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The EMF reserves the right to adjust the programme if required.

* We offer 10% discount for groups over 10, and discounts for children under 16.

EMF Friends scheme discounts apply (when booking please quote your level of membership for relevant discounts and free tickets).

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Programme 2008
Time Venue Work Artists Price*
FRIDAY 23rd MAY
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey Parry Jerusalem
Holbrooke Birds of Rhiannon
Rawsthorne Practical Cats
Mackenzie Benedictus
Bantock Celtic Symphony
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Narrator:
Jeremy Nicholas
£17.50
SATURDAY 24th MAY
11.00am Chapel, Keble College Oxford Sullivan Sacred Music. Come & Sing the anthems 'Sing, O heavens' and 'The Strain Upraise'.
Notify info@davidowennorris.com in advance, so that enough music can be
provided at the 9.30am rehearsal on the day.
The Sullivan Singers
Ian Partridge (tenor soloist)
 
12.15pm Pusey Room, Keble College, Oxford 'Stage or sanctuary?' Assessing Sullivan's hymn tunes and sacred music Ian Bradley FREE
2.30pm Sutton Courtenay Elgar There is sweet music
Finzi
Romance
Holst Ave Maria,
Finzi Welcome sweet & sacred feast
Elgar Serenade
Vaughan Williams Lord Thou hast been our refuge
Vaughan Williams Concerto Accademico
Holst Nunc Dimittis
Howells Serenade for Strings
Finzi Magnificat
Vox Musica
Southbank Sinfonia Strings
£15.00
5.15pm Abbey Guesthouse, Dorchester The Consumate Anthologist
Giles Easterbrook £3.00 on door
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey Vaughan Williams Te Deum
NormanO'Neil Pastorale
Bridge Suite for Strings
Holst Brook Green Suite
Bliss Pastoral
Milton Keynes City Orchestra
City of London Choir
Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton
£17.50
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey Piano music by Billy Mayerl David Owen Norris £10.00
SUNDAY 25th MAY
11.00am Radley College Chapel Purcell/Britten Chacony
Alwyn 3 Winter poems
Bridge Rhapsody for 2 violins and viola
Delius Late Swallows
Bridge Quartet no. 2
Bridge Quartet £15.00
2.30pm Radley College Silk Hall Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Finzi Clarinet Concerto
Ireland Downland Suite
Elgar Introduction and Allegro
Amaretti Chamber Orchestra £15.00
5.15pm Abbey Guesthouse, Dorchester English Romantic Music and Literature John Leeman £3.00 on door
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey Arne Symphony
Linley In Yonder Grove,
Arne Judgement of Paris
John Andrews £17.50
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey Al Manere Minstrelsy The Dufay Collective £10.00
MONDAY 26th MAY
11.00am Dorchester Abbey Songs by Britten, Quilter, Purcell, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Handel, Sullivan and others (including premieres)
Details
James Bowman and co £15.00
2.30pm Sutton Courtenay Vaughan Williams String Quartet no.2
Moeran String Quartet in Eb
Vaughan Williams String Quartet no.1
Carducci String Quartet £15.00
5.15pm Abbey Guesthouse, Dorchester O for a Muse of Fire: Dyson and his Agincourt Paul Spicer £3.00 on door
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey Dyson Agincourt
Prelude & postlude
Voluntary in D
Fantasia and Ground Bass
Elgar Banner of St George
Andover Choral Society
David Owen Norris
£17.50
TUESDAY 27th MAY
11.00am Dorchester Abbey Holbrooke Fantasia-Sonate No.1 'The Haunted Palace'
Rhapsodie-Etudes
Barrage
Fantasia-Sonate No.2 'Destiny'
Panagiotis Trochopoulos £15.00
2.30pm Radley College Silk Hall Delius Legende, Sonata,
Alwyn Sonatina,
Britten Suite
Philippe Graffin and Marisa Gupta £15.00
5.15pm Abbey Guesthouse, Dorchester 'My Friends Call Me Jack' - The Legacy of E.J.Moeran. Barry Marsh £3.00 on door
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey

EMF New Commissions Concert
Curtis
Festival Overture
Carr Oboe Concerto
McDowall The Skies in their magnificence
Corp Jubilate
Lane Lyric Dances
Norris Piano Concerto

Southern Sinfonia
London Chorus
Conductor: Ronald Corp
£17.50

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