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GUILDFORD
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
1983-84 Season

IGOR OISTRAKH

30 November &

Violin, with Natalia Zertsalova, piano

1 December 1983

Tickets: £50 inclusive

Mozart, Brahms, Khrennikov, Dvorak,
Wieniawski

13 & 14 December 1983 PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
Two trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba

Tickets: £40 inclusive

Music from the Renaissance

Addison, Scheidt, Maurer, Salzedo

1 & 2 February 1984

ISRAEL PIANO TRIO

Haydn, Shostakovich, Brahms

15 & 16 February 1984 ORLANDO STRING QUARTET
Two violins, viola, cello
Mozart, Wolf, Schubert

11 & 12 April 1984

JEFFREY SIEGEL

Tickets: £40 inclusive

Tickets: £40 inclusive

Piano

Schubert, Mozart, Barber, Schumann

25 & 26 April 1984

Ticket: £40inclusive

Violin, cello, piano

JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL

Flute, with David Owen Morris, piano

Tickets: £50 inclusive

Handel, Telemann, Beethoven
Prokofiev, Bartok Arr. Arma

Tickets include a Reception, the Concert, and a three course Supper
in the Long Gallery

YOUNG PERFORMERS SERIES

18 January 1984
7 March 1984

BRODSKY STRING QUARTET

Tickets: £12 inclusive

SOPHIE LANGDON

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Two violins, viola, cello
Mozart, Lutoslawski, Schumann
Violin with Christopher GreenArmytage, piano

Pugnani-Kreisler, J S Bach, Bartok,
Cowell, Brahms

21 March 1984

PAUL COKER

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Piano

Schubert, Tippett, Beethoven, Schumann

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SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 1983
at 7.45 p.m.

Guildford
Philharmonic
Orchestra
Guest Leader: Raymond Cohen

VERNON HANDLEY

Conductor

JOHN McCABE

Pianoforte

EILENE HANNAN

Soprano

PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

This concert is promoted by Guildford Borough
support from the South East Arts Associati

on.

Council with financial

The Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra is delighted to
welcome Vernon Handley to the rostrum this evening.
Vernon Handley was for twenty-one years Guildford
Borough Council’s Director of Music and under his
direction the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra has
developed into a highly successful professional body of
major importance, now firmly established as the
Orchestra of the South East. Vernon Handley’s work in
Guildford has been recognised for its championship of
British music and an established series of enterprising
and stimulating programmes which have been acclaimed
nationally.

Vernon Handley is widely respected as one of Britain’s
leading conductors. Born in London, he studied English
at Balliol College, Oxford, before going on to the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He regularly works with all the major orchestras in
London and in the provinces. In September he was
appointed Associate Conductor of the London
Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor
of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The London
Philharmonic Orchestra Associate Conductorship has
been especially credted for Mr. Handley in recognition
of his long and enormously successful association with
the orchestra. He has also been appointed Artistic
Director of the Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival.

Vernon Handley has gained particular praise for his
championship of British music and often undertakes the
world premieres of new works. He has worked with
many foreign orchestras, including the Stockholm
Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and
the Amsterdam Philharmonic. In the autumn of 1982 he
toured the U.K. with the Strasbourg Philharmonic winning outstanding reviews.

Vernon Handley has made many memorable recordings
and in 1981 he was the recipient of the annual Audio
Award presented by Hi-Fi News. His records range
throughout the orchestral repertoire from Dvorak and
Tchaikovsky to Vaughan Williams and Tippett.

Now in his early forties, John McCabe has an increasingly international reputation as both composer
and pianist. In the latter capacity he is particularly wellknown as an interpreter of Haydn’s piano sonatas, hav-

ing recorded the entire cycle (sixteen records) for British

Decca. Indeed, his piano repertoire as a whole is both

wide-ranging and unusual. He chooses his programmes
with care, and is noted for his exploration of lesser-

known areas of the repertoire, championing not only the
music of many under-estimated composers, but also
much neglected music by composers who are household
names. Clementi, Schubert, Schumann and Nielsen are
among his favourite composers as a pianist, while his
recordings range from Mozart to Webern, and include
many works by British composers.

