Peter Medhurst

Broadway

Worcestershire

Peter Medhurst hosts and presents a joyous musical extravaganza to celebrate the Three Kings and mark the end of the Christmas season

Performers include: Hannah Ockendon soprano, Dominique Thiébaud soprano, Richard Rowe tenor, Philip Salmon tenor, Maciek O’Shea bass-baritone, Anna Wynne harp, Linda Howarth flute, Rosemary Field organ and Carol Wells piano

Concert begins at 7.00 pm

Tickets £16 to include Twelfth cake & mulled wine, available in person from

ShopWright, Newsagent, Broadway

or by post with SAE from

Mrs S Sanford, The Pools, Broadway, WR12 7JS

Cheques payable to The Friends of St Eadburgha’s

Enquiries 01386 853446

Vauxhall Recreation Centre, Gypsy Lane, Luton, Beds

Peter Medhurst looks at the impact of Handel on 300 years of British culture.

Lecture-recital

10.45 am

www.hadfas.org.uk

Avebury Avenue, Tonbridge, Kent

Peter Medhurst presents a study day on Mozart’s celebrated Mass

It seems that Mozart wrote his Mass in C minor in 1782-3 as a result of a promise made with himself in connection with his marriage to Constanza Weber.  Sadly, as with the Requiem Mass of 1791, Mozart never completed the work; none-the-less it was given a premiere in the Church of St Peter’s, in Salzburg on 26th October 1783.  The study day traces the history of the composition, and makes a close examination of the music through analysis and discussion, at the same time comparing and contrasting the music to Mozart’s other religious music.

Bookings & information see Day school, University of Kent Website

Pinn Way, Ruislip HA4 7QL

Lecture-recital by Peter Medhurst

London played host to many brilliant North Italian musicians and artists in the 18th century. Artists such as Canaletto brought a breath of fresh Venetian air to Georgian art and music for many years.

11.00 am

www.moorparkdfas.co.uk

Dorchester

7.00 for 7.30 pm

Dorset County DFAS

Seymour Road, Broadfield, Crawley RH11 9ES

Study Day with Peter Medhurst

Mozart’s operas – and in particular the late ones – are part of the standard repertoire of all modern opera companies and are among the most admired of all stage works. However, what is often overlooked is that these works were very much part of the times in which they were written and exhibit the tastes, fears, aspirations and the political motions of Mozart’s world during the 1770s, 80, and 90s. Above all, they are operas of the closing moments of the Enlightenment and mirror the ideals – and the limitations – of a way of thinking that eventually fell victim to its own success. The study day places Mozart’s operas in context, and among other things examines how The Magic Flute came into being by Leopold II’s systematic closing of Masonic Lodges in Vienna in 1791; how the revolutionary message in The Marriage of Figaro caused Mozart’s patrons to fall away one by one; how Don Giovanni is caught up in the late 18th century fascination for the supernatural and the horrific; and how Seraglio is a product of Joseph II’s desire to establish in Austria a national form of entertainment that was – in part – inspired by the success of The Beggar’s Opera in England

10.00 am – 4.00 pm

Sussex U3A

www.sura.org.uk

Arts Centre

Del la Warr Road

East Grinstead

West Sussex RH19 3BS

Peter Medhurst presents a programme of Mozart’s music that links with famous personalities – Haydn, Linley, Novello, Dittersdorf, George III. He will perform arias from The Magic Flute, early piano works (K1-5), Adagio in B minor K540, and selections from the songs.

Concert begins at 1.30 pm

Box Office: 01342 302000

Fritz-Haber-Villa, Faradayweg 8, 14195 Berlin, (U3 Thielplatz, Bus M11 Hittorfstrasse)

Lecture-recital by Peter Medhurst

As Venice declined, it produced ever fewer opportunities for high-grade lucrative employment and as a result, many of its native artists and musicians looked for work elsewhere. Some went south to Rome and Florence, some gravitated to Paris, Vienna, and even Madrid, but many – inspired by the constant procession of Englishman on the Grand Tour – set their sights on the ever expanding English capitol. Through digital images, film and live examples sung and played at the piano, Peter Medhurst explores the knock-on effect of the Venetians’ stay in 18th century London and reveals how English culture took on a discernable Venetian quality that was to be detected in its art and music for many years to come.

8 pm Doors open for the sale of wine and soft drinks from 7.30 pm.

