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Hexham Abbey Festival in 2010 more than ever has “something Event 1 for everyone” ( Courant in 2009), and we continue THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME to grow from “strength to tuneful strength!” (Journal Culture Classic Lon Chaney silent film with live music 7.30 pm Forum Cinema magazine). Enjoy the energy and diversity of it all! Tickets: £8.50, £6.00 (concession)

This year our “Fantastic Fables” theme Festival in Last year we cowered before the Phantom of the Opera, this draws on the full title of the Festival 2012, since we year Lon Chaney’s earlier success in the 1923 classic silent film of Music & Arts in a rich spectrum of are just now Hunchback of Notre Dame will make us suffer the torments Romantic and pre- and post-Romantic enjoying a of the poor deformed Quasimodo! This was Universal’s most music, all with some inner narrative. We resurgent trend. successful silent film, grossing over $3 million, based on the tale celebrate centenary anniversaries of the 2009 marked by Victor Hugo. Directed by Wallace Worsley it also stars Patsy births of composers Chopin, Schumann a turning point Ruth Miller as Esmeralda. The film is most notable for the grand and Barber. These composers stories for us in many sets recalling 15th century Paris, and Lon Chaney’s outstanding tell of struggles overcome, which is ways. Not only performance and spectacular make-up as the tortured demonstrated by the emotional power of did we hold bellringer. The film elevated Chaney, already a well-known their music. Our other events, too, whether up against the character actor, to full star status in Hollywood. it be the classic struggle of the outsider recessionary rejected, as in our silent film presentation trend, but the Now a firm Festival favourite, this classic silent film is accompanied by live music from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the demographic Graham Coatman (piano), Phil Wilcox (accordion) and Martin Batchelar (percussion). social satire of Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS spread of our Pinafore, underlined in Opera della Luna’s audience widened. It was wonderful to We are grateful to Pianos for the supply of the piano for this event highly original production, the innocent welcome visitors from across the country, story of the little lead soldier in our family amongst our cherished regulars! concert, or the narrative evident in Carolyn Mendelsohn’s portraits of Hexham We encourage you to enjoy all of the Event 2 shopkeepers, all have something to say to Festival, and charming, rural Hexham, with enrich the lives of all of us. a host of special treats and entertainments IMPROMPTU in store in 2010! Beautifully filmed Chopin biopic starring Hugh Indeed, our own story over 58 years has its Grant, Judy Davis & Emma Thompson ups and downs too, yet encourages us as Graham Coatman 9.30 pm Forum Cinema we look towards our Diamond Jubilee Artistic Director Tickets: £5.50

Filmed entirely on location in France, the main location being the Chateau des Briottières in the Thank you! Loire Valley, the plot explores the relationship between George Sand and Frederic Chopin. Baroness Aurora Dudevant, successful and We are indebted to our network of funding partners & supporters. Arts Council notorious writer of sensational romantic novels, is England North East, Queens Hall Arts Hexham, and many more. Thanks to the 43 now living in Paris under the pseudonym George Sand. She dresses like a man, for in her Fund and a generous donor, we have been able to acquire some staging, which romantic pursuit of the sensitive Chopin, whose music she fell in love with before seeing him in person, George/Aurora is advised that she must act like a man pursuing a woman. will enhance the experience for our audiences. We are pleased to be working with She is also advised not to pursue him at all! Hexham & District Music Society, 20,000 Voices, Théâtre Sans Frontières and Hexham Community Partnership, and there are trusts & foundations and many individuals who Impromptu (1991) won the Audience Favorite award at the Houston WorldFest Film help in all kinds of ways - we thank you all! Festival. Hugh Grant plays Chopin, with Judy Davis as Sand, whilst Emma Thompson is the Duchess d’Antan, an aspiring socialite, in whose country house Chopin and Sand meet. Of course the film score features music by Chopin, and also Liszt.

