Guildford
Corporation
Concerts
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1973] 74
Guildford
Philharmonic
Orchestra
(Leader,
Musical Director+-
Conductor
Vernon Handley
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Philharmonic
Choir
Proteus Choir
‘Civic Hall
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CONCERT BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS
BOOKING DATES
Booking opens 10 September 1973, for concerts befcre Christmas, and
7 January 1974, for concerts in the New Year. Priority booking for members
of the Concertgoers Society commences fourteen days before these dates.
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“Serving Surrey Music Lovers for over a Century”
SEAT PRICES
Balcony: £1, 80p, 70p Reserved.
Stalls: 55p Reserved. 45p, 30p Unreserved.
Music
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rice Concessions: (a) and (b), Stalls only, 30p Reserved; 25p, 15p
*. Unreserved.
(a) Organised parties of full-time students, members of youth
organisations and schools.
(b)
(c)
Retirement Pensioners - individuals receiving a National Insurance
Pension
— on production of the Pension Book.
Season Tickets (Members of the Concertgoers Society only) — see
below.
WHERE TO BOOK
1.
Advance Booking: Tickets are available in advance from The Public
2.
Late Booking:
Library, North Street, Guildford (at the Information
Desk, Quick Reference Dept., ground floor). The
Library is open Mondays to Fridays, 10.00 am
to 7.00 pm, and Saturdays 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.
All tickets remaining unsold will be sent from the
Public Library to The Box Office, Civic Hall,
London Rd., Guildford, on the day of the concert,
one hour before its commencement, and wilil be
available there until the concert begins.
HOW TO BOOK
1.
2.
3.
In person: At the Public Library at the times stated above, or (during
the last hour before the concert commences) at the Civic Hall Box
Office.
By post: At the Public Library, North Street, Guildford. All postal
applications must be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope.
Cheques and Postal Orders should be crossed and made payable
to Guildford Corporation. Cash should not be sent through the post.
By telephone: At the Public Library, North Street, Guildford (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 still
available by phoning tke Box Office during the last hour before the
concert commences (telephone Guildford 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.
T. ANDREWS & Go.
SEASON TICKETS (Concertgoers Society only)
Members of the Concertgoers Society may order Season Tickets at
reduced rates by filling in the blue Application Form in the centre of this
booklet. Applications for Season Tickets should be despatched by
24 August, since after this date priority choice of seats can no longer be
guaranteed. The final date for Season Ticket applications is 17 September,
and no further applications can be accepted after this date.
Information about the Concertgoers Society is given on page 14. If you
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.
John
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Palmer
High Street
GODALMING
Tel. 6414
62 Meadrow
GODALMING
Tel. 22459
For lovers
of
good food
Three excellent places to eat —— all under one roof
at the Angel Hotel. Each has individual character
and a menu to suit your mood and appetite. Carefully
selected wines, of course —and there are three bars.
La Trattoria Crypia for English and Italian cuisine in a
delightful informal atmosphere. Just the place
to come after concerts —- open Monday to Saturday
from 7 p.m. to midnight.
The Diane Restaurant for superb a la carte meals
served in traditional style and elegance. Closed Monday
evenings and all day on Tuesdays. Last orders at 10 p.m.
8:30 p.m., Nairobi.
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it. Not because they are paid for
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ever is), but for the Steinway’s clear
superiority of tone, touch and power.
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create this kind of excellence in an
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spoken.
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throughout
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the lights dim and the curtains part,
the language barrier disappears and
one language is sud.Jenly universal, the
language of the great composers, past
and present.
Throughout the world the language
barrier is broken most often and most
eloquently on the Steinway piano. For
over a century, the music world’s immortals have endorsed it in the most
forceful way possible — by playing
this endorsement (no Steinway artist
It takes
more than
experience
to
instrument. It requires, in addition, a
monumental instinct for perfection, a
great deal of pride, a determination to
build to a standard not to a price.
Which also seems to be a language
almost everybody understands.
For more information write to:
Steinway Hall,
1 & 2, St. George Street,
Hanover Square, London, W1R 9DG.
Or ’phone 01-629 6641.
Steinway & Sons
2.
The Buttery is open throughout the day for light
meals
Plus —
and snacks.
a quick Businessman’s Lunch daily in the
lounge. Sit-down buffet of 2 courses — 75p
inc. v.a.t.
