The Thomas Tallis Trail, 1–3 November 2019

CELEBRATING MUSIC AND PLACE

Join The Tallis Scholars on a choral pilgrimage from Waltham Abbey to Dover Priory, Canterbury Cathedral to Hampton Court Palace, with five 1–3 NOVEMBER 2019 concerts in places Thomas Tallis lived and worked.

Martin Randall Festivals

It is hard to articulate the joy of our festivals. People absolutely love them. Amazing musicians playing wonderful music; glorious historic halls, many of which are not normally accessible; a curated sequence of concerts each of which enlarges upon the previous ones; logistics taken care of with apparent ease. The whole is far more than the sum of its parts.

Attending a festival is not like ordinary concert going. Anxieties about practicalities – where to eat, where to park, will we miss the last train home? – all fall away. Receptivity to the music and the place is enhanced by daily talks and by the bubble of untroubled leisure in which the festival takes place. And the MRT staff are incredible at looking after everyone.

These are not my words: they are paraphrases of feedback we have received from the thousands who have enjoyed the festivals since they began 25 years ago.

Here’s some more. The best achievement of the festivals is that everything is highly organised without looking like it. And – this one is from the director of a major concert hall – that you go to bed at the end of the day thinking that you have just seen something absolutely extraordinary.

THE J.S. BACH JOURNEY 13–19 MAY 2019 WEST COUNTRY CHORAL FESTIVAL 7–11 JULY 2019 MUSIC ALONG THE DANUBE 31 AUGUST–7 SEPTEMBER 2019 SACRED MUSIC IN SANTIAGO 26 OR 28 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 2019 THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL 1–3 NOVEMBER 2019 OPERA IN SOUTHERN SICILY 5–11 NOVEMBER 2019 CHAMBER MUSIC SHORT BREAKS Rising Stars, 25–27 January 2019 The Nash Ensemble, 1–3 March 2019 The Heath Quartet, 5–7 April 2019 Fitzwilliam String Quartet, 14–16 May 2019 Please contact us for more information.

Martin Randall Chief Executive

Background illustration: Canterbury Cathedral, wood engraving c. 1880.

Inset photo of Martin ©Emmie Scott.

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Contents

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INTRODUCTION TO THE FESTIVAL

Discover the story of The Thomas Tallis Trail.

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THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

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PRACTICALITIES & POST-FESTIVAL

Guidance on fitness, our festival style, and post-festival tours.

Explore the itinerary, including details of the concerts and venues.

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MEET THE MUSICIANS

The Tallis Scholars: leading interpreters of Renaissance polyphony.

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ACCOMMODATION & PRICES

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BOOKING

The booking form, details of the booking process, and our booking conditions.

Choose from two hotels in the centre of Canterbury.

This brochure was produced in-house. Text compiled by Eleanor Buck and Martin Randall, with contributions from Charlotte Crow and Lizzie Watson. Designer: Jo Murray (template by Silver Leopard, London).

Printed: 16 November 2018.

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Introduction

THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL AN INTRODUCTION

We are delighted to launch the second edition of The Thomas Tallis Trail, a unique touring mini-festival which celebrates the music of Thomas Tallis in all five of the places where he is known to have worked.

As with the first outing in 2013, there is just one ensemble, and it could not be a more appropriate one: The Tallis Scholars (TTS). Founded 45 years ago by a juvenile Peter Phillips, TTS is widely regarded as the world’s finest interpreter of Renaissance polyphony.

Nearly half the music is by Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–1585), one of the greatest English composers of all time, and one of the finest composers of polyphony in Europe. None surpasses him for variety; a long life helped, but so did his skill at negotiating the treacherous eddies of religious belief and liturgy that swirled around him during the English Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

Not only his livelihood but also his very survival depended on adapting his creative genius to please both Catholic and Protestant patrons. Simply to have served four disparate monarchs for 40 years is a remarkable achievement.

