Join us to mark the 20th anniversary of

a virtual concert on 3 December 2020, at 7.30pm Performance venue: London Coliseum, home of English National Opera

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Welcome from Mick Clarke, CEO of The Passage 4

Tonight’s auction 5

Tonight’s programme 7

Tonight’s performers Rory Bremner 8 Petroc Trelawnay 8 Toby Purser 9 Shlomy Dobrinsky 9 William Morgan 10 Nadine Benjamin 10 Huw Montague Rendall 11 Gary Matthewman 11 Michael Morpurgo 12 Sue Lawley 12 Dame Ann Murray 13 The London Philharmonic Choir 13 The Orion Orchestra 14

About The Passage 16

Acknowledgements 18 Message from the Committee 18

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3 Welcome, from Mick Clarke, CEO of The Passage

Thank you for watching our virtual concert this evening

2020 is the 40th anniversary of The Passage and, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been a year when The Passage has been needed more than ever. The pandemic has been frightening for us all, but for those who found themselves on the streets, with nowhere to keep safe or isolate if they needed to, it was particularly frightening.

Thanks to your support, in addition to providing its existing services The Passage was able to help hundreds of homeless people off the streets, keep them safe and help them to move on to permanent accommodation. While we all have a glimmer of hope with news of possible vaccines on the way, Covid-19 is still a real threat, particularly as winter approaches. The Passage will, however, be there for those who need it the most; I am so very proud of our wonderful staff and volunteers who have given their all, and will continue to do so, to ensure that there is a route off the streets and into safety.

We all wanted to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Night Under The Stars at the Royal Festival Hall; it was not to be, but instead we are thrilled to be holding this virtual event! None of this would have been possible without the help of so many people: my heartfelt thanks go to Rory and Petroc for hosting tonight’s event; to our wonderful Conductor and Musical Director, Toby Purser; to all the artists and performers who have made this Night Under The Stars concert truly memorable; and to our readers, Sue Lawley, Dame Ann Murray and Michael Morpurgo.

A special thank you goes to Gill Rivers and the Night Under The Stars committee: Nicola Davidson, Adrianne LeMan, Alexandra Milligan, Toby Purser, Kyle ap Simon and Diana Whittington, who have all volunteered their time to make tonight possible, and to my team at The Passage – Thenuka Mahendra, Emma Noble, Emily Richmond and Rachel Verralls. Without them there would not be a concert.

Despite the challenges that 2020 has presented to us all, The Passage is very fortunate to be able to count on the generosity and support of its sponsors. We are hugely grateful to our partners at 3i, Associated British Foods, eQuire, Pennington Manches Cooper Foundation, and Qube Research and Technologies. Thank you also to everyone who has generously donated a prize for our online auction.

In addition, thanks are due to David, Josh, Aaron and Hannah, for filming; to Sound Engineer, Tim Scrase; and our fantastic production partner, Sparq; without whom this concert would not have been possible – I cannot imagine how we would be able to take the risk of holding such an event without their help. Thanks also to the London Coliseum, Home of English National Opera, for hosting us – on behalf of everyone at The Passage, I thank them for their support.

Most of all my thanks go to you for joining us tonight and supporting our work. We will ensure that every penny raised tonight goes to our vital work on the frontline; your support really does make the world of difference.

Please enjoy our concert and have a peaceful, restful and healthy Christmas, and a 2021 full of hope.

Keep safe.

Mick Clarke, Chief Executive

4 Night Under The Stars online auction

To help raise the vital funds we will need this winter, The Passage is holding an online auction. We would love you to take part.

We are offering a spectacular variety of lots How to bid and donate

A conducting lesson with Toby Purser, the Artistic 1 Go to https://givergy.uk/thepassage/ Director of Night Under The Stars and Head of Conducting at the Royal College of Music. 2 Use the top left menu to view Silent Auction Items, access My Bids or Make a Donation Copies of the brand new Golden Summers book and the Wisden Almanack 2021, both signed by the editors, and 3 To bid, select an item, enter the amount of your bid two tickets to Day 3 of England v India at the Oval in and click Place Bid. Use the Max Bid function and the 2012, with hampers. system will bid for you up to the amount entered.

Three-course Dinner for Two at Michelin Star winning 4 Register your details and then Confirm Your Bid. restaurant, Theo Randall at the Intercontinental. Receive outbid notifications and bid again! If you are A day at the historic Queen’s Club, where you can play watching the event, keep an eye on the leaderboard on one of the finest tennis courts in the world. screens to check if you’re still the winning bidder!