THE ANGEL HOTEL
High Street, Guildford
Telephone: Guildford 64555
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FOREWORD
1973/74 is a very important season for Guildford Corporation’s music
scheme. After the war, an enlightened local authority initiated a
professional musical enterprise unique in Great Britain. Within twenty
years the programmes of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra and
Choirs had become an example to cautious unadventurous managements
all over the country. Yet no other local authority had followed this
example with such zeal. During the last twenty-five years, in fact, town
councils of bigger places than Guildford have cut, or withdrawn, their
subsidies to symphonic music. Rescue operations for these orchestras
have been mounted, music schemes sprung up and withered. Recently,
whole new symphony orchestras, as well as many Chamber orchestras,
have been announced, publicised, and, after a few concerts, disappeared,
or now Survive by giving occasional privately financed concerts.
The main single reason for the Guildford Philharmonic’s steady rise
has been the Corporation’s financial sponsorship.
There have been other reasons for this success story. Although all
orchestras have their ‘society of friends’, few can have as loyal a
society as that which was founded by Guildford’s first musical director,
Crossley Clitheroe. The Concertgoers are still the nucleus of the
audience. Several important events which have occurred down the years
have been ideas that started in Concertgoers Society Committee
Meetings. In the early days the Society provided fees for extra players
when a work demanding large orchestral resources was contemplated.
Although the public at large contributed to a fund to help the first
recording by the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra in 1964, this and
subsequent recordings received grants from the Society. It was from
the Society that the Committee sprang which did all the exploratory
work before the Schools Concerts were introduced, and more recently
large grants have been made to increase the amount of publicity for
the Orchestra, and the Society has taken on the organisation of the
season ticket scheme.
The Orchestra serves two Choirs which in turn serve the Orchestra. The
Philharmonic and Proteus Choirs have a width of repertoire second to
none, and both Choirs supply stewards and platform attendants for the
Orchestra. Clubs and Societies in the town have had increasing contact
with the musical organisation, the Rotary Club Carol Concert being of
the longest standing. It is a big family, and growing. The Choirs and
the Orchestra have always looked outwards. There is nothing parochial
about the make-up of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra with its
internationally famous leader, and players drawn from the finest
orchestras and chamber groups in the country. The Orchestra’s records
have been heard in Europe, America and Japan. Philharmonic and
Proteus Choirs have given concerts for a score of Charities, and | have
gone to over seventy schools, clubs and societies in the district to talk
about the unique Corporation music scheme. A foreign tour for the
Proteus Choir, British premieres with the Philharmonic Choir, and, of
course, world premleres with the Orchestra, all bespeak a healthy
attitude to professional music making in the town. Most*recently,
formation of the South East Music Trust has guaranteed that the
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra will be heard in more and more towns.
Musically my plan for the last ten seasons has been to widen the
experience of our audiences by providing a tremendous variety of
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orchestral and choral music at an ever improving technical standard,
hoping that as the years passed, the standard of interpretation would
improve as well! But another aim has been included in this plan: to
concentrate the audience’s listening powers by providing it with soloists
in whom | believed as fine artists rather than simply engaging somebody
with a superficially attractive ‘name’, and who might easily have risen
CONCERT PROGRAMMES 1973/74 SEASON
CIVIC HALL — GUILDFORD
publicly as a result of something other than artistic ability. This has
worked wonderfully well. We have an enviable average attendance figure
at the concerts, despite the fact that the planning and programming run
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
counter to the accepted formula of ‘big name, popular piano concerto,
Hugh Bean — Leader
full house’. The shortsightedness of that policy has brought great trouble
to orchestras elsewhere, whereas | have trusted the audience here to
mature with the Orchestra and Choirs. That audience has responded
magnificently.
John Ludlow — Co-Leader
VERNON HANDLEY — Conductor
We do have international celebrities, of course, with the accent on
international, as this year with Peter Frankl, Malcolm Frager, Jeffrey
Siegel, Philip Hirschhorn and Gerald English. British artists are always
given the majority of the solo engagements, and a place is always found
for young artists, who, unless they win a competition (in my opinion no
real measure of their talents) or are blessed with unlimited private
means, have little chance of establishing themselves. Old favourites
amongst the works played include two Beethoven symphonies, the
Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade,
twenty-five per cent of the works are British, and in this Guildford sets
the standard to the whole country; living composers are represented,
Rachmaninov’s centenary celebrated, and may | add, for those who on
seeing a new name think that the music must be modern, that Kalliwoda
is not a contemporary composer.
