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JOINT HOWELLS / STANFORD WEEKEND IN CAMBRIDGE      
 OCTOBER 15th and 16th    

Saturday 15th October

Venue & Time

Performers / Programme

Booking ?

Organ Recital 

St John’s College Chapel : 12.00 – 13.00

 

John Challenger (Organ Scholar): music by Howells & Stanford.

Rhapsody in C sharp minor (op. 17, no. 3)                        Howells

Intermezzo founded upon an Irish air     (op. 189)          Stanford

Dalby’s Fancy & Dalby’sToccata                                          Howells

Rhapsody in D flat (op.17, no. 1)                                         Howells

From : Six Short Preludes and Postludes(op.101)            Stanford

Allegretto; Allegro non troppo e pesante;  Andante maestoso;    Andante con moto  

Paean                                                                                        Howells

Booking not necessary; free with retiring collection

 

 

 

 

Talk by Paul Spicer

Master’s Lodge, St John’s College : 14.30- 15.15

Talk by Paul Spicer on Howells in relation to Stanford, and a discussion of Howells’ violin sonatas with special reference to Spicer’s new edition of the 2nd Sonata.

Booking needed. Free to members and their partners.

Recital by Rupert Luck & Matthew Rickard

Ditto : 15.15- 16.00

Violin Sonata No. 2 and No. 3 performed by Rupert Luck (violin) and Matthew Rickard (piano). This will be only the second performance of the new edition of No. 2.

Booking needed. Free to members and their partners.

 

 

 

 

Tea for members of both societies

Ditto : 16.00 – 16.30

Meet the Society’s Officers and Committee.

Booking needed. Free to members and their partners.

Howells Society AGM

Ditto : 16.30 – 16.55

Howells Society AGM

Only members may vote

 

 

 

 

Evensong in King’s College Chapel

King’s College : 17.30 – 18.25 [Meet at SW Chapel Door by 17.10 latest for pre-entry]

Choir of King’s College conducted by Stephen Cleobury. Howells : St Paul’s Mag & Nunc; Stanford : “Coronation Gloria”

Booking necessary if you want a reserved seat in the Choir.

Recital

King’s College Chapel : 18.30 – 19.30

HH “By the waters of Babylon” (David Adams, violin; Alice Neary, ‘cello; Mark Rowlinson, baritone; Stephen Cleobury, organ); Two of Stanford’s Biblical Songs (Mark Rowlinson; Stephen Cleobury); Ravel : Sonata for violin & ‘cello.

Booking not necessary. Members of both societies can remain in their Evensong seats.

Dinner

The Saltmarsh Rooms, King’s College. 19.40 – 22.00 approx

Pre-dinner drinks. Three course meal with wines and glass of port. After dinner talk by Prof. Jeremy Dibble. Cost per person £ 48   

Contact Stanford Society to see if space is available at cvstanfordsociety@msn.com

Sunday 16th October

 

 

 

Eucharist in King’s

King’s College Chapel 10.30 – 11.30  [Meet at SW Chapel Door by 10.10 latest for pre-entry]

Service to include a liturgical performance of Howells’ “An English Mass” with a section of CUMS Chorus and King’s Voices, CU Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Cleobury. Communion motet by Stanford.

Booking necessary if you want a reserved seat in the Choir.

 

 

 

 

Talk by Prof Jeremy Dibble

Queens’ College Chapel 14.30 – 15.15

A Talk by Stanford authority, Prof Jeremy Dibble of Durham University on Stanford and Howells, with particular reference to some of the music to be performed at the following recital

Booking needed. Free to members and their partners.

Recital by Queens’ College Chapel Choir

Queens’ College Chapel  15.15 – 16.00

A recital of less familiar repertoire of both composers. Programme to include : Stanford : To Chloris (1873), On Time (1914); Autumn (1908); Virtue (1923); The Bluebird (1910). Fantasia for organ (1894)

Howells: Even such is time (1913); The Scribe (1957); Sweetest of Sweets (1977); Scherzo & Epilogue from the Partita (1971)    conducted by Silas Wollston (Director of Music) and Alexander Berry (Senior Organ Scholar), with guest conductors Suzi Digby and Sir David Willcocks.

Booking needed. Free to members and their partners.

Reception

Queens’ College President’s Lodge : 16.15 – 17.30

Open to members of both Societies and their partners. Will be attended by some of the performers from the weekend

Booking essential, but no charge.

 

 

 

 

Evensong in Trinity

Trinity College Chapel : 18.15

Choral Evensong; music by Stanford.  cond. Stephen Layton.

Anthem – “Lighten our darkness”

Mag & Nunc – E flat (1873)

Hymn “Engelberg” (with new descant by Martin Neary)

Voluntary – Stanford  

Booking not necessary; free with retiring collection

Evensong in St John’s

St John’s College Chapel : 18.30

Choral Evensong ; music by Howells (Responses; Westminster Mag & Nunc, anthem “One thing have I desired of the Lord” ) St John’s College Choir, cond. Andrew Nethsingha 

Booking not necessary; free with retiring collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Neary / Andrew Millinger 20 July 2011

 

 

 

 

 

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