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March 2014 MUSIC FESTIVAL SOCIETY VOL. 34, NO. 1 www.cmfsoc.org.uk Chairman’s Message One of the compensations of this time of the year, In this we are helped by our quartet of Honorary Vice- particularly welcome in the present stormy weather, is to Presidents which is now complete. Dame Felicity Lott has hear about the pleasures in store for us in the Festival in graciously consented to join the vice-presidential trio of July. This Newsletter highlights some of the especially Lord Berkeley, Martin Brabbins and James Gilchrist whose exciting events that Meurig and his colleagues have acceptances were announced in our last newsletter. We also planned for us. welcome Joss Gregson as a new Life Benefactor and are pleased to announce that we have offered Christopher This year’s Festival will be the 70th and to mark this Cook Honorary Life Membership of the Cheltenham Music milestone we have agreed to increase the overall level of Festival Society in recognition of his sterling work for the support. We are increasing our support for the programme Cheltenham Music Festival over the years. book, which will be a bumper edition, and to the education programme. We shall also be joint sponsors of the new The Society can continue to support the Festival only opera, Tokaido Road and support the concert by the Smith with continued input from the members. Our reward is to Quartet and Joby Burgess. This does not mean that the help to ensure that the Festival can carry on to provide the Society is flush with cash (far from it) but in this special music of the wide range and high standard that is its year we agreed that a bigger effort than normal was called strength. The AGM is the occasion when thanks can be for. Incidentally, if anyone would like to make an extra expressed to members and by the members to Meurig and donation to celebrate this anniversary, we would be most his team who make the Festival happen. We are repeating grateful. the format that we found worked well last year, of having the AGM during the Festival immediately before the The Society is once again independent - as it was Reception. The official notice is included in the Newsletter. originally - and we expect no special privileges in return We hope to see you there. for our support. But we do get invited to a special Reception, which this year will be at the Parabola Arts Finally, I have sad news to report. Eleanor Budge, our Centre and we shall still hold a lunch for Benefactors when former Chairman and a long-standing supporter of the we shall be able to meet some of the artists performing on Music Festival passed away at the end of 2013. She will be the day. We intend to publicise our activities during the greatly missed. Do read Jeremy Tyndall’s tribute to her on Festival, notably in the programme book (which we page 2. support financially) and at the concerts we support, and we hope thereby to increase our membership. Jim Harrison

Dates for Your Diary March 24th Wednesday July 2nd, 11 am Priority Booking starts for the Music Festival. Please note Start of 70th Cheltenham Music Festival, Pump that the Festivals Booking Office (Tel: 0844 880 8094) has Room now moved to 15 Suffolk Parade, GL50 2AE near The Daffodil and this concession is now restricted to subscribers to the ’ Membership Scheme. Wednesday July 2nd, 3.30 pm (see back page) Annual General Meeting of Cheltenham Music Festival April 30th – May 5th Society Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road Various venues Members will have an opportunity to preview photos of June 3rd - 8th Nicola LeFanu’s new opera Tokkaido Road, an exhibition Cheltenham Science Festival of photos by Elizabeth Jacobs and a display of programme Various venues covers from all seventy Cheltenham Music Festivals. Continued on Page 2 15494 CFS newsletter March 2014 8pp_August 2004 Newsletter 03/03/2014 12:55 Page 2

Continued from previous page Friday July 4th, 10 pm Saturday, July 12th at 7 pm Recital by Smith Quartet and Joby Burgess, Parabola Arts Holst’s Suite: The Planets and the premiere of Richard Centre Blackford’s Great Animal Orchestra Sponsored by Cheltenham Music Festival Society Sunday, July 6th, 4 pm Sunday, July 13th, 11 am Premiere of Nicola LeFanu’s opera Tokkaido Road. Final Event of Festival: Trio Medieval and Arve Parabola Arts Centre Hendrikson Co-commissioned and sponsored by Cheltenham Music Chapel Festival Society Thursday, July 10th at 1.15 pm Cheltenham Music Festival Society Benefactors’ Lunch Details will be announced at a later date

