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Guildford Corporation Concerts season brochure [1972/1973]

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1972
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1972 to 1973
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CONCERT BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS

Serving Surrey Music Lovers
for over a century

BOOKING DATES

Booking opens 11 September 1972, for concerts before Christmas, and
2 January 1973, for conceris in the New Year. Priority booking for members
of the Concertgoers Society commenc:s one week b:fore these Ca-cs.

Established 1857

SEAT PRICES

Balcony:
Stalls:

90p, 75p, 60p Reserved.
50p Reserved, 40p, 30p Unreserved.

Price Concessions:

(a) Organised parties of full-time students, members of youth

erganisations and sciso's (Stas omy) —CO0% reduction.
(b) Retirement Pensioners (Stalls only): for individuais receiving a
National Insurance Pension — 50%
Pension Book.

reduciion on production of ihe

(c) Season Tickets (Members of the Corcertgoers Scciety only) — see
below.

WHERE TO BOOK

4.

2.

Advance Booking: Tickets are availa’y'e in cdvance from The Public
Library, North Sircet, Guiidtord (a: th> 'nicrmation

Late Booking:

Desk, Quick Reference Dept., ground floor). 1-0
Library is open Mondays to Fridays, 10.00 am
to 7.00 pm, and Saturdays 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.

All tickets remairing unsold will be sent ircm

Public Library to The Box Office, Civic Hall,
London Rd., Gui'dford, on the day of the conce
one hour before its commencement, and will bi
available there un‘i] the concert begins.

HOW TO BOOK

1.

2.

In person: At the Public Library at the times stated ebove, or (durimg
the last hour before the concert commences) at the Civic Hal! Box
Office.

By post: At the Public Library, North Street, Guildford. All postal
aoplications must be accompanied by a stamped, addrecccd envelope.
Cheques and Postal Orders should be crossed and meade rayable
to Guildford Corporation. Cash should not be sent through the post.

Go

By telephone: At the Public Library, North Street, Gui'dford (Tel.
68496-7). Telephone bookings must be collected and paid for not later
than two days prior to the concert.

Please note that telephone bookings cannot be accepted at the Civic
Hall Box Office, but you can ascertain whether tickets are siill
avcilable by phoning the Box Office curing the lest hour before the
concert commences (telephone Guilford 67314).

It is regretted that no tickets can be exchanged or accepted for re-sale

at the Civic Hall Box Office or the Public Library.

SEASON TICKETS (Concertgoers Society only)

Members of the Concertgoers Society may order Season Tickets at
reduced retes by filling in the blue Application Form in the centre of this
booklet. Applications for Season Tickets should be despatched by
25 Auguct. since after this date prioritv choice of scats can no longer be
guaranteed. The final date for Season Ticket applications is 18 September,
and no further applications can be accepted after this date.
Information about the Concertgoers Socisty is given on page 14. If you

Instruments

Piano Stools

Sheet Music

Pianofortes

Records

Service

wish to join, or renew your membership, please complete the relevant
part of the blue Application Form.

ASSISTANCE WITH BOOKING, TRANSPORT, ETC.
Certain members of the Concertgoers Society have offered to try and
arrange assistance for people in their area who may have difficulty in
obtaining tickets or getting to and from the concerts. For names and
details, see page 13.

J. Palmer,

Pianoforte Dept.,

46 High St.,

62 Meadrow,

Godalming

Godalming.

Tel. 6414

Tel. 22459

Classical or Pop?
A Steinway piano is very

democratic. It treats Chopin, Ellington, and
footlight favourites with equal respect. It
doesn't care whether you went to the Berlin
Conservatoire or taught yourself.
Nor whether you play for a living or simply
for the love of music.
It continues to-day, as it has
for over a century, to be the world’s
standard of how a piano should sound.
Which means that whatever
you're doing sounds
better on a Steinway.

