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This evening's concert is dedicated to the memory of Andrea Crawshaw ANDREA CRAWSHAW
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Andrea lived a full and active life. She trained as a primary school teacher in Norwich and began her career at
Emley First School, then Nields Primary School in Slaithwaite and finally moved to the Home and Hospital Teaching Service where she was in charge of children admitted to Ward 17 at the Royal Infirmary. She was always especially interested in music, having learnt to play the piano and then the organ. She used these talents at Pole Moor and Scapegoat Hill Baptist Churches prior to becoming a member of Fartown Trinity Methodist Church where her energy and dedication was applied to the various roles she filled, Organist and Fellowship Leader amongst them. Singing lessons were also part of Andrea's youth and in 1970 she applied for membership of Huddersfield Choral Society, was accepted and so began an association that was to last 40 years and which quickly became a major part of her life to which she gave so much time, effort and thought. She became a member of the Committee in the late 1980's and early in the1990's was appointed the Welfare and Associate Members' Secretary. In 1995 she became the Choir Secretary, a position she filled with energy and enthusiasm almost to the last week of her life. Not long before she died she was presented with her 40-year badge by the President and Vice-President in her hospital room. Andrea was a multi-talented lady and had organisational skills that were second-to-none. She was meticulous in all preparation, leaving nothing to chance. She knew all the choir members individually and always went the extra mile when planning events. Being a computer wizard she produced beautifully detailed booklets for trips abroad, Christmas Cards to be sent by the Society, countless leaflets and planning forms. Andrea was particularly proud of her “Book of Memories”, produced to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the Choral Society. She was very fair-minded - sympathetic in difficulties - but she could be very stern when situations demanded as many of us found out!! We all have admired Andrea's strength of character and her courage in her 11 year battle against ill-health, her wicked sense of humour, her practical and technical skills and her constant friendship. Last Easter the choir travelled to The Sage Gateshead where we sang Carmina Burana and Andrea insisted on driving all the way. We stood together on the platform when she sang every note in the concert and at that time I was hopeful that she was feeling better but only a couple of weeks later her health began to fail and this time her determination and courage in fighting her illness were not enough. She grew steadily weaker but yet remained cheerful and positive to the end, insisting on attending the Choral Sunday Lunch with Brian Kay, coming from hospital and returning there afterwards and also coming to lunch at Shelley for the sponsored walkers on 5th June. The love and esteem in which Andrea was held was evident from the large congregation attending the Thanksgiving Service for her life at Fartown. There were representatives from all the organisations which Andrea had joined and the singing by the choir was wonderful. A special tribute was paid by Conrad Winterburn on behalf of the Choral Society. I leave the last words to Rev. Lesley Noon in her eulogy, “We all have our own special memories of Andrea. We will remember her for her determination and courage, her incredible organisational skills, her creativity, her sense of humour, her reliability and helpfulness to the nth degree. She will never be forgotten but will live on in so many ways. One thing for sure is that our lives are the richer because she lived and worked amongst us”. Andrea's many friends in Huddersfield Choral Society and beyond echo those words. We miss her greatly. Jean Parker
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JANE GLOVER NORTHERN SINFONIA Chorus Master: JOSEPH CULLEN Organist: DARIUS BATTIWALLA TUESDAY 21 DECEMBER 2010 SPONSORED BY INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY AND COUNTRY CLASSICS WEDNESDAY 22 DECEMBER 2010 SPONSORED BY SYNGENTA AND SS COMPONENTS
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Welcome to tonight's performance of Messiah - given annually by the Society in Huddersfield since 1864. We are delighted to welcome Jane Glover, Northern Sinfonia and soloists Elizabeth Watts, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Le Brocq and Henry Waddington. Tonight's concert is being recorded by Signum Classics for a new CD release (due April 2011).
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms and Bruckner E minor Mass complete the programme, with Conductor Laureate Martyn Brabbins with the Orchestra of Opera North. Martyn will return to conclude the anniversary season on June 18th 2011 with a performance of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius with the Hallé - tickets will be available via Kirklees Box Office from 1st March.
In the 175 years since Huddersfield Choral Society was founded, it has performed in many of the world's great musical centres. Its special quality is the unique 'Huddersfield Sound' - a thrilling fullbodied and firm blended tone, flexible enough for both the most shattering climaxes and for the softest but focused pianissimos. The anniversary season will be marked in a number of ways in addition to the regular Subscribers' and Public concerts, with an updated history of the Society entitled And the Glory already being published. Bob Edwards, the Society's first archivist, has revised the first edition originally published in 1985, bringing it up to the present day. The volume is available for sale tonight along with other commemorative items marking this significant anniversary.
