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Hemiola 21.Pdf ST GEORGE’S SINGERS NEWSLETTER Issue 21, APRIL 2005 Another action packed edition of Hemiola! Now on the choir website in full colour in PDF format Looking ahead to the forthcoming East Anglian Choir Tour at the end of May we have several interesting articles about the area. In particular watch out for The Black Dog!! Also on Saturday there were two Manchester Sings! fascinating talks: first a composer’s As we know, the Grechaninov workshop with Sasha Johnson- Vespers at the Church of the Holy The first Manchester Manning and Martin Bussey, with Name on Friday evening was very Choral Festival was held musical illustrations sung by Ad well supported and extremely well Solem (conductor Marcus received. So also was Manchester th over the weekend of 11 - Farnsworth), then a talk about choral University Chorus’s performance of th 13 March 2005 music in Finland by Kari Turunen, Britten’s ‘Paul Bunyan’ on Saturday who flew over from Helsinki specially night. The highlight of this concert, It consisted of three main concerts to speak at the festival. It was quite for me at least, was Marcus in a on each of the three evenings and inspiring to hear at first hand about stetson singing the role of the seven ‘promenade’ events during the exciting and vibrant choral music Narrator (a natural cowboy). The the daytime. The promenade events scene in Finland. final concert of the festival was Bach’s St. John Passion, performed comprised a fascinating mix of talks, On Sunday a Festival Eucharist at open rehearsals and concerts. by Manchester Baroque - a new Manchester Cathedral was followed choir though with lots of familiar There were concerts by Chetham’s in the afternoon by an open faces. Everyone in the audience will School of Music Chamber Choir rehearsal by the Manchester Boys remember this performance for a (Friday lunchtime) and a joint Choir, conducted by Jeff Wynne long time, especially for Josh concert by Altrincham Grammar Davies. Jeff took the choir through Ellicott’s interpretation of the role of School for Boys Barbershop group its paces and they sang, among Evangelist and for Sasha Johnson- other things, parts of a new work by Manning’s incredibly moving and Culcheth High School Vocal Bob Chilcott that they are learning Group (Saturday). The Chetham’s rendition of the aria ‘Zerfliesse, mein choir sang a programme of ‘English for a choral festival in Wales this herze’. Masterworks’, including a terrific summer. rendition of Finzi’s ‘Lo: The Full Final Many thanks to those members of Sacrifice’. The two school choirs Attendance at these promenade St. George’s who supported the were equally impressive. They sang events was rather disappointing, festival. To those who didn’t, you mainly a mix of folk songs and especially given the very high missed some terrific musical popular songs, with Culceth also musical standard of the events and experiences. performing some sacred pieces, performers. On the other hand, including ‘Lift thine eyes’ from Elijah. attendances at the main concerts of Dave Francis A very appreciative audience gave a the festival were impressive. resounding response to both choirs. CHOIR WEBSITE www.st-georges-singers.org.uk editor Richard Taylor (Bass), email - [email protected] 1 The East Anglian Tour “Silly Suffolk” is not only totally unjustified, it’s also plain wrong. The epithet derives from the old English description “selig” or holy, Suffolk, so named because of the number of early saints in the county. Since the Middle Ages it could well have been thought holy because of the number of churches – and what churches! Built by super rich wool merchants they are huge, graceful, and imbued with an atmosphere that not even the statue wrecking puritans were able to abolish. We are performing in two of the best known and most beautiful, as well as in one of the country’s most magnificent cathedrals. You can get loads of information about these churches from the internet. The area which we are touring has an understated beauty, and has been astonishingly ignored by developers and holiday crowds. It has many Britten connections , of course, since this son of a Lowestoft dentist lived there with Peter Pears for over thirty years. The coach will leave Poynton Civic Centre at 5 p.m. prompt. We have a long journey on the Friday evening of a Bank Holiday Weekend. Our tour hotel, the Holiday Inn, Ipswich, where we will be staying for all three nights of the tour this time, will have our supper ready when we arrive. The hotel has a swimming pool , so bring your cozzies, although the only time available for swimming will be before breakfast. On Saturday morning we travel via the dramatic