Eleanor Budge 1918-2013. An Appreciation On 11th December 2013 Eleanor Budge died at the age of most generous in her financial support for that project, too. 95. A staunch supporter of Cheltenham Music Festival since the 1950s she was a vice-president of Cheltenham Her greatest legacy, though, is probably the continuing Festivals and for many years chairman of the Cheltenham friendliness of the Festival. Not only did she give a (Music) Festival Society. personal welcome to indiviual members of the audience at concerts, she made many friends through her hosting of Born in Northumberland and educated in Yorkshire, artists and others, taking Lady Bliss to visit gardens and after a period as a science teacher, she moved on to geological sites and allowing Sir Lennox Berkeley the use become Head of Biology at St Mary’s Teacher Training of her home as a studio. Her house in was also College. In 1962 married George Budge, Head of Music at a regular venue for extra rehearsals of artists, and she St Paul’s. George was heavily involved in the Cheltenham remembered with particular affection the Festival and followed Frank Howes as its Chairman until Frankl/Pauk/Kirshbaum Trio. his death in 1981. In her retirement Eleanor took up art, and specialised in Eleanor supported George in all these activities and watercolour painting and drawing botanical subjects. She also became involved with the Three Choirs Festival where was an active Art Club member exhibiting annually in the she organised a group of about sixty volunteer workers in Cotswolds, and she used to do demonstrations in Hurrans all the practicalities of the organisation of the Festival, Garden Centre in Gloucester. Sadly, after she suffered a including transport, accommodation and catering. For serious stroke she had to give up her painting, though she some years she was also treasurer of Gloucester Music was able to be encouraging and enthusiastic in her advice Society. to friends learning to paint themselves.

She maintained a direct involvement with the Eventually her physical health deteriorated to a point Cheltenham Music Festival throughout, most notably where she had to sell her home in Estcourt Road and move through the Society. She inevitably into Guild House, an excellent care home nearby in became its fine galvanising chairman who always urged Gloucester, and subsequently to Magdalene House in the Society members to make all visitors to the Festival same foundation, when her nursing needs became more welcome. “If you don’t know the person you are sitting demanding. She was treated well and with respect in both next to, introduce yourself,” she used to say. She always these homes, and with David and Barbara Seed (her former led by example, and remained active even after she next door neighbours) being her most regular visitors and relinquished the chairmanship at the age of 80 because of latterly looking after all her affairs, she was made as increasing deafness. comfortable as possible till the end.

When George died, Eleanor was invited to become Vice Eleanor will be remembered by all who knew her as an President of Cheltenham Arts Festivals Ltd. She set up the exceptionally kind and friendly person. Her support for the George Budge Trust to perpetuate her husband’s memory Cheltenham Music Festival over the years is unsurpassed. which supported a concert each year at the Pump Room. She proof-read the programme book and carried on Jeremy Tyndall checking it through to the mid-1990s. When the Festival (Parts of this appreciation were first published in the 2008 was playing its part in helping Cheltenham Borough Festival programme book to coincide with Eleanor’s 90th Council to replace the Town Hall Steinway and to renovate birthday.) the existing one for the Eleanor was 2 15494 CFS newsletter March 2014 8pp_August 2004 Newsletter 03/03/2014 12:55 Page 3