The first-ever bottles of Wisden Limited Edition Rye, If you have any questions, please refer to the FAQs Vodka and Gin, a Wisden Ale Gift Pack and a complete section, or email [email protected] set of the collectable Wisden beer mats (60 in total).

Lunch with Lionel Barber, former editor of the FT. If you are unable to take part in the auction, you can support our work by making a donation. A polo experience at Carlitos’ White Waltham Polo Club. Of every £1 we spend, 93p goes direct to our frontline A round of golf at the luxury Beaverbrook Golf Club. work.

Afternoon tea for two at The Corinithia London. £12 could provide three meals, including snacks, for a newly homeless person for one day. Michael Foreman: St Ives lighthouse Watercolour, 23cms x 18cms £20 could pay for a qualified case worker to provide a newly homeless person with much-needed advice and Festive Hamper from the Fine Cheese Company support.

Lunch and wine at Chucs Italian Restaurant £35 could help pay for one homeless person to access all our services for the day in our Resource Centre. Dinner and a bottle of wine at Theo Randall at The Intercontinental £60 could pay for two homeless clients to receive mobile phones so that they can stay in touch with The Passage Jill Leman: Anemones and receive regular support as they rebuild their lives. Acrylic on card, 20cms square £100 could help to pay for one week’s training for a Philharmonia Box Set CD and livestream concert frontline worker so that they can provide holistic support to newly homeless people in the coming weeks. The slide at the ArcelorMittal Orbit

Personal training with Devan Dippenaar

Will Boyd: Trio Signed and dedicated to the winning bidder

Experience Days: open-ended voucher

Hawk Walk at Willows Bird of Prey Centre

Bill Mitchell: Time to Breathe Signed

Business Book of the Year Award

Bijoux Vintage: starry pendant

Fortnum’s Brut Reserve Champagne 75cl

5 QUBE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES

is proud to be sponsoring The Passage’s Tonight’s programme

Handel Messiah Sinfonia; Comfort Ye; Ev’ry Valley William Morgan, tenor

Rory Bremner – welcome to Night Under The Stars from The Passage’s Resource Centre

Petroc Trelawny introduces Rachmaninoff Bogoroditse Dyevo from The Vespers London Philharmonic Choir and London Youth Choirs

Rory Bremner in conversation with Michael DeGale, Activities and Follow-up Worker at The Passage

Petroc Trelawny introduces Beethoven Romance No 2 in F, for violin and orchestra Shlomy Dobrinsky, violin

Rory Bremner in conversation with Claudette Dawkins, Head Chef at The Passage

Sue Lawley reading Unto Us A Boy Is Born, by Antonia Byatt

Rory Bremner in conversation with Gladys Okwuosa, Group and Engagement Worker at The Passage, and Janet Sugden, Irish Persons’ Co-ordinator at The Passage

Petroc Trelawny introduces Dame Ann Murray reading That first without her Christmas Day, by Lennie James

Opera arias Mozart Canzonetta: Deh, vieni alla finestra from Don Giovanni Puccini O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi Gounod Avant de quitter ces lieux from Faust Nadine Benjamin, soprano; Huw Montague Rendall, baritone; Gary Matthewman, piano

Rory Bremner in conversation with Milita Raymond, Rough Sleepers Service Manager at The Passage

Mick Clarke, CEO of The Passage

Adam O Holy Night Nadine Benjamin, soprano; Gary Matthewman, piano

Michael Morpurgo reading The Hopes and Fears of all the Years by Michael Morpurgo