Berlin BRIDFAS

Enquiries to Ursula Fortune: Telephone: 030 / 833 71 63

North Street, Chichester, West Sussex

Lecture -recital

Long before the famous opera appeared in 1787, Don Juan prototypes had appeared in the realms of European fact and fiction.  However, it is Mozart’s Don Giovanni who has become the figurehead for all licentious lovers who meet with a sticky end.  Peter Medhurst plots the history of the opera, and the progress of the Don, to reveal why it is one of the most powerful and brilliant works ever to appear on the stage.

Music performed: Theme and Variations on a melody in Don Giovanni – WA Mozart, Abendempfindung – WA Mozart, Serenade from Act II of Don Giovanni – WA Mozart, Fin ch’han dal vino from Act I of Don Giovanni – Mozart

Contact Mrs Judy Deverill Tel 01243 823040

Ryarsh

Kent

11.00 am

Malling DFAS

Contact: Mrs M Webb 01732 845503

Chichester, W Sussex PO20 7JL

Over the centuries, Berlin has hosted some of the greatest musicians in the world, ranging from Mozart and Weber to Brahms and Tchaikovsky; consequently, it has a fascinating and involved musical history. The course traces Berlin’s musical past by discussing its opera houses and works written for them, its musical instrument and archive collections, the fine organs of the churches and cathedral, the Mendelssohn family, as well as journeying outside the capital to Leipzig and to Frederick the Great’s palace Sanssouci at Potsdam.

Friday-Sunday – residential

Email: info@earnley.co.uk or Tel 01243 670392

Lord Hill Hotel, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6AX

Lecture-recital

Shrewsbury DFAS

Contact: Mrs Caroline Auger 01743 369585

Havant Road, Emsworth

Study day

Portsdown DFAS

Contact: Mrs Janet Williams 01243 370660

Ripley

Bromley

i) The period of Monteverdi (18^th February)

ii) The world of Vivaldi (25^th February)

iii) Venetians in 18^th century London (4^th March)

11.00 am – 1.00 pm

Bookings through Mrs Christine Thomas 020 8460 4368

Ripley

Bromley

Milford-on-Sea

Hants

Study Day

West Solent DFAS

Contact Valerie Turner for tickets 01590 642710

Ripley

Bromley

Sanderstead, Croydon.

Surrey

Study Day

10.30 – 3.30 pm

Contact Jacqueline Harris

01737 555087

Stamford, Lincolnshire

Peter Medhurst explores the musical paintings, the music library and the musical instruments that are housed at this finest of Elizabethan mansions.  He will also end the day with a recital in the chapel on the Gray chamber organ of 1790 and on the Longman & Broderip square piano of the same period.

Special Event

11.00 am – 3.30 pm

Contact Mrs A Beaton 01733 232521

Pengelly Hall

Torquay

Devonshire

Venetian influences on 18^th century English culture

2.30 pm

Contact: Jutta Fagan 01803 311648

High Wycombe

Study morning

10.00 am – 1.00 pm

BARTS

Bookings: Carole Willat: c_willatt@tiscali.co.uk

Aldington, Ashford, Kent

Venetian influences on 18^th century English culture

Lecture-recital starts at 11.15 am

Contact Frances Crampton 01233 720 221

Menuhin School,

Stoke d’Abernon

Venetian influences on 18^th century English culture

10.30 am

The Art Fund

Tickets: Diana Gerring 01252 790442

Monk Street, Abergavenny, NP7 5ND

Study Day

10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Monmouthshire DFAS

Bookings: Nick Bomford 01594 837 001

1 Throgmorton Ave, City of London EC2

Handel’s bond with the English was a musical marriage made in heaven.  In other words, an appreciative and discerning public athirst for accessible, quality music, and a composer desirous to give it to them.  The effects of Handel’s influence on English cultural life can be felt to this day, and it is from this perspective that Peter Medhurst explores the great German celebrity by discussing and performing a wide range of music by Handel himself, as well as by English composers of the period and after.  Music includes: Tune Your Harpsfrom Esther by GF Handel, Prelude from Suite No 1 in A by Handel, Voluntary in D minor by J Stanley, Signora Durestanti’s Farewell by M Greene, This Helmet I Suppose was Meant to Ward off Blows from Princess Ida by AS Sullivan

Recital

7.00 pm

Broad Street Ward Club

Tickets: Judith Rich OBE 0044 1962 842 070

Ashford Road

St. Michaels,

Tenterden, Kent

Study Day

11.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Tenterden DFAS

Bookings: Elizabeth Smith ehsmith@gardententerden.fsnet.co.uk

Chichester

West Sussex

PO20 7JL

Peter Medhurst explores, introduces and presents workshops and concerts on the great chamber music repertoire of the Classical composers.

