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Welcome
As we filtered out after a glorious final Festival concert in 2019, little did we know the difficulties WELCOME lurking ahead. Covid has changed life for us all and, sadly, led to the cancellation of our entire 2020 season – however, albeit later than envisaged, the39th Lichfield Festival is now back to LICHFIELD bring succour and joy, as we begin to make up for what we’ve missed over the last 18 months. Artists have been particularly hard hit during the pandemic, and so there is a special pleasure FESTIVAL this year as we welcome not just the return of our much-missed audience, but also the arrival of around 150 performers to the City (many of whom are freelancers, whose resilience and resourcefulness since last March can only be admired). ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: There will be changes to the “normal” way of things, of course – our first thought this year has been the safety and well-being of our Festival-goers and those very artists – with distancing regulations in all our venues expected still to be in place this July, and many repeated and/or shorter event times to accommodate this.
However, despite the restrictions detailed above, we are still thrilled to bring you a typically eclectic and exciting range of superb artists and events this July, including UK Queen of Soul Mica Paris and Brit award winner Eddi Reader, comedian, impressionist (and pianist!) Alistair McGowan, and the legendaryGrimethorpe Colliery Band. Classical music sees theBBC National Orchestra of Wales return, with a wonderfully-crafted programme to suit reduced forces, choral group I Fagiolini (taking musical inspiration from T.S. Eliot’sThe Wasteland), and award-winning violinists, baroque specialistRachel Podger and Chloë Hanslip, the latter joined in residency by pianist Danny Driver. Dance also features heavily in the Cathedral withBallet
Cymru’s Giselle, and a night of rhapsodic Spanish flamenco, with star guitarist Xuefei Yang www.lichfieldfestival.org (listed in Classic FM’s 100 top musicians) and flamenco specialist, Maria Vega.
Please do keep an eye on the Festival website and social media platforms – there may be changes to this year’s programme, unforeseen at time of print, at relatively short notice. Damian Thantrey As always, we will endeavour to keep you informed of any alterations as soon as we possibly Festival Director can and, should that be the case, please bear with us in these trying and unpredictable times. FESTIVAL VENUES 2021 Lichfield Cathedral, The Close, WS13 7LD The Hub at St Mary’s, Market Square WS13 6LG St Michael’s Church, Church Street, WS13 6ED Wade Street Church,W ade Street WS13 6HL Swinfen Hall Hotel, Swinfen, WS14 9RE Lichfield Cathedral School, The Close, WS13 7LH 3 LICHFIELD FESTIVAL THANKS ALL OF OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS…
Principal Festival Sponsor Major Festival Sponsors
JENNY AND RAY MANSELL
Platinum Event Sponsors Major Event Sponsors Festival Supporters
LICHFIELD With thanks to FESTIVAL Bill Tandy, FRIENDS City Arcade, Persimmon Homes
Individual Supporters and Trusts Patrons Anne and Tony Barnard, Marian and Tony Bateman, Valerie and Chris Cartwright, Hazel and David Cliffe, Emma Bridgewater Close Friends, Margaret Cooper Ramsell, Ted Green, Janette Horton, Morfudd Lamb, Lich�eld Civic Society, Michael Fabricant MP Lich�eld Conduit Lands Trust, Lich�eld District Council, Wendy and Paddy Martin, David R Mayes OBE, Valery Gergiev Shirley and Richard Newby, Nigel O’Mara, Peter Parsons, Jane Steeley, Jill Sutton, Mike and Adrienne Swallow, Tony Hadley Swinfen Broun Charitable Trust, Jerry Sykes, Helen and Vic Wiser Julian Lloyd Webber
Aspire! Our 2021Aspire! Family Dayfills the final Festival Saturday with a whole day of FAMILY DAY events for all the family, kicking off with a superb new version ofPeter and the Wolf, immersing children and adults alike with the story of Peter, the Bird, Duck, Cat Saturday 17th July (and Wolf!) accompanied by live musicEvents 17D & 17G(see page 41).
You can then join us from 1pm to enjoy the sunshine (we hope!) outside the Cathedral for free performances of theLichfield Mystery Plays (see below), plus song and dance from local youth and adult groups, face painting, glitter tattoos and much more!
Plus at 2.15pm, there will be a special appearance from the world-renownedGrimethorpe Colliery Band, who will give a free mini-concert, ahead of their3.30pm & 7.30pm shows in the Cathedral (Events 17F and 17J see page 43).
It is fitting that this performance of the Lichfield Mystery Plays takes place outside the Cathedral, where the final performance of the first Mysteries was performed in 1994. Hundreds of local groups and individuals have taken part in the Mysteries over the years and organisers Lichfield Mysteries Community Arts are pleased to be joining the Lichfield Festival for this special Family Day.
Our 2021 plays are
The Shepherds, (presented by Tower Players, Hednesford) The Nativity, (presented by Wade Street Church) The Wedding at Cana, (presented by Lichfield Methodist Church) Thursda MATHILDE MILWIDSKY SEXY LAMP Thursday Young Artist Katie Arnstein
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Violinist Mathilde Milwidskystudied at the Royal College of Music. She was a
major prize-winner at the Peter Pirazzi 306271 01543 Tickets: Stiftung competition in 2020, and is a previous winner of the Royal Over-Seas League competition string section.
Her debut CD was released in 2020 to great acclaim, featuring music by Agnes Originally from Lichfield, Katie Zimmermann. She will be accompanied Arnstein brings her award-winning by pianistJohn Reidand her showSexy Lamp to the Festival programme includes (Pleasance Pick of VAULT Festival and Show of the Week).