Petroc Trelawny Christmas Finale

Thank you for your support Rory Bremner

7 Tonight’s performers

Rory Bremner, presenter Petroc Trelawny, presenter

Rory is widely regarded as Britain’s top satirical impressionist Petroc Trelawny is one of the best-known voices on BBC Radio (“a one-man opposition party”, Daily Telegraph). He has Three – where he presents the daily Breakfast programme. provided definitive impersonations of PMs and Presidents, from Major to Mandela, and from Bush to Trump. He’s also been This summer saw his twenty-first consecutive season presenter, writer, quiz-show host, actor, translator and even introducing BBC Proms on radio and television. He presents (briefly) ballroom dancer. Strictly( , 2011). He returned to prime- the live BBC broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s time TV in September 2018 as team captain in the ITV series, Day Concert, and in June 2019 hosted BBC Television’s Cardiff The Imitation Game. Singer of the World for the eleventh time. He has presented the international telecast of Eurovision Young Musician to more than Born in Edinburgh in 1961, Rory was educated at Wellington two dozen countries, from Edinburgh, and hosted Eurovision College and King’s College London, where he gained a BA Choir live from Gothenburg. in French, German, and imitating lecturers. By the time he graduated in 1984, he was already performing on the London Petroc has introduced TV profiles of arts figures, including Dame stand-up circuit, and at his native Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Fanny Waterman, Julian Bream and Yehudi Menuhin. He has presented performances by the Royal Ballet, shown in cinemas In a 30-year-plus TV career, he’s won numerous awards, around the world, and last September anchored note-by-note including three BAFTAs for his long-running Channel 4 satire coverage of the Leeds Piano Competition for Medici.tv. In 2015 series, Bremner, Bird & Fortune. He’s also written, and starred he hosted the first-everBBC Proms Australia, a week of concerts in, satirical specials covering four elections, the Iraq War, the and recitals in Melbourne broadcast live on ABC Radio; he has financial crisis of 2008, the Scottish Referendum, and the also twice hosted BBC Proms Dubai at the new Dubai Opera Coalition Government. He retraced his family history for Who Do House. You Think You Are, and travelled all over Britain for the ITV series Rory Bremner’s Great British Views (2012). A proud Cornishman, Petroc’s early career includes broadcasting in Hong Kong for the British Forces Broadcasting Service, being He’s appeared on many other comedy shows, including Whose part of the launch team for Classic FM and London News Radio, Line is it Anyway, Spitting Image, Have I Got News for You, and presenting Breakfast on BBC Radio Manchester, and working Mock the Week (he was team captain for two series), as well as a presenter for RTE in Ireland. He is President of the Lennox as in his own shows, Tonight and Bremner’s One Question Quiz. Berkeley Society, Luton Music and the Three Spires Singers and He’s also written diaries and columns for the FT, New Statesman, a trustee of BZAM – a charity that supports the work of the and Daily Telegraph. In 2013 he made his acting debut alongside Zimbabwe Academy of Music in Bulawayo. Patricia Hodge and Caroline Quentin in Noel Coward’s Relative Values, directed by Trevor Nunn. (Theatre Royal Bath and In addition to concerts and opera, he loves travel, food and wine, subsequently West End.) Always in great demand as one of the cinema, books and theatre. country’s top hosts and after-dinner speakers, Rory followed a sell-out run in Edinburgh in 2016 with a national tour (Partly Political) in 2017.

In his spare time (as if) Rory translates operas and plays from French and German. He loves sport, travel and cooking and is a Patron of wildlife charity Tusk, and the ADHD Foundation – he was diagnosed with the condition in 2016 and has recently completed a BBC Horizon Documentary, ADHD and Me.

Rory is married to the sculptor, Tessa Campbell Fraser, and has two daughters, Ava and Lila.

