Robert Louis Stevenson Poisoned Kiss Is to Be Recorded for the First Time
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Across RVW Crossword No.11 by Michael Gainsford 1. Tempo marking of scherzo of Symphony No 4 (7,5) No.25 October 2002 4. German folk song arranged by RVW in 1903 (5) Journal of the 1 2 3 6. Plenty of this in Scott ofthe Antarctic! (3) 7. England, Arise! (9) 10. Appendage at the side of the head (3) EDITOR 4 12. RVW wrote an overture to this (juvenile) opera (3) 13. Palestinian city that figures in Winter, of Folk Songs of 5 10 6 Stephen Connock the Four Seasons of 1949 (9) RVW 7 8 9 15. First note of sol-fa scale (3) Society 16. If I were one in 1903 (5) 13 10 11 17. RVW's school (12) 12 Down The Poisoned Kiss to be In this issue... 1. RVW wrote music for its pageant (7) 16 13 14 2. Greek prefix indicating ‘few’(5) The Songs of Travel. 15 recorded at last 3. RVW wrote a concerto for this in 1944 (4) Guest editor: Dr William Adams 16 5. Again in 1944, RVW wrote an article on this type of music (4) After years of planning, it is excellent news that The G Robert Louis Stevenson Poisoned Kiss is to be recorded for the first time. 8. Over hill and this in Shakespearean song of 1951 (4) 20 Richard Hickox will conduct the BBC National A brief examination of 9. An Irish one appears in The Running Set (4) Orchestra of Wales with a star-studded cast, largely the poet. 17 10. Has a lament in unpublished madrigal of 1897 (4) derived from the successful Vision of Albion Page 5 performance at the Barbican, in London, on 26 11. RVW wrote one for harmonica in 1951 (7) October 1997. Chandos plan to record the opera from G Elements of form and 14. Often followed by variations (5) Answers on Page 17 2 - 7 January 2003 in Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. unity in Songs of Travel. 15. Compact or vinyl, many of mine singularly contain RVW works! (4) Fund-raising Page 6 As always with such projects, raising the G The recordings – A necessary funds has been vital. The campaign was Albion Music Limited News and Notes spearheaded by The Garland Appeal, but it has comparative analysis. been the involvement of RVW Ltd that has Page 12 Important Notice for UK Members finally secured the project. Our heartfelt thanks Publications availiable by post:- G Subscribing by Banker’s Standing Order to Ursula Vaughan Williams, Michael Kennedy Symphony No. 9 – An The collected poems of Ursula Vaughan Williams £15.00 plus £1.65 Dear member and the directors of RVW Ltd, whose help has Introduction and CD Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion by Wilfrid Mellers If you have a banker’s standing order been of the utmost importance. The RVW review by Robin Barber Society has been asked to provide the liner (370 pages; new edition) £15.00 plus £2.55 arrangement in place for the payment of the notes. 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TREASURER All cheques should be made out to Albion Music Limited and sent to: Sunday 24 November 2002 at 9.00pm 2nd Medium Helen Williams (mezzo soprano) 3rd Medium Claire Bradshaw (contralto) John Francis West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge Stephen Connock, Dipsacus Neal Davies (bass) Lindeyer Francis Ferguson, 65 Marathon House, 200 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5 PL Ticket prices: £12/£8 (SCMS members and Empress Anne Collins (contralto) North House, OAPs) / £4 (students) 198 High Street, Ticket prices (includes a glass of wine after Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1BE Next Edition: The deadline for the concert) available from Selwyn College There was a time Tel: 01732 360200 [email protected] February 2003 contributions is Alumni Office (01223) 741 582 This Romantic Extravaganza contains music of remarkable lyricism, including the lovely duet th between Amaryllus and Tormentilla Blue larkspur in a garden and Tormentilla’s Act II song There SECRETARY The Poisoned Kiss 20 December 2002 Selwyn College Chapel Choir and Selwyn was a time. With many light-hearted interludes, the opera ends with a warm-hearted finale. Dr. David Betts College Orchestra Tudor Cottage 30, Tivoli Road The June 2003 The deadline for Great St. Mary’s Girls’ Chamber Choir Love has conquered! Hearts united! Call Rachel Santesso (soprano) Love has conquered! Wrong is righted! Brighton East Sussex edition of the Journal contributions is Andrew Tortise (tenor) Love triumphant! Hearts united! for th BN1 5BH will concentrate on 20 April 2003 Edmund Connolly (baritone) The February 2003 edition of the Journal will concentrate on ‘The Poisoned Kiss’. Tel: 01273 501118 The Sixth Symphony. papers Sarah MacDonald, conductor [email protected] Charity No. 1017175 Personal testimony: A Special Flame: How I was drawn to the Songs of Travel The Music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams by William M. Adams, D.M.A. The Elgar Society and the RVW Society are proud to announce a joint two-day International Symposium, at the British Library in It was the Fall of 1988. I was to study them. On my Junior Recital I performed The Vagabond, The London, on 29 March and 30 March 2003. Titled A Special Flame: The Music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, the Symposium will in my first semester as Roadside Fire and Bright is the Ring of Words. On my Senior Recital, I consist of lectures, discussion and recitals, as well as an evening concert of chamber music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams. With well- a transfer student at closed the evening with the entire cycle. known speakers from the UK and America, this Symposium will examine Elgar’s and Vaughan Williams’s music and the social California State University, background which shaped their remarkable creativity. It promises to be a memorable weekend of study, discussion and exploratio n. San Bernardino. We were in Throughout my career I have returned to these songs time and again. rehearsal for a production They’ve become “old friends” to me. I sing them on recitals, in auditions, The programme is as follows: of the musical The and I routinely teach them to my students. It was only fitting that as I Fantasticks, in which I ended my academic career, as a student, I should return to them again. I was singing the role of El was amazed that so little had been devoted to these songs. I fear they Saturday 29th March 2003 Sunday 30th March 2003 Gallo. My voice teacher, have been taken for granted by singers and teachers of singing because Dr. Loren Filbeck, was giving a of their general accessibility to younger voices. It was my feeling that a 10.00 Registration and coffee 09.30 Coffee faculty recital. I was released from rehearsal just work needed to be produced analyzing the songs in more detail and in time to catch the last thirty minutes of the recital. Those thirty providing both singers and teachers of singing a guidebook in how to 10.25 Welcome by Stephen Connock, 09.55 Welcome by Andrew Neill, Chairman for Day 2 minutes have had an enormous impact on the rest of my career. approach the songs. Chairman for Day 1. 10.00 From The Apostles to Pretty Bess: Oratorios and Portraits The work which Loren chose to close his recital was Vaughan Williams Thus, my doctoral treatise at the University of Texas at Austin was Ralph 10.30 Key note address : Elgar and Vaughan Williams: A 21st in the Music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams by Professor Songs of Travel. I was completely unfamiliar with the work. My only Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel: An Historical, Theoretical, and exposure to the music of Vaughan Williams had been playing his folk Performance Practice Investigation and Analysis. After discussing my Century Celebration by Michael Kennedy Charles McGuire song suites or the fantasias in high school band. Even then I remember work with Stephen Connock, it was decided that the October 2002 issue always being drawn to the music, they were often my favorite pieces on of the RVW Journal would be devoted to these songs.