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SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 1987
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ALFREDA HODGSON
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Alfreda Hodgson

Charles Groves was born in London and spent his
boyhood as a chorister in St Paul’s Cathedral.
After leaving the Royal College of Music, he joined
the BBC Opera Unit; from the age of 28 until he
relinquished the English National Opera in 1980, he
was Director of his own orchestra or Opera Company.
His years with the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
(now the BBC Philharmonic), the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra, Welsh National Opera and the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra were full of
tremendous achievements, many first performances
and

much

encouragement

to0

young

CcOmpOSers,

conductors and soloists. The RLPO made many fine
recordings and foreign tours and Sir Charles accepted
the title of Conductor Laureate in 1985.

Charles Groves is loved by choirs all over the world
and has a large choral repertoire. He regularly
conducts all the London orchestras and many in
America and Europe.

Since 1967 he has been Associate Conductor of the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and appears with them
regularly in London and abroad, as well as in the
recording studio. In 1987 he accepted the position of
Principal Conductor of the Guildford Philharmonic
Orchestra. His schedule is very full and adventurous
including many new works and constant travel around
the world.

He still finds time to show a great interest in the
training of young musicians and is proud to be
President of the National Youth Orchestra and serves
on the councils of a number of colleges.

He was knighted by the Queen in 1973.

Alfreda Hodgson was born in Morecambe and now
lives in Manchester with her husband and two young
daughters. From an early age her father, a professional
trumpeter, encouraged her musical activities. After
studying the ’cello for a time, she became a student
at the Royal Northern College of Music where she
began to study singing and graduated with the School’s
highest singing award. She later won the most coveted
prize for British singers — the Kathleen Ferrier
Memorial Prize. She is now recognized as a leading
international contralto.

Alfreda Hodgson works with all the leading British
orchestras each season. She performs regularly with
the Philharmonia Orchestra: since her debut with this
orchestra under Klemperer she has sung with Giulini,
Maazel, Haitink, Ozawa, Andrew Davis, Fruehbeck,
Mata and Rattle. She has performed with the London
Symphony
Orchestra
under
Claudio Abbado,
Svetlanov, Rozhdestvensky and Sir Colin Davis. She
is also a popular guest at the BBC Promenade
Concerts.

Alfreda Hodgson travels abroad frequently and there
are few European centres where she has not sung. She
took part in the first performances of The Messiah in
Israel with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra. In North America she has sung with the
Chicago and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, in
Cleveland with Maazel, in Toronto with Andrew
Davis, and at Meadowbrook with Gunther Herbig and
the Detroit Symphony.

Alfreda Hodgson made her operatic debut in London
with the English National Opera, and she made her
Covent Garden debut in the 1983/84 season.

Alfreda Hodgson is particularly noted for her Mahler

Tiffin

performances, and significantly her London debut was

acclaimed recordings on radio, TV and disc. During

singing Mahler 2 with Klemperer and the Philhar-

this time he was also Conductor of the Milton Keynes

monia. In recent years she has sung in Mahler’s Eighth

Chorale and the Tudor Singers of London.

Symphony

in

the

Royal Albert

Hall

and

at

the

Edinburgh Festival; she renewed her association with

Simon Rattle and the CBSO, giving performances of
both Mabhler 2 and Das Lied von der Erde. Last season
she worked again with Simon Rattle, performing songs
from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and then Mabhler 2 at

the Brighton Festival; she sang Das Lied von der Erde
with James Conlon and the Rotterdam Philharmonic,

and performed the same work at the Prague Spring
Last

season

Miss

Hodgson

sang

Beethoven 9

in

Dresden and the Royal Festival Hall with Colin Davis
and the Dresden Staatskapelle, and recorded for BBC

providing

choirs

for several

highly

In 1986 he decided to pursue a conducting career and

in that year he was awarded a scholarship to study
conducting at the Guildhall School of Music. Whilst
a student he conducted the second British staging of
the opera Julietta by Martinu and various orchestral
concerts. He now works on the staff as a conductor

at the Guildhall.

| As well as taking up his new appointment in Guildford
he

Festival.

School,

has recently been appointed conductor of the

Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. He also frequently

conducts many of the main London choirs and will be
conducting in Denmark next summer.

TV Berlioz’s Berlioz and Benedict with Simon Rattle.

She also made a trip to Tokyo with Claudio Abbado
and the Vienna Philharmonic, and appeared at the

Three Choirs Festival. The 1987/88 season includes
The Kingdom with Slatkin and the LPO, and concerts

Symphony in G minor

with the LSO and Fruehbeck de Burgos and the

Ernest Moeran (1894-1950)

Toronto Symphony and Andrew Davis.