MozartSonata K526 www.lichfieldfestival.org HindemithSonata in E flat After lead roles at primary school, Katie always knew she had a place in show business. Since then, * Sponsored byNigel O’Mara named, speaking and fully-clothed roles have been harder to come by - but she refuses to stay in the dark.
** Sponsored by Valerie & ‘as good as it gets’ Broadway Baby Chris Cartwright
7 Thursday BALLET CYMRU Ballet Cymru is an international touring Giselle ballet company, committed to inclusion 8th July Lichfield Cathedral and innovation in dance and classical 7.30pm 100m ballet, and to collaboration of the highest standard. Event 8D £32/£24/£18/£12 The company produce original, professional dance performances, Critics’ Circle Award winning company, which tour nationally and internationally. Ballet Cymru, present an extraordinary Its extensive Access and Outreach new ballet based on the eternal story of programme is committed to breaking Giselle, the young girl who falls in love down barriers to accessing the arts. with the wrong person and pays a terrible price. Ballet Cymru return to Lichfield after delighting audiences with Cinderella Featuring a new score by acclaimed (2018) and Romeo & Juliet(2019). composer and harpist,Catrin Finch, whose spell-binding music is interwoven with mesmerising movement by Ballet Cymru Artistic Director,Darius James OBE, and Assistant Artistic Director, Amy Doughty.
The original libretto for Giselle was written “Pure warmth from a company full using poetry (Victor Hugo) and prose of emotion” Evening Standard (Heinrich Heine), and is now one of the most-often performed classical ballets. Sponsored by Helen & Vic Wiser If you live in the Lichfield House of Commons, London, Parliamentary constituency and SW1A 0AA need help from your MP, contact Michael Fabricant: www.michael.fabricant.mp.co.uk Friday ALEXEI WATKINS horn CLEMENTI IN Young Artist LICHFIELD 9th July St Michael’s Church Wade St Church 12pm60m 2pm60m Event 9A £14 Event 9B £14
Alexei Watkins studied at the Royal Italian-born English composer, piano and Academy of Music, and joins us as part instrument maker, pianist, conductor, of our newRAM at Lichfield Young Artist teacher and publisher,Muzio Clementi, collaboration. He will play a specially far left, lived in Lichfield from 1828-1831. curated programme to celebrate the He was also Beethoven’s friend and mentor, and publisher of Beethoven’s music in centenary of legendary horn player, England. Dennis Brain, accompanied by pianist Harry Rylance. Why did he retire to Lichfield and what Beethoven connection did the ‘Father of the Sonata, Op.17 Pianoforte’ have with the City? Dukas Join us for the fascinating story of his life, interspersed with live music, played on Villanelle an original 1825 Clementi square piano, Poulenc from the Finchcocks Piano Museum Élégie collection. Saint-Saëns Romance, Op. 36
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St Michael’s Church60m 9 The Hub at St Mary’s75m t 5pmEvent 9C 8pmEvent 9F* £17 5pmEvent 9D h July Following his inspirational Festival performances in 2018, 8pmEvent 9G £15 Gramophone Award nominee pianist,Danny Driver, returns for 1568: At a vital but volatile crossroads in history, a young a 2nd residency. queen steps from the shadows to reveal her thoughts on ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: marriage, succession, religion and war. But time is against Ahead of three concerts with violinist Chloë Hanslip, here he her… plays a solo recital of French and Russian music, with works by Fauréand Debussy followed byMussorgsky ’s iconic solo Using only Elizabeth's words, adapted from letters, piano workPictures from an Exhibition, inspired by the paintings speeches and writings, writer/performerRebecca Vaughan of the composer’s friend, the artistViktor Hartmann. explores her struggle to reconcile the desires of womanhood with the duties of sovereignty. First seen in the Garrick FauréThème et Variations in C sharp minor Studio in 2016, this show is directed by Olivier Award DebussyCloches à travers les feuilles winner,Guy Masterson(Morecambe and The Shark is MussorgskyPictures from an Exhibition Broken). Winner of the Three Weeks Editors Award.
From Dyad Productions, * Sponsored by Nigel O’Mara www.lichfieldfestival.org the award-winning creators of Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Orlandoand Austen’s Women.
‘Riveting… a breathtaking creation’ Edinburgh Evening News
11 Friday EDDI READER 40 Years Live Tour 9th July Lichfield Cathedral 7.30pm 120m Event 9E£32/£25/£18/£12 Eddi Reader is perhaps Scotland's She has wonBrit Awards, an MBE, greatest living female voice. From her sung to millions on some of the earliest years playing the folk clubs of world's greatest concert and festival western Scotland and learning how stages and collaborated with a host to street sing across Europe (like her of stars across a myriad of genres, hero, Edith Piaf), Eddi's path soon led including folk, jazz, pop, world, punk her to a professional career in music and classical music. as a backing singer for the Her40 Years Live concertspromise Eurythmics and Gang of Four. to be something special, and as with any Eddi Reader concert, the magic Her bandFairground Attraction had is made in the moment, no two huge international success and concerts ever the same. number one hits with Perfect and debut album First of a Million "Just perfect – Eddi Reader Kisses, which stormed the charts in gets every song just right" the late 1980s. Eddi has consistently The Sunday Times released great works throughout her successful solo career, including "One of my favourite highly acclaimed albums such as singers of all time" The Songs of Robert Burnsand Jools Holland Cavalier. Sponsored by Swinfen Hall Saturday CHETHAM’S SCHOOL ROARING INTO THE 20s OF MUSIC Young Artists Jessica Walker & Joseph Atkins 10th July Wade Street Church The Hub at St Mary’s 12pm60 m Event 10A* £14 2pm 60m Event 10B £15 4pm60 m Event 10C** £14 Continuing our long relationship with In celebration of our first Festival of the Chetham’s School (includingNoye’s decade, the creative partnership of Fludde/The Planets in 2018), we Resident ArtistsJessica Walker left and Joseph Atkins travel back a century to welcome some of their most talented the 1920s - another time of seismic students to our 2021 Young Artist change and reinvention, for a Series, to play a wide variety of specially-curated afternoon coffee popular and virtuosic repertoire! cabaret at The Hub at St Mary’s.