During the year a series of free workshops will be held to encourage and develop singers of all ages. A choral conducting workshop in conjunction with the University of Huddersfield will strengthen the existing relationship with our principal sponsor, whose continued support we are grateful to acknowledge. Workshops for children and young people will also be offered in partnership with the Mrs Sunderland Music Festival and Kirklees Borough Council. We hope that the workshops will also contribute to our active recruitment programme to replace singers who retire or move away. Recruitment officer Gaynor Haliday (07539 468454 or gaynor.haliday@huddersfieldchoral.com ) would be delighted to hear from anyone who is interested in joining the senior choir. Susan Wilkinson, Director of the Junior Choirs, (01924 404737 or susan.wilkinson@huddersfieldchoral.com) will be glad to assist those interested in the Junior Choirs. For ticket and subscriber enquiries, please contact our subscribers' secretary Julie Hale (07989 395 066 or julie.hale@huddersfieldchoral.com.
Messiah is perhaps one of the works most closely associated with the Society, and this special anniversary season sees a number of performances throughout the UK, including The Sage Gateshead on 20th December 2010. In January the Society will travel to Stratford-upon-Avon as guests of the Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society - also celebrating their 175th anniversary during 2011. The Choirs will perform Messiah in the newly-refurbished Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in a sell-out concert conducted by our chorusmaster Joseph Cullen.
This season our Junior Choirs also celebrate the milestone of their 25th anniversary. An exciting range of concerts and other events are planned for our young people, culminating in a special concert on 2nd July 2011 at which current members will be joined in performance by former members of the Choirs. Former members are encouraged to get in touch via junior.choirs@huddersfieldchoral.com.
Messiah will also be performed by the Society with the City of London Sinfonia at the Barbican on Good Friday (April 22nd 2011), again conducted by Joseph Cullen. Tonight's concert forms part of the second recording project of the season: our first Subscribers' Concert in October - Verdi Requiem - was recorded for broadcast by Classic FM. The performance, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its charismatic conductor Vasily Petrenko, received rave reviews from those in the audience.
Details of all future concerts and events can be found on the website at http://www.huddersfieldchoral.com - and for users of social media, you'll find us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube too as we look ahead in the Society's third century of existence.
The final subscription concert of the season on April 1st 2011 will include the UK première of Jonathan Harvey's Messages. 175th
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Choir Members SOPRANO: Margaret Atkinson* Susan Baines Sheila Baker** Jill Bamford Esme Barber Lydia Bayliss Charmaine Beaumont** Jill Benn Patricia Berry* Janet Booth Elly Bosworth Elizabeth Boyle Dorothy Bradbury Christine Broadbent Louise Brown Sarah Brown Colleen Brown Derrianne Byrne Mary Cadwaladr Barbara Carroll Joanna Cole Gwyneth Cooper Rosemary Cooper Eleanor Davies Jenny Ellis Sue Ellis Trish Ellis Linda Fellows Sheila Garside* Katherine Hall Julia Harvey* Margaret Henry* Hilary Hibbin Kate Hyland-Collier Caroline Jones Georgia Katsiroumpa Helen Kettlewell Emma Kilroy Yuki Kondo Fiona Law Elaine Lee* Anne Lockwood Liz Marshall Helen Martin Anjuli Mehta
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Wendy Moores Cath Murgatroyd Megan Nelson Pamela Pal Jean Parker* Leah Pattison Carol Randerson* Christine Roberts Katrina Robinson-Brown Jane Sargent* Hannah Saxon Sue Shepherd Thelma Simpson Debbie Skipper Susan Smith Doreen Smurthwaite Nan Steinitz Catherine Stephenson Ruth Stones* Marilyn Sutcliffe Sarah Wickham Denise Wilkes Ann Wilkes Glynis Wilkinson Susan Wilkinson* Mary Wilson ALTO: Ruth Aldred Helen Ashley-Taylor Anna Bailey Thelma Bateman Ann Boswell Barbara Brook* Rowena Burton Sandy Cole** Margaret Collison Jean Collison* Cynthia Daniel** Janet Dransfield* Christine Durham** Winifred Ellis* Janet Gabanski Julie Hale Gaynor Haliday Richard Hallas
Andrea Hindson Pam Hird* Jane Hobson* Sue Hornby Susan Kirby Hilary Laurie Sylvia McGee** Hilary McLean Elizabeth Mortimer Kath Northern* Marjorie Norton* Audrey O'Hara Alison Owen - Morley Jayne Preston** Frances Priestnall Caroline Robinson Jennifer Sanderson Susan Sandford Katie Saunders Vicki Scurrah Eileen Sheller Suzanne Smelt Alexandra Soden Marjorie Swift** Pam Sykes Vera Thompson Anna Thompson Lettice Thomson* Susan Turnbull Sandra Twitchett Alex Vickers Michelle Walker Jean Walters* Rebekah Wheeler Sue Wilman** Jenni Wohlman Glenda Wray TENOR: Michael Benn* Jonathan Brigg Stephen Brook* Tom Chilton David Croft** Malcolm Fairless* Chris Fawcett
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Graham Fearnley* Jeremy Garside Ronald Gee David Gee Malcolm Hinchliffe Roy Hirst Norman Hirst Martin Jenkins Martin Kettlewell Gregory Knaggs Chris Knight Alex Kyle Timothy Lewis** David Lunn Richard Myhill Arthur Quarmby* Philip Ratcliffe Stuart Rudd Gerald Savage Philip Shergold Ian Smith Alan Stephens Charles R. Sykes David Vickers Harvey Walsh David Ward Michael Widdall Tim Wilkes BASS: Richard Ainley Christopher Arnold** David Atkinson Gareth Beaumont** James Blagbrough John Brown* David Burgess Peter Chase Mike Corney Jim Cowell Martyn Crossley* James Curran** Ian Daniel* Peter Dawson P.J. Dodd Granville Dransfield*
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Composer Notes HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC, (b Halle, 23 Feb 1685; d London, 14 April 1759. English composer of German birth). He was born Georg Frederich Handel, son of a barber-surgeon who intended him for the law. At first he practised music clandestinely, but his father was encouraged to allow him to study and he became a pupil of Zachow, the principal organist in Halle. When he was 17 he was appointed organist of the Calvinist Cathedral, but a year later he left for Hamburg. There he played the violin and harpsichord in the opera house, where his Almira was given at the beginning of 1705, soon followed by his Nero. The next year he accepted an invitation to Italy, where he spent more than three years, in Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice. He had operas or other dramatic works given in all these cities and, writing many Italian cantatas, perfected his technique in setting Italian words for the human voice. In Rome he also composed some Latin church music.