8 Tonight’s performers

Toby Purser, conductor Shlomy Dobrinsky, violin

Newly appointed as Head of Conducting at London’s Royal Praised by Strad magazine as a “poised and calmly confident College of Music, Toby Purser’s conducting is recognised for player”, Shlomy Dobrinsky is a London-based concert violinist its combination of passion and intellect, poetry and drama. In and recording artist. 2019, his operatic collaborations were nominated for an Olivier Award (Best New Opera Production – Britten The Turn of the Shlomy has won various prizes at international violin Screw, with ENO/Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and an competitions, including the Lipizier in Italy, the Unisa in Pretoria International Opera Award (Best Rediscovered Work – Stanford and the Philharmonia/MMSF Concerto Award, which granted The Travelling Companion, with New Sussex Opera). This year him an invitation to debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra. also sees the launch of his new orchestral ensemble Sinfonia 1. As a chamber musician, Shlomy has performed at the most During lockdown he formed “Conductors in Isolation”, an online prestigious concert halls, including The Wigmore Hall and South discussion forum which now has more than 1,200 members Bank Centre, London. worldwide, and last weekend he conducted the world première of A Feast in the Time of Plague for Grange Park Opera. Achieving a Masters degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after his undergraduate degree at The Royal College As Musical Director of New Sussex Opera, Toby Purser conducts of Music, Shlomy went on to perform with some of the world’s the recently released CD from the 2018 production of Stanford’s finest orchestras. including the Philharmonia Orchestra and The Travelling Companion, now available on Somm Céleste. Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He is founding Musical Director of the Vienna Opera Festival and Academy, launched in Summer 2019, and for whom he As an orchestra player, Shlomy was a member of the conducted Don Giovanni this Summer. His music-making has Philharmonia Orchestra for 11 years and now mainly works with prompted guest invitations from English National Opera (where The London Symphony Orchestra. he completed two seasons as ENO Mackerras Conducting Fellow), Bampton Classical Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Grange Currently an Associate Leader of Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Park Opera, Opera della Luna, and Pimlico Opera, as well as Shlomy also enjoys co-leading The Royal Scottish National the Royal Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the English Orchestras, and regular concerts for the London and Manchester Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. Festival Orchestras. Shlomy also enjoys teaching and has given masterclasses, Since 2019, Toby Purser has been Principal Guest Conductor of including at the Koster Festival, Sweden, and at Chipping the Orion Orchestra, which he founded in 2005 and developed Campden Academy, UK. into one of London’s great orchestral successes, now recognised as a leading organisation for young musicians. Together they initiated the Alpha & Omega concert series, a Composers’ Prize, a Young Conductors’ Award and a Great Young Soloists series, as well as touring with them to Singapore as part of the Shaw Foundation’s “Ones to Watch” Series. He was also awarded a prize by The Peace & You Movement in recognition of his cultural initiatives between the UK and Middle East, and for his work as Artistic Director of the Peace and Prosperity Trust.

Toby Purser studied conducting under George Hurst, Ilya Musin, and Colin Metters, as well as in masterclasses, including with Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Martyn Brabbins, Janos Furst, Ken Kiesler, John Nelson, Jorma Panula, and Mark Wigglesworth.

9 Tonight’s performers

William Morgan, tenor Nadine Benjamin, soprano

William Morgan trained at the National Opera Studio and the British lyric soprano Nadine Benjamin is a charismatic and Royal College of Music. He is currently a Harewood Artist at versatile artist who is in increasing demand on both the English National Opera. Recent operatic engagements include operatic stage and the concert platform. In the UK, Nadine Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress for Gothenburg Symphony has performed with Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park, Orchestra, Tamino in The Magic Flute for Scottish Opera and Birmingham Opera Company, English Touring Opera and Iford Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni for Longborough Festival. He was Arts, amongst others. She was an ENO Harewood Artist from in final rehearsals as Flute inA Midsummer Night’s Dream, at 2018 to 2020 and has sung Clara (Porgy and Bess), Musetta Scottish Opera, when the pandemic caused the closure of all (La bohème) and Laura (Luisa Miller) with the Company. Nadine theatres in March 2020. made her Royal Opera House debut in October 2020 in the première of New Dark Age, directed by Katie Mitchell. With ENO he has performed Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Priest in Birtwistle’s Nadine has an extensive concert repertoire, notably Strauss’s epic The Mask of Orpheus, Hot Biscuit Slim in Paul Bunyan, Four Last Songs, Berg’s Seven Early Songs, Barber’s Knoxville: Phaeton in Jonathan Dove’s The Day After, and Younger Man Summer of 1915, and the soprano solos in the Verdi Requiem, in Tansy Davies’ Between Worlds, at the Barbican. He made his Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Handel’s Messiah. She made her debut BBC Proms debut in 2019 singing Vaughan Williams’s Serenade at the BBC Proms in 2019 and gives annual free lunchtime to Music, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. recitals at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden – her next recital there, on 21 December 2020, will be streamed online. During 2020 William has performed live broadcasts from the Oxford Lieder Festival with the pianist Anna Tilbrook, and Nadine’s debut solo CD, Love & Prayer, was released in 2018. from Cubitt Sessions Digital, the free live music festival based Other recordings include The Boatswain’s Mate by Ethel Smyth at King’s Cross. He has recorded work for ENO as part of their and Emergence, a selection of songs set to the poems of Emily Breathe project, in collaboration with Imperial College NHS Dickinson. Trust, to help those recovering from the effects of Covid (search ENO Breathe for information). Nadine is a mentor, certified High Performance Coach and Mind Coach, and founded her opera and mentorship programme www.williammorgan.co.uk “Everybody Can!” in 2015 to provide a platform to encourage and support others in both recognising and achieving their own visions. An Ambassador for London Music Masters, Nadine was “highly commended” at the 2016 Aviva “Women of the Future Awards” and was invited to Buckingham Palace, and to 10 Downing Street, in recognition of her work as a mentor and singer.