He is equally well-known as a composer, and his
versatility was demonstrated in 1978 when, at the Royal
Festival Hall in London, the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra gave the world premiere of his Third
Symphony, following which McCabe appeared as
soloist in Mozart’s C minor Piano Concerto K491. He

has composed works of all kinds, including two operas,
two ballets, three symphonies, three piano concertos,

two violin concertos, the song-cycle for soprano and
orchestra, Notturni ed Alba, (which is increasingly
accepted throughout the world as a modern classic), and
many other orchestral works, together with much
chamber, keyboard and vocal music.

His dual career as composer and pianist has taken him
to many countries, including five visits to the U.S.A. and
two to Australia; and in 1981 he was the featured composer/pianist at the Hong Kong Festival, playing
Mozart and his own Third Piano Concerto with the
Hallé Orchestra. His most recent major work, a
Concerto for Orchestra, was commissioned by the
London Philharmonic Orchestra for their 50th
Anniversary Season, and first performed in London in
1983, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.

John McCabe was appointed Director of the London
College of Music in 1983.

PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

Vernon Handley, who as Guildford Borough Council’s

Director of Music was responsible for the training of the

Philharmonic Choir, resigned his position in September
this year. Kenneth Lank, who was Vernon Handley’s
assistant for many years, now takes over the role as

Chorus Master of the Philharmonic Choir. He will be
responsible for training the choir for Vernon Handley,

(who conducts tonight’s performance of Bax’s ‘To the

Name above Every Name’ and Delius’s Sea Drift in
May next year), and also for Brian Wright, who will
conduct Verdi’s Requiem in the Cathedral on
11 February next.

The Choir made its first recording of Intimations of
Immortality by Gerald Finzi in 1973 with the Guildford

Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1976 recorded Hadley’s
‘The Trees so High’ with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
The Choir’s accompanist is Christopher Mabley.

The Philharmonic Choir has a few vacancies for singers

with a reasonable standard of sight reading and invites

Eilene Hannan was born in Melbourne and she commenced her career as a member of the Australian

attendance in the Methodist Hall, Guildford, on Mon-

day 12 December at 7.15 p.m. when Brian Wright will

Australia.

rehearse the choir in Verdi’s Requiem which will be
performed in Guildford Cathedral on 11 Febraury 1984.

She is now resident in London and is a member of
English National Opera for whom her roles have includ-

The Midsummer Marriage : Ritual Dances

ed

Tippet (born 1905)

the 1981/82 season she sang the role of Melisande in

The earth in autumn (the hound hunts the hare)
The waters in winter (the otter hunts the fish)

Opera, with whom she sang in Sydney and throughout

Pamina, Suzanne, The Governess (Turn of The
Screw) and the title role in the Merry Widow. During

Kupfer’s new production of Pelleas and Melisande.

Other operatic engagements have taken her to the Wex-

ford, Glyndebourne and Camden Festivals.

Eilene Hannan also has an active concert career which,

apart from engagements in Britain and Australia, has
taken her to Paris, Rome, Holland and Denmark. Dur-

ing the summer of 1981 she made her debut at the
Proms in London and in September 1981 gave several

performances of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 with the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Also in the 1981/82

season she took part in a Stravinsky concert with the
London Sinfonietta in Bonn.

During the 1982/83 season, Eilene Hannan sang the
title role in Rusalka and Natasha in War and Peace for

The air in spring (the hawk hunts the bird)
fire in summer (the voluntary human sacrifice)

The ‘Ritual Dances’ is music taken from an opera, so

the shape is necessarily more dramatic than symphonic.
Yet the piece has a certain symphonic character due to

the nature of the dances themselves. There are four of

them, and they are all sacrificial. They are allied to the
four seasons and the four elements, as their titles show.