Allegro
Lento

Vivace
Lento — Allegro molto

Moeran was the son of Anglo-Irish parents and was

brought up in Norfolk, where his father was the

Guildford Philharmonic Choir

Guildford Philharmonic Choir (formerly the Festival
Choir) was formed in order to perform the major
choral repertoire with the Guildford Philharmonic
Orchestra. The choir made its first recording in 1973

of Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality with the Guildford

Philharmonic, and in 1979 recorded Hadley’s The Trees
So

High

with

the

Philharmonia

Orchestra,

both

Anglican rector of Bacton. In 1913 he went to the
Royal College of Music, but his studies were cut short

by the War, in which he served as an army officer.
Subsequently he studied with John Ireland and became

actively interested in the folk-song heritage. A fine
song-writer, he was mainly successful as a miniaturist,

and his early works had begun to attract attention by
the mid-1920s. One result of this was a request in 1926

recordings being conducted by Vernon Handley.

from Sir Hamilton Harty, at that time the conductor

The Choir has been trained for tonight’s performance

of the Halle Orchestra, to compose a symphony.

by Neville Creed who was appointed Chorus Master

However,

to the Philharmonic Choir in September this season,

daunting a task, and it was nearly ten years before he

when Lynette Newman, the Choir’s new accompanist
was also appointed.

Further performances by the Philharmonic Choir this

season include Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts under
Brian Wright, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony with

Moeran

did

not

yet

feel

ready for

so

changed his mind. In fact he worked on the symphony
between 1934 and 1937, and it was premiered on 13th
January 1938 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
under the direction of Leslie Heward.

The work is scored for an orchestra consisting of

Richard Armstrong and in December this year the

double woodwind with piccolo, four horns, three

Rotary Carol Concert in the Civic Hall conducted by

trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion

Neville Creed.

(cymbals, bass drum, side drum, triangle, tam tam,
tambourine), harp and strings. Moeran handles these
forces

with

confident

assurance,

showing

a keen

awareness of the relationship between instrumental
groups,

the

balance

of tuttis,

solo

opportunities,

peaceful repose, and well-built climaxes. There is,
accordingly, a full contrast of rugged power and poetic
Neville Creed

Neville Creed began his conducting career whilst a
choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge where he
conducted a variety of opera, choral and orchestral

music.

Since 1981 he has been Director of Choral Music at

lyricism, plus a high level of melodic inspiration. Parts
of the work show the influence of other composers,
especially Sibelius, but Moeran’s friend Patrick Hadley
believed that specific places and events were crucial.
For instance, the peacefulness of East Norfolk is
evoked in the slow movement, and the slower music

of the first movement was linked with Ranmouth

Broad. Moreover, Hadley related many of the more
energetic passages to the composer’s passion for
railways: the first movement’s development section,
for example, has a sense of striving against the odds
that was inspired by one of the old-time Norfolk
expresses battling up Brentwood bank under the
power of one of the Great Eastern’s blue ‘Claud

impressive final ‘gesture comprising six shattering
chords.
Terry Barfoot.

Hamilton’ locomotives.

The symphony’s opening subject is strongly distinctive
and is given a unison statement on violins over a simple
rhythmic accompaniment; it is then repeated by the
lower strings against a violin counterpoint. A climax
is constructed out of two elements of this theme: a
rising seventh and subsequent fall, and a little twisting
figure from the very end. To these is added an energetic
motif based on thirds and fourths, and the effect is
enhanced by the rich and varied scoring. The second
subject has more flowing lines and its glorious string
textures bring a new dimension to the music. But with
the (railway!) development the mood changes, for the
rhythms become aggressive and the orchestration
more emphatic. The violins introduce a hectic fugato
whose progress is challenged by brass and percussion,
until relaxation comes through a slow presentation of
the first theme, on horns and bassoons over active
figurations on woodwind and strings. Naturally this
contrast leads to another climax, but it is followed by
a recapitulation whose structure is quite regular.
The slow movement is much influenced by Sibelius,
through the bare fifths on horns and the divided lower
strings, over which a gloomy theme circles around the
minor scale. The other ideas are based on more folklike material, but the mood of inwardness and
reflection is the music’s most notable characteristic.
The themes are combined and contrasted with the
utmost subtlety, and the general shape of the
movement allows a central climax with more peaceful
outer sections.