10 Tonight’s performers ALECSANDRA DRAGOI ALECSANDRA

Huw Montague Rendall, baritone Gary Matthewman, pianist

One of the most exciting British singers in recent years, baritone Gary Matthewman is one of the UK’s leading song pianists, Huw Montague Rendall has already appeared on some of the performing worldwide, and is fast gaining a reputation as an most important stages, such as the Salzburg Festival, Zurich emerging conducting talent. Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Komische Oper Berlin and Glyndebourne Festival. Still in his 20s, his feature engagements As a pianist, Gary is a regular artist at Wigmore Hall in include leading roles at the Royal Opera House, Lyric Opera of London, and his international appearances include recitals at Chicago, Opera National de Paris and Bayerische Staatsoper. Carnegie Hall, New York; Musikverein, Vienna; Philharmonie, Paris; Rudolfinum, Prague; Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; and in This season Montague Rendall embarks on a series of exciting Washington DC, Singapore, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Sydney. debuts, including the title role of Pelleas in Pelléas et Mélisande at Opéra de Rouen Normandie; a company debut with He has partnered many of our leading singers, including Dame Bayerische Staatsoper as the Harlequin in Ariadne Auf Naxos; Kiri Te Kanawa, Sumi Jo, Ailyn Pérez, Louise Alder, Joyce and Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte in his return to Glyndebourne, DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Mark Padmore, Sir Thomas Allen, where he made his operatic debut in 2016. In addition, he joins Roderick Williams, Adam Plachetka and Matthew Rose. March Albrecht and Filarmonica della Scala for a performance of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen on the stage of Teatro alla Scala In 2019, Gary was appointed Artistic Director and Principal Milan. Conductor of London’s Orion Orchestra. Other recent and future conducting engagements include, Britten’s War Requiem His 2019/20 highlights included his first Conte Almaviva in (Chamber Orchestra) with soloists Mark Padmore and Roderick Le nozze di Figaro, at Opéra National de Lorraine, and Ned Williams, at The Sage, Gateshead; and an opera gala of Mozart, Keene in Peter Grimes at the Enescu Festival. On the concert Bellini and Verdi arias/ensembles for London’s Chelsea Opera platform he returned to the Salzburg Festival to perform in the Group, at Cadogan Hall. Assistant conductor positions in opera Mozart Matinee series with Raphaël Pichon. He was also invited include Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Wagner’s as Marcello in La bohème at Komische Oper and as Tsarevich Das Rheingold, for Graham Vick’s Birmingham Opera Company Afron in a new production of The Golden Cockerel at Festival with the CBSO; Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, for Glyndebourne on d’Aix-en- Provence. Tour; Puccini’s La Bohème, for Cape Town Opera; and Britten’s Turn of the Screw, for La Monnaie, Brussels. Further engagements include Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, He is professor of vocal repertoire at London’s Royal College of Schaunard in La bohème at Opernhaus Zürich, Marcello in Barrie Music, and recital repertoire coach for the Jette Parker Young Kosky’s new production of La bohème at Komische Oper, and Artists Programme at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Prince of Mantua in Fantasio at Garsington Opera.

11 Tonight’s performers

Michael Morpurgo, reader Sue Lawley, reader

Michael Morpurgo began writing stories in the early 1970s, in Sue Lawley is a broadcaster and journalist, best known for her response to the children in his class at the primary school where 18 years at the helm of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. he taught in Kent. One of the UK’s best-loved authors and storytellers, Michael was appointed Children’s Laureate in 2003. She has presented news and current affairs shows on BBC television, from the early-evening programme Nationwide, He has written more than 130 books, including The Butterfly to the Nine and Six o’Clock News. She fronted budgets and Lion, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Why the Whales Come, The Mozart general elections as well as hosting Wogan and her own Question, Shadow, and War Horse, which was adapted for a Saturday evening chat show, Saturday Matters. She chaired hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and the BBC’s Reith Lectures for 17 years, until 2018, and regularly then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. writes travel articles for newspapers and magazines.