For lovers of good food ...
Three excellent places to eat— all under one roof — at the
Angel Hotel. Each has an individual character — and menu —
to suit your mood, and your appetite!
If you’re hungry but short of time — you can enjoya light
meal or grill in the Buttery. Meals are quick, ample and
inexpensive. Open early until late, seven days a week.
For a unique atmosphere, exciting fare, visit the Crypt
Restaurant, which has light music in the evening. It’s a perfect
supper-spot. Open Monday to Saturday.
If a true gourmet’s meal is your style, there’s the Diane
Restaurant. Here you'll find the highest quality food, cooked
to perfection and served with discreet efficiency in the
atmosphere of a French hunting lodge. Come for dinner, or
sample our special businessman’s lunch.
Angel Hotel, High Street, Guildford.
Telephone Guildford 64555

... and for music lovers
Sunday concerts at the Dolphin & Anchor Hotel, Chichester
will be held again this winter. Come and enjoy an excellent
meal, then relax in the initimate atmosphere while you listen
to classical music played by some of the great musicians of
our time.
15th October ’72

5th November ’72
3rd December ’72
7th January ’73

4th February ’73
4th March ’73

Miriam Fried
Clifford Benson
Rafael Orozco
‘Tokyo String Quartet
Margaret Price
James Lockhart
Italian String Trio
Octuor De Paris

violin
piano
piano
soprano
piano

For the full programme and bookings write to:
The Manager
Dolphin & Anchor Hotel

West Street Chichester
Telephone: Chichester 85121

tt Trust Houses Forte
good care-everywhere

An orchestra should serve a community. A community is composed of so
many different elements; therefore the orchestra’s repertoire should be
as wide as possible. Of course, some considerations circumscribe the
broadest planning: the number of concerts, the number of rehearsals,

the amount of attention being directed to certain composers in the country
at large. Yet it is still possible to be adventurous without being merely
fashionable, and the all-American concert on 3 February 1973 is a case
in point. This is a richly rewarding concert for everybody, the two fairly
well Known works of Copland and Gershwin being flanked by two very
different pieces. | would go so far as to say that the Roy Harris Third
Symphony ought to be in every conductor’s and every orchestra’s
repertoire. The other concerts in the Enterprising series are equally
divided between British and foreign works, and several other programmes:
9 December 1972, 25 March 1973 and 5 May 1973 fall into the ‘in between’
class requested by many people several seasons ago, and produced
successfully since then.

The rest is the popular classical and romantic repertoire, with the works
requiring soloists served by a great cross-section of virtuoso talent.
Stoika Milanova, Tamas Vasary and John Lill are internationally famous,
and in the case of John Lill we can pride ourselves on the fact that
Guildford judges anticipated the Muscovites’ reception of him, on at least
three occasions. Clementine Patrick is already a ‘star’ abroad, and will
be too, in England. British soloists abound, some young, some established,
some making their first appearance with us in Guildford, others, like our
leader, Hugh Bean, making a welcome return.

FOREWORD
At the end of last season | was asked to conduct the London Philharmonic
Orchestra at the Round House in one of a series of public rehearsals by
London orchestras devoted to rarely heard British works. The Composers’
Guild felt that the public ought to hear the works chosen, and that the
London orchestra managements might take some of them into the
repertoire. The L.P.O. worked nobly on inadequate rehearsal to present
the works at the evening session to what turned out to be a tiny audience.
After the ‘performance’ the audience were invited to discuss what they
had heard. The mildness of the business that followed made me reflect
on the liveliness of question time in our own Concertgoers’ Society
members’ evenings. | reflected, too, that this series of public rehearsals
had been in part instigated by the lack of performances of living
composers’ works and twentieth century works during the season at
London concerts. | drove quickly back to Guildford, where | knew | would
have been able to programme both the works | had just conducted, not
as part of a special apology, but as part of the series continually
sponsored by an enlightened Corporation, and supported by an

enthusiastic discerning audience.

For instance, in the coming season, not counting our new special

concerts for schools, nearly forty composers will be represented in our

programmes. Of the forty odd works, fifty per cent have been written in
this century, over twenty per cent are British and nearly ten per cent are
by living composers. Of the soloists, three-quarters are British, and of
the four choral works to be given, three are of the present century. Yet
the Concertgoers’ Society flourishes, the South East Music Trust has

been launched, the Corporation is providing its first schools’ concerts, the
Proteus and Philharmonic Choirs have not been decimated, and the
average attendance at concerts remains an example to the rest of the
country. What can be wrong?
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To find a concert brochure where the number of works is almost equalled
by the number of composers represented, is a rarity. | have to be very
sure of my players and singers to attempt such a thing. Long ago | gave
up trying to ‘test’ our artists in the orchestra; the more taxing the season,
the more nonchalantly they carry it out, For the choirs the task is harder.
Most amateur choral societies can sing in a season what they would like
to sing, or their conductors like to conduct. The Proteus and Philharmonic
Choirs are amateur singers as are other choirs, but they have to sing
what will fit best in the broadly constructed repertoire of a professional
concert series. How enthusiastically they do it can be judged by the great
number of unfamiliar works, first performances, and revivals of major works
that they have undertaken in the past ten seasons.