Other Tudor composers we hear are Taverner, Byrd, Sheppard and Gibbons. Italy is represented by Giovanni Croce and Gregorio Allegri (his Miserere), while Arvo Pärt, John Rutter, Nico Muhly and Matthew Martin provide stunning contemporary pieces, some written specially for TTS.

‘ My first love is choral, and I was thrilled to hear The Tallis Scholars.’

Participant on an MRT Festival in 2018.

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Introduction

The festival begins in the City of London at the church of St-Maryat-Hill and continues to the great Romanesque church of Waltham Abbey in Essex. The next day is spent in Kent, with concerts at Dover Priory and Canterbury Cathedral. On the third day we decamp to Middlesex for the final concert at Hampton Court Palace. As far as possible, music has been chosen to suit Tallis’s association with these buildings.

With the unmatched eventplanning skills of Martin Randall Festivals, and TTS’s near-halfcentury of devotion to Tallis’s compositions, this promises be an exceptionally enthralling, intense and moving three days.

The Thomas Tallis Trail is available as a package which includes not only all five concerts but also two nights’ accommodation, travel by coach, two dinners and a light lunch, tickets to Canterbury Cathedral and Hampton Court Palace for independent visits, a talk by a musicologist, and opportunities to meet Peter Phillips and the singers. There is a choice between two hotels in the historic heart of Canterbury, the 4-star Abode and the Lodge, the cathedral’s conference centre.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Five concerts with The Tallis Scholars, the leading specialists in Renaissance choral music.

Performances in the places where Thomas Tallis (1505–85) worked, most being spectacular churches.

Four concerts are exclusive to The Tallis Trail, one is a collaboration with the Canterbury Festival.

Polyphony mainly by Tallis and his 16th-century peers with some modern works.

Talk by Professor Owen Rees of The Queen’s College, Oxford.

Prices include two nights in Canterbury with breakfasts, some refreshments, dinners and a light lunch, and travel by comfortable coach.

Photograph: The Tallis Scholars ©Nick Rutter.

Admission to both Canterbury Cathedral and Hampton Court, for independent visits, is also included.

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The musicians

MEET THE MUSICIANS

THE TALLIS SCHOLARS The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concerts they have established themselves as the world’s leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music.

Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serves the repertoire from the late 15th to the early 17th centuries.

PETER PHILLIPS Highlights in the 2018/19 season include performances at the Salzburg Festival, Bremen and Utrecht Festivals, a special concert at Miller Theatre, New York, where they will give the world première of a new Nico Muhly piece, and tours of Japan and Brazil, in addition to their usual touring schedule around the USA, Europe and the UK.

In spring 2015 The Tallis Scholars released a disc of music by Arvo Pärt called Tintinnabuli which has received great praise across the They have performed in sacred board. The latest recording of and secular venues on six Josquin masses, Missa Gaudeamus continents and give around and Missa L’ami Baudichon, was 70 concerts each year. Gimell Records was set up in 1980 solely released in November 2018. This is the seventh of nine albums in to record the group, and their The Tallis Scholars’ project to recordings have attracted many record all of Josquin’s masses awards throughout the world. before the composer’s 500th Anniversary in 2021.

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Founder of The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips won an organ scholarship to St John’s College Oxford in 1972.

He has dedicated himself to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony, appearing in over 2,200 concerts and making over 60 discs. As a result of his work, Renaissance music has come to be accepted as part of the mainstream classical repertoire.

For 33 years he contributed a regular music column to The Spectator and is owner and publisher of The Musical Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in the world. In spring 2018 BBC Radio 3 broadcasted Phillips’ view of Renaissance polyphony, in a series of six hour-long programmes.

The Programme

THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Day 1 Friday 1 November

A sandwich lunch follows the concert. Then retrieve your More about the concerts luggage and board a coach for Waltham Abbey in Essex, an hour Seats. Except in Canterbury to the north.