His book Private Peaceful has been adapted for the stage by Sue lives with her husband, Hugh Williams, a media executive, Simon Reade and made into a film directed by Pat O’Connor. in London. Running Wild, which was adapted for the stage by Samuel Adamson and premièred by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in 2015, won the UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People, and was later produced at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and on a UK tour.

Michael was awarded the OBE for his writing in 2006. His books have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew and Japanese. His latest books are Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver, which was published in paperback in October (Harper Collins), and The Puffin Keeper which was published in November (Puffin).

In 1976, Michael and his wife, Clare, founded the charity “Farms for City Children”. The charity runs three farms around the country, in Gloucestershire, Pembrokeshire and North Devon. Each farm offers children and teachers from urban primary schools the chance to live and work in the countryside for a week, and to gain hands-on experience.

michaelmorpurgo.com

12 Tonight’s performers SIAN TRENBERTH Dame Ann Murray, reader London Philharmonic Choir

Dame Ann Murray was born in Dublin. She has close links with Founded in 1947 as the chorus for the London Philharmonic both the English National Opera, for which she has sung the title Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely regarded roles in Handel’s Xerxes and Ariodante, and Donizetti’s Maria as one of Britain’s finest choirs. For the past seven decades the Stuarda, and with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where Choir has performed under leading conductors, to consistently her roles have included Cherubino, Dorabella, Donna Elvira, critical acclaim, and recorded regularly for television and radio. Rosina, Octavian, new productions of L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Ariadne auf Naxos, Idomeneo, Mitridate, Re di Ponto, Cosi fan The choir frequently joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tutte, Mosé in Egitto, Alcina and Giulio Cesare. for concerts in the UK and abroad. Recent highlights have included Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with Marin Alsop; Mahler’s Her international operatic engagements have taken her to Symphonies Numbers 2 & 8 and Tallis’s Spem in alium with Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Zurich, Vladimir Jurowski; Verdi’s Requiem with Edward Gardner; Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan, Vienna, Salzburg, the Chicago Lyric Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Choir’s President, Sir Mark Opera, Los Angeles Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, New Elder; and Elgar’s The Apostles with Martyn Brabbins. York. The Choir appears annually at the BBC Proms at the Royal In concert, she has appeared with the world’s great orchestras Albert Hall, and performances have included the UK premières and her recital appearances have taken her to Paris, Brussels, of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s A Relic of Memory and John Luther Amsterdam, Geneva, Dresden, Zurich, Frankfurt, Madrid, London Adams’s In The Name Of The Earth. The Choir has been engaged and Dublin; the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich and Salzburg by the BBC for all the Doctor Who Proms and, in recent years, Festivals; and both the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna. has given performances of works by Beethoven, Elgar, Howells, Her discography reflects not only her broad concert and recital Liszt, Orff, Vaughan Williams, Verdi and Walton. repertoire but also many of her great operatic roles. The choir has visited many European countries, has performed in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Australia, and has appeared twice at the Touquet International Music Masters Festival. The Choir prides itself on achieving first-class performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life.

Despite the restrictions of Covid-19, the Choir has offered its members online workshops and social activities, such as virtual wine tastings, well-being sessions and quizzes. Members have also taken part in a variety of virtual choir projects, including tonight’s performance of Rachmaninoff’sBogoroditse Devo in collaboration with our friends at the London Youth Choirs.

Patron HRH Princess Alexandra President Sir Mark Elder Artistic Director Neville Creed Accompanist Jonathan Beatty Chairman Tessa Bartley Choir Manager Bethea Hanson-Jones

Join us: lpc.org.uk facebook.com/LondonPhilharmonicChoir twitter.com/lpchoir youtube.com/lpchoir instagram.com/lpchoir

13 Tonight’s performers

The Orion Orchestra

Founded in 2004 by conductor Toby Purser, the Orion Orchestra Violin 1 is a firmly established presence on the UK’s music scene. Shlomy Dobrinsky Leader Alex Casson The orchestra exists to provide a platform for the best young Liza Tyun musicians in the country, and its performances are recognised Iona Allen for their vitality and rhythmic energy. Orion’s players are selected from the most talented students and recent graduates Violin 2 of the capital’s music colleges, giving them some of their first Charlotte Amherst experience working under professional conditions in central Demver Blancio London venues. They enjoy a close relationship with The Livio de Angelis Passage, having performed for Night Under The Stars every year since 2004. As orchestra in residence at the Aberystwyth Viola International MusicFest, the orchestra has nurtured emerging Rachel Spence conductors and composers, and it remains committed to the Lizzie Pape commissioning and performing of new music. Anastasia Sofina