Set

out

with

appearance

of

their

titles

the

possible

as

above,
four

they

give

movements

the

of

a

symphony — First movement, Slow movement, Scherzo,

Finale. But this is only appearance. The music itself is

not at all symphonic, but narrative. Further, as it is

meant to be danced, the bits and pieces of the music are

English National Opera and the role of Hero in Berlioz’

directly related to the needs of the dancers and of the

Orchestra,

off the stage to change. Because the Hunter and the
Hunted are the same persons in different guises. And the

Beatrice and Benedict for Opera North. She also took
part in concerts with the City of Birmingham Symphony

the Nash Ensemble and the London
Sinfonietta. During the summer of 1983 Eilene Hannan

stage. Dancers have to take breath and, in this case, go

stage

scenery

has

to

change,

from

autumnal

forest

took part in the first U.K. performance of Janacek’s
Osud conducted by Simon Rattle on the South Bank.

through a wintry river and a spring field of corn to the

In the 1983/84 season, Eilene Hannan returns to Opera
North to sing Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, and will sing

What is fixed in all this changing is the idea of a

Natasha in

War and Peace during English National

Opera’s U.S. tour, including the Metropolitan Opera

New York.

midsummer fire.

progressive ritual. The sacrificial victim would already

die as a hare if he did not, by his speed and tricks,
triumphantly escape. But as a fish he is wounded. So

that as a bird he has one wing broken and cannot fly.

His capture and death are thus certain, and they are
only averted in the opera (where these first three dances

happen sequentially on a midsummer afternoon) by un-

expected means, which do not enter into the Concert

Suite. In the ‘Ritual Dances’ for the concert hall, we

The piano now presents a long melodic line that, in the

which, in the opera, is the final climax of the ensuing

for much of the remainder of the work’. The briefest of
pauses presages the third section, a short lightweight

jump directly to the fourth dance, the voluntary sacrifice
midsummer night.

Now the music is shaped to fit this story. It begins with
a Prelude to the midsummer afternoon; and then by way
of a tiny motive on the celeste, we pass into the world of
magic and myth. Before each of the first three dances
there is a Preparation and after each of the first two a
Transformation.

The dance of the Hare and the Hound is a long ground
bass (the Hound) with afterwards presto flute semiquavers above (the Hare).

The dance of the Fish and the Otter is characteristically
slow for the flowing river, darting for the Fish (two
clarinets alone), and vigorous for the Otter.

The dance of the Bird, after the field of corn has been
sown, has a springlike melody, that appears on the oboe
thrice: 6/8, 7/8, 8/8.

The dance of Fire in Summer is a series of instrumental
canons, and is followed by a repetition of the music of
the first Prelude.

The piece ends like the shutting of a story book; the
world of magic and myth fading away on the muted
horns.

Michael Tippett.

Piano Concerto No.2
McCabe (born 1939)

McCabe’s First Piano Concerto dates from 1966. It was
followed by other keyboard concertos — for
harpsichord, and a concertino for two pianos — before
he essayed this Second Concerto in 1970. There is a
Third Piano Concerto written in 1976 and first heard

composers words, ‘provides a kind of thematic reservoir

scherzo marked Allegro vivo. The finality of the accented chord that ends this movement, and the pause which

follows almost gives the opening three movements
together the sense of a conventional first movement, to
be followed by an extended slow one.

The fourth section, Lento, is the first of two slow
sections, separated by a brief fast one. The Lento starts

with B naturals above the stave in the pianist’s right
hand, and below the stave in the bass on both the piano
and the strings. The lowB quickly builds to a widespanning chord; the sustained B — later A — in the right
hand is intensified by repeated interpolated turns from
the note above, which eventually becomes a semi-quaver
figuration and then a sustained trill. There follows a texture reminiscent of Bartokian ‘night music’, which is

completely dispelled by the ensuing fifth section, a light,

scherzando Vivo. The time signature is 21/16, but the
effect is of a 7/4 (4+3). The music becomes more

aggressive before the opening returns and dies away. A
sustained Cin the bass leads into the second
slowmovement, another Lento, initially featuring the
concertino. It is followed (in the composer’s words) ‘by
a more richly textured lyrical section’, using soloist, concertino and orchestra. The opening bars of the
movement return to herald the finale. ‘This Allegro’,
says McCabe, ‘combines rondo and variation forms with
a prevalence of toccata textures. The music starts
quietly, but from the entry of the main theme (pounding
octaves on the piano) it pushes forward to the orchestral
return of the work’s very opening chords, bringing it to a
stormy conclusion.’