1st course: 23rd-25th March 2011

Music to include: Haydn – Sunrise Quartet, Schubert – Death & the Maiden song & Death & the Maiden variations from Quartet in D minor, Mozart – String Quintet in G minor K516

2nd course: 20th-22nd September 2011

Music to include: Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata (played by Julia Debruslais on an Arpeggione), Beethoven – String Quartet Op 18 No 1 in F major, Schubert – String Quintet in C

(Some places left for September)

Peter Medhurst

with

Soloists from the London Orchestras

Email: info@earnley.co.uk or Tel 01243 670392

Rendcomb

Cirencester

Lecture-recital

Cirencester DFAS special event

Information: 01285 654328

Memorial Centre

Gerrards Cross

All day study event

It has long been recognised that the worlds of the visual and aural arts link with extraordinary power when one medium inspires the other.  This study day, which spans over 600 years of the arts, analyses and discusses a range of related works, bringing together the music of Martinu with the frescoes of Piero della Francesca, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus with Respighi’s Trittico botticelliano, Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninoff’s symphonic poem, and Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie with the piano playing of AlbertAmmons.

Tickets: Lynda Weiss

Hereward Cottage, 106 Deanway,

Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. HP8 4LQ

01494 874 033

Ireton Road, Colchester

CO3 3AT

Lecture

11.00 am

Colchester DFAS

Contact: info@colchesterdfas.org.uk

High Street

Quorn

Lecture

7.30 pm

Charnwood DFAS

Contact Derek Goodman Tel: 01509 415692

High Street

Saffron Walden

Essex

Lecture

11.00 am and 2.00 pm

Saffron Walden DFAS

Tickets: Mr D McMyn 01371 810850

Piccotts Lane

Great Saling

Essex

Lecture

2.00 pm

Felsted DFAS

Contact: Jeanette Avery Tel: 01787 377587

Avebury Avenue, Tonbridge, Kent

Peter Medhurst presents a study day on Mozart’s celebrated Mass

It seems that Mozart wrote his Mass in C minor in 1782-3 as a result of a promise made with himself in connection with his marriage to Constanza Weber.  Sadly, as with the Requiem Mass of 1791, Mozart never completed the work; none-the-less it was given a premiere in the Church of St Peter’s, in Salzburg on 26th October 1783.  The study day traces the history of the composition, and makes a close examination of the music through analysis and discussion, at the same time comparing and contrasting the music to Mozart’s other religious music.

Bookings & information see Day school, University of Kent Website

Manor Road

Walton-on-Thames

Surrey KT12 2PF

Peter Medhurst – bass-baritone & piano

Philip Salmon – tenor

Although Shakespeare once remarked of love that ‘it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken’ he also suggested that ‘the course of true love never did run smooth’.  Inspired by these notions, Peter Medhurst and Philip Salmon present an evening of songs and duets that dwells on the chimerical, but paradoxically mercurial, qualities of true love.

Music includes:  I saw My Lady Weep – J Dowland, A Dialogue upon a Kiss – H Lawes, Pious Celinda – H Purcell, Sweeter than Roses – H Purcell, O Mistress Mine – E Humperdinck, The Sally Gardens – I Gurney, Tell Me the Truth about Love – B Britten, Brush up Your Shakespeare – Cole Porter, The Bindweed and the Honeysuckle – Flanders & Swann

7.30 pm

Tickets: £15.00 (conc. £14.00)

Booking Details:

By post

riverhouse boxoffice

Manor Road

Walton-on-Thames

Surrey KT12 2PF

By phone

01932 253354 (24 hrs)

St Mary’s Church

Newport

Pembrokeshire

SA42 0PP

Peter Medhurst – bass-baritone & piano

Philip Salmon – tenor

Although Shakespeare once remarked of love that ‘it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken’ he also suggested that ‘the course of true love never did run smooth’.  Inspired by these notions, Peter Medhurst and Philip Salmon present an evening of songs and duets that dwells on the chimerical, but paradoxically mercurial, qualities of true love.

Music includes:  I saw My Lady Weep – J Dowland, A Dialogue upon a Kiss – H Lawes, Pious Celinda – H Purcell, Sweeter than Roses – H Purcell, O Mistress Mine – E Humperdinck, The Sally Gardens – I Gurney, Tell Me the Truth about Love – B Britten, Brush up Your Shakespeare – Cole Porter, The Bindweed and the Honeysuckle – Flanders & Swann

3.00 pm

Tickets: £8 (members £6.00)

Booking Details:

By phone

01239 820248

Abbingdon

Oxon OX14 3JE

It has long been recognised that the worlds of the visual and aural arts link with extraordinary power when one medium inspires the other.  This study morning, which spans over 600 years of the arts, analyses and discusses a range of related works, bringing together the music of Martinu with the frescoes of Piero della Francesca, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus with Respighi’s Trittico botticelliano, Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninoff’s symphonic poem, and Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie with the piano playing of AlbertAmmons.