Concert 1 (Event 10A) will feature The Roaring 20s ushered in the Jazz Age, the iconic Flapper dress,Les Années Robbie Jansenclarinet and Christie Folles and the Weimar Cabaret, where one Smithtrumpet , joined by singers Marlene Dietrich first appeared. A time of Lillian Noblesoprano and Harrison prosperity, creativity and hope, it led to an Morton-Deavilletenor ; explosion of new and rarely-rivalled music.
Concert 2 (Event 10C) sees music Expect songs spanning the globe and the for viola (Charlie Howells),horn emotions, including numbers byCole (Jack Bradley-Buxton) andbassoon Porter, Ira Gershwin, Noel Coward, (Jamie King). Friedrich Hollaender, Charles Trenet and much more...
*Sponsored byMargaret Cooper Ramsell **Sponsored byDavid R Mayes OBE 13 Saturday The JONATHAN GEE QUARTET Reimagining The Beatles 10th July The Hub at St Mary’s 60m 7pmEvent 10D & 9.15pmEvent 10F £16
Pianist/composerJonathan Gee compositions by Jonathan and returns to the Festival following his Gaetano; their first album, appearance with Cleveland Watkiss in Reimagining The Beatles, 2019 (Nat King Cole). He is joined by was released in 2020. three great musicians from the Puglia ‘Partipilo is a complete-game player region of southern Italy – featuring, on whose tone and phraseology is an alto sax, the rising star of Italian jazz, exciting amalgam of alto history’ Gaetano Partipilo, and one of the most All About Jazz dynamic rhythm sections on the ‘Jonathan Gee sent flurries of notes European scene. The quartet’s tumbling over in a prodigious display repertoire combines re-imaginings of of technical brilliance' Beatles’ tunes with self-penned Jazz Times Saturda
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In the 3rd year of their Festival residency, J.S. BachBrandenburg Concerto No. 1
we are delighted to welcome back the in F major, BWV 1046 306271 01543 Tickets: superb talents of the BBC National StravinskyConcerto for Orchestra in E flat Orchestra of Wales. ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ RameauSuite of Ballet Music from Led by their new Principal Conductor, ‘Les Boréades’ Ryan Bancroft right, BBCNOW return with a wonderfully-crafted programme to suit the reduced forces we can safely accommodate this year.
Their programme begins withBach ’s www.lichfieldfestival.org Brandenburg Concerto No. 1(with their leader,Lesley Hatfield, as soloist) and ends withRameau ’s sumptuousSuite of Ballet Music from Les Boréades. In between, and 50 years on from his death, Stravinsky’s ‘Dumbarton Oaks’, the inspiration for which was taken from the set of theBrandenburg concerti, first presented by Bach some 300 years earlier. 15 Sunday FESTIVAL EUCHARIST EXPRESS G&S Cathedral Choir Charles Court Opera 11th July Lichfield Cathedral10.30am The Hub at St Mary’s75m FRIENDSHIPW ALK 2pm Event 11C* City Centre 6pmEvent 11E £17 (from Chapter’s Café) JoinCharles Court Opera, as a trio of 10.30am & 1pm 75m singers and a pianist take on this – Event 11A & 11B £9 probably ill advised – challenge!
Samuel Johnson said:‘friendship should "The masters of G&S in small spaces" be in constant repair’. The Johnson are emerging from lockdown with this Society of Lichfield invites you to join witty, virtuosic production, that is them for a now annual walk to guaranteed to draw a smile. Johnson’s Willow, with the theme of Friendship & Refreshment. Toast the Get ready to be swept away from memory of Samuel Johnson; see what Penzance to Titipu, from Portsmouth to he might have seen and celebrate his Fairyland, from Venice to the Tower of Lichfield friendships. London, as they storm through the entire G&S canon in what promises to be a highly inventive performance.
There’ll be plenty of favourite songs from the operas, includingThe Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado andH.M.S. Pinafore, as well as from those lesser
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Beethoven. Today’s programme also 306271 01543 Tickets: includes César Franck’s Sonata in A major, one of the finest violin and piano works ever written. known, such asThe Franck Sonata in A major Sorcerer, Princess Ida BeethovenSonata in G major Op 30, no 3 andUtopia Ltd. *In memory ofMa ry Parsons This brave but foolish Chloë Hanslip made her Proms debut at endeavour is one not to 14 and has performed at major venues in be missed! the UK and Europe, (Festival Hall,
Wigmore Hall, Musikverein, Paris Louvre, www.lichfieldfestival.org All aboard the G&S St Petersburg), as well as the Carnegie Express for the very model Hall, and Metropolitan Arts Space, Tokyo. of a modern major mashup – the complete works of She was our 2016 soloist in The Lark Gilbert & Sullivan – Ascending with BBCNOW. performed in just 75 minutes! ‘Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver are both *Sponsored by engaging and extremely accomplished LICHFIELD artists…they create a world in which you FESTIVAL FRIENDS want to spend time’ Gramophone
17 TOM WARDReturn of the Love Machine Comedy The Hub at St Mary’s 8.45pm 60m Event 11G£14
A festival favourite around the UK,Tom Ward is back. And fresh from a ‘year off’, the best haircut in comedy is loaded and ready for the world again. His usual subjects are there – love, sexuality, the 90s, living in a house…but this time he’s going beyond his beloved suburbs to even more important stuff too, like the planet, mental health and gender identity.