Programme note © Lewis Foreman 1983

the following year.

Subtitled Sinfonia Concertante, John McCabe’s Second
Piano Concerto is interesting for the layout of the
orchestra, which is broken into two parts, a concertino
(consisting of nine instruments — flute, oboe, clarinet,
bassoon, horn, two violins, viola and cello — in fact a
wind quintet, and a string quartet) and the main

orchestra. The latter comprises oboe, clarinet, bassoon,
horn and strings. There is no brass or percussion. The
concertino is intended to be placed near the solo piano,
rather in chamber music style, with the orchestra form-

ing an outer ring. There are thus three independent
groups — piano solo, concertino and orchestra — but the

orchestra is more than merely a Baroque-style ripieno.
This is emphasised in the rehearsal score which is laid
out for the soloist and two accompanying rehearsal
pianos. The work was commissioned by the Gulbenkian
Foundation for the Northern Sinfonia and was first
heard in Middlesbrough Town Hall in November 1971
conducted by Rudolf Schwarz with the composer as
soloist.

The concerto falls into seven short sections. First an
opening Maestoso, aggressively marked fff, and with a
cadenza-like piano part. The music gradually subsides
until the second section, Andantino lirico, is reached.

INTERVAL

Tickets for the concerts on Sunday 15 January, Sunday

29 January and Saturday 11 February 1984 are on sale

in the foyer during the interval.

Guildford Phlharmonic Orchestra key rings are on sale
in the foyer this evening, and Christmas cards (5 for
50p)

Sir Arnold Bax 1883—-1953

The centenary of Arnold Bax’s birth has been marked
by a number of performances mainly of his better
known works, although the B.B.C. have recorded

twenty programmes covering most of his chamber

music and lesser known orchestral pieces. The two
works chosen to represent him tonight are a rarely heard
Tone Poem “Nympholept” and the large scale choral
work “To the Name above Every Name”. They are examples of two different parts of his nature, the
decorative, romantic early works and the forceful and
direct expression that he developed in his later
symphonies.

Nympholet

words which turn Bax to bow briefly in the direction of

Bax 1883—1953

On the title page of the full score Bax wrote ‘The title of

this short Tone Poem comes from Swinburne and the
quotation from Meredith’s ‘The Words of Westermain’.
Both poems derive from a central idea — that of a
perilous pagan enchantment haunting the sunlit

Elgar, but when we reach ‘Help me to meditate’ we are
back in the composer’s own world. A great climax
follows the section, ‘Come ne’re to part nature and art’

and after this a most beautiful soprano solo at last gives
the invitation ‘Come lovely Name’. It is one of Bax’s
sublimest passages. The
ion of earlier

midsummer forest’. The quotation that Bax was referring to is at the top of the score and reads, ‘Enter these

material on the full chorus
triumphant statement by the

stra leads to a

and a thundering statement of t
work to its close.

ng to bring the

to Constant Lambert and was written 1912 but the
orchestration was not finished until 1915. It came just

enchanted woods you who dare’. The work is dedicated

before ‘The Garden of Fand’ and students of Bax will

notice that one of the tunes shares a small phrase with
the great central tune of that work. Now strings and
timpani begin the work and Bax has marked ‘veiled and

mysterious’ across the score. Such is his command of
colour and atmosphere that one must be aware that all

the snippets of musical material are going to be develop-

e rising phrase

Words by Richard Crashaw

I sing the Name which None can say
But touch’t with An interiour Ray:

The Name of our New Peace; our Good:

ed and are not there merely for effect — harp triplets, a

Our Blisse: and Supernaturall Blood:
The Name of All our Lives and Loves.

consisting of one interval only which will be expanded
by a solo violin and solo oboe. All these are put before

