Folksong Suite - 11'
Cheltenham Music Festival 4-19 July 2008
For more information and to book tickets please contact the Box Office on +44 (0) 1242 227979.
You can also visit the Festival website at http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/music_festival.html and download the full Cheltenham Music Festival brochure.
For further media information please contact the Cheltenham Festivals Press Office below:
Amy Hulyer, Press Co-ordinator
t: 01242 775856 e: amy.hulyer@cheltenhamfestivals.com
Cheltenham Festivals Press Office, 109 Bath Road, Cheltenham, Glos. GL53 7LS
The Queensland Orchestra
Last Night of the Proms
City Hall, Brisbane
Friday, 14 November 2008, 7:00 pm
Geoffrey Simon conductor
Antoinette Halloran soprano
Hahn‐Bin violin
Brisbane Chorale, Emily Cox director
Programme includes:
GRAINGER I'm Seventeen Come Sunday; The Keel Row (realised by Barry Peter Ould): Australian premiere; Irish Tune from County Derry (BFMS 29)
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