Concerts and events in Dorchester Abbey: April– September 2013 updated 13/4/13   

Saturday 20 April to Saturday 27 April  Dorchester Festival Show  Oliver!

Saturdays 20 and  27 at 2 pm and 7.30 pm, Sunday 21, Wednesday 24 to Friday 26 at 7.30 pm  directed by Caroline Seed, musical director Sally Mears  Tickets £20/15/12 (under 16 half price) and furth

 

Friday 3 May to Sunday 12 May Dorchester Festival - Arts events+ for all the family includes Festival Ball and Auctions, Comic Art workshop, Science shows, Poetry, Arsenal football coaching, Historic Dorchester Tour, Food Fair in tent, and talks on Paul Nash and George and Giles Gilbert Scott in Abbey Guest House Tickets and full details at www.dorchesterfestival.com and 0844 8700 887. Supporting Dorchester Abbey and Special!Effect!  Helpers wanted call 01865 340434

 

+Saturday 4 May at 7.30 pm  Too Hot to Handel Armonico Baroque Players (musical director Christopher Monks) Amy Freeston soprano William Towers. A comic take on a tale of two lovers inertwined with Handel arias from Xerxes, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Orlando, in English.

Tickets £22/15/10 (under 16 half price).

+Sunday 5 May at 10.15 am A Celebration of Marriage

    at 2 pm Quintessential Children’s Concert by wind quintet Tickets £5.50(3.50)        

    at 6.30 pm Ska Mass: Sounds of Salvation

    at 8.30 pm Band Night: Brokenfor Indie Band Tickets £5.50                  

+Monday 6 May at 8.30 am May Morning Breakfast: Two a Part from 9am: free entry book breakfast in advance £5   

    at 10 am Come and Sing Workshop with Brian Kay Tickets £15 (+£5 lunch, book in advance) 

    at 6 pm Excessive Sensibility Poetry with Tom Slingsby   Tickets £5

    at 7.30 pm Contemporary Art  Tickets £5

+Tuesday 7 May at 10 & 11 am Toddler Dance Tickets £3.50 

+Wednesday 8 May at 6pm Singing Playgrounds led by Ex Cathedra Tickets £3

+Friday 10 May at 11.30 am Music for Autistic Schools  free entry

    at 6pm JS Bach: A Pilgrimage with Thomas Bowes violin Tickets £10 (in aid of Music for Autism)        

+Saturday 11 May at 10 am Rock Choir performance and workshop  free entry

    from 1pm Busking in the Abbey, Dorchester Duo: at 2.30 pm Musical Banquet: at 4 pm Cat’s Chorus (conductor Elinor Carter) free entry

    at 7.30pm Murder Mystery Supper with John Howell MP Tickets £15

+Sunday 12 May at 10.15 am Festival Service  preacher Terry Waite

    at 2pm Schools Concert  Tickets £5.50 (under 16 free).

    at 7.30 pm Take to the Skies: BBC Elstree Concert Band Tickets £13 (£6.50)

 

Friday 24 to Monday 27 May 7th English Music Festival*

Online booking will open on 15 March at www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk  Festival and day passes available: Friends discounts. Additional concerts at Silk Hall, Radley College and All Saints’, Sutton Courtenay and talks in Abbey Guest House – details on website. Enquiries 07808 473889

 

*Friday 24 May at 7.30 pm BBC Concert Orchestra (conductor MartinYates)

Parry Jerusalem; Britten Canadian Carnival; Vaughan Williams The Solent^ and Seranade in A minor^;

Holst A Winter Idyll: Walford Davies Symphony no.2 in G major^  (^world premiere performances) Tickets £22

*Saturday 25 May at 11 am Rupert Marshall-Luck violin, Matthew Rickard piano

Howells Violin Sonata no. 1 in E minor, op. 18: Delius Violin Sonata no. 1: Havergal Brian Legend:

Darke Violin Sonata no. 1 (first public performance): Britten Suite, op. 6 Tickets £17.50

    at 7.30 pm English String Orchestra, Harpenden Choral Society (conductor John Andrews) Elena Xanthoudakis soprano, Jean Rigby mezzo-soprano, Daniel Norman tenor, Grant Doyle bass

