Guildford Corporation Concerts
Director of Music: J. CROSSLEY CLITHEROE
SATURDAY, l4th MARCH, 1959, at 7 p.m.
TECHNICAL COLLEGE, GUILDFORD
PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
GUILDFORD
MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA
Leader: TATE
GILDER
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“MERRIE ENGLAND”
A Concert version of Edward German’s Light Opera
ANTONINA CHILD - Soprano
- JEAN ALLISTER - - Contralto
ALFRED HALLETT - - - Tenor
BRYAN DRAKE - - - Baritone
Conductor: CROSSLEY CLITHEROE
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PROGRAMME
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PRICE SIXPENCE
PROGRAMME
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
OPENING LRORUD o - o lihie e SdeinaAot “‘Sing adown, adown”’
Song (Jill) axp CHORUS ......NSyt ““Oh where the deer do lie”’
QuiNTET (Bessie, Jill, Raleigh, Essex, Long Tom)
“Love is meant to make us glad”’
Bairap {(Bessiey ... ““She had a letter from her love”
SonG (Essex) AND CHORUS ............... ““The Yeomen of England’’
DueT (Bessie and Raleigh) ........................ ““Come to Arcadie”
MagCH AND CHORUB /55 i3 5 i sy i e “Long live Elizabeth”’
Sonc (Elizabeth) wiTH CHORUS ............ ““O Peaceful England’’
FINALE .o vy sveansi vt SRseptcs saih 45 “It is a tale of Robin Hood”
PrincipALSs AND CHORUS
INTERVAL
PART TWO
INTRODUCTION AND CHORUS .........coueninen. ““The Month o’ May”’
“‘Cat, Cat, where have you been?’’
Sono-AJdly ...S
QuarTET (Bessie, Jill, Raleigh, Essex)
“In England, Merrie England”
QUARTET AND MALE CHORUS ... ‘“The Sun in the Heaven is high”’
Duer (Jill and Raleigh) ......AT_““It is the merry month of May”’
RusTic DANCE AND JIG
s uass ““The English Rose”
SONG (RAIBIRY - v tomv iy s Bangsvins
Duer (Essex and Raleigh) AND CHORUS
“Two merry men a-drinking’’
.0il “Who shall say”’
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WALTZ SONG (Besste) .......0.
SonG (Essex) with Trio (Bessie, [ill, Raleigh)
“When Cupid first”’
MINELR .. vR
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‘“‘Robin Hood’s Wedding”’
PrinciraLS AND CHORUS
THE ARGUMENT
THE ARGUMENT, as developed in the Opera (omitting the principal
humorous characters and incidents) is that Sir Walter Raleigh
is in love with Bessie Throckmorton, one of Queen Elizabeth’s
Maids of Honour.
He writes an acrostic to her, which, being lost,
is found by Jill-all-alone, a dweller in the woods, who is suspected
of being a witch;
she gives it to the Earl of Essex, who, con-
sidering Sir Walter Raleigh to be his rival for the hand of Queen
Elizabeth, uses it against him by handing it to the Queen.
She
reads the praises of a certain Bessie, and taking the compliment
to herself, is not displeased thereby ; when, however, she discovers
that the acrostic was intended for her maid (Bessie Throckmorton)
she orders Raleigh to be banished and Bessie to be imprisoned.
Jill, who has further incensed the Queen by some mocking words,
is ordered to be burnt as a witch.
Essex, when he discovers that Raleigh is not his rival, attempts
to repair the mischief he has wrought by the following device:—
He arranges that one of the foresters shall impersonate Herne
the Hunter and appear in an apparition to the Queen while she
is seated in the forest beneath Herne’s Oak. According to tradition
the
appearance
of the
weird
monarch contemplates a crime.
huntsman
occurs
only
when
the
The device succeeds, the Queen
relents, and both the lovers and Jill are pardoned.
CHARACTERS
Bessie THrRockMORTON (Maid of Honour to the Queen) ... Soprano
JiLL-ALL-ALoNE (a supposed Witch)
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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TOWNSFOLK, ETC.
METHODIST CHURCH HALL
Saturday, llth April .
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.7.30 p.m.
E. P L
presents
A GRAMOPHONE RECITAL
of
New Classical Record Releases
In association with the Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
METHODIST CHURCH HALL
Saturday, 2nd May .
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7.30 p.m.
BY POPULAR REQUEST
A Return Visit of
The Occasional Wind Players
Music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Ibert and Jean Francaix
In association with the Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Saturday, 9th May
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7 p.m.
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VERDI’'S
REQUIEM
MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA
FESTIVAL CHOIR
ELIZABETH FRETWELL (Soprano)
MONICA SINCLAIR (Contralto)
GUILDFORD
RONALD DOWD (Tenor)
MICHAEL LANGDON (Bass)
THEATRE
WEEK BEGINNING MARCH léth
EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON
By JOHN OSBORNE and ANTHONY CREIGHTON
WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 23rd
THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK
BY JEROME K. JEROME
(The theatre will be closed on Good Friday)