FESTIVAL SAVER: Combined ticket for Events 1 + 2: £12.00, £9.00 (concessions) Saturday 25 September www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/festival Box Office 01434 652477 Sunday 26 September

“SPIRIT OF HEXHAM” FESTIVAL FESTIVAL EUCHARIST 10.00 am Hexham Abbey The street festival has long been a feature of the opening weekend of the Festival, heralding a week of memorable Music includes Louis Vierne Messe Solenelle with two organs, motets Maurice DurufléUbi musical events. Someone dubbed its sense of energy and Caritas and Déodat de Séverac Tantum Ergo. Concluding organ voluntary, played by fun as the “Spirit of Hexham returned” last year - and the Assistant Organist Alex Woodrow is the Final from Vierne’s Organ Symphony No 1. name has stuck! So the first Saturday of the Festival is aimed at all generations, with lots of free music to suit all tastes, Event 4 a procession round town, Morris dancing, and activities especially for children to join in. SONGS, SPOOKS & SOLDIERS Family fun concert for children 6-12 Again, with Hexham Community Partnership, we present 3.00 pm Hexham Abbey an eating (and drinking!) Festival, with a range of food and Tickets: £5 (£17.50 for family ticket; 2 adults, 2 children) drink from local producers on offer, cookery demonstrations, and other stalls and attractions making it a great “feel A great success first time in 2009, Phil Wilcox and Eleanor Ripman good” day out for all! will again lead us a merry dance (but not penguins this year!) in our Family Fun Concert. There are stories with music, songs, and Musical acts include Tenth Avenue Band from Newcastle, opportunities for children to join in, aimed at children of Primary school who have been entertaining regional audiences for more age (6-12 years), but adults are admitted too! The performance lasts than 15 years, with a mix of jazz, blues, African tunes, ska, approximately 50 minutes, and tickets include a tea time treat for klezmer, and Latin dance music. Also Alex Percy & Phil children (a glass of wine for the grown-ups!). Wilcox dexterous fiddle and accordion duo play traditional tunes, plus youthful folk band Toble. Great entertainment for all - and all our events are FREE! FESTIVAL CHORAL Music & events 10.00 am - 4.00 pm in Hexham Market Square and the Abbey precincts. 6.30 pm Hexham Abbey Watch the website for latest news and full entertainment line up! Music sung by Hexham Abbey choir includes Responses Clucas; Canticles Wood in D; Event 3 Anthem Wood Hail, Gladdening Light and Voluntary Elgar Sonata in G (1st movement) HANDEL’S MESSIAH Hexham Abbey Festival Chorus & Orchestra Keepers - exhibition by Carolyn Mendelsohn 7.30 pm Hexham Abbey Scott’s Bar, Forum Cinema 24 Sept - 18 Oct Tickets: £18 (reserved), £14 (unreserved), £10 (concession) Carolyn created the Face film/sound installation for Kathryn Jenkin soprano Sally Burchell alto Hexham Abbey Festival in 2008. Whilst in Hexham she James Geer tenor Philip Smith bass became fascinated by the uniqueness of the town and its David Murray conductor independent shopkeepers. For 2010 she has returned to Of all our Fantastic Fables the supreme classic “greatest create some additional images, and these form this more story ever told”, is the subject of G F Handel’s masterpiece, traditional photographic exhibition. written as always with this accomplished composer, in a remarkably short space of time. The premiere was in 1742 She continues: “Curious person that I am, I asked many of in Dublin, rather than London, to avoid the controversy these shopkeepers whether I could take a photograph of and charges of blasphemy often surrounding Handel’s them by their shop, or in their shop, partly for myself, but oratorios. Handel was, after all, a man of the theatre, an also because I wanted to document something unique and opera composer, a humanist, dealing with real people and special much in the same way Victorians did. I am coming real life situations. Although Messiah is not strictly an oratorio, since it has no narrative, it back this summer to stumble into more shops and (if they let me) photograph more is unmistakably full of all the theatrical colour and drama of his best operas. We have an people for this project, and the end result will be an exhibition and photographic outstanding team of soloists, with a background of performances with Glyndebourne document of some of the amazing shops and their keepers that make up Hexham. In Opera and the Royal Opera, ensuring, with the Festival Chorus in fine fettle, this evergreen this world of multi-nationals and supermarkets, the independent shop and trader is a work will come alive with freshness and vitality, as well as drama and pathos. rare and wonderful thing, this exhibition seeks to celebrate some of Hexham’s finest.” Sunday 26 September Box Office 01434 652477 www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/festival Monday 27 September