Tom has doneLive from the BBC, Stand Up Central and Live from The Comedy Store, as well as presenting the Wrigley’s/LAD Bible seriesIn My Personal Space, interviewing celebs such as Kyle Walker and Jamie Laing. He has supported Jack Whitehall, Joe Lycett and Sindhu Vee on tour, done three solo comedy shows at The Edinburgh Fringe, getting 5* reviews for each and currently spends much of his time making his Instagram videos look as 90s as possible.
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MICA PARIS Lichfield Cathedral y 1 7.45pm Event 11H 1t h £32/£24/£16/£12 July
Mica Paris is one of the UK’s finest and most respected singers, with a long career of hit singles and albums ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: marking her out as the undisputed British Queen Of Soul.
Since her first Top 10 Hit in 1988 withMy One Temptation, Mica has gone on to release six more albums. Her latest, Gospel, came out to great critical acclaim in December 2020 and shot to No. 1 in the UK R&B Album Charts – it seamlessly weaves together new material, timeless gospel classics, and spellbinding contemporary versions of songs such as Rag ‘N’ Bone Man’sHuman , Foreigner’s Among her many varied awards, Mica was made anMBE I Want To Know What Love Is and U2’s I Still Haven’t in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to music, Found What I’m Looking For. entertainment and charity. www.lichfieldfestival.org
Alongside her stellar singing career, Mica is also much in “A dignified collection of songs that bridges the demand as a writer, presenter, broadcaster and actor, and spiritual/secular divide…a stripped back format that has become a popular media personality, hosting her own allows her voice full rein”The Sunday Times Radio 2 soul show and appearing as a panellist on Loose ‘Gospel’s mix of new and old, secular and spiritual reminds us Women. Her acting career has regularly found her on the that what Mica Paris does best is sing from the heart. She is West End stage, and she has recently been seen on Albert the UK’s Queen of Soul, no wonder Prince adored her’ Square in Eastenders. The Express
19 Monday FESTIVAL RAMBLE BETHAN GRIFFITHSharp 12th July starting from Young Artist Darnford Park car park Swinfen Hall Hotel 1.40pm Event 12A £9 2pm 75mEvent 12B £14
This year’s six-mile Ramble will start Bethan Griffiths left studied at the Royal atDarnford Park car park, before College of Music, graduating in 2019 with taking in local lanes, the canal a Master of Performance (distinction), and was awarded one of the RCM’s most towpath and Whittington village. prestigious prizes on graduation, the Appropriate footwear and clothing Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother required - and please bring Rose Bowl award. She now performs in refreshment for halfway through! various venues across the UK, Europe and the USA, as soloist and as part of This walk is kindly led and organised several ensembles. by the localLichfield and District Ramblers Groupon behalf of the Her programme today will include Festival. J.S. Bach Partita No.1 in B Flat Major Nino Rota Sarabande eT occata Fauré Impromptu Op.86 Mared EmlynPerlau yn y Glaw
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Amongst their other notable achievements are performances at the Royal Albert Hall, on BBCSongs of Praise, and at the opening ceremony of the Channel LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL welcomes visitors Tunnel. The highlights of their year are, of course, throughout the Festival. Visitor opening times are the Notting Hill Carnival, where they have a float in Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm the Carnival procession and Panorama, the annual Saturday 9.30am-5pm Sunday 12.30pm-5pm steel band competition that kicks off the Carnival www.lichfieldfestival.org (of which they are four-time winners). Alongside FESTIVAL EUCHARIST 10.30am onSunday 11 July and FESTIVAL COMPLINE 9pm on Wednesday 14 July An outdoor event in the stunning Service times are as follows: Courtyard at Swinfen Hall Hotel. Mon-Sat 5.30pm Choral Evensong*or Evening Prayer Sunday 10.30am Choral Eucharist For pre-show dinner enquiries, please contact 5.30pm Choral Evensong Swinfen Hall Hotel directly on 01543 481494 *Sung by the Cathedral Choir during term time. Monday is usually Evening Prayer
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World-renowned artists, classical guitarist Maria Vegastudied in the renowned ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: Xuefei Yang and Spanish dancer Maria Flamenco studio “Amor de Dios” in Madrid Vega join their talents to celebrate the rich with many of the great contemporary and broad heritage of Spanish music and Flamenco masters, and was also a soloist dance, fromflamenco to classical Spanish for Rojas and Rodriguez’s “Nuevo Ballet dance, as part of ourArt Inspires Art Español”. season, performed to the music of the greatest Spanish composers (Albéniz, “Feisty virtuosity, impeccable technique Falla, Granados) on that quintessential and sensitive musicianship” Spanish instrument, the guitar. The New York Times
Named by Classic FM as one of the 100 www.lichfieldfestival.org top classical artists of our time, Xuefei Yang is acclaimed as one of the world’s finest classical guitarists. Hailed as a musical pioneer, Fei was the first-ever guitarist in China to enter a music school, and became the first internationally recognised Chinese guitarist on the world stage, appearing on Woman's Hour and the BBC Proms. Sponsored by Jerry Sykes 23 SOUND AND LIGHT SHOW BY LUXMURALIS ARTISTIC COLLABORATION
www.lichfield-cathedral.org Tuesday GEORGE TODICA piano GEORGE EGG Young Artist Movable Feast 13th July Wade Street Church50m The Hub at St Mary’s60m 12pmEvent 13A* 6pm Event 13C £PWYC 2.30pmEvent 13B** £14 8.30pmEvent 13E £15
George Todica left studied in Comedy cook and ‘culinary Bill Bailey’ Scotland and at the Royal College of George Eggis back after hisDIY Chef Music, making his Wigmore Hall debut show in 2018. This time he’s on the road – it’s time for Planes, Trains and in 2018 via the Tillett Trust. He has Automob-meals(sorry…!). won several international prizes, most recently at the 2020 Istanbul Piano Join us for this laugh-out-loud comedy that’s cheeky, anarchic and creative – Competition, and the Royal a multi-sensory treat with real gourmet Conservatoire of Scotland, and food (cooked live in the most unusual returns this year as a solo artist, ways), that you can taste at the end – having appeared at the 2019 Festival if you can stop laughing…! as part ofThe Chloé Trio. *For our 6pm ‘Pay What You Can’ performance, reserve your ticket via His programme includes the the Box Office in advance – on the night, RachmaninovCorelli Variations, make your anonymous cash payment…! Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunteand Grieg ’s ever-popular Holberg Suite.