at a London musical society by friends of Handel’s, then by a rival group in public; Handel prepared to put it on at the King’s Theatre, but the Bishop of London banned a stage version of a biblical work. He then put on Acis, also in response to a rival venture. The next summer he was invited to Oxford and wrote an oratorio, Athalia, for performance at the Sheldonian Theatre. Meanwhile, a second opera company (‘Opera of the Nobility’, including Senesino) had been set up in competition with Handel’s and the two competed for audience over the next four seasons before both failed. This period drew from Handel, however, such operas as Orlando and two with ballet, Ariodante and Alcina, among his finest scores. During the rest of the 1730s Handel moved between Italian opera and the English forms, oratorio, ode and the like, unsure of his future commercially and artistically. After a journey to Dublin in 1741-2, where Messiah had its première (in aid of charities), he put opera behind him and for most of the remainder of his life gave oratorio performances, mostly at the new Covent Garden theatre, usually at or close to the Lent season. The Old Testament provided the basis for most of them (Samson, Belshazzar, Joseph, Joshua, Solomon, for example), but he sometimes experimented, turning to classical mythology (Semele, Hercules) or Christian history (Theodora), with little public success. All these works, along with such earlier ones as Acis and his two Cecilian odes (to Dryden words) were performed in concert form in English. At these performances he usually played in the interval a concerto on the organ (a newly invented musical genre) or directed a concerto grosso.
He left Italy early in 1710 and went to Hanover, where he was appointed Kapellmeister to the Elector, but he at once took leave to take up an invitation to London, where his opera Rinaldo was produced early in 1711. Back in Hanover, he applied for a second leave and returned to London in autumn 1712. Four more operas followed in 1712-15, with mixed success; he also wrote music for the church and for court and was awarded a royal pension. In 1716 he may have visited Germany; it was probably the next year that he wrote the Water Music to serenade George I at a river-party on the Thames. In 1717 he entered the service of the Earl of Carnarvon (soon to be Duke of Chandos) at Edgware, near London, where he wrote 11 anthems and two dramatic works, the evergreen Acis and Galatea and Esther, for the modest band of singers and players retained there.
During his last decade he gave regular performances of Messiah, usually with about 16 singers and an orchestra of about 40, in aid of the Foundling Hospital. In 1749 he wrote a suite for wind instruments (with optional strings) for performance in Green Park to accompany the Royal Fireworks celebrating the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. His last oratorio, composed as he grew blind, was Jephtha (1752); The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757) is largely composed of earlier material. Handel was very economical in the reuse of his ideas; at many times in his life he also drew heavily on the music of others (though generally avoiding detection) - such ‘borrowings’ may be of anything from a brief motif to entire movements, sometimes as they stood but more often accommodated to his own style.
In 1718-19 a group of noblemen tried to put Italian opera in London on a firmer footing, and launched a company with royal patronage, the Royal Academy of Music; Handel, appointed musical director, went to Germany, visiting Dresden and poaching several singers for the Academy, which opened in April 1720. Handel’s Radamisto was the second opera and it inaugurated a noble series over the ensuing years including Ottone, Giulio Cesare, Rodelinda, Tamerlane and Admeto. Works by Bononcini (seen by some as a rival to Handel) and others were given too, with success at least equal to Handel’s, by a company with some of the finest singers in Europe, notably the castrato Senesino and the soprano Cuzzoni. But public support was variable and the financial basis insecure and in 1728 the venture collapsed. The previous year Handel, who had been appointed a composer to the Chapel Royal in 1723, had composed four anthems for the coronation of George II and had taken British naturalisation.