The membership of orchestra and choirs is always partially changing, and
for a variety of reasons; this is natural and inevitable. The amazing thing
to me after ten seasons, is that the newcomers quickly become part of
the individual identity of the musical team that | am privileged to conduct,
an identity which is becoming more and more comprehended by the
general public. However, it is the appreciation of the people in and
around Guildford that encourages us within the team to develop that
identity, and to understand how worthwhile a job we have in serving this
community.

Mewsrovet,
Guildford House,
155 High Street,
Guildford.

Telephone 73800

10 a.m. — 1 p.m., 2 p.m. — 4 p.m.

CONCERT PROGRAMMES 1972/73

SEASON

CIVIC HALL — GUILDFORD
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Sunday 29 October at 3.00 pm

Symphony No. 103 in E flat (‘Drum Roll’)
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy—Overture
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor

Haydn
Tchaikovsky
Brahms

John Lill — Pianoforte

Hugh Bean — Leader
John Ludlow — Co-Leader
VERNON HANDLEY — Conductor

Sunday 24 September 1972 at 3.00 pm

Overture ‘La Cenerentola’
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G
Enigma Variations

Rossini
Beethoven
Elgar

Saturday 11 November at 7.45 pm
Elegy
Violin Concerto in B minor
Pastoral Symphony

David Ellis
Elgar
Vaughan Williams

Hugh Bean —Violin

Anthony Goldstone — Pianoforte

Sunday 26 November at 3.00 pm

Thursday 5 October at 7.30 pm

The CROSSLEY CLITHEROE CONCERT

A concert promoted by the South East Music Trust in
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
(By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter)

The Perfect Fool — Ballet Music
Violin Concerto in D
Enigma Variations

Holst
Beethoven
Elgar

Overture ‘Athalie’
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C (K.503)

Symphony No. 6 in F (Pastoral)

Mendelssohn
Mozart

Beethoven

Tamas Vasary — Pianoforte

lona Brown —Violin
Tickets: £1; 75p; 50p Reserved. 25p Unreserved. Available from 11
September at Messrs. Whitwam’s, The Centre of Music, Winchester
(Tel. Winchester 5253) 10 am — 1 pm & 2 pm — 5 pm; Thurs. 10 am —
1 pm.

Saturday 7 October at 7.45 pm
Bizet
Liszt
Grainger
Strauss
Stravinsky
lves

Overture ‘Dr. Miracle’
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eflat
Molly on the Shore
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Circus Polka
Circus Band

The Perfect Fool —Ballet Music

Holst

Kathleen Jones — Pianoforte

The Mayor and Corporation will be present at this concert
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Saturday 9 December at 7.45 pm

The Garden of Fand
Metamorphosen
Hymn of Jesus

Bax
Strauss
Holst

Philharmonic Choir

Sunday 21 January 1973 at 3.00 pm

Overture ‘Susanna’s Secret’
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70
Arnaldo Cohen — Pianoforte

Wolf-Ferrari
Rachmaninov
Dvorak

Laureen Livingstone

Robert Lloyd

Clementine Patrick

lan Caley

John Lill

Tamas Vasary
Stoika Milanova

Sarah Walker

Friday 2nd February morning & afternoon

CONCERTS FOR SCHOOLS

*Sunday 25 March at 7.45 pm
Overture ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

Mozart

Symphony No. 5 inE flat

Sibelius

Kindertotenlieder

Programme details to be announced
at a later date.

Mahler

Clementine Patrick — Soprano

Saturday 3 February at 7.45 pm

El Salon Mexico
Hymn to St. Cecilia
Piano Concerto in F
Symphony No. 3

*Please note the time of this concert.

Copland
Dello Joio
Gershwin
Roy Harris

Sunday 8 April at 3.00 pm
Overture ‘Benvenuto Cellini’
*Cello Concerto in A minor

Antony Peebles — Pianoforte
Proteus Choir

Berlioz
Schumann

Alexander Cameron — ’Cello

Conducted by Vernon Handley

Saturday 24 February at 7.45 pm

Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Double Concerto in A minor
Magnificat

Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Brahms
Brahms
Bach

John Georgiadis — Violin
Douglas Cummings — Cello
Laureen Livingstone — Soprano
Sarah Walker — Contralto