Hearken, And Help, ye holy Doves!
The high-born Brood of Day; you bright

group of six notes on the clarinet and a quiet horn line

us in shimmering colours until the first great tune is
reached. This is on all the brass instruments and marked

Candidates of blissefull Light,
The Heirs Elect of Love; whose Names belong

lighter mood, the shape of the triplets which we heard on

Of This unbounded Name build your warm

largamente nobilmente. This is the ending of the first
section. A quicker tune now on the strings introduces a

the harp is now preserved but in quavers and over it,
parts of the expanded horn tune re-emerge. The music

quietens and the horn tune further elaborated with the

Unto The everlasting life of Song;
All ye wise Soules, who in the wealthy Brest
Nest.

Awake, My glory. Soul, (if such thou be,

And That fair Word at all referr to Thee)

group of six notes is now heard as a tune in its own right

on, of all things, a piccolo. It finds its most eloquent
voice in the cellos — a great climax follows and within

four bars we find ourselves in a formal recapitulation of

all the material that has gone before. The enchanted
woods are left with the same veiled mysterious chords
that began the work. Bax never heard the work played.

Festival in

a

commission

from

What of thy Parent Heavn yet speakes in thee.

Shall we dare This, my Soul? we’l doe’t and bring
No Other note for’t, but the Name we sing.
Wake Lute and Harp

Into a hasty Fitt-tun’d Harmony.

Bax 1883-1953

to

And be All Wing;
Bring hither thy whole Self; and let me see

And every sweet-lipp’t Thing
That talkes with tunefull string;
Start into life, And leap with me

To the Name above Every Name

Written

Awake and sing

Nor must you think it much

The

Three

Choirs

1923, this setting of a shortened form of
Richard Crashaw’s mystical poem was not performed

again until Vernon Handley recorded it for the B.B.C. in

September of this year. Now there is very little
elaboration; the orchestra speaks clearly the different
pieces of material which Bax is going to use for the

T’obey my bolder touch:
I have Authority in Love’s name to take you
And

to

the

worke

of

eventually, a broad plainsong type melody. The Choir

And come along;

triplet idea in a phrase reminiscent of Parry (we are at

The Three Choirs Festival!). Although the sections of
the poem are often marked by the plainsong idea, the

Choir, in fact, never use it in its first form — they are
only allowed occasional phrases with repeated notes. At

‘Start into life’ the triplet idea comes into its own and at

last at ‘I have authority’, the Choir have a plainsong in
octaves. ‘In the Name of Him who never sleeps’ are the

morning

Or, what’s the same,
Are Musicall;

enters directly with the rising phrase and at the words
‘The Name of all our lives and loves’ starts to use the

this

Wake; In the Name
Of Him who never sleeps, All Things that Are,

different sections of the poem. They consist of a rising
figure on the brass, exultant singing crochet triplets and

Love

you:

Answer my Call

Help me to meditate mine Immortall Song.
Come, ye soft ministers of sweet sad mirth,
Bring All your houshold stuffe of Heavn on

earth;
O you, my Soul’s most certain Wings,

Complaining Pipes, and prattling Strings,
Bring All the store

wake

Of Sweets you have; And murmur that you have
no more.

Come, nére to part,
Nature and Art!
Come; and come strong,

To the conspiracy of our Spatious song.
Bring All the Powres of Praise

Your Provinces of qll—united Worlds can raise;
Bring All your Lutes and Harps of Heavn and
Earth;

What ére cooperates to The common mirthe
Vessells of vocall Ioyes,

Or You, more noble Architects of Intellectuall
Noise,

Cymballs of Heav’n, or Humane sphears,
Solliciters of Soules or Eares;

And when you’re come, with All
That you can bring or we can call;
O may you fix

For ever here, and mix
Your selves into the long

And everlasting series of a deathlesse Song;
Mix All your many Worlds, Above,
And loose them into One of Love.

Come, lovely Name; life of our hope!
Lo we hold our Hearts wide ope!
Unlock thy Cabinet of Day
Dearest Sweet, and come away
Lo how the thirsty Lands

Gasp for thy Golden Showres! with longstretch’t
Hands.