Handel died in 1759 and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, recognised in England and by many in Germany as the greatest composer of his day. The wide range of expression at his command is shown not only in the operas, with their rich and varied arias, but also in the form he created, the English oratorio, where it is applied to the fates of nations as well as individuals. He had a vivid sense of drama, but above all had a resource and originality of invention, to be seen in the extraordinary variety of music in the op.6 concertos, for example, in which melodic beauty, boldness and humour all play a part, that place him and J.S. Bach as the supreme masters of the Baroque era in music.
Opera remained his central interest, and with the Academy impresario, Heidegger, he hired the King’s Theatre and (after a journey to Italy and Germany to engage fresh singers) embarked on a five-year series of seasons starting in late 1729. Success was mixed. In 1732 Esther was given 175th
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Jane Glover Recently appointed Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, JANE GLOVER is also Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque. She made her professional début at the Wexford Festival in 1975, conducting her own edition of Cavalli's L'Eritrea; she joined Glyndebourne in 1979 and was Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985; and she was Artistic Director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991.
Baroque, and the Handel & Haydn Society. She has appeared at the Mostly Mozart Festivals in both New York and London. She is also especially known for her experience in the choral repertoire, and was Music Director of both the London and the Huddersfield Choral Societies. Jane Glover's many recordings feature a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies for ASV, and arias with Felicity Lott, all with the London Mozart Players, plus other recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Britten and Walton with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, and the BBC Singers. Most recently she has released recordings of Haydn Masses, for Naxos. Her extensive broadcasting career includes the television series Orchestra and Mozart, and the radio series Opera House and Musical Dynasties, all for the BBC.
In continual demand on the international opera stage, Ms Glover has appeared with numerous companies including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Berlin Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Australia, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Known chiefly as a Mozart specialist, she has conducted all the Mozart operas regularly, all over the world, since her initial performances of them in Glyndebourne in the 1980's. (Highlights include the Da Ponte trilogy in Chicago, with the director Diane Paulus; Die Entführung at the Royal Opera, Cosi fan tutte in Berlin, etc.) But her core repertoire also includes Monteverdi (she and Paulus also performed his three operas in Chicago, in 2000, 2003 and 2006), Handel (many operas including Giulio Cesare, Alcina, Agrippina, Tamerlano, Acis and Galatea, Ariodante and Theodora), and Britten, who indeed personally influenced and guided Jane Glover when she was 16, and to whose music she constantly returns. Her operatic repertoire also regularly includes Purcell, Gluck, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Humperdinck (she performed Hansel and Gretel at the BBC Proms) and Knussen. In addition she collaborates closely with the Mark Morris Dance Group, for whom she has conducted major productions of Purcell (King Arthur), Handel (L'Allegro) and Mozart.
Her book, Mozart's Women, was published, to great critical acclaim, in September 2005. It was nominated for both the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Non-Fiction. She is currently writing a book on Handel. Recent highlights include the operas The Turn of the Screw (Bordeaux), Semele (Milwaukee), La Clemenza di Tito (Chicago), The Rape of Lucretia (Aspen), Giasone (RAM) and Jephtha (Bordeaux); the Creation (Montreal), and concerts with Music of the Baroque, the London Mozart Players, the Orchestre Nationale de Bordeaux et Aquitaine, the Ulster Orchestra, the Philharmonia Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, the Toronto Symphony, and the Orchestra of St Luke's (at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York). In the coming season she will conduct new productions of Cosi fan tutte (at the RAM, directed by John Cox) and Don Giovanni (in St Louis, directed by James Robinson), A Midsummer Night's Dream (in Aspen, directed by Edward Berkeley); and the world premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies's Kommilitonen, directed by its librettist David Pountney, for the RAM.
Ms Glover's concert engagements similarly take her all over the world. She has performed with all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, repeatedly at the BBC Proms (another highlight was Britten's War Requiem), as well as with orchestras in Europe, the US, the Far East and Australasia. In recent seasons she has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the St Louis Symphony, the Orchestra of St Luke's (Carnegie Hall), the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the London Mozart Players and the City of London Sinfonia, as well as the period orchestras the Philharmonia 175th
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Jane Glover studied at the University of Oxford, where, after graduation, she did her D.Phil. on 17th-century Venetian opera. She holds honorary degrees from several other universities, has a personal Professorship at the University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. From 1990 to 1995 she served on the Board of Governors of the BBC. She was created a CBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours. 11
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JOSEPH CULLEN Chorus Master
and Ryde where he acts as vocal consultant to the monastic choirs. He has held musical positions in the RC Cathedrals of Glasgow, Leeds and Westminster. Joseph is committed to mentoring young musicians as they emerge onto the professional scene. He has established choral conducting scholarships with both the London Symphony Chorus and the Huddersfield Choral Society and gives masterclasses at the Orkney conductors' course, which is part of the St Magnus Festival, and at the Royal Academy of Music. He has coached many distinguished singers and gives the next generation a platform with his ensemble, London Chamber Voices.
