PAST EVENTS
I
Fagiolini's Christmas Party :
www.ifagiolini.com and then click on the ‘Concert Diary’.
A beautiful mix of Renaissance and 20th century Christmas music from around
Europe
We are sorry these two Warlockian events missed getting in the last Newsletter
by a matter of days,
so hope you may care to know of them now.
December 16 Hall One 7.30pm
Kings Place, London
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes/christmas-around-europe
Box Office Box Office 020 7520 1490
£29.50 £24.50 £19.50
December 18 7.30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
http://www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk/event.php?id=445
Box Office 01584 878141
Tickets: £18 (£17.50 concessions)
If you might be near London to celebrate Warlock's last night on earth on
16 December, I know there are about 50 tickets left in this remarkable 400-seater
new concert hall about five minutes walk up York Way from King's Cross, but
where car parking is virtually impossible, but I will be there.
The full programme is :
Ludwig Senfl (c1486 - 1543) – Das G’läut zu Speyer
Michael Praetorius (1571?-1621) - Es ist ein Ros’
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) – Das Wort ward fleisch
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) – O virga ac diadema
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526-94) – Canite tuba in Sion
Francisco Guerrero (1528-99) – Pastores loquebantur
Mateo da Flecha (1481-c.1553) – La justa (ensalada)
Interval
Richard Pygott (fl.early 16th century) – Quid petis, o fili?
William Byrd (c.1539-1623) – Attollite portas
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Un soir de neige
Peter Warlock (1894-1930) I saw a fair maiden. Rich Cavalcade, Bethlehem
Down, Benedicamus Domino
Silver arr.Williams - The Twelve Days after Christmas
Do make yourself known to me if you decide to come.
Cheers,
Malcolm Rudland
from the Hon Sec of the Peter Warlock Society
31 Hammerfield House
Cale Street, London SW3 3SD
020 7589 9595
07761 977155
mrudland@talk21.com
Warlock Society Website : peterwarlock.org
Rudland Website : malcolmrudland.org
THE PETER WARLOCK SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO
A PETER WARLOCK CHRISTMAS
a New Play by Alex Clissold-Jones with Benedict Holme as Warlock on
Saturday
31 October 2009 at 4pm and 7.30pm
at St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4AL
by kind permission of the Vicar, Revd R F Bushau
Tickets
on the door £5 (Senior citizens, students, PWS members £4)
It is hoped the audiences may care to meet the cast between the shows at the
nearby Stanhope Tavern, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4SS
(Tel 020 7373 4192) where good food and drinks are available.
This will be the first London performance of the play premièred at
New College, Oxford last December
Synopsis
On 17th December 1930, the composer and critic Philip Heseltine, better known by his pseudonym Peter Warlock, was found dead in his London flat from gas poisoning. We join Warlock on the previous evening – a cold and foggy night – in his local London pub, the Duke of Wellington.
The words of Bruce Blunt, from a BBC Home Service programme, December 1944:
Peter
Warlock was only a pen-name at first, but latterly used it for every purpose.
This started the extraordinary legend that he was really two persons in one,
and that the sinister Peter Warlock eventually destroyed the gentle Philip
Heseltine. It’s time this myth was forgotten. Anyone who has any
character at all has many sides to that character, and so it was with Philip.
He had great charm and a brilliant mind, but these are not enough. Like other
people with the quality of true greatness, he was very modest. He never put
on airs. And his was a most generous spirit.
In the Peter Warlock Society Newsletter 84, Bruce Phillips wrote:
‘The
best thing about the evening was the chance to hear some of Warlock’s
wonderful solo songs and six suberb carols (for eight-part choir). The singing
was of a very high standard. ... The tour de force of the production as far
as the acting was concerned was Benedict Holme’s accomplished
performance as the mercurial Warlock, ranging from exultation to despair.’
THE PETER WARLOCK SOCIETY ALSO INVITES YOU TO
Another Social Lunch
Our
Society normally holds its Social Lunches at the nerve centre of the Warlock
Society at
The Antelope Tavern in Eaton Terrace in the heart of Warlock’s Chelsea,
with a chance to meet the committee after one of their meetings, but this
one is designed to attract our West Country members and with a chance to
meet our Chairman Emeritus, Fred Tomlinson, in his natural habitat.
