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Dartington International Summer School ANNIVERSARY and Festival Concerts and Events 28 Jul – 25 Aug 2018 Thank you to our current supporters We are indebted to our loyal The Hinrichsen Foundation, Friends of the Summer School The Harold Hyam Wingate ANNIVERSARY for their ongoing support. Foundation, The Helen Roll Charity, The John S Cohen Patrons Foundation, Margaret Guido’s Charitable Trust, The Music Sales Anonymous, Sue Anderson, John Charitable Trust, The Nicholas Ashton Thomas, Isla Baring, Ron Boas Charitable Trust, The & Margaret Booker, Robert Cox, Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust, Tait Richard Creed, Ros Flinn, Peter Memorial Trust, The TL Trust. & Jean Gell, Tattwa Gyani, John Hacker, Christopher Hanson-Abbott, The following families or Carmel Hart, Jim & Judith Haworth, individuals have also given an Richard Heseltine, Jenny Hobbs, endowment or legacy specifically Judith Jackson, Timothy Lloyd, Val to support the Summer School: Marriott, Mirhane McLaren-Howard, Catharine Meek, Gillian Taylor, Walter Blue, Elizabeth Clough, Welcome Andrew Ward, Susan Weil. Else and Leonard Cross, Charles Davis, Robert Eliot, George Ellis, Corporate Support Dartington is a place of shimmering beauty, and its world-famous Alfred Ensor, Richard Gardner, Summer School is 70 years young this year – proudly contributing Steinway & Sons William Glock, Lucille Graham, to the creative life of this country since 1948. We have a packed Gavin Henderson, Christopher programme of celebratory events, with over one hundred concerts, Trusts and Foundations Kite, András Milhály, Busenhart photographic exhibitions and installations, film and illustrated The Boltini Trust, The Barbara Morgan Evans, Clifton Parker, talks. From opera, jazz, chamber music, folk, and poetry, to musical Whatmore Charitable Trust, The Pamela Parkinson, Ernest Rainer, theatre, Brazilian rhythms, gospel and choral music, there’s a Bruce Wake Charity, The D’Oyly Esther Salaman, William and vibrant sequence of live events, and a really festive atmosphere. Carte Charitable Trust, The Derek Judith Scheide Fund, Louisa Hill Foundation, Dartington Hall Schmidt, Jenny Wood. Visit the beautiful gardens, relax with a drink or a meal, and immerse Trust, Dartington International yourself, from afternoon to late night. Some of the world’s most For information about how you Summer School Foundation, celebrated musicians, writers, and thinkers will be here. Dartington can support the Summer School, The Elmgrant Trust, The Exeter & International Summer School & Festival has reached its 70 year see page 52 District Classical Music Trust, milestone: let’s celebrate its incredible legacy, and look to the future! The Eversley Charitable Trust, Fidelio Charitable Trust, Joanna MacGregor Artistic Director The Heavens, Moon and Stars Saturday 28 July are our themes this week, with Week 1 concerts reflecting alchemy and magic, as well as the ADE 7.45pm Great Hall M F D O R symbolism and freedom of A Summer Music R T 28 July – 4 August I N birdsong. The magnificent N G T O Ex Cathedra performs music by Candlelight inspired by the dawn chorus, Ex Cathedra vocal consort as well as scintillating Latin Jeffrey Skidmore conductor American works. Fretwork A magical programme for a explores sunrise and sunset, midsummer evening, performed in the soft glow of candlelight. An and the glorious soprano Clare enchanting sequence of music Wilkinson sings of Elizabethan and readings inspired by the celestial bodies. There’s a dash seasons, including: of virtuosity from The Brook Alec Roth Street Band and Atéa Wind Die güldene Sonne: Dawn Chorus Quintet, and rollicking in the Roxanna Panufnik London streets with The City Child of Heaven: Dawn Chorus Musick; Joanna MacGregor, 13th-century English Stevie Wishart and Tamim Sumer is icumen in al-Barghouti team up in The Morley Caliph and the Poet. Egyptian Now is the month of Maying singer Merit Ariane revels in Debussy story and song devoted to Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans birds, and late-night jazzers Gershwin Huw Warren and Steve Summertime Buckley create magic with Plainchant award-winning poet Alice Te lucis ante terminum Oswald. Finish the week with £20.00 / £15.00 the glittering Christmas in the Sun, a celebration of Baroque music from Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. 