Sunday 23 September at 3.00 pm
Overture ‘The Secret Marriage’
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Opus 19
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 68
Cimarosa
Beethoven
Brahms
Malcolm Frager — Pianoforte
This is another season, in fact, challenging for the Orchestra and Choirs,
stimulating for the audience, and thrilling for everybody. Although it is
Thursday 4 October at 7.30 pm
characteristic of the seasons we have enjoyed together, it contains
more full scale concerts than any previous season, and thus represents
A concert promoted by the South East Music Trust in
association with Aldershot Corporation in the
the culmination of the expansion of the music scheme which was begun
four years ago. | know that all my colleagues on the platform, as well
as my friends and critics in the audience join with me in hoping that it
is only the beginning of a fresh expansion which the new large
Authority will undertake with the confidence and courage of the old.
PRINCES HALL, ALDERSHOT
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Overture ‘The Wasps’
Violin Concerto in G minor
Symphony No. 2 in C minor,
‘Little Russian’
Vaughan Williams
Max Bruch
Tchaikovsky
Maureen Smith — Violin
Tickets: £1; 75p; 50p; 40p. Available from 3 September at the
Box Office, Princes Hall, Aldershot, Mondays to Saturdays
10 am —5.30 pm
(Tel. Aldershot 29155)
Friday 5 October in the Civic Hall, Guildford
Guildford House,
155 High Street,
Guildford.
Telephone 73800
10 a.m. —1
p.m., 2 p.m. — 4 p.m,
TWO CONCERTS FOR SCHOOLS
Programme details to be circulated to Schools
Oe
iy
Jeffrey Siegel
iu
Gerald Englis h
Malcolm
Frager
Christopher Keyte
Enid Hartle
lan Caddy
Rhondda Gillesp Ie
Peter Frankl
Gwenyth Annear
Martyn
Hill
Saturday 15 December at 7.45 pm
Saturday 6 October at 7.45 pm
Prelude to Act Ill of Lohengrin
Rhapsody in Blue
Celtic Dances
Whythorne’s Shadow
Pizzicato Polka
Artist’s Life — Waltz
Le Cid — Ballet Music
Wagner
Gershwin
Mathias
Moeran
Joh. and Joseph
Strauss
Joh. Strauss
Massenet
Rhondda Gillespie — Pianoforte
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven
Rosemary Hardy — Soprano
Doreen Walker — Contralto
Robin Doveton — Tenor
Stephen Roberts — Bass
Guest Chorus: The Guildford Singers
Guest Conductors: Anthony Ridleyt
Barry Wordsworth*
Sunday 28 October at 3.00 pm
Overture ‘Cosi fan tutte’
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C, K. 491
Polonaise from ‘Eugene Onegin’
Francesca da Rimini
“Overture ‘Titus’
*The Maria Theresa Mass
tSymphony No. 2 in D, Opus 36
Mozart
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
Peter Frankl — Pianoforte
Sunday 20 January 1974 at 3.00 pm
Finlandia
Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor
Symphony No. 8 in F major
Sibelius
Beethoven
Philip Hirschhorn — Violin
The Mayor and Corporation will be present at this concert
Saturday 2 February at 7.45 pm
Saturday 10 November at 7.45 pm
Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Concerio for Violin and Orchestra
Intimations of Immortality
Tippett get A eto .
Britten
Finzi
Rodney Friend —Violin
Anthony Roden — Tenor
Philharmonic Choir
*Sunday 25 November at 7.00 pm
Introduction and Bridal Procession
from Le Coq d’Or
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Symphonic Dances
Jeffrey Siegel — Pianoforte
Symphony (Elegy)
Serenade to Music
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major
Gwenyth Annear — Soprano
Enid Hartle — Contralto
Martyn Hill — Tenor
lan Caddy — Bass
Proteus Choir
Saturday 23 February at 7.45 pm
Rimsky Korsakov
Rachmaninov
Rachmaninov
Eventyr
Concertino in F, Opus 110 for
Oboe and Orchestra
Ein Heldenleben
James Brown — Oboe
*Please note time of this concert
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John McCabe
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
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Kalliwoda
Richard Strauss
Saturday 9 March at 7.45 pm
GUILDFORD CONCERTGOERS’ SOCIETY
Peter and the Wolf
Symphony of Psalms
Symphony No. 8
Prokofiev
(Founded 1949)
Stravinsky
Shostakovich
President:
Lady
Narrator to be announced
Philharmonic Choir
Tangley
of
Blackheath
Vice-Presidents:
Lord
Major-Gen.