Event 5 Event 6 UN COEUR EN HIVER PHIL WILCOX (baritone) & Graham Coatman (piano) Emmanuelle Béart & Daniel Auteuil in a tale Young Artist Platform - 1 about a young violinist 1.00 pm Hexham Abbey 7.45 pm Forum Cinema Tickets: £6.00 Tickets: £5.50 Phil Wilcox is the first of this year’s Young Artists, singing English song Last in our mini French film series, this is a and Lieder. His selection includes George Butterworth’s nostalgic real one! Young rising star violinist Camille song cycle A Shropshire Lad, with theme of disappearing youth and (Emmanuelle Béart) walks into the violin shop, mortality, ideas also present in Brahms Vier Ernste Gesänge (Four and lives of Stephane (Danaiel Auteuil) and Serious Songs). To complete the programme are songs by Schumann Maxime (André Dussolier), who run a violin and folksong arrangements by Britten. Phil has recently sung the making and repair shop of high repute. Their bass roles in Haydn The Creation and in Monteverdi Vespers 1610. He lives are changed for ever. leads Sing Up workshops as part of ’s outreach programme, and took part in the LeedsLieder+ Festival. This is a love tangle that pulls at the heart strings, yet in a very sophisticated and gentle way - not your typical triangle! All the while Event 7 the underscoring with its exquisite tensions, infused with moments of beauty and the blues LA PELOTA MÁGICA (THE MAGIC BALL) is captured to perfection in the music of Ravel (notably his Violin Sonata and Piano Trio). Théâtre Sans Frontières new show for the whole family European film is noted for its strong sense of characters playing in an enclsoed space, 6.00 pm Queen Elizabeth High School and director Claude Sautet brings out superb acting and sensitivity from his stars as they Tickets: £5 (£17.50 for family ticket; 2 adults, 2 children) portray their loyalty, shyness, love, and ultimately destructive influences. (In French with English subtitles) An enchanting tale from Argentina, performed in simple Spanish, for 6-10 year olds, their families and friends. (Duration 1 hr)

Natalia has been trapped by the cold-eyed witch of the mountains - can her brother Luis rescue her in time? The whole family will adore this spell-binding adventure. Easy to follow for even non-Spanish speakers, this delightful tale is brought to life in true TSF style using puppets, actors and vibrant live music. Join in with the songs and after the show, meet the actors and have a closer look at the puppets and instruments.

Event 8 FIVE BEATS IN A BAR jazz and poetry from the Beat Era of the 1950s & 1960s 8.00 pm Hexham Abbey Tickets: £12.50 (reserved), £8.50 (unreserved, concessions)

A quirky and improvisatory mix of Jazz and Beat era poetry that surprises even the performers, fresh from Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Velvet-toned singer Louise Gibbs and international jazz pianist Jonathan Gee (Guardian Jazz Awards “most promising newcomer 1991) are joined by the 3 speakers of Trio Literati. Jonathan’s inspired improvisation blends and contrasts the energy and rhythm of Monk, Mingus & Charlie Parker, with the hard-living, iconic Beat era poets - Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creely, Lawrence Ferlinghetti et al. An evening of intelligent witty comedy and jazz! Tuesday 28 September Tuesday 28 September www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/festival Box Office 01434 652477 Wednesday 29 September

Event 9 Event 11 ROSEMARY ATTREE (violin) & Graham Coatman (piano) SIMON PASSMORE (piano) Young Artist Platform - 2 Young Artist Platform – 3 1.00 pm Hexham Abbey 1.00 pm Hexham Abbey Tickets: £6.00 Tickets: £6