The triumph of the Vivace is its Clarity of scoring:

note, for instance, the effective role given to the
humble triangle. Pert rhythms are brilliantly combined
with more lyrical ideas, and the beautiful central trio
is cunningly moulded into the structure.

The finale has an extended introduction which is for
the most part passionate and intense: the full string
body contrasts against the horns and more pastoral
woodwind figurations. Eventually the Allegro begins
as the violas present a jig-like rhythm, and though the
woodwind are given a smoother theme, the strings
and brass take up the rhythm which consequently
builds in power. The second subject is heard on oboes
and bassoon, soon joined by harp and strings. But the
development makes the stronger impression: a long
string passage has that same brooding intensity that
Sibelius achieved in Tapiola, and although the
derivation of this passage seems all too easy to identify,
it enhances considerably the range of the work and is
extremely effective in its own right, culminating in a
strong climax with powerful brass. After this a solo
horn leads into the reflective coda, but this does not
move to a peaceful conclusion, since there is an

INTERVAL

The Music Makers Op.69
Edward Elgar 1851-1934

The first decade of this century saw Elgar’s creative
genius at its height. Following the increasing success
of his choral masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius (1900)
and the reception accorded to his First Symphony,
Elgar planned a choral trilogy of which the oratorios
“The Apostles” (1903) and “The Kingdom” (1906)
formed the first two parts. These works were enthusiastically received in the first few years of the decade but
did not in the years up to the First World War retain
their initial popularity. Elgar found this dispiriting and
was discouraged from writing further large-scale choral
works although he composed parts of the last oratorio
of the projected trilogy. This period he devoted largely
to instrumental composition. The second Symphony
was completed in 1910. It confirmed his position at
the forefront of English music and enhanced his
standing in Europe (the jibe “Das Land ohne Musik”
being finally silenced). He was honoured with the
Order of Merit in the same year and provided music
for a masque, “The Crown of India”, to celebrate King
George V’s visit to that Country as Emperor. That
work was subsequently recast as an orchestral suite,
Elgar making use, significantly, of earlier material.
The mystical side of Elgar’s character had been
apparent from his earlier compositions, notably his
sympathetic yet fervent treatment of Cardinal
Newman’s text of The Dream of Gerontius. The profound
contrast between this and the “imperial” aspect of his
character evidenced by his Pomp and Circumstance
Marches has long been noted. He was by nature a
spiritual man, capable through his music of displaying
great insight, tenderness and nobility. His occasionally
other-worldly vision doubtless led him to choose
Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s Ode “The Music Makers” as
the text for his last significant choral work. He felt a
clear affinity with the “dreamer of dreams”, and, as
a man of his time, with the “shakers of the world”.
O’Shaughnessy’s light-weight verses are lifted by
Elgar’s music onto a more substantial plane and
endowed with a spiritual strength which outweighs

their mawkish sentiments. Elgar’s concept of the work

ends sombrely, the soloist lamenting “a singer who

is best expressed by the words he wrote on a copy of
the score belonging to his friend and biographer W.

sings no more” over the orchestra playing the
“Novissima hora est” motif from Gerontius. A brief

H. Reed, “Musicians thinke our Soules are harmonies”

silence is broken by the choir, like distant bells tolling

quoting from the Elizabethan mystical poet Sir John
Davies.

in remembrance, restating again the main theme.

© Philip Jones.

The Music Makers was sketched by Elgar over a period
of four years.

It was completed in 1912 and first

performed

1Ist

on

October

of

that

year

at

the

Birmingham Festival. A visionary piece, at once as
moving and noble as Gerontius and as stirring and

patriotic as his ceremonial pieces, it has been much
criticised for its re-use of “old” themes and material
of other composers. No apology was ever necessary
for

a

work

which

is

homogeneous

and

whose

popularity has outlived Elgar’s preferred oratorios
referred to above. One view has it that “The Music

Makers” represents a collation by the composer of his
most cherished themes, a theory born out by the
reiteration of themes from the “Enigma” Variations

(Op.36 1899) and notably the use of the Nimrod
Variation to highlight the words “but on one man’s
soul it hath broken... wrought flame in another man’s
heart”. Here is not only a well loved theme but Elgar’s
own acknowledgement of his friendship with the “one

man” to whom the variation alludes. Other works from

which the composer quotes include Sea Pictures, The
Violin Concerto and both his symphonies.
The work opens with a sweeping prelude which ushers

in the first choral passage. This is the touchstone of
the whole piece, an indicator of its mystical emphasis.
“The

desolate

streams”

are

underpinned

by

a

quotation from Gerontius before the music sweeps to
the climax “movers and shakers of the world” and a
con fuoco passage “with wonderful deathless ditties”.
The words “we fashion an empire’s glory” are aligned
with

a phrase

from the Marseillaise before quiet

emphasis is given to the “dream”. The succeeding
passage relating the building of Nineveh and Babel is

characterised by brilliant choral and orchestral writing
in a compelling 9/8 time. The section ends with the
poignant setting of “for each age is a dream that is
dying” and a return to the opening statement.

