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Maria Bovino
COUNCIL CONCERTS
Maria Bovino was born in England but is from an
Italian family. After studying music at Sheffield University, she went to the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, completing her studies there this year.
1982/83
CIVIC HALL GUILDFORD
SUNDAY 27 MARCH 1983
at 7.45 p.m.
Guildford
Philharmonic
Orchestra
Miss Bovino won the BP Opera Prize in 1980, and was
a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition this year.
Her repertoire includes songs in German, Spanish,
Italian and Neapolitan, and she has given many recitals,
including the young artists’ series at Fairfield Hall,
Croydon. Her voice is ideally suited for much classical
oratorio repertoire, particularly for high soprano voice,
and her performances have included Bach’s Christmas
Oratorio and St. Matthew Passion, Mozart’s Exultate
Jubilate and Requiem, and Haydn Masses and “The
Creation”.
Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Catherine Wyn-Rogers was a Foundation Scholar at the
Royal College of Music from 1976 to 1980, studying
Leader: HUGH BEAN
with Meriel St. Clair. She won many awards, including
the College song recital prize, Dame Clara Butt award
and a grant from the Countess of Munster Trust. Her
London
recital
debut
was
at the
Purcell
Room
in
January 1982 for the Park Lane Group’s series “Young
Artists and 20th century music”.
MARIA BOVINO
Soprano
CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS
Already
working
extensively
in recital
and oratorio
throughout the country, she has sung with the Bach
Choir several times under their director, Sir David
Willcocks, and has made recordings with them and with
the
London
Symphony
Orchestra.
Last
year
she
Contralto
appeared with the Bach Choir in Mahler’s Symphony
No.8 at the Royal Albert Hall and in “Israel in Egypt”
PETER HALL
country.
Tenor
This
HENRY HERFORD
Baritone
CHRISTOPHER MABLEY
Harpsichord
PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
KENNETH LANK
Conductor
in the Royal Festival Hall and on tour in the West
season
has
included
her
first
recording
for
television and radio. She gave a live broadcast perforrmance of Howell’s “Missa Sabriensis” from the Royal
Festival
Hall,
and
recorded
‘“Messiah”
on
BBC
Television in Cardiff, and also Mozart’s Requiem for
Radio
3.
Her
success
this
year
at
the
traditional
Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund “Messiah” at the Royal
Albert Hall resulted in an invitation to return there next
year.
Peter Hall
Formerly
a
Choral
Scholar
at
King’s
College,
Cambridge, Peter Hall studied law for some years but
eventually decided to devote his full time to singing, join-
ing the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral. His engagements
have taken him all over this country, to Europe, North
America, Australia and New Zealand. The scope of his
work ranges from recordings of plainchant, through the
“Christmas Vespers” of Monteverdi to the recording of
Brian
Ferneyhough’s mammoth work “Transit” with
the London Sinfonietta, and from concert performances
of the Passions of J. S.
Bach to Stravinsky’s “Les
Noces” and “Renard” in the original Russian, and Carl
This concert is promoted by Guildford Borough Council with financial
support from the South East Arts Association.
Orff’s “Carmina Burana”. Peter Hall took the part of
the Young Guard in the 75th birthday performance of
Sir Michael Tippett’s opera “King Priam” with a subse-
quent recording, and covered the part of Christ in John
Tavener’s opera “Therese” at the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden. Future plans include visits to France,
Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, and increasingly
varied engagements in Great Britain.
Henry Herford
Henry Herford was born in Edinburgh. After graduating
in English at Cambridge, he studied singing at the Royal
Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he was
awarded the Curtis Gold Medal. He then spent two
years at Glyndebourne, singing principal roles on tour,
including the Forester in “The Cunning Little Vixen”.
Since then he has sung roles with a number of companies in this country (including the Count in Opera
80’s “The Marriage of Figaro”) and Dr. Falke in Scot-
tish Opera’s “Die Fledermaus”, as well as in Italy,
France, Monte Carlo and Spain.