A Second Look at the Music Festival 2014 I had a feeling that this would be a vintage year for women 15 years, including the likes of Alison Balsom, Natalie Clein composers and I was right. There is now another name to be and Steven Osborne, so the three concerts by the present added to the list given in the last newsletter – that of Arlene crop should be well worth attending. And don’t forget Sierra – whose Butterflies will be premiered by Nicola talented local young musicians Catriona Holsgrove, Emily Benedetti and Friends on the evening of July 3rd. Harding and the 2014 Young Musician of Composing Women will be the subject of a discussion with the Year who will perform at the Pump Room on Wednesday Judith Weir, Hannah Kendall and others in the Parliament 9th. Room at Gloucester Cathedral. Members of the Composers’ Academy will have an Male composers are also well represented, including opportunity to showcase their talents on Tuesday 8th. The Graham Fitkin, Will Gregory, Gavin Higgins, Tom Stewart, previous evening they will be participating in a showing of Huw Watkins, John Woolrich and others, all of whom will the film short Pulse with music by Dobrinka Tabakova and have works premiered at this year’s Festival. In total there Rants, a session of three-minute opinion pieces on a variety will be 28 first performances – perhaps more – which is of cultural subjects which are then thrown open to the floor. surely a record. One of the more unexpected premieres is of Admission is free. a symphonic work by Tony Banks from the rock group As indicated in the last newsletter, the late Sir John Genesis who will be discussing the work with Brian Moore. Tavener’s work will feature prominently. On Wednesday 9th Does the name Tortelier ring a bell? Some members will in one of their last concerts together the Hilliard Ensemble recall the great cellist Paul Tortelier or his son, Yan Pascal in Tewkesbury Abbey will perform his Ikon of Light, Tortelier who has conducted several times in Cheltenham. premiered at the 1984 Festival. On Friday 11th in a late- Cheltenham will now have a chance to see and hear Maxime night candlelit concert in Gloucester Cathedral four string Tortelier, grandson of Paul and son of Yan Pascal, and with quartets will come together to perform the premiere of such a pedigree he should be well worth listening to. Scatter Roses over my Tears, one of his final works. Currently Leverhulme Young Conductor in Association with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra he will be Celebrating an Iconic Work conducting that orchestra in the Pick Your Own Prom on One hundred years ago Holst (then Gustav von Holst) began Saturday 5th which will include the Banks premiere. composing what was to become his best known work, The Youth in the Spotlight Planets. So it is appropriate that this year’s Festival should This looks like being very much a Festival for young people, be marked not only with a performance of this great work - which is music to the ears of the CMFS which regularly by Martyn Brabbins and the BBC National Orchestra of supports the educational programme with funds from the Wales on the final Saturday – but by a number of related Pattison Bequest. events. Nicholas McCarthy and illustrator James Mayhew will Before the concert a symposium will be held in which be giving workshops in local schools in June, and during the Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer of the Royal Observatory first weekend of the Festival Nicola Benedetti will be will consider why Holst’s Suite remains popular with imparting her knowledge and skills to young string players astronomers and the general public. Stephen Johnson will in preparation for a concert on Sunday 6th. The concert explore the cultural-historical background to the work while which starts at 4pm in the Princess Hall, Cheltenham Ladies’ Raymond Head will enlarge on the the composer’s College will include music by Holst and Shostakovich. astrological beliefs. The Holst Birthplace Museum will be hosting a special exhibition displaying the original If you happen to be in Imperial Gardens on the first manuscript of The Planets and associated material in the Saturday of the Festival don’t be surprised to see young form of letters and diaries. people in uniform marching around Imperial Gardens. They are not local cadets but the marching band Drumfanfare (Incidentally, if you can get to the Museum before 22nd Yong Leven from the Netherlands. Sunday morning at the March you’ll be able to see Lauren O’Neil’s colourful art Town Hall will see a family event when Michael Morpurgo installation Emotions representing atoms, shapes and planets will tell a story set in the First World War, Private Peaceful, hung above Holst’s piano. It is well worth a look.) assisted by a vocal trio. The Planets Suite will be justaposed with the premiere of Later in the week on Thursday 10th the lively Buskaid Richard Blackford’s Great Animal Orchestra - a piece which Soweto Strings from Johannesburg will be making a promises to offer more than just musical notes. It will also welcome return. They’ll also be performing the following incorporate recordings of American Pacific tree frogs, morning at a special concert for schools along with the Atéa African elephants and gorillas and South American birds. If Wind Quintet. On the final Saturday James Mayhew will be you find a puzzled concert-goer sitting next to you wearing a back to paint Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals assisted hearing aid, you can assure him that no adjustment is by award-winning local young musicians Jonathan needed. McNaught, Alex Kirk and Rebecca McNaught. In the A number of talks have been scheduled from Mozart to afternoon there’s going to be a Party in Pittville Park when British military and brass bands and their influence on people can let their hair down. British Music. The Festival has a particularly interesting Fringe this year with music by such diverse composers as Young Musicians and Tavener David Earle (premiere), Dag Wiren, Rebecca Clarke, Parry, The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme has Monteverdi, monologues by Joyce Grenfell and a nurtured around 100 instrumentalists and singers during its Midsummer Fiesta in Montpellier Gardens. 3 15494 CFS newsletter March 2014 8pp_August 2004 Newsletter 03/03/2014 12:55 Page 4

