Vaughan Williams
English composer and folksong collector Ralph Vaughan Williams will be celebrated with a weekend of music at St Mary's Parish Church, Greyhound Hill, Hendon, London NW4, UK, 16-18 May 2008. Tickets (£20 for the whole weekend or £10 per event) are available from the box office, +44 (0)20 8959 0207, or at the door. The festival opens on Friday 16 May 2008 at 8pm with a costumed performance by the Mellstock Band - four folk musicians who specialise in recreating the village music of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. On Saturday 17 May at noon, the band of Queen Elizabeth's School in Barnet give a lunchtime recital of English wind-band music. The Saturday evening concert (7.30pm), features James Gilchrist, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet and pianist Anna Tilbrook performing the song-cycle On Wenlock Edge. Finally, on Sunday 18 May at 7.30pm, the Choir of Hendon St Mary, conducted by Richard Morrison, sings the Mass in G minor and the Shakespearean cantata In Windsor Forest. 'Vaughan Williams died fifty years ago,' says Richard Morrison, director of music at St Mary's. 'We wanted to celebrate the life and achievements of the man who not only wrote great symphonies, choral music and songs, but also collected many of England's best-loved folksongs. If it wasn't for his pioneering work in the early 1900s, hundreds of those wonderful tunes would have been lost.'
Information: +44 (0)20 8959 0207 (phone)
Posted: 12 May 2008
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