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Dvořák - Mass in D Handel - Coronation Anthems Brahms - 2Nd Piano Concerto Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society presents Dvořák - Mass in D Handel - Coronation Anthems Brahms - 2nd Piano Concerto Danny Driver (Piano) Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society with the Salomon Orchestra Conducted by Rebecca Miller Generously supported by our lead sponsors Handelsbanken and Handelsbanken Wealth Management www.handelsbanken.co.uk/tunbridgewells www.handelsbankenwealth.co.uk WWW.RTWCS.ORG.UK RTWCS is a Registered Charity, number 27331 @RTWChoralSoc Programme £2.50 ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS CHORAL SOCIETY 114th SEASON Vice Presidents: Derek Watmough MBE, Roy Dunstall It is with deepest regret that we have to announce that our President, Guy Huntrods, died on 17th September after a short illness. Gold Patrons Silver Patrons Friends Mr G Grant Mrs A M Hone Mrs J Finch Mr W Rutherford Mr M Hudson Mr & Mrs I Gover Mr R Thatcher Mr I Hughes Mrs P Maxwell Mrs L McCarthy Mr L Morris Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society Programme for 12th November 2017 at 3pm Salomon Orchestra - leader Tara Persaud Conducted by Rebecca Miller RTWCS Associate Conductor - Jamie Sperling Rehearsal accompanist - Craig Hudson Handel Coronation Anthem no 2 - Let Thy Hand be Strengthened Brahms Piano Concerto no 2 - Piano soloist Danny Driver Interval Handel Coronation Anthem no 1 - Zadok the Priest Antonin Dvořák - Mass in D RTWCS is grateful to Handelsbanken and Handelsbanken Wealth Management for their generous financial support of this concert. 2 ghnf Integrated banking and wealth management Proud sponsors of Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society We believe our customers’ interests should always come first, so we look to build lasting relationships. 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Details about the extent of our authorisation and regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority, and regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority are available from us on request. Guy Huntrods - Late President of RTWCS Sadly our President, Guy Huntrods died on 17th September aged 94 after a short illness. He was greatly loved by everyone in the Choral Society and he will be very much missed not least for his infectious enthusiasm and abundant good humour. His funeral was held on 20th October at St John’s church when the Choral Society sang two of Guy’s favourite choral pieces and led the singing of the hymns which he had specially chosen for the service. Guy lived life to the full right up until his final days. After a distinguished period of active service during World War 2 he embarked on a successful career in international banking which led to his being awarded the CBE. Following his retirement Guy pursued a number of interests including a long spell as a volunteer steward at Chartwell and singing as a tenor with three local choirs including the Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society where he concentrated his singing activity in his later years. For several years he served on the Committee as Vice-Chairman and in 2016 he was appointed President in recognition of the unstinting loyalty and enthusiastic support he gave to all the Society’s activities. Guy thoroughly enjoyed his choral singing which he said had brought him immeasurable pleasure, challenges and friendships which had greatly enriched his retirement years. 4 PROGRAMME NOTES G.F. Handel (1685-1759) - Coronation Anthems The style of the anthems is quite different from that of the oratorios (performed in the theatre) on account of the different building for which they were intended. Handel was not the man to waste finer points of detail on large forces in the reverberant space of the Abbey. His ceremonial manner is wholly extrovert in tone and deals in masses and broad contrasts rather than delicate shades of colour. The singers, all male, comprised the 10 boys and 26 men of the Chapel Royal, augmented for the occasion to a total strength of 47: 12 trebles, 14 altos, 7 tenors and 14 It is difficult to imagine more festive basses. The orchestra on this occasion music than the anthems Handel was much larger than the choir and is composed for the coronation of King said to have numbered 160. George II and Queen Caroline in Westminster Abbey on 11th October These proportions seem strange to 1727. For public or royal occasions us, but were not unusual in Handel’s Handel was the ideal laureate, perhaps day. The singers, of course, were all the only great artist to rise unfailingly professionals. The Coronation was a to the needs of great events, or rather scene of magnificence, the like of which rise above them, for the grandeur with had never previously been witnessed at which our imaginations invest the English the Abbey. The richness, the display of 18th century is largely a consequence wealth inseparable from the Georges, of Handel’s magnificent tributes to such was manifest to the fullest degree. And events as the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle it was fully matched by the music. (1748) or the Coronation of George II. The first anthem, Zadok the Priest, is The sudden death of King George I had perhaps the most splendid of all such made Handel aware of the necessity to compositions. Its orchestral opening, forestall any possible breach with the derived in essence from the Nisi new monarch, with whom his relations Dominus of 1707, is comparable (as had been less cordial than with his father. Basil Lam has pointed out) only with In four weeks he composed the four certain of Beethoven’s quavers for no anthems, of which we are performing the fewer than 22 bars of moderate time, first two: Zadok the Priest and Let Thy while the violins in thirds or sixths build Hand be Strengthened. up a series of arpeggio figures, all the 5 most elementary progressions, until the Ready as Handel was to express the chorus in seven parts with trumpets external pomp of the occasion, he and drums enter with the opening emphasized in this section the deeper words. Nothing could be more inspiring thoughts implicit in the coronation than this choral harmony, with its simple service, although his acquaintance with diatonic chords. The entire anthem is the Hanoverians would not have made homophonic, with scarcely a trace of him unduly hopeful of the fulfilment of counterpoint, and firmly rooted to the this pious aspiration. tonic key of D major. It is a supreme example of Handel’s power to make a The original performance in the Abbey unique statement with the minimum of was less well-rehearsed than might technical means: have been expected for such an Zadok the Priest and Nathan the occasion. As Winton Dean recalls, prophet anointed Solomon King. William Wake, the then Archbishop of And all the people rejoiced and said Canterbury noted: “the anthems were God save the King, in confusion, all irregular music”. It was Long live the King, evidently a typical Georgian occasion. May the King for ever But their splendour won the new King’s Alleluia, amen. regard. From the day of his coronation he remained faithful to the great Let Thy Hand be Strengthened is Mr Handel as Handel was faithful to lighter in texture than the other three his court. anthems, has only five vocal parts (two altos) without trumpets or drums. This liberates Handel from the key of ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS D major, which the trumpets impose Symphony Orchestra on the other anthems. Here the key is G major, with a grave expressive Alexandra Wood* Larghetto in E minor for the words “Let Violin justice and judgment be the preparation of thy seat.” There are three movements – an opening Allegro, a slow central section Conductor Roderick Dunk in triple time, and a vigorous Alleluia; the words are taken from Psalm 89, PRINCE IGOR OVERTURE - Alexander Borodin vv.13-14: VIOLIN CONCERTO* - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky A CAROL SYMPHONY - Victor Hely-Hutchinson SUNDAY 3 DECEMBER 2017 3PM 1. Let thy hand be strengthened, and Assembly Hall Theatre, Crescent Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 2LU thy right hand be exalted. Tickets £20, £22, £25 & £28 (18 or under & students £1) Plus a £2.00 per ticket booking fee up to a maximum of 10 tickets. 2. Let justice and judgment be the No booking fees on tickets under £10. Box Offi ce: 01892 530613 / 532072 www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk For Season Tickets contact Gale Smith on 01892 826196 preparation of thy seat.
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