Looking back on the first Cheltenham Music Festival There was an air of optimism and excitement in the his Kermesse Canadienne, a rhapsody of French-Canadian summer of 1945. Peace had just broken out in Europe: on folk tunes. Present in the audience were such luminaries as May 8th the Allies celebrated Victory in Europe Day. J B Priestley and Sir Kenneth Clark. Troops were returning home to much rejoicing and The following day in the Drawing Room the conductor campaigning had started in the first General Election to be and musicologist Mosco Carner urged people to try to held since 1935. Over in Gloucester on June 13th understand modern music. In the evening the audience was Deaconess Carol Graham made history by becoming the treated to Arnold Bax’s Overture to a Picaresque Comedy first woman to preach from the pulpit in Gloucester and two works by Walton, his Sinfonia Concertante and Cathedral. Façade, conducted by the composer himself. The Echo Things were also buzzing in Cheltenham despite critic noted somewhat sniffily that these pieces were 18 rationing and a potato shortage which was causing and 22 years old respectively. “We must hope that for the problems for fish and chip shops in the borough. The next Festival this master of orchestral writing will have London Philhamonic arrived to perform at the first concert something new and stimulating to offer,” he remarked. I of the new Cheltenham Music Festival – also on that wonder if Walton read this review! fateful Wednesday June 13th. “Cheltenham is right at the forefront in organising the first music Festival since the A Bliss-ful Conclusion War,” proclaimed the eminent music critic Ralph Hill in Arthur Bliss (then just plain Mr) breezed into town on the the first of three lectures held in connection with the Friday to perform two roles. His teatime talk was entitled Festival in the Town Hall Drawing Room chaired by the “Musical Audiences” in which he described four categories Mayor, Clara Winterbotham. of music-lover: the primitive listener who tapped out the rhythm with his foot, the listener who saw pictures in the Not that the town could be described as a cultural music, the listener who studied what the music was about, desert in 1945. Every Sunday evening you could attend and the really important listener “who got an emotion that concerts by the Spa Orchestra conducted by Arthur Cole, was called aesthetic.” one of the instigators of the new Festival, for which admission charges ranged from two shillings and sixpence Bliss conducted six excerpts from his ballet Miracle in (12.5 pence) to sixpence (two and a half pence). In the the Gorbals and his stirring march The Phoenix “written as week of the Festival Lilac Time was playing at the Opera a tribute to the risen France”, and proved to be impressive House and at the Civic Playhouse (the recently converted and energetic on the conductor’s rostrum. Basil Cameron Montpellier Baths) you could see Diana Morgan’s play The did the honours in Holst’s The Perfect Fool, Brahms’ House on the Square. The local cinemas were drawing Academic Festival Overture, Mozart’s Symphony No 25 large crowds to see Alice Fay and Carmen Miranda in The and Tchaikovsky’s Symphonic Fantasia Francesca da Ghost Ship (Daffodil), Dick Powell in Farewell My Lovely Rimini. (Regal), John Wayne in Tall in the Saddle (Gaumont) and In an interview with the Echo the future Master of the crooner Bing Crosby in Going My Way (Coliseum). Queen’s Musick insisted: “Your Festival has been a great success and as an annual event it should have a great future.” He also spoke highly of the audience and drew The Festival begins special attention to the fact that it countained a high Apart from Beethoven’s Leonore 3 Overture, the music in proportion of young people, which was a most the first concert was exclusively English, and included On encouraging sign. Looking back his words were Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (Delius), Vaughan remarkable prescient, though one does wonder what Williams’ Overture: The Wasps and Elgar’s Enigma became of the young people who turned out in such great Variations, all conducted by Basil Cameron. The critic numbers in 1945. from the Gloucestershire Echo was complimentary noting After the Festival was over, electioning commenced in that the Delius piece “was impeccably played, though its earnest in Cheltenham with Alderman Lipson performance hardly achieved the air of ecstatic reverie (Independent), Major Hicks Beach (Conservative) and with which the work is conceived”. Phyllis Warner (Labour) busy wooing local voters. But However, what made the concert so noteworthy was the local residents also had plenty of music on offer: the presence of Benjamin Britten who conducted the first Sunday evening concerts continued and the end of June performance of his Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes – the saw a piano recital at the Town Hall by rising star Moura first of countless premieres which would take place in Lympany. Cheltenham over the next seven decades. He also directed

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Members’ Trip to the Laskett Gardens Thursday, 29th May 2014