Joseph Cullen is one of this country's leading choral conductors and his work with the London Symphony Chorus has earned him two Grammy awards in recent years. He has been Chorus Master of the Huddersfield Choral Society since 1999 and next year he will conduct them in two performances of Messiah, at Stratford and, on Good Friday, in the Barbican in London. This year Joseph made his dÊbut with the Northern Sinfonia directing a baroque orchestral programme and he has completed a series of concerts featuring Bach Cantatas in the City of London Festival directing the City of London Sinfonia. Joseph has worked closely with some of the world’s leading conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Mark Elder, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Bernard Haitink, Richard Hickox and Sir Colin Davis. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Grant Park Festival Orchestra in Chicago. Joseph maintains a national profile as an organist and a continuo player. He has inaugurated many new organs for which he has been consultant for and, this year he gives concerts on new and restored organs in Huddersfield and Paisley Abbey where he was once sub-organist. He has also given the opening recitals at the Benedictine Abbeys of Pluscarden
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Catherine Wyn-Rogers Mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers was a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, studying with Meriel St Clair and gaining several prizes including the Dame Clara Butt award. She continued her studies with Ellis Keeler and now works with Diane Forlano.
Miss Wyn-Rogers appears regularly with the Three Choirs Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, the BBC Proms and at the Wigmore Hall. She has performed with Slatkin, Haitink, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Rozhdestvensky, Mackerras, Norrington and Mehta, and her numerous recordings include Samson with Christophers, The Dream of Gerontius with Handley, Mozart's Requiem with Mackerras, Peter Grimes with Colin Davis and Graham Johnson's Complete Schubert Edition.
Elizabeth gained international recognition at the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, winning the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize. Her creativity has recently been recognised with her appointment as an Artist in Residence at London's Southbank Centre. Her operatic work has included: Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro for Santa Fe Opera and Welsh National Opera, Flora The Knot Garden for Music Theatre Wales and the Royal Opera House, Papagena Die Zauberflöte, Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro, and Mandane in Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes at the Linbury Studio Royal Opera House, described variously as "dazzling... vividly drawn" (Sunday Times), "the pick of the bunch... thrilling" (Times) and "terrific" (Evening Standard).
Catherine made her début at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in The Midsummer Marriage. She has also worked with the Scottish Opera, the Welsh National Opera, Opera North, the Semper Oper, Dresden, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Netherlands Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and at the Salzburg Festival. She is a regular guest of the English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and with the Bavarian State Opera. Most recently, she has sung Erda and Waltraute Goetterdammerung under Mehta in both Valencia and Florence, and performed in the staged performances of Messiah for ENO and in Die Schweigsame Frau for the Bavarian State Opera.
A former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Elizabeth is much in demand as a recitalist and concert singer. Her most recent appearance at the Wigmore was hailed as "a sensation" (The Guardian). At the 2010 BBC Proms she performed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Early Opera Company conducted by Christian Curnyn. Further afield, Elizabeth has performed at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Hardanger Festival in Norway, at the Bad Kissinger Summer Festival, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Tonhalle, Zürich and with the Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española in Madrid and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.
Future engagements include Das Rheingold in Munich, Eugene Onegin for ENO and Peter Grimes for the Houston Grand Opera, the Royal Opera and in her début for La Scala, Milan.
In the 10/11 season, her roles include Pamina Die Zauberflöte for Welsh National Opera and Marzelline Fidelio for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She will also sing in recital and concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. 175th
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With a voice described by International Record Review as "one of the most beautiful Britain has produced in a generation", Elizabeth Watts has established herself as "one of the brightest new talents" (The Independent). Her début recording of Schubert Lieder for SONY Red Seal was Gramophone magazine's 'Editor's Choice', She has now signed to Harmonia Mundi and a disc of Bach cantatas and arias with Harry Bicket and The English Concert is due for release in early 2011.
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Henry Waddington studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has sung regularly with the Glyndebourne Festival (most recently as Christus/Bach St Matthew Passion), Glyndebourne on Tour, Royal Opera House, La Credit: Gerald Place Monnaie in Brussels, Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Garsington and Grange Park Operas. His repertoire includes the title role of Falstaff, Banquo Macbeth, Colline La bohème, Don Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tutor Le comte Ory, Geronimo The Secret Marriage, Publio La clemenza di Tito, Plutone Orfeo, Valens Theodora, Soljony Three Sisters (Eotvos), Leporello Don Giovanni, Don Magnifico Cenerentola, Don Fernando Fidelio, Don Alfonso Così fan tutte, Pallante Agrippina, Frère Laurent Roméo et Juliette and Quince and Bottom A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Mark Le Brocq studied at Cambridge, The Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio. Concert engagements include La Resurrezione, Saul, Solomon and The Fairy Queen (Gabrieli Consort), Mozart Requiem (BBC Proms), Verdi Requiem (Barbican), Beethoven Mass in C and Choral Fantasia (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Schubert Mass in E Flat (BBC Symphony Orchestra), Strauss The Donkey's Shadow (UK première - Covent Garden Festival), Oebalus Apollo et Hyancinthus (Opera Theatre Company), Agenore Il Re Pastore (Classical Opera Company), Goldschmidt Mediterranean Songs (BBC Symphony Orchestra), Handel Dixit Dominus (BBC Proms), B Minor Mass (Israel Camerata), The Dream of Gerontius (Dunblane Cathedral), Berlioz Grande Messe de Morts (St Paul's Cathedral), St Matthew Passion (English Chamber Orchestra), Mozart C Minor Mass (Scottish Chamber Orchestra), Carmina Burana (RLPO) and Messiah (Collegium Instrumentale Brugense).