Lecture-recitals

10.30 am & 2.00 pm

Abingdon DFAS

Information: Mrs Sandy King Tel: 01235 526801

Quebec Avenue

Westerham

Kent

TH16 1BJ

Lecture-recital

7.30 pm for 8.00 pm

Westerham Fine Arts

Tickets: contact the Secretary Mrs Lyn Worrall on 01959 569895

Chichester

West Sussex

PO20 7JL

Programme

1. Introduction to the course

2. Lecture: Respighi’s Trittico botticelliano & Martinů’s Frescoes of Piero della Francesca

3. Lecture: Paintings inspired by music – works linking Schwind & Beethoven, Leighton & Mendelssohn, Holman Hunt & Lear

4. Concert: The Violin in Art 1650 – 1875. Music to complement a sequence of paintings featuring the violin and includes Sonata Op 5 No 6 for Violin and Harpsichord by Corelli, Sonata in Eb K 302 for Violin and Piano by Mozart, Adagio from Sonata in F for Violin and Piano by Mendelssohn

5. Lecture: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

6. Lecture: Rachmaninov’s The Isle of the Dead

7. Lecture: Kandinsky and Klee’s musical paintings

Peter Medhurst and Robbie Norman work together as musicians, researchers and creators of programmes that connect music with the visual arts.  They share a deep interest in art history and this, coupled with their broad knowledge of musical repertoire, brings added dimension to their presentations and lectures.

Friday to Sunday

Residential £225; non-residential £150

Email: info@earnley.co.uk or Tel 01243 670392

Beatrice Road

Salisbury

Peter Medhurst looks at the impact of Handel on 300 years of British culture.

Lecture-recital

11.00 am

Sarum DFAS

Enquiries: Mrs P Bell Tel: 01722 331235

Community Arts Centre, Roaring Meg

Stevenage

Peter Medhurst takes a close look at Gilbert & Sullivan, one of the greatest partnerships in the history of the music

All day event

Contact: Hilary Spiers: johnhilary1@virginmedia.com

Shalford

Guildford

Surrey

(See 18^th June for description)

Lecture-recital

10.45 am

Contact Val Horsfield for tickets: 01483 421552

School Lane

Fittleworth

West Sussex

(See 18^th June for description)

10.45 am

South Downs DFAS

Tickets: Mrs L Eccles Tel:01403 753200

Great Comp

Comp Lane, Platt,

Nr Sevenoaks

TN15 8QS

Although upward of a hundred pleasure gardens are known to have thrived in 18th century London, it was Vauxhall, with its walks, triumphal arches, statues and reputation for scandal, that became the firm favourite with Londoners and visitors alike.  For the price of a shilling, patrons could stroll through the enchanted groves accompanied by the voices of nature, or – if they wished – could sup to the popular melodies of the day, born aloft on the evening air from the famous Orchestra.  Drawing on period newspapers and diaries and the most sparkling music in the Vauxhall Gardens’ repertoire, Peter Medhurst tells the story of cultural life at London’s first ‘South Bank’.

Special study event

Tickets: Mrs F Pragnell 01732 853 240

Bisley Camp

Brookwood, Woking

Peter Medhurst looks at the impact of Handel on 300 years of British culture.

Lecture-recital

2.00 pm

Windlebrook DFAS

http://www.windlebrookdfas.co.uk/lectures-desc.php

Worcester

Peter Medhurst, musician and scholar, introduces and discusses the many fascinating aspects of Mahler’s longest symphony.

6 pm, King’s School Theatre

£10

Available online from Thursday 21 April

http://www.3choirs.org/2011-worcester/worcester-2011.html

Chichester

West Sussex

PO20 7JL

Peter Medhurst explores, introduces and presents workshops and concerts on the great chamber music repertoire of the Classical composers.

Music to include: Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata (played by Julia Debruslais on an Arpeggione), Beethoven – String Quartet Op 18 No 1 in F major, Schubert – String Quintet in C

(Some places left for September)

Peter Medhurst

with

Soloists from the London Orchestras

Email: info@earnley.co.uk or Tel 01243 670392