Sullivan The Golden Legend   Tickets £22

    at 9.45 pm (prov.) Late Evening Concert Edmund Taylor violin, MartinYates piano

programme includes Elgar Chanson de Matin; Chanson de Nuit: Delius Hassan – intermezzo: Mackenzie Benedictus: Sullivan The Lost Chord and music by Richard Jones and Ketelbay Tickets £10

 

*Sunday 26 May at 7.30 pm City of London Choir (conductor Hilary Davan Wetton)

Dyson Three hymns of Praise: Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre and Five Mystical Songs;  Finzi God is gone up; Gardner Stabat Mater; Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Tickets £22

    at 9.45 pm (prov.) Late Evening Concert: New Foxtrot Seranaders

Includes music by Noel Coward, Ivor Novello,Noel Ga, Ray Noble, Hubert Gregg, Ross Parker, Sandy Wilso and Flanagan & Allen  Tickets £10

*Monday 27 May at 7.30 pm New Commissions Concert: Orchestra of St Paul’s (conductor Ben Palmer) Rupert Marshall-Luck violin

Richard Blackford Spirited; Christopher Wright Legend; Paul Carr And suddenly it’s evening; Paul Lewis Norfolk Suite; Ben Palmer; David Matthews White Nights; David Owen Norris Symphony (all world premiere performances)

 

Sunday 2 June at 6 pm Circle Dance details tba

 

Thursday 6 June at 7.30 pm The Dorchester Lecture: Sir Sherard Cowper-Cowles

former British Ambassador to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.  Tickets £10 incl. a drink (students £5), in advance from Mrs Jupp tel. 01865 341066 or on the door   Proceeds to the Friends of Dorchester Abbey

 

Saturday 8 June at 7.30 pm Benson Choral Society Summer Concert

Schubert  Mass in G; Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music; Orlando Gibbons The Cries of London;
Chilcott  Sounds and Cries of London Town details www.bensonchoralsociety.org.uk

 

Sunday 9 June at 7 pm Langtree Sinfonia  Paul Cox conductor, Edward Reeve piano

Schumann Overture ‘Genoveva’ op.81; Brahms Symphony no.1; Brahms Piano Concerto no.2

www.langtreesinfonia.co.uk  Tickets tel. 0118 9415498 and from Inspiration 1 The Arcade, Goring

 

Saturday 15 June at 7.30 pm OSJ Music for Autism Concert featuring autistic performers including Derek Paravicini piano, Claire Doran soprano, Young Autistic Pianists, plus a rock group from Parklands Special School. Also featuring Hannah Davey, Olga Verizhnikova, Naomi Berry sopranos, Ben Holder jazz violinist, Ollie Howell drums, OSJ Ashmolean Voices Tickets £10 from Oxboffice 0845 680 1926 and online www.oxboffice.com

 

Saturday 22 June at 7.30 pm  Oxfordshire Villages Chorus details tba

 

Saturday 13 July at 7.30 pm  OCMS Concert Series details tba

 

Sunday, 28 July Busking in the Abbey

On several Sunday afternoons in July and August there will be informal half-hour performances at 2, 3 and 4pm. Some of these are arranged at short notice, and are subject to alteration. Admission free.

 

Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 September Music in the Abbey: Orchestra of St John

Tickets from Oxboffice 0845 680 1926 and online www.oxboffice.com

 

Thursday 5 September at 7.30 pm  Talk by Simon Seligman  on Chatsworth, title tba

 

Friday 6 September at 7.30 pm Rising Opera Stars: A concert of virtuoso songs and arias given the award winning Birmingham Conservatoire pupils of Christine Cairns Tickets £10

 

Saturday 7 September at 7.30 pm OSJ (conductor John Lubbock) Steven Isserlis cello

Haydn Symphony no.49 La Passione and Cello Concerto Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile and Serenade for strings  Tickets £37.50, £30, £20, students/under 18 half price

 

Sunday 8 September at 7.30 pm  OSJ (conductor John Lubbock) OSJ singers Steven Isserlis cello

Mendelssohn Psalm 115 Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations Bruckner Motets Symphony no.40

Tickets as Saturday