Concert repertoire includes the Mozart Mass in C for the Salzburg Festival with Ivor Bolton, Brander La damnation de Faust for the Philharmonia with Charles Dutoit, Puccini Messe di Gloria for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at St David's Hall, Cardiff, and a tour of Handel's Solomon with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and René Jacobs including concerts in London, Paris and New York. He has performed Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis, Haydn Sieben Letzten worten at the Edinburgh International Festival, as well as a concert and recording of Getty's Plump Jack at St John's Smith Square. He made his Wigmore Hall début in January 2007 singing Haydn arias with the Classical Opera Company.
He has recorded Ruiz Il Trovatore, Pang Turandot and Remendado Carmen (Chandos), Samson, Saul and Judas Maccabäus (Maulbronn Festival live recordings), Purcell Hail Bright Cecilia (Gabrieli Consort/DG) and Handel Utrecht Te Deum and Boyce I Was Glad (Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/Hyperion). He appears in the videos of Ariodante and The Fairy Queen for RM Arts. Engagements in 2010/2011 include Gamekeeper/Huntsman Rusalka, Weinberg's The Portrait and Shapkin House of the Dead for Opera North, Messiah in Maulbronn and at the Barbican Centre and Carmina Burana at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Recent and future engagements include Farasmane Radamisto and Jupiter Castor and Pollux for English National Opera, Lt. Ratcliffe Billy Budd for Netherlands Opera, Kothner Die Meistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Dr Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro for Welsh National Opera.
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orchestrations of his hits, and being invited by harpist and singer Joanna Newsom to join her UK tour launching her critically acclaimed album Ys.
Northern Sinfonia, orchestra of The Sage Gateshead, has built a distinctive reputation as a fresh thinking, versatile orchestra, performing repertoire spanning three centuries and regularly commissioned new work.
CDs recorded by Northern Sinfonia at The Sage Gateshead include Sibelius' Symphonies 3 & 6 and Stravinsky's Violin Concerto - "Thomas Zehetmair brings the work alive marvelously - four stars”; Brahms and Schumann - BBC Music magazine's Disc of the Month, “Zehetmair's daring success”; and Mozart Piano Concertos with Imogen Cooper - five star reviews in Classic FM magazine and The Sunday Telegraph.
“The Sage Gateshead has become one of the world's most admired centres for music and Northern Sinfonia has raised its game to match.” Richard Morrison, The Times The orchestra's work includes concerts, broadcasts, recordings, national and international touring with its Music Director Thomas Zehetmair, Principal Conductors Simon Halsey, John Wilson and Mario Venzago and guest artists.
For more information visit www.thesagegateshead.org Photo credit: Mark Savage
Northern Sinfonia regularly appears at leading venues throughout the world and appears at major festivals including a residency at the Hong Kong Festival in 2009. Northern Sinfonia musicians are part of The Sage Gateshead's wide ranging Learning & Participation programme, which offers opportunities for everyone to make music of all kinds, whatever their age or ability. Projects away from the classical mainstream include working with the Pet Shop Boys at a shipyard in North East England, a concert with Sting performing brand new
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CHRISTMAS HYMN A CHRISTMAS PRESENT Few of those who join on Christmas Day singing ‘Christians, awake, salute the happy morn’, have any idea that the Christian Church owes this magnificent hymn to the pretty fancy of a young girl. Dolly Byrom and her father lived in Manchester, more than two and a half centuries ago, John Byrom being a teacher of shorthand, and also a Jacobite leader. One day, shortly before Christmas, Byrom asked his daughter what she would like for a Christmas present, and Dolly, knowing that her father sometimes wrote poetry, replied ‘Please write me a poem’. When she came down on Christmas morning she found on her plate a piece of paper - still preserved in the Library of Cheetham’s Hospital, Manchester - on which was written a hymn, headed ‘Christmas Day, For Dolly’. Soon after, John Wainwright, the organist of Manchester Parish Church, now its cathedral, saw this hymn, and composed for it the tune ‘Yorkshire’, which we all know so well. On the following Christmas morning Byrom and his daughter were awakened by the sound of singing below their windows; it was Wainwright with his choir, singing Dolly’s hymn:
Then to the watchful shepherds it was told, Who heard the angelic herald’s voice: ‘Behold I bring good tidings of a Saviour’s birth To you and all the nations upon earth; This day hath God fulfilled His promised word, This day is born a Saviour, Christ the Lord’. (Repeat)
Christians, awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born; Rise to adore the mystery of love, Which hosts of angels chanted from above; With them the joyful tidings first begun Of God incarnate and the Virgin’s Son. (Repeat)
Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born. J. BYROM - 1692-1763 J. WAINWRIGHT - 1723-68 The tune ‘Yorkshire’ was originally called ‘Stockport’. Wainwright’s son Robert (1748-82) wrote the hymn tune ‘Manchester’. His other son Richard (1758-1825) wrote the hymn tune ‘Liverpool’. Both the sons were organists at Manchester Cathedral. Recent research by The Society’s Archivist, Malcolm Hinchliffe, has shown that The Society is still singing the original version of the tune and harmonies written by John Wainwright. The first reported occasion on which the Christmas Hymn was sung at a Messiah performance given by The Society was in December 1849 when it was sung to conclude the concert! It was towards the end of the 19th century that the Christmas Hymn began to be sung regularly before Messiah performances at Christmas- time, 1897 being an exception. In that year the concert fell on December 17th, which, in those days, was considered too remote from Christmas! However, the idea did not originate in Huddersfield; it was reported as being sung by the Halifax Choral Society prior to a Messiah performance in 1842. 175th
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For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
The prophecy and realisation of God’s plan to redeem mankind by the Coming of the Messiah. SINFONY RECIT. (Tenor)
Comfort ye, my people, saith your God; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardon’d. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made low, the crooked straight and the rough places plain.
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And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
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Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Yet once a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land, and I will shake all nations; and the desire of all nations shall come. The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: Behold He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.
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And lo! the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.