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tour de force Liza Sings Streisand in 2018, 306271 01543 Tickets: Liza is also one third of the fabulous Liza returns with a brand new show The satirical comedy trioFascinating Aida Heart Of It. with whom she sells out theatres Once again in the company of her band nationwide. (with Resident Artist, Joseph Atkins, as MD), Liza rediscovers and reimagines timeless classics and lost gems that have no business being lost. Her funny, intelligent and emotional connection to a lyric and a melody goes straight to the heart of every song with a diverse and eclectic www.lichfieldfestival.org range of influences throughMichel Legrand, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Judy Collins and a host of other iconic artists.
Sharing anecdotes rich in warmth and humour, Liza will have you laughing one minute and crying the next in an evening ‘Bewitches us with sheer vocal designed both to break your heart and virtuosity and emotional expression’ make it sing. British Theatre.com 27 Wednesday TOBY WHITEcello PHOTOGRAPHYW ALK 14th July Young Artist Lichfield Camera Club 120m Wade Street Church50m 2pm Event 14B £9 12pmEvent 14A* 2.30pmEvent 14C £14 A chance to look at the City with new eyes! Tillett Trust artist Toby Whiteleft Join the Lichfield Camera Club as they recently completed his Artist Diploma take you on a guided walk of the City – and Master’s Degree at the Guildhall starting from The Hub at St Mary’s - School of Music and Drama. Since looking at its unique and historic then, he has enjoyed a busy and architecture through the eye of a camera, varied career as a soloist and iPad or smartphone lens. chamber musician. Create your own art works, drawing He appears with us today via the inspiration from the magnificent Tillett Trust Young Artists Platform, (or mundane) structures around us, with whom he made his Wigmore and look at familiar scenes within the Hall debut in 2019, accompanied by City from a fresh and different Marina Staneva, who also joins perspective. him today. This walk is kindly led and organised BrittenSonata Op. 65 by the local Lichfield Camera Club Saint-Saëns Sonata No. 1 on behalf of the Festival. in C minor PiazzollaLe Grand Tango
* Sponsored by Nigel O’Mara Wednesda I FAGIOLINI Re-Wilding The Waste Land April is the cruellest month, breeding Jessica Walker narrator Lilacs out of the dead land… ‘There is nothing ordinary about a performance by Lichfield Cathedral 60m I Fagiolini. These singers have made their reputation 3.30pmEvent 14D £22/£18/£12/£10 y
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T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land was work, Manley Hopkins’ sonnet July written in the wake of the upheavals God’s Grandeur offers hope that
of the 1st World War and Spanish Flu. ‘…nature is never spent’, sung 306271 01543 Tickets: One hundred years on, this new here inLeighton ’s rapturous programme is inspired by his ground- setting. breaking poem, desolation gradually replaced by renewal in an outpouring Eliot concludes his poem with a of music and poetry – and mindful of request for peace but offers no Sir David Attenborough’s ‘witness’ easy way to create it.Re-Wilding The Waste Land avoids a statement plea to Re-Wild. simplistic response. Instead, old and new music and poetry The shadowy world of Tenebrae mirror the cycles of creation, www.lichfieldfestival.org Responsories by Spanish master encouraging reflection and hope. FESTIVAL COMPLINE Victoriais present throughout, Lichfield Cathedral 9pm andWilliam Byrd’s Deus, venerunt genteschillingly describes a land Following on from I Fagiolini’s evening wasted through intolerance. Out of performance, please join us for our annual this flow further world premieres by Festival Compline; a meditative, candle-lit Joanna Marsh (Four ReWildings) service sung by the Cathedral Choir in the and, reflecting Indian motifs in the Quire, starting at9pm . poem, Shruthi Rajasekar’s Rebirth of a River - and 50 years before Eliot’s * Sponsored by Close Friends 29
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9.15pmEvent 14H £16 Event 14F £14 h July Award-winning world music The Sage Gateshead, Celtic Connections, Musicport, and folk quartet, Kabantu, Spitalfields Festival andCambridge Folk Festival. return to Lichfield, making ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: music that transcends borders Kabantuare Folk Alliance International, Live Music in their own very special way. Now and BBC Introducing Artists. In connection As always, the group aims to with our own 2021 series with the Royal Over-Seas celebrate the space where League and its prize-winning artists, they were also different cultures meet, winners of the prestigious 2017 ROSL Mixed Cakeis the debut hour from stand-up making music through their Ensemble Prize. Sam Lake – a show about our unique egalitarian creative obsession with goal-setting and * Sponsored byDavid R Mayes OBE process that defies genres how we behave when we don’t and embraces the sheer joy of achieve them. music from all over the globe. 