O’Shaughnessy’s fourth verse provides one of the
emotional climaxes of the work. An ethereal setting
of the words “unearthly, impossible seeming” tempt

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—

World-losers and world-forsakers,

On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world’s great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire’s glory:

One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song’s measure

Can trample a kingdom down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself in our mirth;
And o’erthrew them with prophesying

To the old of the new world’s worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,

Or one that is coming to birth.
A breath of our inspiration
Is the life of each generation;
A wondrous thing of our dreaming
Unearthly, impossible seeming—

The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present

And their work in the world be done.

They had no vision amazing

us to revert again to Gerontius and the Angel of the

Of the goodly house they are raising;

Agony. Here surely in Elgar’s mind “our Soules are

They had no divine foreshowing

Harmonies”. The author’s “wondrous thing” is majes-

Of the land to which they are going:

tically treated before the contralto soloist enters with

But on one man’s soul it hath broken,

“they had no vision amazing” (again a quotation,

A light that doth not depart;

tellingly used, from Gerontius) and the choir sings the

And his look, or a word he hath spoken,

Nimrod Variation. As ever, the change of pace is abrupt

Wrought flame in another man’s heart.

and sure through an insistent allegro molto (“Today
is thrilling”) to a forceful and declamatory restatement

And therefore to-day is thrilling

of the title. The music subsides to return to an earlier

With a past day’s late fulfilling;

6/8 theme in a different key, “with our dreaming and

And the multitudes are enlisted

singing”, which heralds the more reflective, prophetic

In the faith that their fathers resisted

and mystical conclusion of the work, but not before

And, scorning the dream of to-morrow,

the chorus incisively assures us that “once more God’s

Are bringing to pass, as they may,

future draws nigh” and the soloist welcomes “the

In the world, for its joy or its sorrow,

comers from the dazzling unknown shore”. The work

The dream that was scorned yesterday.

But we, with our dreaming and singing,

Sunday 29 November 1987 at 3 pm

Ceaseless and sorrowless we!

Civic Hall, Guildford

The glory about us clinging

The Perfect Fool — Ballet Music

Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing:

O men! it must ever be
That we dwell, in our dreaming and singing,
A little apart from ye.
For we are afar with the dawning

Holst

Violin Concerto in D

Tchaikovsky

A Song of Summer

Delius

Hary Janos Suite

Kodaly

John Forster

Conductor

Barbara Gorzynska

Soloist

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And the suns that are not yet high,
And out of the infinite morning
Intrepid you hear us cry—
How, spite of your human scorning,

Saturday 12 December 1987 at 7.30 pm

Once more God’s future draws nigh,

Civic Hall, Guildford

And already goes forth the warning

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And renew our world as of yore;

You shall teach us your song’s new numbers,
And things that we dreamed not before:

La Valse

Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,
And a singer who sings no more.
Arthur O’Shaughnessy.

The words are printed by permission of the Rev. Canon
Deacon.

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GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Principal Conductor: SIR CHARLES GROVES

Conductor Emeritus: VERNON HANDLEY

First Violins

Associate Leaders:
Hugh Bean, John Ludlow

Philip Augar

Julia Atkinson
Christopher Bearman
Sheila Beckensall

Julia Bishop
Suzie Borrett

Ian Brignall
Peter Hemborough
Clive Hobday

Alex Suttie
Rosemary Van Der Werff

Sarah Walton

Cellos:

Horns:

Geoffrey Thomas

Peter Clack

John Stilwell

George Woodcock

Christina Macrae
John Hursey

Duncan Hollowood

John Franca
David Johnstone

Christine Jackson
Basses:

Michael Lea
Jeremy Gordon
Duncan Allen
Peter Box

Paul Moore

Timothy Amherst
Flutes:

Second Violins:

Nicholas Maxted Jones

Ruth Dawson

Stephen Dinwoodie
Marilyn Downs
Peter Fields

Oboes:

James Brown
Deirdre Dods

Cor Anglais:

Diane Forde

Janice Knight

Ruth Knell
Alan Pook

Hale Hambleton

Adrienne Sturdy
Violas:

John Graham
Justin Ward

David McCreadie
Jean Burt

Frederick Campbell
Paul Morris

Karen Demmel
Sally Parfitt

Michael Hinton

Clifford Haines
Trombones:

Ian White

David Whitson
Bass Trombone:

Martin Nicholls
Michael Daniels

Simon Hunt

Clarinets:

Paul Hilliam

Patricia Reid

Katharine Hill

Rosemary Roberts

Concerts Assistant:

Kevin Abbott

Henry Messent

Andrew Bentley

Kathleen Atkins

Trumpets:

Tuba:

Piccolo:

Timothy Callaghan

Gordon Carr

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Percussion:

Charles Fullbrook
Keith Bartlett
Felicia Lane

Harp:

Louise Martin

Timpani:

Christopher Nall

Victor Slaymark
Bass Clarinet:

William Green
Bassoons:

Nicholas Hunka
Anna Meadows

Andrew Stowell

Contra Bassoon:
Nicholas Reader

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Deed of Covenant, as payment by this method also ensures
that the
subscription is not raised for four years. Members receive
certain
benefits in return for a very modest minimum annual subscription
and these facilities include:
Priority booking at the beginning of each concert season
AN ADDITIONAL DISCOUNT
on Subscription Series Tickets
The Society’s newsletter
Special Events such as visits to other concert venues, musical

evenings in members' homes and certain social gatherings
during
the season
® The opportunity to attend rehearsals of the Orchestra
by applying
to the Orchestra’s Office
® Certain discount facilities at Record Corner, Godalming
on records
and cassettes

New Members to the Society are always welcome and
by being a
member you are also helping to ensure the continued
success of the

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra.

The membership rates are as follows:
Annual Subscription (minimum)
Husband/Wife-Joint Subscription (minimum)
Persons under the age of 18 (minimum)
Retirement Pensioner (minimum)

£5.50
£9.00
£3.75
£3.75

If you would like to join the Society, Covenant forms are
obtainable
from the General Administrator below or you may send a
cheque for
your subscription together with your name and address

to:

Mr R A Forrow
Flat No 3, 6 Mareschal Road,
Guildford, Surrey GU2 5JF Tel: Guildford 575274

Alternatively you may enrol at the Society’s stand in the
foyer of the
Civic Hall on concert days.

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Large modern shop with printed music wall to wall. 2,000
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Ring Dot Freeman on Byfleet 54898.

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Comprehensive accessories. Repairs.
Records/Cassettes/Compact Discs. Yamaha Keyboards stocked
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Access, Visa, American Express, Diners Cards.
Large cheap car parks, free on Saturdays.

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Open Monday-Saturday 9-5.30 (Saturday close 4.30)

Mail Order Dept now at: 3 Claremont Road, West

Byfleet, Surrey KT14 6DY

Tel. Byfleet 54898 (24 hrs) Mon-Fri 9-5.30

join the

Guildford
Philharmonic
Choir

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Philharmonic Orchestra — The Professional
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PROVIDE

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Work with conductors Sir Charles Groves, Brian

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works as The Music Makers, Elgar: Grande Messe
des Morts, Berlioz: Symphony No 9 in D minor
‘Choral’, Beethoven: also a Christmas Carol Concert

TO PRIVATE AND

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Chorus Master, Neville Creed, is also Chorus Master
of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Chorus,
Assistant Chorus Master of The London
Philharmonic Choir and Director of Music of Tiffins
School
Rehearsals Monday Evenings (7.30pm — 9.45pm)
at Methodist Hall, Woodbridge Road, Guildford

10 QUARRY STREET,

GUILDFORD, GU1 3XA.

Further details from the Choir’s Office:
The Lodge, Allen House Grounds
Chertsey Street, Guildford
With financial support from
Surrey GU1 4HL
Guildford Borough Council
Tel: 0483 573800

Tel: 65244

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Enjoy performing in First Class venues including

Guildford Civic Hall, Guildford Cathedral

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Items relating to Surrey
dating from prehistory to

throughout the year.

Open 10.30am to 4.50pm

House

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Castle Arch,

entertainment — plus

own events. Tel: G.

facilities to hire for your

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505050 ext. 3501 for full
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For full details of these and other places and events, contact:

Tourist Information Centre, Civic Hall, Guildford. Tel: G. 67314.
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The Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
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& South East Music Trust

acknowledges the generous

support of the
Musicians’ Union
for the 1987/88 Season