Lo how the laboring Earth

That hopes to be
All Heaven by Thee,

Leapes at thy Birth.

O see, so many Worlds of barren yeares

Melted and measur’d out in Seas of Teares.
O see, The Weary liddes of wakefull Hope
(Love’s Eastern windowes) All wide ope
With Curtains drawn,

To catch The Day-break of Thy Dawn.

O dawn, at last, long look’t for Day!

Take thine own wings, and come away.

Sunday 11 December 1983 at 3 p.m.
Civic Hall, Guildford

ROTARY CAROL CONCERT
Philharmonic Choir
Kenneth Lank, Conductor

Bushy Hill County Middle School Choir —
Conductor: Julie Joyce

Admission free — Collection in aid of Mayor’s
Christmas and local distress fund

Sunday 15 January 1984 at 3 p.m.
Civic Hall, Guildford

Capriccio Espagnol

Rimsky Korsakov

Violin Concerto No.1 in D major
Prokofiev

Pictures from an Exhibition
Mussorgsky/Ravel
Rodney Friend, Violin
John Forster, Conductor

Sunday 29 January 1984 at 3 p.m.
Civic Hall, Guildford

Swithin Margetson Recital
Piano
CECILE OUSSET

Sonata No.10 in C major K330
Mozart

Grand Studies after Paganini
Liszt
Nos. 2,4,5& 6
Ravel
Miroirs
Etude en forme de Valse
Saint-Saens

Saturday 11 February 1984 at 7.45 p.m.
GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL
Requiem

Verdi

Philharmonic Choir

Julie Kennard, Soprano
Jean Rigby, Alto
Rowland Sidwell, Tenor
Michael George, Bass
Brian Wright, Conductor

PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Artistic Adviser — Vernon Handley
First Violins:

Guest Leader Raymond Cohen
Timothy Good
Christopher Bearman
Sheila Beckensall

Hywel Davies

Judith Edwards

Harps:

Andrew Brown

Peter Clack

Helen Tunstall

Katharine Hill

Dennis Scard

Sarah Morley

Jean Burt

Peter Newman

Susan Penfold
Derek Powell

Martin Pring
Pamela White

Second Violins:

Marie Louise Amberg

George Woodcock

Simon Hunt

Ronald Harris

Frederick Campbell

Oboes:
James Brown

Leonard Lock

Ann Greene

Cellos:

Cor Anglais:

John Boyce

Harriet Bell

John Franca

Harold Nathan

David Clack

Piccolo:

John Harries

John Stilwell

Rosemary Roberts

Andrew Bentley

Horns:

Henry Messent

Kathryn Burgess

Barbara Moore

Ruth Dawson

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Eric Sargon

Julius Bannister

Marjorie Flett

Guy Bebb

Violas:

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Janet Reed

Michael Farnham

Daryl Griffith

Michael Lea

Bassoons:

Hywel Jones

Colin Paris

Nicholas Hunka
Anna Meadows

Howard Walsh

Judith Kleinman

David Groves

Alfred Flaszynski

Paul Allen

Michael Fagg

Concerts Assistant:

Michael Crowther

Double Basses

Jeremy Gordon

Patricia Reid

John Pickles

Hale Hambleton

Peter Fields

Ruth Knell

Kathleen Atkins

Trombones:

Bass Clarinet:

Adrienne Sturdy

Administrator:

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Clarinets:
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Martin Loveday
Christina Macrae

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Celeste:
John Forster

Martin Nicholls
Tuba:

Stephen Wick

Timpani:

Roger Blair

Contra Bassoon:
David Chatterton

Percussion:

Charles Fullbrook
George Vass
Stephen Lees

THE BAX CENTENARY 1883-1953
Two superb recordings by

THE GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by

VERNON HANDLEY
SYMPHONY NO.4 (1931)

SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS FOR PIANO & ORCHESTRA
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This Department has gained for itself an
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performance. Members of the public are
most welcome at all our concerts —these
take place during term-time every

Wednesday at 1.15 pm and on selected
Sunday evenings.

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Guildford, Surrey
(Tel: Guildford 571281)

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