2020 was slated to be a big year for www.lichfieldfestival.org The group’s highlights so far Sam. Not only was he set to do his include performing at theBBC first solo show, he was going to get Promsat theRoyal Albert married to the love of his life, they Hall, live sessions for the BBC were going to travel…using his Free Thinking Festival, BBC ‘thoroughly engaging larger-than-life Radio 3 In Tune, World on 3 personality’ (Chortle), Sam talks and an array of prestigious through stories about his relationship, festivals and venues across his wedding plans and how the UK including The sometimes great things can happen Bridgewater Hall, when you don’t plan for them. 31 Thursday LUCY HUMPHRIS RACHEL MAHON 15th July trumpet organ Young Artist Lichfield Cathedral60m Wade Street Church50m 2pmEvent 15B £15 12pm Event 15A 4.15pmEvent 15C £14 Rachel Mahon is Assistant Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral, where Lucy Humphrisrecently graduated she accompanies and conducts the from the Royal Academy of Music Cathedral Choir and curates the organ and is the 2nd of our RAM at recitals and visiting choirs. Prior to this, Lichfield Young Artists. she was Assistant Organist at Chester Cathedral where she worked regularly She is a previous winner of the with the Cathedral Choir. Rachel was prestigious LSO ‘Candide’ Award previously Organ Scholar at St Paul's and one of the UK’s most innovative Cathedral – the first female organist in young performers. Her fresh and its 1400-year history. original approach seeks to widen her instrument’s repertoire and push Her Festival recital beyond both musical and technical programme will boundaries. Her programme, with include works by J.S. Bach, Franck, pianist Harry Rylanceincludes her Percy Whitlock and own arrangements of Rachel Laurin. RespighiBalletto Janacek In The Mists Sponsored by as well as David Cliffe & Jane Steeley Bruch Canzone James Trumpet Concerto Thursda
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10.30amEvent 16A £16 Friday 16th July Tommy Smith OBEis a leading Part of our Lichfield Literature light in jazz, first and foremost as one of the finest saxophonists of
series, we are very proud to 306271 01543 Tickets: his generation, and latterly as the present Yorkshire Shepherdess founder and current director of the Amanda Owen, sharing heart- Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. warming tales and honest These achievements are framed anecdotes from her remarkable by his status as an international farming, family life in North recording artist, composer and Yorkshire. It's a life that has almost arranger of extraordinary ambition. gone in today's modern world, He has recorded with the definitive one ruled by animals and the four jazz label, Blue Note, and worked seasons. with myriad jazz greats. Smith’s
solo saxophone concerts feature www.lichfieldfestival.org Hear about her journey from urban Huddersfield teenager entirely acoustic performances of (inspired by the James Herriot books) to shepherdess at spontaneously chosen melodies Ravenseat, one of the highest and most remote places in drawn from the jazz and folk England, where she’s raised a flock of 1000 sheep and a traditions, which highlight his family of 9 children with husband Clive. wonderful tone and improvising capabilities in an intimate conversation with the audience. Repeated on Friday July 16th at 10.30am “…eloquent wizardry” Event 16A (p.36) The Guardian 33 Bird Street, Lichfield WS13 6PR T:0 1543 414822 E: [email protected] W: www.thegeorgelichfield.co.uk
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The Hub at St Mary’s60m about. I want everything about me! And I don’t 15t make any bones about that." 7.30pm Event 15E* h Elaine Stritch 9.30pmEvent 15G £15 July
WhenElaine Stritch died in 2014, the lights went out on one of the last of the ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: great singing comediennes: women whose talent and humour exploded onto the stages over the early part of the 20th century. There wasFanny Brice, one of the first stars of the Ziegfeld Follies; Jessie Matthews, British screen star of the 1930s, later famous as Mrs Dale in the long-running radio soap, Mrs Dale’s As part of her 2021 Residency, acclaimed Diary; Noel Coward’s museGertrude singer and writer Jessica Walker above Lawrence, and the Oscar-winningJudy (accompanied byJoseph Atkins)
Hollidaywho died tragically young, and creates this bespoke Cabaret show www.lichfieldfestival.org is now all but forgotten. which recaptures the rollercoaster lives, personalities and music of the great ladies of musical comedy, fromMarie Lloyd through to Carol Channing. Includes songs by Noel Coward, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne. Directed byJames Dacre. * Sponsored by Adrienne & Mike Swallow
35 Friday AMANDA OWEN KRIS GARFITT trombone 16th July The Yorkshire Shepherdess Young Artist Lichfield Cathedral60m Wade Street Church 50m 10.30amEvent 16A £16 12pm Event 16B
A second chance to join us for this 2.30pmEvent 16C £14 re-arranged Lichfield Literatureevent, Kris Garfittleft graduated in 2015 withThe Yorkshire Shepherdess, from the Guildhall School of Music Amanda Owen, as she shares heart- and Drama in London. He is now warming tales and honest anecdotes from a member of the German Radio her remarkable farming, family life in North Philharmonic Orchestra, Gold Medal Yorkshire. It's a life that has almost gone winner of the 2019 Royal Over-Seas in today's modern world, one ruled by League Music Competitionand animals and the four seasons. winner of multiple competitions across Europe. Accompanied by A Lichfield Literature Festival event pianist Seri Dan, his 2021 programme features RopartzPiece in Eb Weber Romance Sulek Sonata Vox Gabrieli RabeBasta CrespoImprovisation HarleyCollage 1
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MRS CHURCHILL – DANNY DRIVER piano y 16 MY LIFE WITH WINSTON Late-night Ligeti t The Hub at St Mary’s 100m The Hub at St Mary’s50m h
5pm Event 16D* 9.45pmEvent 16G £14 July 7.30pmEvent 16E** £15