bridge over the stupendous Orwell estuary through the flatlands of Suffolk to Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival founded by Britten and Pears. You may see old sailing barges on the adjacent River Alde, and we hope to arrange a tour of the concert hall, where we might just break into an impromptu Locus Iste. If not, there is a coffee shop and many antique boutiques, but we cannot stay long as we need to reach the quaint and pretty seaside town of Aldeburgh in time for you to walk along the prom admiring the sea front villas, the lifeboat station, and the 15th Century Moot Hall, once in the centre of the town and now nearly in the sea. You should also form an opinion about the Britten Memorial on the beach. Find a restaurant or pub early for lunch. (I shall probably join the queue at the best fish and chip shop in the world.) We spend the afternoon rehearsing in the church of St Peter and St Paul where Britten and Pears are buried, and scene of one of the acts of the opera Peter Grimes. Please do enough homework to make sure that your part is secure, particularly in St Nicholas , as Stephen will have very little time to rehearse an orchestra of mainly local players we have never met before, not to mention pickled boys! The grateful church will give us tea and biscuits before the concert. In the first half we will be singing Locus Iste (of course!), Zadok the Priest, O Quam Gloriosum, and Beatus Vir. There will also be some organ solos by Jeff Makinson, and some pieces from our soloists. The second half will, of course, be a sparkling performance of St Nicholas. Our President, Joan Bakewell, will be joining us for this concert. After Elijah she referred in her column in The Guardian to “the golden voices of St George’s Singers”, so we have a lot to live up to! After the concert a buffet supper has been arranged in the church hall (drinks also available!), then back to Ipswich. On Sunday morning we travel a little further north to the “time warp” seaside resort of Southwold, home of the famous Adnam’s brewery, the inland lighthouse, astonishingly expensive seafront chalets, and plenty of pubs and restaurants providing lunch. After lunch the coach will take us to the impressive Holy Trinity, Blythburgh for our rehearsal and concert. Many of Britten’s church operas received their first performances in this magnificent church. Some time ago when the Snape Maltings burnt down immediately before the Aldeburgh Festival, many of the concerts were held in Blythburgh. Supper after the concert will be provided in the Village Hall. On Monday morning we start our journey home, stopping off at Lincoln for lunch, rehearsal and Choral Evensong at 5:15 pm at the wonderful cathedral, accompanied by Jeff Makinson who was assistant organist there before coming to Manchester. We hope to sing O Quam Gloriosum as an introit, and Zadok the Priest as the anthem. The responses will be those of Smith which we sang in Hereford, and the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Dyson in D, which we’ve already started to learn. We do not wear concert dress for cathedral services. Men should wear a suit (preferably dark), a shirt (preferably white), and a tie (preferably sober). I would not presume to tell the women what to wear. After Evensong we return to Poynton, where we should arrive by 9 pm, Bank Holiday traffic permitting, tired but hopefully happy with a job well done, knowing each other better, and with shared memories to cherish. If you didn’t book a place on the tour, but would now like to join us, please see me as soon as possible, as I may be able to squeeze you in. Geoff Taylor 2 The Black Dog’s visits to Bungay and Blythburgh http://www.shuckland.co.uk/blythburgh.htm shows the following extracts of a contemporary account 'A Straunge and terrible Wunder...' by Abraham Fleming (London, 1577): [During "an exceeding great and terrible tempest" on August 4th, 1577]: "There were assembled at the same season, to hear divine service and common prayer...in the parish church...of Bongay [Bungay], the people therabouts inhabiting...Immediately hereupon, there appeared in a most horrible similitude and likenesse to the congregation then and there present, a dog as they might discerne it, of a black colour...This black dog, or the divel in such a likenesse...runing all along down the body of the church with great swiftnesse, and incredible haste, among the people, in a visible fourm and shape, passed between two persons, as they were kneeling upon their knees...wrung the necks of them bothe at one instant clene backward, in so much that even at a moment where they kneeled, they strangely dyed..
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