Rosemary Attree is from Hexham, and having Simon Passmore will be familiar to many who frequent the Abbey. A surprisingly talented gained a scholarship to study at the Royal young man, he played at Hexham Abbey Festival last year, and was also snapped up Northern College of Music, Manchester, where she down the road at Swaledale Festival, playing a recital of Liszt’s music. Unsurprisingly, both has just graduated, has now won a full scholarship Swaledale Festival and we have invited him back to play some more! He will then be off to continue with postgraduate study there with to Royal Northern College of Music to study piano! This year his programme, as with all the Head of Strings, Malcolm Layfield. Young Artist series marks the centenaries of the births of composers Chopin, Schumann and Barber - in Simon’s case he is including the popular Chopin Ballade no 1 in G minor, Rosemary’s programme includes an op 23. His programme also includes Ravel’s evocative suite Gaspard de la nuit, Grieg’s unaccompanied Bach Partita, and Beethoven’s Holberg Suite and music by Percy Grainger. great Sonata no 1 in D major for violin and piano.

Rosemary has worked with the Royal Liverpool FESTIVAL CHORAL EVENSONG Philharmonic Orchestra and on the BBC 6.30 pm Hexham Abbey Philharmonic Professional Access Scheme. She has played under the baton of eminent conductors Sung by the Abbey choir featuring music by Michael Haynes, the Abbey’s Director of including Sir Mark Elder, Gianandrea Noseda and Music, including Responses, Canticles Rochester Service and Anthem O Trinity, O Unity . Sir Martyn Brabbins.

Event 12 Event 10 EVVA MIZERSKA (cello) & EMMA ABBATÉ (piano) OPERA DELLA LUNA – HMS PINAFORE Chopin, Schumann & Barber centenary anniversaries recital Fast and hilarious production of G&S comic opera 8.00 pm Hexham Abbey 7.30 pm Queens Hall Arts Tickets: £12.50, (reserved), Tickets: £14.50, (QHA Friends £13), £9 (student £8.50 (unreserved, concessions) conc) The duo started working together in 2003 and Opera della Luna’s legendary wit and humour have performed in many European countries and in the devices setting their productions places in UK venues such as Fairfield Halls, Cheltenham Pinafore in a Dickensian context, for its many Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Blackheath Halls. resonances. Even the characters’ names have a Recent performances include recitals at the Dickensian ring! One of the Sketches by Boz tells Salzburger Schlosskonzerte, the Aldo Ciccolini of a snobbish resident of Clapham by the name Musical Association (Naples) and the Pump Room of Mrs Joseph Porter. Josephine’s descriptions of (Bath). Praised by both International Record Review differing social domestic scenes in the celebrated and The Strad for their début CD with Toccata ‘pudding basin’ aria are virtually sketches by Boz Classics featuring works by Krzysztof Meyer, Polish themselves. cellist Evva Mizerska and Italian pianist Emma Abbate present a programme celebrating the This inventive companys make a welcome return anniversaries of Chopin’s and Barber’s births with to the Festival with their acclaimed production of these composers Cello Sonatas. They will also Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS PINAFORE. In true Op- include contemporary gems by English and Polish era della Luna style 8 multi-talented singer/actors composers. become crew, chorus and principals in this witty and vivacious production, packed to the brim The Strad praised Evva’s playing for its “great with toe-tapping tunes. expressive range and impressive authority”. Thursday 30 September Box Office 01434 652477 www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/festival Friday 1 October