"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able A late-night, relaxed concert focussed on the remarkable, to persuade my wife to marry me"Winston Churchill virtuosic études of György Ligeti(together with other 306271 01543 Tickets: complementary works) in the company of 2021 Artist in They say that behind every great man, there is a great Residence,Danny Driver. woman. Was this true in Churchill's case? What of Clementine, his wife of 56 years? Did he bully her like he did Composed during the 1980s and 1990s, Ligeti’s Études have so many other people? Was he as grumpy and irascible at already become modern classics, absorbing the attention of musicians and audiences worldwide. Danny’s recording of home as he often was in the House of Commons? Given his the complete set of these extraordinary works has recently strength and conviction, did Clem have any influence on him been released on the Hyperion label to great critical acclaim. at all? Or was she the 'little lady at home'? ‘Driver’s recording of Ligeti’s virtuosity-testing All these questions Études is full of insight and exuberance’
The Guardian www.lichfieldfestival.org will be answered, and many more, inLiz Grand's superb, moving, sensitive and informative portrayal ofClementine Churchill, in one of the great love affairs of all time…. * Sponsored by Adrienne & Mike Swallow ** Sponsored by Nigel O’Mara 37
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Following the sensational success of ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: The Piano Album, his Sony recording which reachedNo 1 in the UK Classical Album charts, comes BAFTA-winner and Olivier Award Alistair McGowan’s new show, nominee,Alistair McGowanhas combining his talents asmaster delighted audiences for decades with impressionist and comedian with his pinpoint-accurate impersonations his new-found talent as a classical of celebrities such asDavid pianist! Beckham, Gary Linekerand Jonathan Ross. Having started
Join Alistair as he plays classical playing the piano as a boy, he gave www.lichfieldfestival.org gems byChopin , Gershwin, Grieg, it up after only two years in favour of Debussy, Glassand Satie - expect tennis and football…here, he proves Sponsored by Pegasus Group a lot of beautiful music (with the odd it is never too late! mistake!) and more than a sprinkling “McGowan's impressions are of his trademark impressions. faultless” The Sunday Times
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39 Saturday TRACY BORMAN The MITHRAS TRIO The Fallen Angel Young Artists 17th July The Hub at St Mary’s60m St Michael’s Church50m 10amEvent 17A* 12pm Event 17B 1.30pmEvent 17C £13 2.30pmEvent 17E £14
Author Tracy Bormanreturns to the The Mithras Triocame together in Festival, following her last (and very 2017 at the Guildhall School of Music popular) appearance with us in 2019. and Drama and are winners of the 10th Trondheim Chamber Music and Here she talks about her new work, The the 67th Royal Over-Seas League Fallen Angelleft , the last novel in her Music Competitions and the RPS King’s Witch trilogy, which sees Frances Henderson Award 2019. Their 2021 Gorges drawn back towards her old friend Festival programme: Sir Walter Raleigh and his last, desperate plot to see a Catholic monarch on the Haydn Trio in E minor throne. Schumann Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80
Alongside her busy writing and TV career (with two new series about Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell for Channel 5 in 2020 & 2021), she is also Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust and joint Chief Curator for Historic Royal Palaces.
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& DANNY DRIVER piano II 17t 1.30pmEvent 17D The Hub at St Mary’s60m 4pmEvent 17G£8/children £6 h
5pmEvent 17H July From the team who brought us the gorgeous Peter 7.45pmEvent 17K £19 Rabbit’s Musical Adventure in 2019, a new outdoor version of Peter and the Wolf for the 2021 Festival. Their 306271 01543 Tickets: new costumed production will be dynamic, immersive and informal, enchanting children and adults alike with the story of Peter, the Bird, Duck, Cat (and Wolf!). Told by two actors, the show is accompanied by Prokofiev’s witty and wonderful music, arranged for wind quintet. Come and be entertained once again for these special performances – at 1.30pm and 4pm – as part of our Family Day celebrations (see page 6). Produced by Waterperry Opera 2021 Artists in Residence,Chloë Hanslipand Danny Driver,
return for their second duo performance, this time in the www.lichfieldfestival.org wonderful acoustics of The Hub at St Mary’s. Today’s programme will include another major work byBeethoven , together with an early work byFrederick Delius -his highly romanticSonata in B major.
Delius Sonata in B major McKay A Quarter Million Miles… Beethoven Sonata, Op. 96
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Saturda SONGS FOR OUR TIMES GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND The Hub at St Mary’s45m Lichfield Cathedral60m y
9.30pmEvent 17L £12 17t 3.30pmEvent 17F*£20/£15 Children £10 7.30pmEvent 17J£25/£18/£12 Children £10 h July Formed in 1917 during the First World War,Grimethorpe Colliery Bandis a British institution. National and British Open Brass Band Champions on numerous occasions, Grimethorpe’s contest successes remain legendary. These include ikt:053306271 01543 Tickets: 16Brass In Concert Championshiptitles , 11 Yorkshire Regional Championships, 2 English National Championshipvictories, 4British Open Championshipsand 4 National Champion Brass Band of Great Britainwins.