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And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people; for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
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But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? For He is like a refiner’s fire.
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And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying:
Behold! a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Emmanuel, ‘God with us.’
Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill towards men.
O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid, say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 175th
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All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying:
Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.
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He trusted in God that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him.
He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
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Thy rebuke hath broken His heart; He is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him.
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Come unto Him, all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and He will give you rest and take His yoke upon you, and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
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Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow.
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His yoke is easy and His burthen is light.
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He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgressions of Thy people was He stricken.
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But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.
The accomplishment of redemption by the sacrifice of Jesus, mankind’s rejection of the offer, and mankind’s utter defeat.
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Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, strong and mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.
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Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He gave His back to the smiters and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; He hid not His face from shame and spitting.
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Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men; Yea, even for thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them.
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Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows! He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him.
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The Lord gave the word, great was the company of the preachers.
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Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Behold! I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
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Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsels together against the Lord, and His Anointed.
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The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us.
Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallow’d up in victory.
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He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision.
O death, where is thy sting! O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
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Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
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But thanks be to God, Who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah!
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A hymn of thanksgiving for the final overthrow of death.
If God be for us, who can be against us? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth, Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, Yea, rather, that is risen again, Who is at the right hand of God, Who makes intercession for us.
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I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first-fruits of them that sleep.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honour, glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.
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Since by man came death. By man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die. Even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
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Joseph Cullen’s choral direction has recently brought glowing critical acclaim and a further Grammy award in 2010 for his work with the London Symphony Chorus.
FRIDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2011 CHORAL CONDUCTING
Age range 17+, currently involved or interested in choral conducting
His trilogy of CDs conducting the Huddersfield Choral Society is now complete with the issue of The Crucifixion (John Stainer) on the Signum label. He has established choral conducting scholarships with both the London Symphony Chorus and the Huddersfield Choral Society and has twice been invited to give masterclasses at the Orkney conductors’ course in the St Magnus Festival and at the Royal Academy of Music. He has coached many distinguished singers and nurtures the next generation with his small professional ensemble, London Chamber Voices.
Led by Joseph Cullen The University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH. Times 14.00-16.00 Cost FREE. Hands-on masterclass with Joseph Cullen, working with the University Chamber Choir and Daniel Gordon (Huddersfield Choral Society Rehearsal Accompanist). Repertoire will include Britten Rejoice in the Lamb. Places for participants limited to 8. Audience members welcome. Bookings by email to: workshops@huddersfieldchoral.com, phone 01484 646 441 Please include a brief CV with your booking.
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Led by Joseph Cullen
FRIDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2011
SATURDAY 5TH MARCH 2011 STAINER THE CRUCIFIXION
SING UP FOR THE BOYS!
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Led by Thom Meredith
WEDNESDAY 23RD MARCH 2011 CHORAL EXPLOSION!
Led by Sue Hollingworth These workshops aim to inspire young people to sing by showcasing local excellence and promote high quality singing in Kirklees.
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The Handel House Museum - Brook Street - London The Handel House Museum at 25 Brook Street was home to the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759. The only composer museum in London, this landmark address is where Handel composed some of the greatest music in history, including Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks. The Museum celebrates Handel's life and works, displaying portraits of Handel and his contemporaries in finely restored Georgian interiors and bringing live music back to his house. There are frequent music rehearsals, weekly concerts and special musical events in addition to regular displays and exhibitions that bring Handel's world to life.