In 1980 he won the Benson and Hedges Gold Award at
Snape. He has broadcast recitals on BBC and Dutch
Radio (following prizes won at ’s-Hertogenbosch in
1979), performed French song cycles with the Nash
Ensemble, and appeared as soloist with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the English Chamber
Orchestra in a series of Bach concerts for their first
season at the Barbican Centre. In September 1982 he
won The International Music Competition in New York
and gave a recital and orchestral concert, followed by a
recording contract.
Engagements this year include concerts with the
London Choral Society and the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra in the Festival Hall, and operas
with the Handel Opera Society and the English Bach
Festival in London and Athens.
Kenneth Lank
For a number of years before Mr. Crossley Clitheroe’s
death Kenneth Lank acted as his assistant conductor.
He has continued in this position for Vernon Handley
since 1962 and undertakes considerable preparatory
work for the Philharmonic Choir’s performances.
Kenneth Lank has conducted the Philharmonic Choir in
many Carol Concerts, performances of Parry’s “Songs
of Farewell”, and when Vernon Handley was ill in 1967
he undertook final preparation of Bach’s B Minor Mass
and his success on this occation made it inevitable for
him to be given more opportunities to conduct the Corporation’s concerts. On that occasion he earned high
praise from the experienced members of the orchestra
for his control of the soloists’ accompaniments. In the
1967/68 season he conducted a concert which included
Schubert’s Overture in E Minor, Gordon Jacob’s Trombone Concerto (soloist Christopher Davenport) and
Elgar’s Serenade for Strings. In 1972 he conducted a
performance of Parry’s “Blest Pair of Sirens” with the
Guildford Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, and last
year conducted Haydn’s Nelson Mass in the Civic Hall.
Philharmonic Choir
The Philharmonic Choir is trained by the Musical
Director and assistant conductor Kenneth Lank with
accompanists Christopher Mabley and Patricia Wood.
The Choir made its first recording in 1973 with the
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra: “Intimations of Immortality” by Gerald Finzi, with Ian Partridge as
soloist, and in 1976 recorded Hadley’s “The Trees So
High” with the Philharmonic Orchestra.
Messiah
Handel 1685—-1759
When Handel set himself in the autumn of 1741, at the
age of fifty-six, to compose “Messiah” he was under a
cloud of misfortune and bitter disappointment which
must have overwhelmed any but the stoutest spirit. He
was in anything but good health; his eyesight was
beginning to fail him and he was almost penniless. He
shut himself in his house (he was living in Brook Street)
and, seeing no one, hardly stopping even to touch the
food which his faithful man brought to his room, he
worked on the composition of “Messiah” with such
enthusiasm that the oratorio was completed in little
more than three weeks. But he had no prospect of an immediate performance, and it was therefore laid aside for
the time being. In November of the same year the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Devonshire, and the
presidents of three big charitable societies invited him to
Dublin to organise concerts of his own music on behalf
of the charities they had at heart. One was the provision
of food for prisoners. It was at one of these concerts that
“Messiah” had its first performance in April, 1742. The
singers also went over from this country, Mrs. Cibber,
the actress, being the contralto. The oratorio had a
magnificent success, and it was repeated in the following
June.
When the work was first given in London in the early
part of 1743, at Covent Garden Theatre, it was prac-
tically a failure. Only when it was performed in the
Foundling Hospital, in 1750, did it win its way to the
hearts of Londoners, and since then it is safe to say it
has been the most popular of all oratorios in every part
of the country.
Handel evidently thought highly of the Foundling
Hospital, for during his lifetime he made for this charity
more than £7,000. In the codicil to his will he said, “I
give a fair Copy of the Score and all the Parts of my
Oratorio called the Messiah to the Foundling Hospital”.
Many years ago that refreshingly outspoken critic, John
F. Runciman, the baiter and bugbear of all sombre and
egotistical academicians, pointed out that “Messiah”
had become a Christmas institution, like roast turkey,
plum-puddings, mince pies and “other indigestible
foods”. He suggested that Handel would rather have
seen his oratorio forgotten than regarded as “merely an
aid to evangelical religion or an after-dinner digestive on
Christmas Day”. Handel’s “Messiah” is a great musical
entertainment and experience and not a very gloomy
and dull musical rite, as it used to be treated. It is full of
great music that interprets the dramatic text with
astonishing fidelity. Handel was the supreme master in
using simple means to secure mighty effects, and
nowhere does he show the stature of his genius in this
direction more than in “Messiah”.