Tchaikovsky

Conducted by Elgar Howarth

Saturday 5 May at 7.45 pm
A Mass of Life

lan Caley Tenor
Robert Lloyd — Baritone
Philharmonic Choir

Delius

Ilse Wolfe — Soprano
Margaret Cable — Contralto
Alexander Oliver — Tenor
Thomas Allen — Baritone
Philharmonic Choir

Saturday 10 March at 7.45 pm
Debussy
Prokofiev
Bartok

Nocturnes
Violin Concerto No. 2
Concerto for Orchestra
Stoika Milanova — Violin

Proteus Choir (female voices)
Programmes subject to alteration

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GUILDFORD CONCERTGOERS’ SOCIETY
(Founded 1949)
President:
Lady Tangley of Blackheath
Vice-Presidents:

Lord

Nugent of Guildford, P.C. (Past President)
Miss Isobel Baillie, C.B.E.
Major-Gen. R. L. Bond, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., HON.F.R.A.M.
Mrs. E. Crossley Clitheroe
John Downham, Esq.
H. H. Kimber, Esq.
Lawrence Powell, Esq., M.C., J.P.,
Arthu
M. Smith, Esq.
Douglas G. Stedman, Esq.

M.A.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE 1972-73
Chairman:

Mr. Stewart Lyon

Vice-Chairman:

Mr. John Gordon Clark (Guildford 69027)

Honorary Secretary:

Mr. David Lowis, 17 Abbots Close, Onslow Village,
Guildford (Guildford 61031)

Honorary Asst.

Mrs.

Secretary:

(Guildford 73761)

Winifred Richards, Cuerdale,
Guildford (Guildford 73761)

White

Lane,

Honorary Treasurer:

Mr. Allan Forrow, Fiat 3, 6 Mareschal Road,
Guildford (Guildford 75274)

Editor of ‘Notes’:

Miss Christine Francis, 2 Beech Vale, Hillview Road,
Woking.

Committee:
Mr, J. R. M. Britten, Mrs. R. Butler, Mrs. A. Cole, Mr. R. R. Horton,
Mrs. H. P. Hughes, Mr. T. J. Jones, Mr. G. J. Morris, Mr. C. Stroud

AREA REPRESENTATIVES
If you would like to know more about the orchestra and the concerts ...
If you are not sure how to get tickets...
If you have difficulty in getting to or from the hall .

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eee. eliedbake people are Area Representatives can would be pleased to help you

if they can

Guildford—Central
North and Onslow
Village
East

and

Merrow

Abinger, Gomshall and Dorking
Albury and Chilworth
Bramley,

Shalford

Chiddingfold

and

Wonersh

Chilworth (see Albury)
Clandon
Cobham
Compton and Puttenham
Cranleigh
Dorking (see Abinger)
Farnham
Godalming
Gomshall (see Abinger)
Haslemere
Horsley
Milford and Witley
Puttenham (see Compton)
Ripley and Send
Shalford (see Bramley)
Shere
Wisborough Green
Woking
Witley (see Milford)
Wonersh (see Bramley)

Mrs. R, Butler (Guildford 63377)
Mr. G. J. Morris (Guildford 66933)
Mr. A. Forrow (Guildford 75274)
Mr. D. Lowis (Guildford 61031)

Mrs. a P. Hughes (Guildford 2512)

Mrs, A. Cole

(Guildford 62317)

Mr. Glyn Jones (Dorking 730225)

Mrs. W. M. Richards (Guildford 73761)
Mrs. P. D. Benjafield (Guildford 67204)
Mrs. M. R. Monier-Williams (Wormley 3419)

Mrs. T. Haimes (Clandon 795)
.. T. Gould (Cobham 2458)
Mrs, C. W. Bardwell (Puttenham 229)
Mrs. J. E. Pestell (Cranleigh 3489)
Mr. J. Pace (Farnham 4262)
Mr. B. R. Moore (Godalming 22773)
Mr.

C.

Stroud

(Guildford

71255,

office hours only)

Mrs. C. G. Dexter (E. Horsley ‘2270 )
Mrs.

M.

D. Longford

Mrs. J. K.

Edden

(Wormley 2388)

(Ripley 2229)

Mrs. L. R. James (Shere 2979)

Mrs. P. Edwards (Wisborough Green 349)
Mr, J. R. M. Britten (Woking 65742)

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ABOUT THE SOCIETY

scert is only available if the applicant is also booking either the 7 Saturday evening

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2 seats on seating plan overleaf. (N.B. Precise seating cannot be guaranteed).