Cathedral, specific seats are not reserved. You sit were Concert, 3.15pm you want. If we reach full Waltham Abbey, Essex capacity, a very few seats in Concert, 11.15am Hampton Court Chapel may have Tallis Loquebantur variis St-Mary-at-Hill, City of London restricted sightlines. linguis; Tallis Quod chorus vatum; Tallis Miserere; Croce Tallis ‘Dorian’ Magnif icat and Exclusive access. Again, except Miserere; Allegri Miserere; Martin at Canterbury Cathedral, the Nunc dimittis; Tallis Absterge, Ave Virgo Sanctissima; Rutter domine; Tallis Derelinquat impius; concerts are private. The other Hymn to the Creator of Light; Tallis Miserere; Tallis Honor virtus four are planned and administered Byrd Tribue domine. et potestas; Tallis Audivi vocem;

by Martin Randall Festivals Tallis If ye love me; Sheppard exclusively for an audience Thomas Tallis was a singer and Lord’s Prayer; Tallis Te Deum consisting of those who have possibly an organist at Waltham ‘for meanes’. taken the full festival package.

Abbey from 1538 until its The capacity is around a hundred. dissolution in 1540 (it was the Within the walls of St-Marylast monastery to be dissolved at-Hill is masonry of the church Duration. Four of the concerts Thomas Tallis would have known, under Henry VIII). It had been are about an hour long and one of the largest abbeys in the but after the Fire of London of have no interval. The concert at country but most of the buildings Canterbury Cathedral is about 1666 it was rebuilt under the were soon demolished – except supervision of Sir Christopher two hours, with an interval. for the splendid Norman nave, Wren. Subsequent alterations which became the parish church. have not seriously altered its character, and it remains one Drive from Waltham Abbey of the most satisfying church to Canterbury (the journey interiors in the City.

Photograph opposite: should be under two hours), Peter Phillips conducting where both nights are spent.

Tallis appears on the payroll in The Tallis Scholars ©Bill Knight.

Dinner is in the hotels.

1537 and 1538, presumably as organist and singer.

The festival begins with a concert at St-Mary-at-Hill in the City of London at 11.15am.

Before this, refreshments are served at two nearby hotels – where luggage can be stored until the afternoon.

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The Programme

THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Day 2 Saturday 2 November

Coaches take you the half hour from Canterbury to Dover.

Concert, 11.15am Dover College, Refectory Tallis Mass for Four Voices; Martin The Silver Swan; Gibbons The Silver Swan; Tallis Miserere; Byrd Miserere; Byrd Tribulationes civitatum; Tallis Ave rosa sine spinis.

Built in the 1130s, the refectory of Dover Priory is one of the most impressive nonecclesiastical buildings of the period. The monastic precinct having become a school, Dover College, in 1868, the refectory is once more a dining hall – one with excellent acoustics.

Thomas Tallis was organist at Dover Priory 1530 –31, his first recorded appointment.

Return to Canterbury after the concert for a free afternoon.

There is plenty to see, not least the cathedral, one of the great medieval buildings of Europe. Admission is included in the festival package.

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There is a talk at 5.30pm at the cathedral conference centre

by Professor Owen Rees, Director of Music at The Queen’s College, Oxford.

This is followed by the first part of dinner at the Cathedral Lodge; the main course and dessert are served after the concert.

Concert, 7.30pm Canterbury Cathedral Tallis Loquebantur; Tallis Lamentations I; Muhly Recordare; Pärt Triodion; Taverner Quemadmodum; Sheppard Jesu salvator seculi; Tallis Jesu salvator seculi; Tallis Miserere; Tallis O salutaris hostia; Tallis In manus tuas; Taverner O splendor gloriae.

We have organised the evening concert in association with the Canterbury Festival, and the audience fills the nave. Abode residents have the highest category of seat, Lodge residents the next best category. Interval drinks for Tallis Trail participants only are provided at the Cathedral Lodge.

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Having been founded by St Augustine in ad 597, Canterbury Cathedral has claims to be the oldest organisation in the English-speaking world. It was rebuilt shortly after the Norman Conquest. The eastern parts were rebuilt and extended a century later – the first major construction in England in the Gothic style.

