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Sunday 28 April RNCM Day of Song Celebrating Britten’s Legacy

/rncmvoice /rncmlive Box Office 0161 907 5555 www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofsong Welcome 10.30am RNCM Concert Hall A warm welcome to the annual RNCM Song Cycles Day of Song, an event which has become Music to include songs from: an important and much-anticipated date Fish in the Unruffled Lakes; in the College calendar. A Charm of Lullabies; Winter Words; Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; Who are these children? This year’s programme is dedicated to the music of Benjamin Britten in his centenary The Day of Song’s opening concert features year and includes performances of a selection of songs from Britten’s the full breadth of his vocal music, repertoire, performed in chronological order. including song cycles, folksong Tickets £6 arrangements, excerpts and choral music. 11.45am Carole Nash Recital Room Joining the RNCM Chamber and RNCM soloists for this unique occasion, Arrangements and Folksongs we are delighted to welcome the Henry Purcell (arr Britten) lf music be the food Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts who takes part of love; Why should men quarrel; I attempt from in excerpts from , and the love’s sickness; A morning hymn; Fairest Isle; RNCM International Chair in Singing, Let solemn discord smile; Sound the trumpet; Joan Rodgers, who performs Lost is my quiet; What can we poor women do?; The Poet’s Echo in the Day’s final concert. Shepherd shepherd; No resistance is but vain

Do join us for a moving, stirring, Traditional (arr Britten) The ash grove; The thought-provoking day. miller of Dee; Early one morning; The foggy dew; Sweet Polly Oliver; Come you not from Newcastle; Sail on, sail on; The minstrel boy; The last rose Barbara Robotham, Susan Roper of Summer; Ca the yowes; Oliver Cromwell artistic directors A light-hearted concert featuring Britten’s arrangements of Purcell songs and duets, as well as folk songs from the British Isles. These songs range from the familiar to the less well-known, from the happy to the cheeky, to the little tragedies of everyday life. RNCM in association with Tickets £6

The RNCM Day of Song is part of a worldwide programme of events celebrating the music of Benjamin Britten in his centenary year. See www.britten100.org for more information. 1.30pm RNCM Concert Hall 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Chamber Choir Pre-concert talk with Mervyn Cooke Benjamin Britten Professor Mervyn Cooke, one of the country’s leading authorities on Britten’s James Burton conductor music, discusses the background to The The voices of the RNCM Chamber Choir perform Poet’s Echo and Britten’s relationships with the hugely popular A Ceremony of Carols, the dedicatee to that particular work, Galina a collection of nine carols, each with their Vishnevskaya, and his other Russian friends. own individual identities, and each displaying Free admission, no ticket required Britten’s genius for writing for voices.

Tickets £6 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall

2.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Joan Rodgers, RNCM Chamber Choir and soloists Masterclass with Barbara Robotham Benjamin Britten ; The Ballad of Barbara Robotham gives a masterclass on Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; Philip’s Britten’s song cycle On This Island. Barbara Breeches; Abraham and Isaac from The ; studied singing with for many years ; Cabaret Songs; The Poet’s and had the greatly treasured opportunity to Echo; ; work on these songs with the composer. RNCM Chamber Choir Tickets £6 James Burton conductor Joan Rodgers soprano

4.15pm RNCM Concert Hall At the heart of the Day’s closing concert, the celebrated soprano and RNCM International Chair Opera Scenes in Singing, Joan Rodgers, performs Britten’s Russian featuring Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts song cycle The Poet’s Echo, singing Pushkin’s Music to include excerpts from: poems in their original language. RNCM soloists Benjamin Britten The Turn of the Screw; perform two further song cycles, as well as the A Midsummer Night’s Dream; ; The second of Britten’s Canticles, telling the dramatic Rape of Lucretia; ; Peter Grimes tale of Abraham’s sacrificial offering of his son Isaac. The RNCM Chamber Choir opens and closes No tribute to Britten’s vocal music would the evening, performing a range of choral works, be complete without including his operatic including well-known and oft-sung anthems, to an repertoire. Instead of concentrating on the arias unknown gem entitled Philip’s Breeches, a lively, in his works, this concert features duets, trios jolly piece telling of the growth from boy to man. and quartets from a wide range of his . Tickets £15 Tickets £6 BOOKING HOW TO FIND US Day Ticket £35 The RNCM is situated 1 mile south of Manchester city centre, in the heart of the Concessions available on individual tickets. Education Quarter, on the corner of Oxford Individual tickets as listed in this leaflet. Road and Booth Street West. Oxford Road connects the RNCM by bus to the city centre, HOW TO BOOK and all of Oxford Road, Piccadilly and Victoria In Person Box Office, train stations. Oxford Road Station 124 Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9RD is an easy 8 minute walk away. By Phone 0161 907 5555 Online www.rncm.ac.uk Why not take advantage of the RNCM’s (individual events only) secure underground car park for just £3? It’s located next to the College in the basement of Sir Charles Groves Hall off FOOD AND DRINK Rosamund Street (open from 5pm on Friday There are refreshment facilities available at the and 8am on Saturday/Sunday) or one of the

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