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Sum Mer Music EX CATHEDRA excathedra.co.uk Mus er ic m m u S by Candlelight CHOIR | CONSORT | ORCHESTRA | EDUCATION ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR JEFFREY SKIDMORE Summer Music by Candlelight St Peter’s Church, Wolverhampton Saturday 5 June 2021, 5pm & 8pm Hereford Cathedral Wednesday 9 June 2021, 3pm & 7.30pm St John’s Smith Square, London Thursday 10 June 2021, 5pm & 8pm Symphony Hall, Birmingham Sunday 13 June 2021, 4pm Programme Hymnus Eucharisticus Benjamin Rogers (1614-1698) Iam lucis orto sidere 6th century plainchant The Windhover (Dawn Chorus, 2020) Liz Dilnot Johnson (b.1964) Sumer is icumen in 13th century English Cuckoo! (1936) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), arr. Jeffrey Skidmore Revecy venir du Printans Claude le Jeune (c.1528/1530-1600) READING - In defense of our overgrown garden - Matthea Harvey (b.1973) The Gallant Weaver (1997) James MacMillan (b.1959) READING - i thank You God most for this - e.e.cummings (1894-1962) Hymn to St Cecilia (1941- 42) Benjamin Britten READING - Gingo Biloba (1819) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Trois Chansons (1914-15) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) I Nicolette II Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis III Ronde READING - maggie and milly and molly and may - e.e.cummings La Mer (1943) Charles Trenet (1913-2001), arr. Jeffrey Skidmore Summer Holiday (1963) Bruce Welch (b.1941) and Brian Bennett (b.1940), arr. Jeffrey Skidmore anyone lived in pretty how town (2018) Geoff Haynes (b.1959) READING - The evening sun retreats along the lawn (Summer Requiem 2015) - Vikram Seth (b.1952) Saint Teresa’s Bookmark (2018) Penelope Thwaites (b.1944) Te lucis ante terminum 7th century plainchant Night Prayer (2016) Alec Roth (b.1948) We would like to offer our thanks for their help and support to: - The Rev Preb. David Wright at St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton - the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral - Richard Heason and staff at St John’s Smith Square - the team at Symphony Hall In accordance with Government guidance, Ex Cathedra and all the venues have undertaken COVID-19 risk assessments and will be implementing safety procedures for the benefit of artists, audience members and staff. All ticket holders are asked to read and follow any guidelines issued to them prior to and during the event. For the benefit of the whole audience, please ensure that all digital watch alarms, pagers and mobile phones are switched off and please note that photography and the use of recording equipment is strictly forbidden. ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE In accordance with the requirements of Westminster City Council, persons shall not be permitted to sit or stand in any gangway. The taking of photographs and use of recording equipment is strictly forbidden without formal consent from St John’s Smith Square. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in St John’s Smith Square. www.sjss.org.uk St John’s Smith Square Charitable Trust, registered charity no: 1045390 Registered in England. Company no 3028678. ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Performers Ex Cathedra Consort Jeffrey Skidmore conductor Hilary Campbell associate conductor Wolverhampton: Soprano Angela Hicks, Margaret Lingas, Imogen Russell*, Katie Trethewey Alto Sacha Fullerton, Martha McLorinan Tenor Jack Granby, Ashley Turnell Bass Thomas Lowen, Lawrence White Hereford: Soprano Angela Hicks, Margaret Lingas, Imogen Russell*, Katie Trethewey Alto Sacha Fullerton, Martha McLorinan Tenor James Robinson, Ashley Turnell Bass Thomas Lowen, Lawrence White London: Soprano Angela Hicks, Margaret Lingas, Imogen Russell*, Katie Trethewey Alto Sacha Fullerton, Martha McLorinan Tenor James Robinson, Ashley Turnell Bass Thomas Lowen, Lawrence White Ex Cathedra Birmingham: Soprano Marianne Ayling, Alison Burnett, Ros Crouch, Naomi Hedges, Rosy Heneghan, Rebecca Ledgard, Rebecca Mills, Margaret Lingas, Imogen Russell*, Shirley Scott, Rachel Snape, Sally Spencer, Ellie Sperling, Katie Trethewey Alto Ula Chapman, Sacha Fullerton, Gabriella Liandu*, Rebecca Lloyd, Martha McLorinan, Myriam Smith, Nicola Starkie Tenor Tim Burton*, Steve Davis, Tony Dean, Nick Drew, Jeremy Reid, James Robinson, Ashley Turnell Bass Robert Asher, Baz Chapman, John Cotterill, Richard Green, Thomas Lowen, Bill Robinson, David Smith, Jeff Sutherland-Kay, Lawrence White *Indicates Graduate Scholars 2020-21 Programme Note The concert begins with the Tower Hymn or set of songs written in 1936 for the choir of Hymnus Eucharisticus, traditionally sung on his brother’s boys’ school in Prestatyn, North Oxford’s Magdalen College Tower at sunrise on Wales. May Morning. Iam lucis orto sidere is the one and only hymn prescribed for use at Prime in the Divine Office. It is the first office of the new day said in daylight at approximately 6:00 am. Lichfield