In 2019 Orion welcomed its new artistic director and principal Cello conductor, Gary Matthewman, whose first performances with Kieran Carter the orchestra have included Mozart’s C minor piano concerto Daryl Giuliano K491, with Imogen Cooper as soloist; Handel’s Messiah, with the Choir of King’s College, London; Prokofiev’sPeter and the Wolf, Bass with broadcaster Zeb Soanes; and a specially commissioned Adam Churchyard World Première by Peter Longworth. Flute Full details and tickets for future Orion concerts are available at Oliver Roberts www.orionorchestra.org.uk Oboe Alec Harmon Patron HRH Princess Michael of Kent David Price President Lady Solti Vice President Peter Sheppard Clarinet Chief Executive Jan Cassidy Matthew Scott Artistic Director & Principal Conductor Gary Matthewman Will Knight Founder and Principal Guest Conductor Toby Purser Associate Conductor Sue Perkins Bassoon Assistant Conductors Dorian Todorov, JP Jennings Ashley Myall Orchestra Manager Denis Cassidy Hugh Woolley Development Karen Phillipps Secretary, Bursar & Treasurer Andrew Hollingsworth Horn Zac Hayward Trustees Stephanie Marshall (Chair), Jan Cassidy, Denis Caomie Galvin Cassidy, Margaret Pollock, Karen Phillipps, Toby Purser, Andrew Hollingsworth, David Wakefield Percussion Oli Butterworth

14 MAKING A DIFFERENCE

PENNINGTONS MANCHES COOPER FOUNDATION IS PLEASED TO SUPPORT THE PASSAGE AND ‘NIGHT UNDER THE STARS’. Penningtons Manches Cooper Foundation has a broad outlook but particularly focuses on the vulnerable in our society, including the homeless and victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, as well as education and training projects. We provide support through donations, volunteering and pro bono legal work.

Our involvement in this field has led to the formation of a number of partnerships with organisations undertaking vital work to support victims of exploitation, including The Passage. To find out more about the foundation’s activities, please email us at [email protected].

www.penningtonslaw.com/corporate-responsibility About The Passage

A momentous 40th anniversary year

In this, our 40th anniversary, we have been faced with one of our most challenging years yet. The Passage is often described as a lifeline for those who are street homeless and, during the Covid-19 pandemic, our services have never been more needed.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, our priority has been to keep rough sleepers safe. During the first lockdown, we supported hundreds of people into emergency accommodation; we provided more than 62,000 meals; Meals ready to deliver to clients in emergency accommodation. and secured sustainable housing in the private rented sector, together with employment opportunities for them In addition to this emergency work, and of course our thereafter. Even in the midst of the pandemic, we have found day services, which have remained open since July, our sustainable jobs for 50 people. accommodation projects have been working hard to provide 24/7 support to their residents. Our Passage House Assessment We moved a further 25 people off the street and into hotel Centre has seen a 78% positive move-on for clients leaving the accommodation when we entered the second national project and finding long-term accommodation, many of whom lockdown. Within the first week, four of these clients were have a complex history of rough sleeping. successfully supported to find employment and 11 have been found permanent accommodation. We continue to be It is thanks to the kindness and generosity of you – our committed to finding a positive outcome for everyone in this supporters – that despite the many restrictions our doors have group before Christmas. remained open, enabling us to offer our clients the services

Client story: Mitchel Ceney A project that Mitchel created for Night Under The Stars: the Christmas tree represents the roller coaster year that was 2020 and looks towards a more hopeful 2021.

Mitchel experienced abuse as a child and had a troubled home life, which led to him running away a number of times and spending the majority of his youth in hostels. In his teenage years he endured a long history of rough sleeping then, in his 20s after a severe mental health relapse at university, he ended up on the streets again. These were dangerous times for him: he was battling with PTSD and a personality disorder without any support. In 2019, after a long period of homelessness, mental ill-health, and drug and alcohol abuse, he was found in a bad way by the “No Second Night Out” Outreach Team in Westminster, which referred him to The Passage where he was housed at our Passage House accommodation project for four months.