This extension followed the murder of Thomas Becket in the cathedral in 1170, which led to Canterbury becoming one of Europe’s major pilgrimage destinations. The nave was refurbished in Perpendicular Gothic garb at the end of the 14th century. (There is likely to be scaffolding in the nave.)

Thomas Tallis probably came to Canterbury Cathedral in 1540 after leaving Waltham Abbey; he is recorded in the next two years as a lay clerk here.

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‘ Another wonderfully rich experience of both music and buildings.’

Participant on The Thomas Tallis Trail in 2013.

Day 3 Sunday 3 November

Drive from Canterbury to Hampton Court (about 2 hours). Here there are 2½ hours to visit the palace (tickets provided) and have lunch (cafeteria in the grounds or restaurants in the village).

Coaches drive towards central London immediately after the concert. City-centre locations could be reached around 4.30pm.

Rebuilt by Cardinal Wolsey from 1514, confiscated in 1528

by Henry VIII who further enlarged it, Hampton Court is the largest and most sumptuous of surviving Tudor palaces. Soon after William and Mary came to their joint throne in 1689, Sir Christopher Wren added a grand Baroque residence. Iconic architecture, formal gardens, lavish interiors, fine paintings and tapestries – this is one of the great historic sites in Britain.

Speaker: Professor Owen Rees is a fellow and tutor in music at The Queen’s College, Oxford, director of the college chapel choir and of the ensemble Contrapunctus. He specialises in the music of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries and has published studies on the Spanish composers Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and Tomás Luís de Victoria.

Concert, 1.45pm Hampton Court, Chapel Royal

The chapel is part Henry VIII – the amazingly elaborate ceiling – and part Queen Anne, the furnishings being designed by Wren and Hawksmoor in 1710.

Gibbons ‘Short’ service Magnif icat and Nunc Dimittis; Tallis Jam Christus astra; Tallis Miserere; Muhly Marrow; Pärt Virgencita; Tallis Missa Puer natus; Byrd Ye sacred muses.

Tallis served as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal from, probably, 1543 until his death in 1585, serving four monarchs – Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I.

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Illustration: Hampton Court, Ann Boleyn’s Gateway, watercolour by E.W. Haslehust, publ. c. 1910.

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Accommodation & Prices

ACCOMMODATION & PRICES

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL LODGE Choose from two places to stay in Canterbury during the festival.

Photographs: This page: standard room at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge.

Opposite: bedrooms at the Abode, top–bottom: ‘Comfortable’, ‘Desirable’, ‘Enviable’.

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Located inside the cathedral walls, the Lodge began life in 1998 as a study centre and has since been converted into conference facilities. A huddle of many-sided buildings around a courtyard, its interior is contemporary and functional.

The hotel is decorated and furnished simply, but comfortably. Rooms vary in size, and all have showers (none have baths, with the exception of one room in the Lodge’s ‘value’ accommodation, see below). Service is very friendly and helpful. There is a cosy, communal library.

Coaches do not fit through the cathedral precinct’s medieval gates and so have to stop outside, entailing a c. 8–10 minute walk. canterburycathedrallodge.org PRICES – per person

There are a small number of rooms in the Lodge’s ‘value’ accommodation – these rooms are only accessible via two flights of stairs, and do not have views of the cathedral. All other rooms do have cathedral views, and are accessible by lift.

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Two sharing Value double/twin: £1,070 Standard double/twin: £1,230 Single occupancy Value double: Single (single bed): Standard double:

£1,150 £1,320 £1,360

Accommodation & Prices

THE ABODE CANTERBURY

THE FESTIVAL PACKAGE

Part of a chain of luxury hotels, the Abode is a 4-star located on the pedestrianised High Street, about five minutes on foot from the cathedral and opposite The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge. Furnishings and décor are contemporary in style, yet there are also charming period interiors. Parts of the fabric date to the 12th century.