Saturday 7 November 2009
from 12.30pm in the Function Room of The Middlesex Arms,
Long Drive, South Ruislip HA4 0HG Tel 020 8845 0667
by kind permission of the landlord, Andy McCann
The pub is next to South Ruislip tube station on the Central and Metropolitan Lines
More
details from the Hon. Sec of the Peter Warlock Society
Malcolm Rudland on 020 7589 9595 or mrudland@talk21.com
And Yet Another Social Lunch
For
our slightly more genuine West Country members the Society will be holding
a Social Lunch
at The Air Balloon at the top of Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire and we hope
to attract
our members from South Wales, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire,
North Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, or indeed from wherever people care to travel,
and with
a chance to meet the President of our Gloucestershire Chapter, John Merrick.
Saturday 21 November 2009
from 12.30pm in The Air Balloon
Crickley Hill, Birdlip, Gloucestershire GL4 8JY
by kind permission of the landlady, Paula Hewitt
The pub is a major landmark on the roundabout of the A417 at the top of Crickley Hill
More
details from the Hon. Sec of the Peter Warlock Society
Malcolm Rudland on 020 7589 9595 or mrudland@talk21.com or
Michael Graves on 01666 837334 or michaeljohngraves@tiscali.co.uk
On
Sunday 16 August at 5pm, the Radio 3 programme 'Discovering
Music' features Warlock's The Curlew' with Stephen Johnson who will
illustrate his talk with excerpts from van Dieren's "Rhapsodia",
Bartok's 2nd String Quartet, Purcell's Fantazia No.7, Dowland's "In
Darknesse Let Me Dwelle" and Eccles' "When Celia was learning on
the spinet to play". The talk will culminate in a performance
given by the American tenor, Michael Flattery from the Isle of Man
Festival in June with The Doric Quartet, flautist Adam Walker and
cor anglais player Daniel Bates. There will also be complete
performances of "Sleep", "Maltworms", "The Fox",
"Cradle Song" and
"Captain Stratton's Fancy" peppered thoughout, performed by Michael
Slattery with Stephen Coombs at the piano.
That weekend of the 15/16 August sees the deadline for our next
Newsletter, so if any of you have proposed articles, or any items
of Warlockian interest to share, or news of any forthcoming
performances of Warlock, do submit them for consideration to our
new editor at michaeljohngraves@tiscale.co.uk.
On Saturday 12 September from 12.30pm we hold another Social Lunch
at the Antelope, Eaton Terrace, London SW1 (see attachment below)
On Sunday 27 September at 4pm at the Wigmore Hall, Andrew Kennedy
sings 'Sleep', 'Ha’nacker Mill'. 'My Own Country', ;The Night' and
'Yarmouth Fair' with Roger Vignoles. There are also songs by
Purcell, Ned Rorem, Britten and Ives.
by
kind permission of the landlady, Katie Lewin
YOU ARE INVITED
by the Peter Warlock Society
to another Social Lunch
at the nerve centre of the Warlock Society, with
a chance to meet the committee after one of their meetings.
This is a Fullers Real Ale pub, with a wide selection of food
for you to choose from and pay for at the downstairs bar.
Saturday 12 September 2009
from 12.30pm in the Upper Room
of the Antelope Tavern (Tel 020 7824 8512)
Eaton Terrace, London, SW1 8EZ
There is meter parking in the area until 1.30pm.
Nearest tube station is Sloane Square.
Turn right out of the station past the
Royal Court Theatre; turn right into Cliveden Place,
then left into Eaton Terrace, whereupon the tavern comes into view.
RSVP to (or more details from) the Hon. Sec of the Peter Warlock Society
Malcolm Rudland on 020 7589 9595 or mrudland@talk21.com
New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra
Email: music@christchurchnewbrunswick.org
Annual Spring Program, featuring Peter Warlock's "Capriol Suite"
as well as music by Brahms, Erkel, Lehar. New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra,
Mark Trautman, conductor. Concert at Hungarian Center, 133 Somerset St., New
Brunswick, NJ USA. March 8, 2009 at 3 p.m. Tickets: 20/15 students and seniors.
More information: newbrunswickchamberorchestra.org
Warlock and Delius 2008
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