R.
Nugent of Guildford, P.C. (Past President)
Miss Isobel Baillie. C.B.E.
L. Bond, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., HON.F.R.A.M.
Mrs.
Sunday 24 March at 3.00 pm
The CROSSLEY CLITHEROE CONCERT
Overture ‘Prometheus’
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor
Symphonic Variations
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Malcolm Binns — Pianoforte
E.
Crossley
Clitheroe
John Downham, Esq.
H. H. Kimber, Esq.
Arthur M. Smith, Esq.
Douglas G. Stedman, Esq.
Noel Lorimer, Esq., A.I.B.
Stewart Lyon, Esq.
OFFICERS
Chairman:
AND
COMMITTEE
1973-74
Mrs. Judy Nicklin (Guildford 4303)
Vice-Chairman:
Mr. John Gordon Clark (Guildford 69027)
Honorary
Miss
Secretary:
Jennifer
(Guildford
Briggs,
7
Beech
Grove,
Guildford
66952)
Honorary Treasurer:
Mr. Allan Forrow, Flat 3, 6 Mareschal Road,
Editor of
Mr. F. R. Noyes, 19 Wilderness Court, Onslow Village,
Guildford
‘Notes’:
Guildford
Sunday 7 April at 3.00 pm
(Guildford
(Guildford
75274)
4535)
Committee:
Mr. J. R. M. Britten, Mr. M. Brown, Mrs. R. Butler, Mrs. A. Cole,
Mrs. H. P. Hughes, Mr. G. J. Morris, Mrs. D. Roke, Mr. C. Stroud
Prelude and Liebestod from
Tristan and Isolde
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Scheherazade
Wagner
Saint-Saens
Rimsky Korsakov
Christopher Van Kampen — Cello
AREA
.
if
, the following people are Area Representatives and would
they
Mrs, R. Butler (Guildford 63377)
Saturday 4 May at 7.45 pm
and
East
Fiona Kimm
Christopher Keyte
Gerald English
Philharmonic Choir
Mr.
and
North
Elgar
Onslow
Village
Merrow
G. J.
(Guildford
66933)
Mrs. H. P. Hughes (Guildford 72512)
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)
Clandon
Cobham
Compton and
Cranleigh
Mrs. T. Haimes (Clandon 795)
Mr. T. Gould (Cobham 2458)
Mrs. C. W. Bardwell (Puttenham 229)
Mrs. J. E. Pestell (Cranleigh 3489)
(see Albury)
Puttenham
Dorking (see Abinger)
Farnham
Godalming
Gomshall (see
Haslemere
Abinger)
Horsley
Milford and Witley
Puttenham
(see Compton)
Mr. J. Pace (Farnham 4262)
Mr. B. R. Moore (Godalming 22773)
Mr. C. Stroud (Guildford 71255, office
Mrs. C. G. Dexter (E. Horsley 2270)
Mrs. J. K. Edden (Ripley 2229)
Shere
Mrs. L. R. James (Shere 2979)
(see
Bramley)
Wisborough Green
Woking
hours
Mrs, M. D. Longford (Wormley 2388)
Ripley and Send
Shalford
Mrs. P. Edwards (Wisborough Green 349)
Mr. J. R. M. Britten (Woking 65742)
Witley (see Milford)
Wonersh (see Bramley)
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Morris
Mr. A. Forrow (Guildford 75274)
Abinger, Gomshall and Dorking
Albury and Chilworth
Bramley, Shalford and Wonersh
Chiddingfold
Chilworth
Programmes subject to alteration
be pleased to help you
can:
Guildford—Central
The Dream of Gerontius
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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ABOUT THE SOCIETY
Guildford
Concertgoers
Society
The Guildford Concertgoers’ Society was formed in 1949. Five years
earlier the Corporation of Guildford had founded a Municipal Orchestra
under a professional Pirecion of Music; and the first (and still the single
APPLICATION TO JOIN OR RENEW MEMBERSHIP
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
AND TO PURCHASE SEASON TICKETS IF REQUIRED.
