4 7 Days December 6, 2012 hampshirromseyadvertiserechronicle.co.uk.co.uk Arts & Entertainment Bookshelf Participation encouraged l7D PREVIEW Roberts, of CITV television show Hi-5 as the handsome Prince Snow White and the Frederick, while comedian Noel Seven Dwarfs at The Brodie returns to the Anvil as Muddles. Anvil, Basingstoke The title role is played by Sarah Louise Day, who is also choreographer, while director N all-star cast Ian Good will also play dame is coming to Nurse Dotty Dettoll. Celebrating 100 Basingstoke for It promises glittering the Christmas costumes, hilarious jokes and Apantomime, Snow great songs with audience years: Danemark to White and the Seven Dwarfs, participation encouraged. St Bede 1912-2012 this year at The Anvil. The show runs from Thursday, FROM the team that in 2010 Lucy Benjamin, best known for December 13 to Sunday, January produced the excellent Hyde in playing Lisa Fowler in the BBC’s 6. For more details and tickets Living Memory, this new book EastEnders, stars as the Wicked call the box office on 01256 Sarah Louise Day as Snow White, Luke Roberts as Prince chronicles the history of the school Queen. She is joined by Luke 844244 or visit anvilarts.org.uk. Frederick and Lucy Benjamin as the Wicked Queen currently called St Bede. When it opened in 1912 it was called City of Winchester Danemark School and the 128-page book tells the story of its creation and how it Large forces cope admirably with complex textures has evolved. That could be a bit dry and l7D REVIEW his famous poem Dulce et while tenor Justin Lavender gave lifeless but this elegant book is a Decorum Est. a poignant rendition of the poem triumph of research, with the Benjamin Britten: The opening funereal tread of Futility. Later on he was equally authors combining thorough War Requiem at the War Requiem was handled poignant in One Ever Hangs. delving in the archives with most effectively — the dissonant, Both male soloists made a fine interviews with former pupils and Winchester Cathedral deliberately mournful sound of blend in the Offertorium poem staff (headteachers and dinner the choir contrasting with the about Abraham and Isaac. Their ladies, nice to see), including a angelic sound of the boys. In the narration of the slaughter of the WINCHESTER Music Club choir profile of one pupil, Ray Parry, vastness of the cathedral acoustic ‘seed of Europe’ was excellent, as and orchestra, Winchester who started there in 1929. musical detail can often be was their final contribution, College Glee Club and Quiristers There are scores of evocative swamped, but the large forces Owen’s magnificent Strange and Southern Pro Musica came photos as well as maps, plans, coped admirably in the complex Meeting, where the baritone, together for a concert in aid of reports, exam papers, newspaper textures of the Dies Irae and Libera Stephen Gadd, held the cathedral Combat Stress, a charity cuttings and odds and ends that in absolute silence as he which supports service Claire Rutter and Stephen Gadd help bring the story to life. brought the poem to veterans with mental Stephen Gadd its climax. Obviously it will be of primary health problems. The great choral eruptions conductor Carl Clausen) were interest to those who either attended The conductors were held the cathedral of the Dies Irae and Sanctus skilfully handled and Nicholas or whose children have links with Nicholas Wilks and Carl were suitably spectacular and Wilks presided over the massed the school. But there is much to ‘in absolute silence as Clausen with soprano Claire the Libera Me had moments of forces with his usual flair and attract the general reader — those Rutter, tenor Justin Lavender real terror. All credit to the authority. But, in the end, the faded photos from the 1970s and baritone Stephen Gadd. he brought the poem Music Club orchestra in this evening belonged to Benjamin sparked instant memories of this This concert began with a challenging score: many Britten: he modestly thought ‘the writer’s schooling. very effective move. Actor to its climax excellent solos were heard in idea was good’, but we all As well as educating tens of Harry Culverhouse, dressed the course of the performance. recognised a work of genius. thousands of children, Danemark/St as Second Lieutenant Wilfred Me. The Lacrymosa was most The transitions to and from the The concert raised in excess of Bede has faced numerous challenges Owen MC, read one of Owen’s moving and soprano Claire Rutter main orchestra and Southern Pro £11,000 for Combat Stress. The including the Luftwaffe and in 2000 letters to his mother from the floated her sobbing’phrases over Musica (admirably conducted by final amount has yet to be the Great Flood that saw the school Western Front, followed by the choir with exquisite control, Hampshire Youth Orchestra’s confirmed. Duncan Eves exiled to Bereweeke Road for more than two years. But out of adversity a new school emerged with much better facilities and one that in the last few years has proved so popular that an extension had to be Dark day for Portsdown Hill poetry reading built on part of the St Peter car park, opening at the start of this term. ANDREW JORDAN’S Poetry tunnel to a series of rooms. chalk...” Oddly, during the establishment where we were So congratulations to the team of Field Club ‘field trip’ (on There, Jordan read Fieldnotes: reading, we heard children confronted by a picket line of Genevieve Baker, Venetia Bocchetta, Saturday November 24), one of Fort Nelson and APaulsgrove screaming in a distant tunnel. video cameras on poles) and the Mandy Hodges, Sarah Perrin, a number of events celebrating Bestiary, the latter poem The day was already reminding underground fuel bunker portal, a Alison Royall, Madelaine Smith, his book Hegemonick, involved concerning the ‘Paulsgrove me of Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s brick built structure that outcrops Stella Swain and to the crisp design a walk and in situ poetry paedophile riots’ of 2000. It ends film, and this impression grew in the middle of nowhere. This is by Keith Woodall. readings on Portsdown Hill. with a journey through the after we left the fort and made our the tunnel exit referred to in the The book is available from the The day was dark. It was tunnels beneath Fort Nelson, way along the ridge of the hill. poem Inside Mary Millington. school price £10. Excellent value already raining as we approached where the poet unearths his Memorable moments included Portsdown Technology Park, for money. the Royal Armouries Museum at own childhood self: “My dark Nelson’s monument, the another defence research facility, HHHH Andrew Napier Fort Nelson. Once inside, we side,/a naked boy, like a perimeter fence of Portsdown also held a peculiar aura, brightly went underground, following a fossil/or root/ hauled from the West (a defence research lit in the gloom. Emily Trig.