Stanford Festival Weekend 2021
We are excited to announce the programme for the 2021 Stanford Society Festival Weekend in Gloucester which can be seen below!
This weekend was postponed from last year and although restrictions are now easing, please note that this may still be subject to some change dependent on Covid-19 restrictions in the future etc.
Please get in touch if you would like to know more about the events during the weekend.
| Friday 1 October | |
| 17.30 – 18.30 | Evensong (Gloucester Cathedral) – Please note there is no Stanford music in this service |
| Saturday 2 October | |
| Symposium | (Gloucester Cathedral) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome – John Covell – Stanford Society Chairman |
| 10:10 – 11:10 | Stanford, Parry and The Three Choirs Festival – Jeremy Dibble |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Stanford, Contemporaries and Pupils – A Chamber Recital by Colleen Ferguson and Jeremy Dibble (to include music by Stanford, Howells, Elgar and Coleridge Taylor) |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Sandwich Lunch |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Ivor Gurney – Ian Venables |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Song Recital – James Gilchrist and Adrian Partington (to include music by Stanford, Gurney and Howells) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | The Howells-Stanford Relationship Reconsidered – Jonathan Clinch |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Evensong (Gloucester Cathedral) to include Stanford in B flat & Beati Quorum Via |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Organ Recital – Adrian Partington (Gloucester Cathedral) to include music by Bach, Smyth, Howells and Stanford including Sonata No.4 ‘Celtica’ |
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Reception, Dinner and after dinner talk on “Parry’s Creative Process” by Jeremy Dibble (“The Fountain”) |
| Sunday 3 October | |
| 10:15 – 12:00 | Eucharist (Gloucester Cathedral) to include Stanford in B flat & Justorum Animae |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Evensong (Gloucester Cathedral) to include Stanford in A, For Lo I Raise Up & Psalm 150 |
The pricing for the weekend is as follows:
Saturday Symposium – £40 per person for the day.
Saturday evening Gala Dinner – £30 per person.
Please purchase your tickets for the weekend below or alternatively, contact the society with your ticket preferences – our Honorary Secretary will be in touch shortly after to confirm your order.
You can add multiple tickets to your basket below (e.g. for couples etc).
Members of other composer societies can take advantage of a special reduced subscription to the Stanford Society of £10 from January – December 2022. If you would like to take advantage of this offer, please select the appropriate option in the below drop-down menu and add it to your cart!