Part the First
Part the Second
OVERTURE
CHORUS
RECIT. (Tenor)
Behold the Lamb of God
Comfort Ye
AIR (Alto)
AIR (Tenor)
He was despised
Every Valley shall be exalted
CHORUS
CHORUS
Surely He hath borne our griefs
And the glory of the Lord
RECIT. (Tenor)
RECIT. (Bass)
All they that see Him
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts
CHORUS
AIR (Bass)
He trusted in God
But who may abide
RECIT. (Tenor)
RECIT. (Alto)
Behold; A Virgin shall conceive
AIR (Alto) and Chorus
Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
AIR (Tenor)
Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
O thou that tellest
RECIT. (Tenor)
RECIT. (Bass)
He was cut off
For, behold, darkness shall cover
AIR (Tenor)
AIR (Bass)
But Thou didst not leave.
The people that walked in darkness
CHORUS
CHORUS
Lift up your heads
For unto us a Child is born
AIR (Soprano)
PASTORAL SYMPHONY
How beautiful are the feet
RECIT. (Soprano)
CHORUS
There were shepherds
Their sound is gone out into all lands
RECIT. (Soprano)
And lo! the Angel of the Lord
RECIT. (Soprano)
And the Angel said unto them
RECIT. (Soprano)
AIR (Bass)
Why do the nations
RECIT. (Tenor)
He that dwelleth in Heaven
AIR (Tenor)
And suddenly there was
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron
CHORUS
CHORUS
Glory to God
Hallelujah
AIR (Soprano)
Rejoice greatly
RECIT. (Alto)
A
Then shall the eyes of the blind
AIR (Alto)
He shall feed His flock
AIR (Soprano)
Come unto Him
CHORUS
His Yoke is Easy
Part the Third
AIR (Soprano)
I know that my Redeemer liveth
QUARTET
Since by man came death
CHORUS
By man came also the resurrection
QUARTET
For as in Adam all die
CHORUS
Even so in Christ
RECIT. (Bass)
Behold, I tell you a mystery
AIR (Bass)
The trumpet shall sound
CHORUS
Worthy is the Lamb
CHORUS
INTERVAL
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GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Director of Music/Conductor: Vernon Handley
Guildford Philharmonic Society
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
23 April at 7 o’clock
ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Old building)
First Violins:
High Street, Guildford
Hugh Bean
To be followed by a Wine and Cheese Party
Peter Poole
Hywel Davies
Andrew Laing
Linda McLaren
Susan Penfold
Alec Suttie
Howard Walsh
Second Violins:
Nicholas Maxted Jones
Rosemary Roberts
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Sunday 24 April 1983 at 3 p.m.
Civic Hall
The Crossley Clitheroe Concert
Ruth Dawson
Overture ‘Ruy Blas’ Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in A Major K219
Marilyn Downs
Ruth Knell
Symphony No.6 in B Minor
Adrienne Sturdy
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Violas:
Emmy Verhey
Violin
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Vernon Handley
Roger Chase
Kathryn Burgess
Saturday 7 May 1983 at 7.45 p.m.
Frederick Campbell
Julius Bannister
Celi Azulek
Cellos:
Robert Truman
John Stilwell
Christina Macrae
John Todd
Basses:
Richard Lewis
Stephen Williams
Oboes:
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Melinda Maxwell
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Trumpets:
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Michael Hinton
Timpani:
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Harpsichord:
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desk because 4 system of rotation of desks is adopted in
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playing in all positions in the section.
Adrian Williams
Tess
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with funds from South East Arts Association)
Piano Concerto No.3
Bartok
Anthony Scott
Mass of the Dawn
Philharmonic Choir
Yukie Nagai-Irizuki, Pianoforte
Vernon Handley, Conductor
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