Prices include:

Service is professional and friendly. The hotel’s restaurant has been awarded three AA rosettes. There is a lift to all floors. All rooms have baths with the exception of two with showers in the Comfortable double for single occupancy category. abodecanterbury.co.uk

— A dmission to all five concerts — A ccommodation for two nights in Canterbury — B reakfasts, refreshments on the first day, one light lunch and two dinners with wine — L ecture by Professor Owen Rees — I nterval drinks for the concert in Canterbury Cathedral PRICES – per person

— T ickets for admission to Canterbury Cathedral and Hampton Court Palace

Two sharing Desirable double/twin: £1,420 Enviable double (twin beds not possible): £1,530

— Travel by comfortable private coach

Single occupancy Comfortable double: Desirable double:

— A programme booklet, and the assistance of festival staff £1,480 £1,570

Illustration: Dover Priory, etching

by Sonia Bignall.

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Practicalities & combining options

PRACTICALITIES & OPTIONS FOR COMBINING

Fitness for the festival

Our festival style

Some walking is unavoidable.

In places, coaches park up to half a mile from the venue.

Participants need to be able to walk unaided for at least 20 minutes and to stand for 15.

Participation on our festivals is a very different experience from conventional group travel: no repetitive or redundant announcements, no herding by elevated umbrella, no unnecessary roll calls, little If you are staying at Canterbury hanging around. We work on the Cathedral Lodge, you will have to assumption that you are adults, walk c. 8–10 minutes from where and our staff cultivate the virtue the coach drops off, with your of unobtrusiveness. luggage. If you are staying in the ‘value’ rooms at the Lodge, there We provide sufficient information are two flights of stairs to climb to enable you to navigate the to get to your room. festival events without needing to be led. However, festival staff are also stationed around the events to direct you if needed, and are on hand throughout the day.

Each participant is given a programme booklet which contains comprehensive practical information, details of each concert and information about the places visited.

Photograph: participants on an MRT Festival in 2018 ©Bill Knight.

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Post-festival options: OPERA IN SOUTHERN SICILY 5–11 NOVEMBER 2019 (mf 876) Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com Five operas and five historic theatres in beautiful Baroque cities. Please let us know if you would like us to arrange accommodation at the Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel between the two festivals – a simple 4-star hotel located near Kings Cross railway station (ambassadors.co.uk).

JAPANESE ART IN LONDON 4 NOVEMBER 2019 (lf 874) Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com A London Day – visit the V&A and the British Museum to view their Japanese art collections.

Led by Japanese art specialist Dr Monika Hinkel.

Booking form

THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL 1–3 NOVEMBER 2019 NAME(S) – We do not use titles on documents issued to festival and tour participants unless you want us to by including them here: Participant 1: Participant 2: Contact details for all correspondence: Address

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ACCOMMODATION & ROOM-TYPE – see pages 10 –11. Please tick: CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL LODGE Two sharing:

THE ABODE CANTERBURY Two sharing:

Value double

Desirable double

Value twin

Desirable twin

Standard double

Enviable double (twin beds not possible)

Standard twin Single occupancy: Value double for sole use Single room (single bed) Standard double for sole use

Single occupancy: Comfortable double for sole use Desirable double for sole use

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1. C hair stands. Sit in a dining chair, with arms folded and hands on opposite shoulders. Stand up and sit down at least eight times in 30 seconds.

2. S tep test. Mark a wall at a height that is halfway between your knee and your hip bone. Raise each knee in turn to the mark at least 60 times in two minutes.

3. A gility test. Place an object three yards from the edge of a chair, sit, and record the time it takes to stand up, walk to the object and sit back down. You should be able to do this in under seven seconds.

An additional indication of the f itness required, though we are not asking you to measure this, is that you should be able to walk unaided at a pace of three miles per hour for at least 20 minutes at a time, and to stand for at least 15 minutes.