SPONSORSHIP
The Huddersfield Choral Society’s success over recent years has been greatly assisted by the support of our Sponsors and their valued contribution to The Society’s wellbeing. We are fortunate indeed in having a number of faithful Sponsors of many years standing and we are very pleased when new Sponsors are able to join us. Opportunities do exist for further support and a share in the life of The Choral.
The Society is extremely grateful for the support from the following organisations over this season: • UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD • Principal Partner • SYNGENTA • SS COMPONENTS LTD • • HUDDERSFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL • • THE GREENBANK GROUP UK • • INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED •
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MESSIAH: £8.00
AND THE GLORY
A History in Commemoration of the 175th anniversary of Huddersfield Choral Society THE CRUCIFIXION: £12.00
THE HYMNS ALBUM: £12.00
The book is on sale in the Area Entrance tonight of can be obtained from:
OTHER RECORDINGS AVAILABLE:
David Lockwood Telephone 01484 666827 E-mail: David.lockwood@huddersfieldchoral.com
• A Christmas Fantasy • A Christmas Celebration • • Belshazzar’s Feast • The Carols Album •
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Future Concerts Saturday 8 January 2011 Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon MESSIAH - Handel Joint concert with Stratford-Upon-Avon Choral Society Conductor Joseph Cullen
Good Friday 22 April 2011 Barbican, London MESSIAH - Handel Conductor Joseph Cullen Saturday 18 June 2011 175th Anniversary Celebration Concert Huddersfield Town Hall THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS - Elgar Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Saturday 5 March 2011 Huddersfield Town Hall THE CRUCIFIXION - Stainer Conductor Joseph Cullen
Saturday 1 October 2011 Liverpool Anglican Cathedral SYMPHONY No 8 - Mahler Conductor Vasily Petrenko
Friday 1 April 2011 Subscribers' Concert Huddersfield Town Hall MESSAGES - Jonathan Harvey SYMPHONY OF PSALMS - Stravinsky MASS IN E MINOR - Bruckner Conductor Martyn Brabbins
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CELEBRATING 175 YEARS
These items are on sale in the Area Entrance tonight of can be obtained from: David Lockwood Telephone 01484 666827 E-mail: David.lockwood@huddersfieldchoral.com
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Huddersfield Choral Society Conductor Laureate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARTYN BRABBINS
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Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSEPH CULLEN Deputy Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DARIUS BATTIWALLA
‘The Friends of the Huddersfield Choral Society’ was established in 1995 and provides a link with The Society, support of The Society’s activities and benefits for its members.
Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DANIEL GORDON Deputy Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MALCOLM HINCHLIFFE Agent: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PATRICK GARVEY (Tel 01904 621222)
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• Priority booking for Public Concerts at the Town Hall (limited in the case of Public Messiah tickets).
Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JENNY LOCKWOOD General Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIM COWELL Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADRIAN LEE Choir Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID BURGESS Subscribers’ Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE HALE Sponsorship Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . .TONY BOOTH Programme Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID LOCKWOOD Recruitment Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . GAYNOR HALIDAY Publicity Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH WICKHAM Joint Librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HOWARD SANDFORD Joint Librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSAN SANDFORD
• Subscriber Friends who are unable to attend the ballot given priority in the subsequent allocation of tickets. • Priority on returned tickets for subscription concerts. • Regular Newsletters covering the life of The Society. • Prize Draws.
Associates Members’ Secretary . . . . . JEAN PARKER Archivist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MALCOLM HINCHLIFFE Chairman 175 Committee . . . . . . . JENNY LOCKWOOD
• Discounted recordings of the Huddersfield Choral Society.
Members’ Representatives Janet Booth David Croft Hilary McLean Barrie Mortimer Jane Sargent Vicki Scurrah Mark A Taylor Sue Turnbull
The cost of membership of The Friends is £18 joint membership, £12 single membership. Further details and an application form can be obtained from:
Subscribers’ Representatives Helen Marshall Cynthia Pratt
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Honorary Life Members Mr. R. Barraclough DL Mr. H. Clough Mr. D. Hartley Mr. J. D. Haywood DL Mr. K. Rothery Mr. G. Slater
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In a small London house on Brook Street, a servant sighs with resignation as he arranges a tray full of food he assumes will not be eaten. For more than a week, he has faithfully continued to wait on his employer, an eccentric composer, who spends hour after hour isolated in his own room. Morning, noon, and evening the servant delivers appealing meals to the composer and returns later to find the bowls and platters largely untouched.
The startled composer, tears streaming down his face, turns to his servant and cries out, “I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself.� George Frederic Handel had just finished writing a movement that would take its place in history as the Hallelujah Chorus.
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Once again, he steels himself to go through the same routine, muttering under his breath about how oddly temperamental musicians can be. As he swings open the door to the composer’s room, the servant stops in his tracks.