Event 13 Event 15 JENNIFER LLOYD-WILKINSON (clarinet) JENNIFER BRITTLEBANK (oboe) & GRAHAM COATMAN (piano) & SIMON PASSMORE (piano) Young Artist Platform – 4 Young Artist Platform – 5 1.00 pm Hexham Abbey 1.00 pm Hexham Abbey Tickets: £6 Tickets: £6 Jenny was born into a musical family in Newcastle-under-Lyme, and started playing Jenny Brittlebank is a postgraduate student at the clarinet at age 6. In 1998 she gained a place at the Junior RNCM, studying clarinet with Royal College of Music, with awards from the Arts Neville Duckworth, and piano with Hazel Fanning and composition with Andrew Keeling. and Humanities Research Council, Christopher She gained valuable experience playing in solo, chamber and orchestral concerts during and Susan Gordon-Wells Award and Countess her time there. In her final 2 years she was chosen to represent the college in external of Munster Musical Trust. In 2009 she won a British solo performances. Now completing degree studies at Leeds College of Music, this year Double Reed Society Bursary at the Barbirolli she has also taken part in master classes with Alan Hacker and was selected for the International Oboe Festival & Competition, and Bromsgrove International Music Festival Young Musicians Platform. Her programme for recently became a ‘RCM Rising Star 2010’. Hexham includes the Five Bagatelles by Gerald Finzi. She studied for her first degree from 2005 in Trossingen, Germany, in order to learn with FESTIVAL CHORAL EVENSONG internationally renowned soloist Nicholas Daniel, 6.30 pm Hexham Abbey but her 3rd year was spent at RNCM on an Erasmus exchange. Jennifer has played in the BBC Proms, for the training orchestra of the Stuttgart Music sung by the Abbey girls choir includes music by Hexham associated composers; State Opera, and travels in 2010 include Hong Kong for a trial as Principal Cor Anglais with Responses Atkinson, Canticles Sumsion in D, Anthem Coatman Bring us O Lord. The organ Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and 6 weeks in Washington DC with Lorin Maazel’s Voluntary, played by Alex Woodrow, is Percy Whitlock Toccata (from Plymouth Suite) Castleton Festival Orchestra. In Hexham she plays Schumann Drei Romanzen; Tomasi Evocations; Poulenc Sonate & Barber Canzonetta. Event 14 GILAD ATZMON & ORIENT HOUSE ENSEMBLE Event 16 10th anniversary tour by iconoclastic Israeli sax player & his band STEVEN OSBORNE 7.30 pm Queens Hall Arts Internationally acclaimed Scottish pianist Tickets: £14.50, £9.50 (concessions) 7.30 pm Hexham Abbey Tickets: £14.50, £9.50 (concessions) Gilad’s live performances are simply breathtaking and overwhelming. The Observer says: “He creates his own We are very pleased to welcome Steven Osborne cross cultural idiom.” Jazz UK finds his whirlwind approach to play at Hexham. His programme includes “dynamic, charismatic and exasperating”. The mix of jazz Schubert’s monumental Bb Sonata (D960), and Middle Eastern folk music pursued by his Orient House Preludes by Debussy (Book 1) and Rachmaninov Ensemble, linked to warmth and wit that infuses his every (from Op 32), and two Bagatelles by Beethoven. note, makes for a powerful combination. His CD of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes was

short-listed for a Gramophone Award, won a Atzmon is a superb technician; he’s also a hugely Schallplattenpreis, and was chosen as “Editor’s charismatic, exuberant character. Not only are his solos Choice” in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, highly energetic, but the facial contortions suggest he International Record Review, Musical Opinion remains just as deeply engaged even when he drops out and The Daily Telegraph. “. . . outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, to allow space for understated but impressive pianist Frank discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure.” (BBC Harrison. Meanwhile, the rhythm section – long-serving Music Magazine May 09). The concert is promoted in association with Hexham & District bassist Yaron Stavi, as robust as his imposing physique, Music Society. together with newcomer Eddie Hick on drums – are gloriously “in the pocket” all the way, whether tackling 5/4 “You could have heard a pin drop. Steven Osborne’s power over the hall was absolute . gypsy-infused folk or a tongue-in-cheek oom-pah-pah waltz. . . the atmosphere was spellbound.” (Daily Telegraph) Saturday 2 October www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/festival Box Office 01434 652477 Sunday 3 October

