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St Albans Folk Festival
Old Town Hall Folk Day (admission free)
Saturday 21st June, 10.00am – 6.00pm
Showcases in Old Court Room, singarounds in
cells, Taster workshops in the Assembly Room.
Informal music sessions in the White Swan,
Dagnall Street, 12noon – 5.00pm
Day of Dance, 10.15am – 5.00pm
Displays outside Arena / Café Nes, 10.15 – 11.00am
Dancing in Christopher Place, by the Clock
Tower and outside the Abbey West front.
Festival Concert, Old Town Hall, 7.30pm
Jim Moray, Haddo, Emma Scarr, New Roots
2014 finalists Speldosa
St Michael’s Street Folk evening
Wednesday 2nd July, 8.00pm
Dancing in the street / music in the pubs
Folk on the Common
Sunday 15th June, 2.00 – 5.00pm
Isla St Clair and local performers
Redbourn Common, outside the cricket pavilion
Tel:
01727 852111 / 01727 833028
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stalbansfolkfestival.co.uk
Festival concert ticket prices:
£14.00, £8.00 (students)
Tourist Information Office
01727 864511
www.allaboutstalbans.com
or on the door
The Tony Wigram Festival
of Music
St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane, AL1 4DF
Saturday 7th June, 7.30pm: An Evening
of Music and Wine with the Piatti Quartet
The Piatti Quartet returns to enchant your ears
and tickle your taste buds, pairing each work
with a delightful wine and delicious cheese.
A novel and relaxed way to enjoy the most
beautiful chamber works ever written.
Programme includes Beethoven, Dvořák
and Schumann.
Sunday 8th June, 6.00pm: The Tony Wigram
Foundation Concert
Vivaldi:
Gloria
Tchaikovsky:
Serenade for Strings
Haydn: Little Organ Mass
Conductor:
Robert Hodge
Soprano:
Louise Hemmings
Soprano:
Alexandra McPhee
Mezzo Soprano: Hannah Beynon
A programme of popular works bringing together
the Tony Wigram Foundation Orchestra & Choir.
Tel:
07789 008 160
Email: [email protected]
About St Albans Summer Music
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t Albans Summer Music is a collection of six
St Albans-based musical organisations, presenting
concerts and dance events over one month in Summer.
These organisations have been part of the St Albans
cultural and artistic milieu for many years, and have
put on events attended by thousands of people.
St Albans Summer Music participants include:
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Carillon Chamber Choir
Hertfordshire Philharmonia
St Albans Chamber Choir)
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
The St Albans Folk Festival
The Tony Wigram Festival of Music
Within this leaflet you will find details of the concerts
being put on by each of the six participants.
More information can be found on the St Albans
Summer Music website:
www.stalbanssummermusic.org.uk
More information on events in St Albans can be
found at:
www.enjoystalbans.com
www.allaboutstalbans.com
Ticket prices:
7th June: £18.00, £12.00 Student, £5.00 Child
8th June: £10.00, £5.00 Student, £2.00 Child
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A series of classical concerts,
folk music and dance events
in St Albans
7th June - 5th July 2014
Carillon Chamber Choir
Hertfordshire Philharmonia
St Albans Chamber Choir
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
Shakespeare and the Sea
St Peter’s Church, St Peters Street,
St Albans AL1 3HG
Saturday 21st June, 7.30pm
Festival Concert
St Saviours Church, Sandpit Lane, AL1 4DF
Saturday 14th June, 7.30pm
Go Brazilian!
St Peter’s Church, St Peters Street, AL1 3HG
Saturday 5th July, 7.30pm
Festival Concert
St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane AL1 4DF
Saturday 28th June, 7.30pm
Conductor:
Piano:
Reader:
Deborah Miles-Johnson
Leanne Singh-Levett
Oscar Blend
Music and readings on a nautical
theme, including:
Frank Martin:
Songs of Ariel
Eric Whitacre:
Seal Lullaby
Percy Grainger:
Shallow Brown
Bob Chilcott:
Speed Bonny Boat
Ralph Vaughan Williams:Three Shakespeare
Songs
Many part-songs have been written about
the sea and ships, and here is a representative
selection. The Martin and RVW pieces employ
words by Shakespeare – the others are
mostly traditional.
Geoff Ward – Press and Publicity Officer
Tel:
01582 763774
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.carillonchamberchoir.org
Ticket prices:
£14.00
£12.00 (students & pensioners)
Rossini:
Dvořák:
Mahler:
Barber of Seville Overture
Cello Concerto
Symphony No.1 in D
Conductor: Patrick Bailey
Cello: Michael Wigram
Rossini’s lively overture sets the scene for two
landmark works in the history of music. Dvořák’s
Cello Concerto, written in America in1895–6 and
played tonight by local cellist Michael Wigram,
is a poignant and emotional masterwork for the
cello, in which the composer commemorates his
recently deceased sister-in-law.
Composed just seven years earlier, Mahler’s
first symphony, often referred to as Titan, was
premiered in Budapest in 1889 and established
Mahler as a major composer of symphonic works
in the central European tradition.
Tel:
01727 857827
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.hertsphil.org.uk
Other: Tourist Information Office, Market Place
Ticket prices:
Adult £14.00 on the door / £12.00 one week
in advance
Student £4.00
Accompanied Child (under 16): £1.00
Join us on the beach for this light-hearted
programme with a Brazilian twist – a mix of
music from South America both old and new,
songs to take you straight to sandy shores,
and sultry tangos for saxophone and piano.
Villa-Lobos:
Piazzola:
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9
The Girl from Ipanema
The Bare Necessities
Best of the Beach Boys
Tangos
Conductor: John Gibbons
Saxophone: David Wigram
Piano:
Susie Arbeid
Tel:
07570 454 744
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stalbanschamberchoir.org.uk
Ticket prices:
£13.00
£1.00 child / student
Beethoven:
Rachmaninov:
Janáček:
Symphony No.8
Piano Concerto No.3
Taras Bulba
Conductor:
Piano:
Bjorn Bantock
Alissa Firsova
The Eighth Symphony is full of joviality, good
humour and lightness of texture and mood
despite the fact that at the time Beethoven was
immersed in emotional turmoil emanating from
a family feud. He referred to the symphony,
affectionately, as “the little one”.
Rachmaninov left his native Russia in 1917 after
training at the Conservatories of Moscow and
St. Petersburg. He toured the world extensively
as pianist and made his mark as composer with
very skilfully written works. His third Piano
Concerto, based around melodic ideas of great
beauty and simplicity, yet notorious for its
technical demands, is regarded by many as the
epitome of the piano concerto.
Tel:
01727 857422
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.saso.org.uk
Ticket prices:
£14.00 Nave
£10.00 Aisle
£1.00 18s & under
£5.00 student