The Laskett Gardens are the largest private formal gardens for the amazing topiary, the knot garden and the parterres, to be created in since 1945. In 1973 the recently all lovingly clipped by him in the early years. The garden married Roy Strong and Julia Trevelyan Oman purchased was paid for piecemeal by their labour in the arts, so The Laskett, an early Victorian house midway between there’s a Victoria & Albert Museum Temple to mark Roy’s Hereford and Ross-on-Wye, set in the corner of a four acre directorship and an arbour in honour of the Royal Ballet’s triangle of land. Garden fever seized them early on and, great choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, two of whose with little money and labour at their disposal but a most famous ballets Julia designed. An armillary sundial in cornucopia of ideas, they spent nearly four decades from the Jubilee Garden from Sir Cecil Beaton’s garden at 1973 to create the garden you see today. Broadchalke recalls Roy’s friendship with the photographer while a crowned column presides over the It was inspired by the great gardens of the pre-1914 era, lime avenue in commemoration of both Elizabeth I and II. by Italian gardens like the Villa Lante and by those of Tudor and Stuart England. As a result strong architectural Julia died in 2003 since when the gardens, after 30 years, structure abounds, underpinned by the emphasis on needed radical pruning and thinning out to ensure their dramatic vistas and on surprise as a central concept. Their future in the new century, so hedges have been re-cut, the work transformed the four acres into a series of stunning planting updated and vistas to the surrounding landscape garden rooms, vistas, ascents and descents. These include a opened up. The result has been to endow the Gardens with rose garden, pleached lime avenue, orchard, kitchen renewed energy. garden, knot garden, fountains, statuary and parterres as well as a spectacular array of topiary and rich herbaceous Tickets (£25 CMFS members; £28 non-members) are and prairie style borders. offered on a first come, first served basis. We leave at 11 Uniquely, the garden tells the story of both their am from Park and Ride and stop marriage and their creative lives in the arts. The orchard at Kilpeck at 12 noon for lunch. (The Kilpeck Inn offers a with its collection of unusual varieties was at the heart of 2- and 3- course lunch menu as well as light bar snacks Julia’s garden making, as well as the kitchen garden which which are not included in the cost.) The Lasket Garden together supplied the house with fruit and Tour begins at 2.30 and takes two hours. Arrival back in vegetables. Roy’s fascination with early gardens accounts Cheltenham 6pm. Please apply on the enclosed form.

Opera Trips

Along with English Touring Opera and the Cheltenham Tickets have been booked for Nabucco (WNO) in Cardiff Poetry Festival, the Cheltenham Opera Society will be on Saturday 31 May. After that we will be looking ahead hosting a recital of Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily to the autumn but most of the opera companies have not Dickinson sung by Caryl Hughes (mezzo) with piano yet published their programmes for 2014-2015. To get on accompaniment, followed by a selection of opera arias. the mailing list for opera trips, send your address, phone Caryl is singing with English Touring Opera during their number and e-mail address to Robert Padgett, 14 Century current season. The recital will take place at St Andrew’s Court, Montpellier Grove, Cheltenham GL50 2XR, 01242 Church, Montpellier Street, Cheltenham at 12.00 noon on 571802, [email protected]. Wednesday 2 April. Tickets cost £8, available at the door.

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Here and There

There was a satisfying large turnout for the funeral of Concertgoers in Oxfordshire will doubtless be turning Eleanor Budge at Gloucester Cemetery on December 30th out in force for the English Music Festival in and around 2013. Among the mourners was a face from the past – Kim Dorchester on Thames from 23rd to 26th May Sergeant, who was the Festival Administrator in the days (www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk). Closer at hand when Lord (Michael) Berkeley was Artistic Director. between 11th and 24th the annual Chipping Campden Following an international career which has taken him to Music Festival will be welcoming a host of leading Cardiff, Amsterdam and South East Asia he is now back in musicians to the church of St James the UK where one of his duties is assisting Renna (www.campdenmusicfestival.co.uk). Kellaway MBE with the Lake District Summer Music Festival. Her husband, Sir John Manduell (a former Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra has two concerts in director of the Cheltenham Music Festival), is still active May – with Gloucester Choral Society in the Cathedral on in the musical world and sends his best wishes. The 10th and with Tamsin Waley-Cohen playing the Brahms website for this prestigious festival, incidentally, is Violin Concerto on 17th at the Pump Room. Cheltenham www.lsdm.org.uk and the programme will be announced Chamber Orchestra is in action at St Andrew’s on Saturday on 24th April. 10th

Kim brought news of his successor, Toby Smith, who As if this were not enough activity for May the mother had left Cheltenham to become Director of Performance of all Cheltenham festivals, the Festival of Performing Arts and Programming for the Royal Northern College of Music runs from Wednesday 7th May until Sunday 18th May. (RNCM). Toby has now moved back down south to The standards of most competitors are amazingly high and become the director of the Salisbury Festival. This Festival the entrance fees low. For a taste of what to expect come runs from May 23rd to June 7th and details can be found along and hear a recital by past winners Julia Liang and on www.salisburyfestival.co.uk. Alex Kirk at 6 pm at Bethesda Church on Sunday March 21st. Wagnerians will be wondering which of their idol’s music dramas will be performed at Longborough this Finally, Marathon Man Meurig Bowen has reached summer. Actually, the answer is “none”. Tosca, The £1,000 in fundraising for the Tavener premiere. If you Barber of Seville and Handel’s Rinaldo are this year’s would like to help him reach £2,000 please phone 01242 featured operas, but Wagner’s music (notably, the 537293 for a sponsorship form. Wesendonck Lieder and extracts from Tannhäuser) will feature in a concert on 28th June paving the way to Tristan und Isolde in 2015.