Event 17 Event 18 Event 19 SCOTT STROMAN & BAND & 20,000 Voices Gospel Choir MICHAEL HAYNES & GALLICANTUS in THE An Everlasting Song – songs of faith, love and life ALEX WOODROW WORD UNSPOKEN 8.00 pm Hexham Abbey Four hands, two organs Tudor polyphony by candlelight Tickets: £12.50, £8.50 (concessions) 1.00 pm Hexham Abbey 7.30 pm Hexham Abbey Tickets: £8, £6 (concessions) Tickets: £18 (reserved), £14 (unreserved), £10 (concessions) Scott Stroman directs his Shakespeare Songs and Gospel Suite, together with some Michael Haynes (organist at the Abbey) The traditional choral candlelight concert, traditional spirituals and gospel songs, in an and Alex Woodrow (assistant organist) given by Gallicantus, consists of an entire uplifting concert to close the Festival. The demonstrate not only their versatility and programme of sacred Tudor polyphony. concert features the 20,000 Voices Gospel virtuosity, but also that of the two Abbey The early music ensemble Gallicantus Choir and Pete Hurt, saxes/woodwinds, organs in music for both instruments. Works was born within the ranks of the Tenebrae Sonia Slany, violin, Nick Cooper, cello, Justin include Antonio Soler Concerto for Two Choir, when 6 of the choir’s regulars Quinn, guitar, Alec Dankworth, bass, and Organs, Samuel Wesley Sonata for Organ decided to form an ensemble dedicated Paul Clarvis, drums/percussion. Duet, Handel Organ Concerto in F and to renaissance music. music by Bach, Fauré and Rutter. Shakespeare Songs was commissioned from Scott to commemorate the 450th Michael was appointed as Director of anniversary of the accession of Queen Music in 2000. Since then he has also given Elizabeth 1. The cycle of 8 songs for voices recitals across the UK, in Germany and with instrumental sextet is set in a lyrical USA. He is an Associated Board examiner, folk/jazz style. This is the first performance of the work in the north east. The Gospel Suite and has worked in Europe, and Hong was commissioned by 20,000 Voices with funds from PRSF, and premiered at The Sage Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Gateshead in 2007.

Alex (who joined as Assistant Organist 20,000 Voices supports and develops singing across at the Abbey in September 2009), was Northumberland and the north east. Formed by Mid Organ Scholar at Guildford and St Albans Northumberland Arts Group in 1993, 20,000 Voices is now an Cathedrals. He gained his Fellow of the independent company and charity, and has to date worked with Royal College of Organists at 19, winning over 125,000 voices – ranging from babes in arms to elderly singers 1st prizes in all categories, including the in care homes. The 20,000 Voices Gospel Choir was founded in Limpus Prize. He also has the Silver Medal 2003, when it gave its inaugural performance at the Hexham of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Abbey Festival under the direction of Scott Stroman.

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Event 18 (candlelight) stage is at top of night stair (stage in south transept) with the audience facing 1 Hunchback of Notre Dame (silent film) [Forum] Dame (silent 1 Hunchback of Notre EVENT 2 Impromptu (film) [Forum] 2 Impromptu Forum Saver - Festival : Messiah Chorus & Orch 3 Festival 1: reserved2: unreservedprice seats; price Fun Concert [Abbey] 4 Family du Siècle (film) [Forum] 5 Les Enfants [Abbey] 1 – Phil Wilcox 6 YAP [QEH School] Mágica 7 La Pelota in a Bar [Abbey] 8 5 Beats 9 YAP 2 - Rosemary Attree [Abbey] Attree 2 - Rosemary 9 YAP della Luna [QHA] 10 Opera [Abbey] 3 – Simon Passmore 11 YAP [Abbey] Abbaté Mizerska/Emma 12 Evva 13 YAP 4 – Jenny Lloyd-Wilkinson [Abbey] Lloyd-Wilkinson 4 – Jenny 13 YAP + OHE [QHA] 14 Gilad Atzmon 15 YAP 5 – Jenny Brittlebank [Abbey] 5 – Jenny 15 YAP Osborne [Abbey] 16 Steven 17 Michael Haynes/Alex Woodrow [Abbey] Woodrow 17 Michael Haynes/Alex south in transepts area 1 (pink) Abbey] [candlelight 18 Gallicantus 1: reserved2: unreservedprice seats; price band/Gospel choir [Abbey] Stroman 19 Scott Saver YAP/lunchtime Forum Festival 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 events concerts - for all 6 lunchtime Series ticket Saver Forum Abbey/evening Festival events evening weekday Festival/Abbey for series ticket 8, 12, 14, 16, 18 - 5 concert Events

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