Grimethorpe's many performances include those at the World Cup, the BAFTAs, Eurovision and London 2012 Olympic Games Opening, together with a wealth of television/radio appearances, and recordings. The band has been awarded two gold discs, as well as a BAFTA nomination for its contributions to the global hit movieBrassed Off, of which Grimethorpe was the focal point. The scintillating creative partnership of Artists in Residence,Jessica Walker and
Joseph Atkins, comes together for one www.lichfieldfestival.org final event – a live performance of the Festival’s online 2020 film commission Songs For Our Times – an evening of music inspired by loss, longing, love, loneliness, rage and hope, reflecting the "The finest jewel in the world of brass bands" very particular times we have lived through Sir Peter Maxwell Davies over the last year, combining their own newly-written material with numbers LICHFIELD * Sponsored by Lichfield Festival Friends FESTIVAL by Jacques Brel, and the French FRIENDS singer-songwriterBarbara . 43 Curtains | Blinds | Wallpaper Refresh your home with soft furnishings from our family owned and run business
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By appointment only. FREE parking. Please book in online: www.interiorchoice.net or call 01543 406162 PHOTO ME Sunday DR JOAN ORMROD NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ Myth, Fantasy & ORCHESTRAY oung Artists 18th July Modern Culture The Hub at St Mary’s60m The Hub at St Mary’s75m 2.45pmEvent 18B 11am Event 18A £12 5pm Event 18D £14
Fantasy, prehistoric folk lore and fairy tales A special National Youth Jazz Orchestra – from William Shakespeare to W.B. Yeats, Quintetjoins us for our final 2021 Young Arthur Machen to Neil Gaiman,Wonder Artists concert, led by vocalistLucy Anne Womanto Jonathan Strange and Mr Daniels and pianistMichael Blanchfield Norrell – ancient myth (and its various left. creatures) have had a huge impact on the tales told through our entire literary and NYJO is a glittering showcase for the UK’s creative history. finest young professional jazz musicians, helping to launch the careers of many of As part of ourArt Inspires Art series, the country’s most renowned jazz academic, broadcaster and expert on musicians including Guy Barker, Amy graphic novels and time travel (in the Winehouse, Mark Nightingale and Laura media!),Dr Joan Ormrod leads us through Jurd. Expect a programme that pleases a fascinating and fantastical talk on the new audiences to jazz and die-hard tales as old as aficionados alike. time that have influenced the stories we read and watch today.
45 Sunday CHLOË HANSLIP violin JUSTIN MOORHOUSE 18th July & DANNY DRIVERpiano III comedy St Michael’s Church60m The Hub at St Mary’s60m 4.30pm Event 18C* 7.30pmEvent 18F 7pm Event 18E £19 9.15pmEvent 18G £18
The final performance by Artists in Star of Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights, ResidenceChloë Hanslip left and JUSTIN MOORHOUSE appears Danny Driver in our trilogy celebrating regularly onLive At The Apollo and Beethoven’s writing for violin and 8 Out of 10 Cats. He’s also a series piano. This afternoon’s concert regular onThe Premier League Show culminates in Beethoven’s and 5Live's Fighting Talk, and is both masterwork, the“Kreutzer” Sonata, a former winner ofCelebrity Op. 47, together with a short work Mastermind(specialist subject: written in 1981,Music for 247 Strings, Les Dawson) and has appeared on by the now Master of the Queen’s Coronation Street (he once delivered Music, Judith Weir (our 2018 featured a car to Sally Webster…). composer). It’s been a busy few years for Justin. Weir Music for 247 Strings Beethoven Op 47, ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata He brought back tiger-facedYoung Kennyfor the record-breaking run of Phoenix Nights Live at The For further artist information, Manchester Arena, which raised over please see p11 (Event 9C/F) £5 million forComic Relief; told p17(Event 11D/F). fantastic tales about Australia and *In memory of Caroline Green Manchester onLive At The Apollo; Sunda
RACHEL PODGERbaroque violin Comedian. Actor. Dog Walker. “Guardian Angel” Bach by candlelight y 18 Parent. Sometimes on your telly, Lichfield Cathedral60m t
never on your drive. Has own teeth h and is left-handed. Veggie. 9.30pmEvent 18H £22 July Rachel Podger has established won The Champion of Champions herself as a leading interpreter of the
Baroque and Classical periods. 306271 01543 Tickets: on BBC 5Live’s Fighting Talk; and The first woman to be awarded the appeared as Dean the rival cricketing prestigious RAM/Kohn Foundation landlord on Coronation Street. Bach Prize, she was also All this as well as helming his own Gramophone Artist of the Year 2018. critically acclaimed podcast:About 30 She is the founder and Artistic Minutes, No More Than 45. Director of her ensemble Brecon Baroque and the Brecon Baroque Festival.
Her solo programme tonight includesBiber ’s Passacaglia in G minor for solo violin – ‘The Guardian Angel’, which gives tonight’s recital its title. www.lichfieldfestival.org
J.S. BachCello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV 1008 (transposed to A minor for violin)
G. TartiniSonata in B Minor
H. BiberPassacaglia in G minor for solo violin from the Mystery Sonatas ‘The Guardian Angel’
J.S. Bach Partita in G minor (transposed from Flute Partita In A minor BWV 103)
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