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3. Our confirmation Upon receipt of the booking form and deposit we shall send you confirmation of your booking. After this your deposit is non-returnable except in the special circumstances mentioned in the Booking Conditions. Further details about the festival may also be sent at this stage, or will follow shortly afterwards.

minimum, medical treatment in the UK and repatriation; please also ensure that your insurance covers the cost of your international travel in the rare event of Martin Randall Travel cancelling the festival. We advise additionally that all participants (including UK residents) have holiday insurance in place that covers loss of property and loss of payments to us in the event that you cancel your booking. Experience indicates that free travel insurance offered by some credit card companies is not to be relied upon.

always be more than eight weeks before departure). We would refund you with everything you had paid us.

Booking Conditions Please read these. You need to sign your assent to these booking conditions on the booking form.

Our promises to you: —W e aim to be fair, reasonable and sympathetic in all our dealings with clients, and to act always with integrity.

—W e will meet all our legal and regulatory responsibilities, usually going far beyond the minimum obligations.

—W e aim to provide full and accurate information about our holidays. If there are changes, we will tell you promptly.

— I f something does go wrong, we try to put it right. Our overriding aim is to ensure that every client is satisfied with our services.

What we ask of you. That you read the information we send to you.

Specific terms: Our contract with you. From the time we receive your signed booking form and initial payment, a contract exists between you and Martin Randall Travel Ltd. Eligibility. You must be in good health and have a level of fitness that would not impair other participants’ enjoyment by slowing them down or by absorbing disproportionate attention from festival staff. Please read ‘Fitness for the festival’ (p.12) and take the self-assessment tests described on the booking form; by signing the booking form you are stating that you have passed these tests. If during the festival it transpires, in the judgement of our staff, that you are not able to cope, you may be asked to opt out of certain visits or to leave altogether. This would be at your own expense. We reserve the right to refuse to accept a booking without necessarily giving a reason.

Insurance. It is a requirement of booking that overseas residents have adequate holiday insurance cover to cover, at

Passports and visas. Overseas residents’ passports must be valid for at least six months beyond the date of the festival.

Visas are not required for the UK for EU citizens, or for citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

Nationals of other countries should ascertain whether visas are required in their case, and obtain them if they are.

If you cancel. If you have to cancel your booking after confirmation, there would be a charge which varies according to the period of notice you give. Up to 57 days before departure the deposit would be forfeited. Thereafter a percentage of the total cost of your booking will be due: up to 57 days: deposit only between 56 and 29 days: 40% between 28 and 15 days: 60% between 14 days and 3 days: 80% within 48 hours: 100% If you cancel your booking in a double or twin room but are travelling with a companion who chooses to continue to participate, the companion would have to pay the single-occupancy price.

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Health and safety. With rare exceptions, all the hotels we use have undergone a safety audit, by our staff or by independent consultants on our behalf.

The limits of our liabilities. As principal, we accept responsibility for all ingredients of a festival, except those in which the principle of force majeure prevails. Our obligations and responsibilities are also limited where international conventions apply in respect of air, sea or rail carriers, including the Warsaw Convention and its various updates.

If we make changes. Circumstances might arise which prevent us from operating a tour or festival exactly as advertised.

We would try to devise a satisfactory alternative, but if the change represents a significant loss to the tour or festival we would offer compensation. If you decide to cancel because the alternative we offer is not in your view an adequate substitute, we would give a full refund.

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THE J.S. BACH JOURNEY 13–19 MAY 2019

MARTIN RANDALL TRAVEL

WEST COUNTRY CHORAL FESTIVAL 7–11 JULY 2019 MUSIC ALONG THE DANUBE 31 AUGUST–7 SEPTEMBER 2019 SACRED MUSIC IN SANTIAGO 26 OR 28 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 2019 THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL 1–3 NOVEMBER 2019 OPERA IN SOUTHERN SICILY 5–11 NOVEMBER 2019 CHAMBER MUSIC SHORT BREAKS Rising Stars, 25–27 January 2019 The Nash Ensemble, 1–3 March 2019 The Heath Quartet, 5–7 April 2019 Fitzwilliam String Quartet, 14–16 May 2019 Please contact us for more information.

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