At Passage House, our Activities and Follow Up Worker, Michael, encouraged Mitchel to revisit his artistic skills which had been neglected during his time on the streets. He was encouraged to take part in weekly art therapy sessions, was provided with the resources to work independently on his own projects and was linked in with “Accumulate”, an art school for homeless people. They were so impressed with his talent and commitment that they awarded him a Scholarship to study art at Ravensbourne University this year. Mitchel is I know what it’s like to have nothing so I’m not scared of that. now living independently in a house share, although he visits But getting back into art with the support of Passage House Passage House regularly to help with different activities, and ‘Accumulate’ has reminded me of the things that I do including Royal visits and Night Under The Stars! want to have, and I do want to make art and help people who were in the same situation I was. I want to get back to being “I’ve lived without anything. I lived in a tent on the streets. creative.” I’ve lived surviving on what you could steal or shoplift. Mitchel Ceney, 36, former Passage House resident

16 ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS IS PLEASED TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE PASSAGE AND IS A PROUD SPONSOR OF NIGHT UNDER THE STARS, MARKING ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR Acknowledgements

Hosts Contributors Rory Bremner Brunswick Group Petroc Trelawny Linklaters Victoria BID Performers Victoria and Westminster BID Huw Montague Rendall Nadine Benjamin Filming and recording William Morgan Filming: David Ford, Hannah Ford, Joshua Hine, Aaron Wahab, Shlomy Dobrinsky Sound Engineer: Tim Scrase

The Orion Orchestra Auction prize donors Toby Purser ArcelorMittal Gary Matthewman Graziano Arricale Lionel Barber The London Philharmonic Choir and Bijoux Vintage London London Youth Choirs William Boyd Carlitos White Waltham Polo Club Venue Corinthia London The London Coliseum: Devan Dippenaar Home of English National Opera Experience Days Financial Times Readers Fine Cheese Company Sue Lawley Michael Foreman Dame Ann Murray Philip Gawith Michael Morpurgo Intercontinental Park Lane Jill Leman Night Under The Stars Committee Bill Mitchell Nicola Davidson, Adrianne LeMan, Thenuka Mahendra, Philharmonia Orchestra Alexandra Milligan, Emma Noble, Toby Purser, Emily Richmond, Toby Purser Gillian Rivers, Kyle ap Simon, Rachel Verralls, Diana Whittington QPR and Swordfish Investments The Queen’s Club Production Partner Ian Sykes, Cricket Properties Limited Sparq Matt Thacker, Wisden Cricket Monthly Reg Valin Sponsors Willows Bird of Prey Centre 3i Associated British Foods The Passage staff eQuire Mick Clarke Pennington Manches Cooper Foundation Claudette Dawkins Qube Research and Technology Michael DeGale Gladys Okwuosa Milita Raymond Janet Sugden On behalf of the committee

This is the 20th year of Night Under The Stars – an event that we had planned to mark with a fabulous concert at the Royal We were all delighted to spring into action to make sure we Festival Hall. When it became apparent that would not be were ready – to confirm the performers, market the event, find possible, the volunteers who make up the committee, together auction prizes and get the programme designed and finalised. with the team at The Passage, agreed that we needed to salvage the concert – the charity’s major fundraising event – by moving It means so much to us that this event is going ahead. We all it online. Easy to say, but not quite so easy to do! passionately believe in the exemplary work The Passage does to help London’s homeless and are keen to support it by giving our Planning tonight’s concert has not been straightforward: it was time and experience. on, off, on, nearly off, and then on again. We had artists who had agreed to perform but, because venues that had generously, While tonight’s concert will be different it will still feature a and enthusiastically, been offered were prevented from doing wonderful array of British talent; we hope you will enjoy it. so because of Covid-19 restrictions, we were unable to confirm Please give generously – the funds raised will be going to the a date. We had given ourselves one more week to find a venue most worthwhile cause. before we decided that, although we had given it our best, it was simply not to be. Thank you Then, however, our wonderful Music Director, Toby Purser, confirmed that the Colosseum, home of the English National Opera, could let us record. This was the best news possible – it meant that in addition to the wonderful singers, who had so kindly agreed to perform for the charity, we would be able to include a small orchestra in the programme.

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A Taste of Home has been featured widely in the press in recent weeks, including in YOU Magazine, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Big Issue, OK! and Hello. Renowned food writer and regular contributor to The Spectator, Rose Prince, has given the book a glowing review – she writes: “Unexpectedly — charity cookbooks can be useless — this is a truly good collection of recipes, gorgeously photographed and a genuinely moving read that feels so right for our times. The message is: cook to enjoy — but care.”

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