I'm organising myself for the trip to Worcester and the Three Choirs Festival, with rehearsals beginning this week. It'll be the first time I've ever visited the "world's longest running music festival" (beginning in 1715!) and I must confess to considerable ignorance about this great institution until now. Keywords about the Festival formerly in my mind were "Elgar" and "Evensong"; and of course there will be plenty of both, especially in Elgar's birthplace. But the concerts also feature a remarkable amount of new music, in very interesting programmes. I hope I'll get to a few of these while following my own Festival thread.
For friends and supporters in the area, I'd be delighted to see you at one of my Three Choirs Festival performances:
SUNDAY 28th JULY
5pm - (King's School Boathouse) Composer Conversation with Nathan Dearden and Joe Duddell.
7.30pm - (Worcester Cathedral) Still, glowing Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geraint Bowen.
MONDAY 29th JULY
7.30pm - (Cathedral) O sweet spontaneous earth Three Choirs Festival Chorus and Philharmonia under Samuel Hudson
TUESDAY 30th JULY
7.00pm - (Cathedral) In the Land of Uz BBC Singers with Sofi Jeannin; Mark Padmore will be the tenor soloist, instrumentalists from the Philharmonia
WEDNESDAY 31st JULY
1.00pm - (Boathouse) I'll be speaking briefly at the Members' Lunch
3.00pm - (Cathedral) Evensong, including A Wreath
After this I'm hoofing it back to London, so alas I'll miss
SATURDAY 3rd AUGUST
11.30am - (Worcester Baptist Church) 1st String Quartet, Dante Quartet.
Pictured - Gargoyle, from the recent Notre Dame exhibition at Westminster Abbey
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