The Guildford Concertgoers’ Society was formed in 1949. Five years
earlier the Corporation of Guildford had founded a Municipal Orchestra
under a professional Director of Music; and the first (and still the single
most important) aim of the Society has been to support and promote
interest in the concerts sponsored by the Corporation. The latter is a
generous patron of the Arts, but the success of its policy depends on an
enthusiastic response from the people who benefit by it — that is, from
everyone interested in this brochure. By its existence and activities the
Concertgoers’ Society proves that there is a keen and growing demand
for good music well performed. In this way we have over the years been
able to encourage the Corporation to continue and extend its own support
for such music, with the result that the orchestra is now fully professional.

The Society in addition gives more direct help. Corporation grants cover
the basic costs of the concerts and music administration, insofar as these
cannot be completely met by box office receipts. Concerts in the
Enterprising Series do, however, require extra reshearsal time to ensure
a first-class performance. Arts Council support is available for these
concerts, and in addition the Society maintains a Musical Aid Fund from
which further assistance can be provided where necessary. This Fund
was used, for example, to help finance the first recording to be made by
the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra. Again, through this Fund the
Society provides two annual playing Scholarships with the orchestra for
promising young professional musicians, and pays for the fees of a young
soloist at the annual Crossley Clitheroe Concert, By joining the Society
you will be helping to sponsor such worthwhile activities.
However, as a member you will also receive certain more direct and

tangible benefits in exchange for your subscription. Apart from supporting
the Corporation’s programme of concerts, the Society itself organises its
own meetings and social functions during the season: the programme for
the 1972-73 season is set out elsewhere in the brochure.
The current annual subscription is £1.00 for the first member of the family,
and 75p for each subsequent member of the same family living at the
same address. The subscription for persons under the age of 18 and
retirement pensioners is 40p. (These are the minimum subscriptions and
many members voluntarily pay more in order to assist the Society with its

‘tance on previous page.
September 1972, but preferred seating cannot be guaranteed for applications

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5 SUNDAY AFTERNOON
CONCERTS

1 SUNDAY EVENING
CONCERT

Dates:

Date:

1.

An advance copy of the annual programme brochure.
Entitlement to purchase a season ticket for Saturday and/or Sunday
concerts at a specially reduced rate.

3.

Priority bookings for tickets at the Library to all Corporation concerts
for each series (14 days before public bookings commence).

4.

A copy of the newsletter ‘Notes’, keeping you in touch with local
musical events.

5.

Free admission to all Members’ Evenings.

26/11/72; 21/1/73

25/3/73

TOTAL

8/4/73

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24/9/72; 29/10/72

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arises.
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(B) SINGLE TICKETS — £

SETA P.T.O.

The Society’s membership is drawn not only from Guildford and its

Borough

of Guildford
SEATING

If you are not yet a member, or wish to renew your membership, please
use the enclosed form (you may post it or hand it in at a concert or
members’ evening). If you are already a member, will you pass this
form to a friend who is not yet a member with a recommendation from
yourself — or perhaps even give her or him a subscription as a present?

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South East Music Trust
Patrons:

Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen’s Musick
Sir Adrian Boult, C.H., D.Mus.

Trustees: Lord Tangley of Blackheath, K.B.E.
Lord Nugent of Guildford, P.C.
J. V. M. Gordon Clark
Director of Music: Vernon Handley

During the past ten years Vernon Handley has built up the Guildford
Philharmonic Orchestra to its present high standard, and the success
of the annual concert series sponsored by the Guildford Corporation
is recognised nationally as a unique phenomenon for a town of
Guildford’s size. The expansion of the Orchestra’s activities is the
logical step in the development of its potential, as well as providing
the opportunity for others to share with the Guildford audiences its
fine performances. The South East Music Trust has been formed, and
an appeal for £50,000 has been launched to further this aim. By
keeping the orchestral personnel together regularly throughout the

year, Guildford audiences will benefit from the higher standard of
playing that will be realised, and the prestige of the Guildford

Philharmonic Orchestra will be enhanced.

Further details about the Trust can be obtained from the Secretary,
Mrs. Kathleen M. Atkins, Guildford House, 155 High Street, Guildford. Tel. Guildford 73800; 10 am-1 pm; 2 pm—4 pm.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 1972-73

GUILDFORD CONCERTGOERS’ SOCIETY
MEMBERS’ EVENINGS

GUILDFORD METHODIST CHURCH HALL
Entrance in Wharf Road, Guildford.