Cathedral in Summer, lockdown 2020 Earliest manuscript source for Sumer is icumen in courtesy of The British Library. The Windhover was commissioned in 2020 and receives its premiere a year later than planned. Le Jeune’s frolicsome and acrobatic chanson Liz writes: Revecy venir du Printans is a fine example of vers mesurés and its virtuosic and agile account Setting the words of this poem has been of the joys of spring inspired Messiaen 350 a true adventure for me. A muscular years later. bass solo threads through the music, into which wild kestrel calls and the sound of Ex Cathedra has worked with James MacMillan wind through feathers are woven, leading for many years and performed many of to a climax at the lines ‘the fire that his great choral masterpieces, including breaks from thee then… O my chevalier!’ two commissions. The Gallant Weaver is a The opening sequence of chords with favourite love song. their shifting harmonies aim to evoke that magical moment of stillness just Hymn to St Cecilia was written in 1942 and is before sunrise. in three sections following the form of Auden’s poem. However Britten uses the final verse Sumer is icumen in is the earliest known as a recurring refrain throughout: “Blessed polyphony. It was probably composed shortly Cecilia, appear in visions to all musicians, after the Magna Carta was signed over 800 appear and inspire”. The work is written for years ago in 1215. Sometimes referred to as five voices (SSATB) including short solos for the Summer Canon, or the Cuckoo Song, this each voice. ingenious work has a canonic ground bass and a melody which can be sung as a round in 12 Maurice Ravel was most distressed that he was parts! Cuckoo! by Benjamin Britten takes not able to fight for his country in the First up the distinctive birdcall. This exquisite World War and these years produced little miniature is taken from Friday Afternoons, a music apart from Trois Chansons. The texts anyone lived in a pretty how town sets e.e. cummings’s witty poem about the humdrum nature of daily life and ritual and with its delightful melodic and harmonic invention cleverly captures the essential qualities of the text. Vikram Seth is well known to Ex Cathedra through Alec Roth’s many creative Leaf of a Ginko Biloba tree. collaborations. Shared Ground, Rivered Earth, and The Traveller are works written with Ex Cathedra in mind. Summer Requiem is his are by Ravel himself and are superb pastiche. most recent collection of poems published in Nicolette and Ronde, while containing a certain 2015. The evening sun retreats along the amount of humour, also reveal a cynicism which lawn is the last four stanzas of the eponymous reflects the times. Ronde in particular makes poem. considerable demands on the singers with its sparkling word-play, typical of this genre. The The exquisite setting Saint Teresa’s Bookmark middle song is more serious in nature and while is taken from our most recent CD recording it may allude to Ravel’s desire to participate in of choral music by Australian composer Penny the war, this heart-rending setting demands a Thwaites. It was released at the beginning of wider interpretation. lockdown in 2020 and has yet to receive the launch it deserves. The singer song-writer Charles Trenet was born in Narbonne in 1913 and wrote the words for The concert ends with the ancient Latin hymn the chanson classique La Mer in 1929 on a train Te lucis ante terminum which dates back to journey from Montpellier to Perpignan while the 7th century. It is a prayer for the end of gazing at the Étang du Thau, a beautiful coastal the day and is the hymn sung at Compline. lagoon west of Sète on the Mediterranean in Night Prayer is Alec Roth’s recent, atmospheric the South of France. I know it well! The music setting of this wonderful English melody. came to him some years later in 1943. Summer Holiday was written by Bruce Welsh and Brian Bennet who were members of the Shadows. This number one hit featured in the the popular Cliff Richard film in 1963. Jeffrey Skidmore Summer 2021 Empty/missing seats appeal It is very important to us to give these concerts but you will notice how many seats are empty or missing to ensure audience distancing. This does mean that each concert represents a significant financial loss for Ex Cathedra. If you can help with a donation we would be extremely grateful. You can: BE AN ANGEL 1. Make a regular donation by joining our Host of Angels ONE OFF DONATION 2. Make a one off donation 3. Make a one-off contactless donation of £15 as you leave the concert – just look for the banners on your way out Thank you from all of us at Ex Cathedra. Texts and translations Hymnus Eucharisticus – Benjamin Rogers (1614-1698) Latin text attributed to Dr Nathaniel Ingelo (c.1621–1683) Te Deum Patrem colimus We worship you, God the Father, te laudibus prosequimur we offer you with praise, qui corpus cibo reficis, for you nourish our bodies coelesti mentem gratia.
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