2 www.dartington.org/summer-school Fretwork Box Office: +44 (0)1803 847070 3 ADE ADE 7.45pm Great Hall M F 10.00pm Great Hall M F D D O O Sunday 29 July R R Monday 30 July A A R R Sunrise to Sunset T Grounds and T I N I N N O N O Fretwork viol consort G T Chaconnes G T 5.15pm Great Hall Clare Wilkinson soprano Joanna MacGregor piano 5.15pm Great Hall Fire Burning in Snow Lawes Gibbons Music for Bass Viols Ex Cathedra vocal consort Consort Set in F minor Whoop, Do Me No Harm, Good Richard Boothby & Baroque Ensemble Purcell Man; The Woods So Wild Asako Morikawa Fantasia in Four Parts; Music for Jeffrey Skidmore conductor Byrd Ste Colombe a While Ex Cathedra revel in an exuberant Hughe Ashton’s Ground Le Retour; La Raporté; Les Regrets John Woolrich programme of early Latin American Philip Glass Couperin Three Fantasias repertoire, for which they’ve received Prophecies; Knee Play no.4 Douzième Concert Vaughan Williams rapturous acclaim. A concert full Purcell Marais Silent Noon; The Sky of evocative indigenous imagery, Ground in C minor Les Folies d’Espagne above the Roof featuring the rhythmic music Arvo Pärt Byrd £10.00 of Juan de Araujo. Für Alina Pavan & Galliard Fazil Say £10.00 Gibbons Black Earth 7.45pm Great Hall Two Fantasias Pachelbel Sekhmet’s Birds: Merit Cage Chaconne in F minor String Quartet in Four Parts Handel Ariane and Friends Wolf Passacaglia in G minor Birds are free. They traverse Gebet The ground bass is transfigured: boundaries, real or imaginary, Purcell from Purcell’s street savvy and linking the realms of the living An Evening Hymn Orlando Gibbons’ wit, to jazz and dead, magic and reality, A richly-coloured programme pianist Fazil Say and Phillip nature and art. An evening of built around the heavens, sunrise Glass’s exhilarating Einstein on songs and stories from around and sunset. Clare Wilkinson adds the Beach. the world, with the German- poetic songs and lieder on the Egyptian singer Merit Ariane, £10.00 passing of the day. actor Rosie Hilal, Syrian flute £20.00 / £15.00 player Louai Alhenawi and multi-instrumentalist Jon Banks, connecting music to the spell of birdsong and our childhood longing to be free and soar. Ex Cathedra £20.00 / £15.00 4 www.dartington.org/summer-school Box Office: +44 (0)1803 847070 5 ADE M F Couperin Nielsen 10.00pm Great Hall D O R A Le Rossignol en Amour Wind Quintet Op.43 R Celestial Bodies T I N N G T O Janáček Dukas Clare Wilkinson soprano The Barn Owl has not Flown Away! The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Lynda Sayce lute Messiaen A sparkling wind concert based A beautiful programme of Le Rouge-gorge around magic and the underworld, Elizabethan and 17th-century Clare Wilkinson Harrison Birtwistle opening with Connor Gibb’s voyage songs and music, dropping in Ookooing Bird through Dante’s Inferno, and on various inhabitants of the Couperin finishing with a new arrangement of ADE heavens – the muses, moon and 7.45pm Great Hall M F Les Fauvettes Plaintives D Dukas’s accident-prone apprentice. O R stars, gods behaving badly – A Ravel The Emperor and R £10.00 T I N and their astronomers. Including N O Oiseaux Tristes The Alchemist G T music by Campion, Dowland, Hossein Alizâdeh Morley, and Galileo’s father, In Echo Call of the Birds 7.45pm Great Hall Galilei. Gawain Glenton ensemble director Couperin Musica Universalis Clare Wilkinson soprano Les Coucous Béneévoles £10.00 The Brook Street Band In Echo explore the Holy Roman Poglietti Emperor Rudolph II’s collection Aria bizarre del Rossignolo Bach Tuesday 31 July of curiosities in Prague, and his Rameau Trio Sonata BWV 1038 in G major fascination with alchemy and La Poule Bach Trio Sonata from The Musical astronomy. This spellbinding £10.00 concert includes music from Offering BWV 1079 5.15pm Great Hall Atlanta Fugiens, and madrigals Telemann The Astronomer and sonatas by De Monte, Wednesday 1 August Paris Quartet no.1 in D major TWV Luython, de Sayve and Rossi. 43:D3 and the Witch Couperin £20.00 / £15.00 Cambridge historian and L’Apothéose de Lully writer Ulinka Rublack brings 5.15pm Great Hall Handel a small Lutheran community to ADE Trio Sonata Op.5 no.4 in G major 10.00pm Great Hall M F D O The Sorcerer’s life at the height of the witch- R A Kirnberger R craze in Europe, describing Call of the Birds T Apprentice I N Trio Sonata in G minor Kepler’s struggle to prevent his Joanna MacGregor piano N G T O Atéa Wind Quintet £20.00 / £15.00 widowed mother’s execution. A Tamim al-Barghouti spoken Joanna MacGregor piano fascinating glimpse into a world poetry Connor Gibbs between the Reformation and the Rameau Below the City scientific revolution. Le Rappel des Oiseaux Harrison Birtwistle £10.00 Daquin Refrains and Choruses Le Coucou 6 www.dartington.org/summer-school Box Office: +44 (0)1803 847070 7 ADE M F 10.00pm Great Hall D O 7.45pm Great Hall R Friday 3 August A Stevie Wishart R Sea Poem T For the Honour I N N G T O Alice Oswald of the Cittie spoken poetry The City Musick 5.15pm Great Hall Steve Buckley saxophone William Lyons director Masterclass Concert Huw Warren jazz piano A concert of brilliance and variety Performers from the Three award-winning performers from The City Musick as they Advanced Courses meet to create a magical late- explore the world of the London A mixed programme of the night ambience, improvising Waits, the civic band of elite week’s liveliest young students, around new work by Alice Oswald.