1972

23 September

about the programmes for the coming season.
Saturday 14 October at 7.30 pm

Recital:

CAROLINE FRIEND — Soprano
BRIAN LAMPORT ~—Pianoforte

Tuesday 7 November at 2.30 pm

24 September
3.00 pm

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Anthony Goldstone — Pianoforte
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

5 October
7.30 pm

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
lona Brown — Violin
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Winchester
Cathedral

7 October

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Kathleen Jones — Pianoforte
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

14 October
7.30 pm

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
Caroline Friend — Soprano
Brian Lamport — Pianoforte

Methodist Hall

29 October

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
John Lill — Pianoforte
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Afternoon
Young Artists’ Recital

Methodist Hall

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Hugh Bean — Violin
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
James Blades

Methodist Hall

26 November
3.00 pm

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
The Crossley Clitheroe Concert
Tamas Vasary — Pianoforte
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

9 December
7.45 pm

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonic Choir
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
Vernon Handley

Methodist Hall

7.45 pm

Young Artists’ Recital
Saturday 25 November at 7.30 pm

JAMES BLADES - ‘Then and Now — On becoming a Professional’
James Blades reminisces whilst discussing 50 years of percussing.

3.00 pm

Saturday 20 January 1973 at 7.30 pm

7 November

Lecture:

Methodist Hall

Members’ Evening
Social Evening

Saturday 23 September at 7.30 pm

SOCIAL EVENING at which the Musical Director will give a short talk

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society

7.30 pm

2.30 pm

VERNON HANDLEY
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November

7.45 pm

Saturday 17 February at 7.30 pm

Recital:
ELDON FOX — ’Cello

25 November
7.30 pm

Saturday 17 March at 7.30 pm
Recital:
THE CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET
Levon Chilingirian — Violin

Mark Butler — Violin
Simon Rowland-Jones — Viola
Philip De Groote — ’Cello
Saturday 14 April at 7.30 pm
1973

PROTEUS CHOIR
Conductor Vernon Handley

20 January
7.30 pm

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21 January
3.00 pm

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Arnaldo Cohen — Pianoforte
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

2 February

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerts for Schools

Civic Hall

3 February
7.45 pm

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Antony Peebles — Pianoforte
Proteus Choir

Civic Hall

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
Eldon Fox — ’Cello

Methodist Hall

17 February
7.30 pm

24 February
7.45 pm

10 March
7.45 pm

CHOIR

Assistant Conductor: Kenneth Lank
There are vacancies this season in the tenor and bass sections of the
choir. Rehearsals are on MONDAY evenings 7.15 pm - 9 pm.

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
John Georgiadis — Violin
Douglas Cummings — ’Cello
Laureen Livingstone — Soprano
Sarah Walker — Contralto
lan Caley Tenor
Robert Lloyd — Baritone
Philharmonic Choir
Vernon Handley — Conductor

Civic Hall

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra

Civic Hall

Stoika Milanova — Violin

PHILHARMONIC
Conductor: Vernon Handley

Concerts for the 1972/73 season:
Saturday 9 Dec 1972:

Hymn of Jesus—Hoist

Sunday 17 Dec 1972:

Carol Concert

Saturday 24 Feb 1973:

Magnificat—Bach

Saturday 5 May 1973:

A Mass of Life—Delius

Please apply to:

Mrs. Kathleen Atkins
Secretary
Director of Music’s Office
155 High Street, Guildford
Telephone: 73800 11 am - 1 pm; 2 pm - 4 pm

Proteus Choir (female voices)
Vernon Handley — Conductor

17 March
7.30 pm

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
The Chilingirian Quartet

Methodist Hall

25 March
7.45 pm

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Clementine Patrick — Soprano
Vernon Handley

Civic Hall

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexander Cameron — ’Cello
Elgar Howarth, Vernon Handley —
Conductors

Civic Hall

8 April
3.00 pm

14 April
7.30 pm

5 May
7.45 pm

Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
Proteus Choir
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Ilse Wolf — Soprano
Margaret Cable — Contralto
Alexander Oliver — Tenor
Thomas Allen — Bartitone
Philharmonic Choir
Vernon Handley — Conductor

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
Lunchtime Recitals and Evening Concerts take place
regularly in the Great Hall of the University during term time.
Methodist Hall

Admission is free and members of the public are welcome.

If you would like to receive information about these concerts
Civic Hall

please send your name and address to:—
Mrs. Amanda Jackson,

Secretary,
Department of Music,

University of Surrey,

Guildford, Surrey.

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