Editor’s Note We welcome contributions to this newsletter whether in the form of letters, comments, photos or queries. In particular all members are cordially invited to submit their views on the 2014 Cheltenham Music Festival for publication in the August newsletter - ideally before the copy deadline of 25 July. Views can be posted or emailed to me on [email protected]. Please don’t be shy about sharing your opinions.

If you would like additional copies of this newsletter to show to your friends please contact either the Membership Secretary ([email protected]) or myself.

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Cheltenham Music Festival Society Annual General Meeting Notice is hereby given that the AGM of the Cheltenham Music Festival Society will take place on Wednesday 2nd July 2014 at 3.30pm at the Parabola Arts Centre in Bayshill Road, Cheltenham (opposite the main entrance to Cheltenham Ladies’ College). AGENDA 1. Welcome to members. 2. Apologies for absence. 3. Minutes of the AGM held on Thursday 4th July 2013. 4. Matters arising. 5. Chairman’s Report 6. Treasurer’s Report and Accounts.You will find financial details on page 7 of this Newsletter. 7. Appointment of an independent examiner of the accounts. 8 Election of Officers: Chairman Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer/Membership Secretary 9. Election of one committee member. 10. Newsletter. 11. Any other business. NOTES Nominations for the posts of honorary officers and one committee members should be lodged with the Honorary Secretary, Mary Mackenzie, Rivendell, Hill Lane, Elmley Castle, Pershore, Worcestershire WR10 3HU on the nomination form enclosed with this mailing. Alternatively the completed form can be faxed to 01386 710517 or emailed to [email protected] (or [email protected]). Nominations should reach the Honorary Secretary at least 48 hours before the start of the Annual General Meeting. Nomination papers should include the name of the person proposed for nomination with his/her signature indicating his/her willingness to stand for election to the Committee. The nomination form should also include the name of the proposer and seconder. The current Honorary Secretary has indicated her willingness to serve for another year. Mrs Jennifer Stapleton who was co opted as Honorary Treasurer/Membership Secretary in November 2013 is also willing to be nominated for this dual position. Committee Members are elected for three years, and since Mr Norman Fyfe will have completed his three year period by the time of the AGM a vacancy has arisen. A full list of current committee members is provided below. RECEPTION A Reception for members will follow the meeting. It would be helpful for catering purposes if you could indicate in advance whether you will be attending by informing Mrs Jo Miller on 01242 577397, [email protected] or at 209 Prestbury Road, Cheltenham GL52 3ES. Jo would also be delighted to hear from anyone who is able to provide “nibbles” to accompany the wine and soft drinks at this event.

Cheltenham Music Festival Society Committee Charity No 281044

Chairman: James S Harrison. Tel: 01242 238705; [email protected] Hetton Lawn, Hetton Gardens, , Cheltenham GL53 8HU. Secretary: Mary E Mackenzie. Tel: 01386 710517; [email protected] Rivendell, Hill Lane, Elmley Castle, Pershore, Worcestershire WR10 3HU Hon. Treasurer/Membership Secretary: Jennifer Stapleton. Tel: 01242 692764; [email protected]. 17 Montpellier Terrace, Cheltenham GL50 1UX. Newsletter Editor: Roger Jones. Tel: 01242 515533; [email protected]; [email protected] 43 Arle Road, Cheltenham GL51 8JY Social Events: Nicola Lawson. Tel: 07789 907267; [email protected] Website Manager: Philip Stapleton. Tel: 01242 692764; [email protected] Committee Members: Jo Miller: 01242 527364; [email protected] Simon Collings - Tel: 01242 514429; [email protected]; Dr Anne Dunn: Tel: 01242 580337. Judith Ginatt: Tel: 01242 577397; [email protected] Norman Fyfe: Tel: 01242 526651 (after 4 pm).

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