(see also next two pages)
for good music well eM ane In this way we gon wir the years been
addressed envelope to R. A. Forrow Esq., Hon. Treasurer, Guild-
most important) aim of the
Society has been to support and promote
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Concertgoers’ Society proves that there is a keen and growing demand
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
ford Concertgoers Society, Flat 3, 6 Mareschal Rd., Guildford.
Personal applications may be made at the Concertgoers desk in
the Civic Hall on concert dates.
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Society provides two annual playing Scholarships with the orchestra for
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However, asa member you will also receive certain more direct and
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own meetings and social functions during the season: the programme for
the 1972-73 season is set out elsewhere in the brochure.
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the Corporation’s programme of concerts, the Society itself organises its
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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
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retirement pensioners is 40p. (These are the minimum subscriptions and
many members voluntarily pay more in order to assist the Society with its
activities.) The subscription covers:
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1. An advance copy of the annual programme brochure.
2.
3.
Entitlement to purchase a season ticket for Saturday and/or Sunday:
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Priority bookings for tickets at the Library to all Corporation concerts
for each series (14 days before public bookings commence).
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concerts at a specially reduced rate.
4. A copy of the newsletter ‘Notes’, keeping you in touch with local
musical events.
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The Society's membership is drawn not only from Guildford and its
immediate neighbourhood but from all over West Surrey and even further
afield. The Society is affiliated to the Surrey County Music Association
and in turn one or two local music groups are affiliated to the Society.
or wish to renew your membership,
NOT A MEMBER,
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or members’
member, as it is the hope of the Committee that each existing member
7 SATURDAY EVENING
will persuade a friend to join this year and thereby double our existing
CONCERTS
membership.
Dates: 6/10/73; 10/11/73
The Hon. Secretary will always be glad to give you further information
23/2/74;
Committee. We welcome new members at any time, and the Society
15/12/73; 2/2/74
AREA (& NORMAL PRICE)
4/5/74
about the Society, as will your Area Representative or any member of the
9/3/74
maintains a stand at all Corporation concerts.
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JUDY
1 season
No. | Total
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ticket |required
£
Front Balcony A—C
Centre Balcony D—H
(1.00p)}
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£6.50
Side Balconys A & B
(80p) | £5.10
Rear Balcony J—P
(70p)}
£4.40
Stalls E—M reserved
(55p)|
£3.60
Stalls N—S unreserved
(45p) | £2.90
Patrons: Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen’s Musick
(30p)}
Trustees: Lord Nugent of Guildford, P.C.
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Stalls A—D unreserved
Choir — unreserved (for choir concerts
applicants will be allotted front stalls)
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Trust
Sir Adrian Boult, C.H., D.Mus.
£1. 85
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Director of Music: Vernon Handley
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During the past eleven 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 1973-74
GUILDFORD CONCERTGOERS’ SOCIETY
1973
22 September
MEMBERS’ EVENINGS
GUILDFORD METHODIST CHURCH HALL
Entrance in Wharf Road, Guildford
(Except the Recital on 24 November which will be held in
Holy Trinity Church, High Street, Guildford)
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Methodist Hall
7.30 pm
Members’ Evening
Social Evening
23 September
3.00 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Frager
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
4 October
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Maureen Smith
Vernon Handley
Princes Hall
Aldershot
5 October
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerts for Schools
Civic Hall
6 October
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Rhondda Gillespie
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
13 October
7.30 pm
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Methodist Hall
28 October
3.00 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Peter Frankl
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
6 November
2.30 pm
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Afternoon Meeting
Methodist Hall
7.30 pm
Saturday 22 September at 7.30 pm
SOCIAL EVENING at which the Musical Director will give a short talk
about the programmes for the coming season.
Saturday 13 October at 7.30 pm
Lecture:
7.45 pm
DR. GERALD ABRAHAM
Tuesday 6 November at 2.30 p.m.
Young Artists’ Recital
Saturday 24 November at 7.30 pm in Holy Trinity Church, High Street,
Guildford
SYRINX WIND ENSEMBLE
Saturday 19 January at 7.30 pm
Lecture:
Young Artists
VERNON HANDLEY
Saturday 9 February at 7.30 pm
BARRY ROSE and NICOLAS WARE will talk about Records and
10 November
7.45 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Rodney Friend
Anthony Roden
Philharmonic Choir
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
24 November
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
The Syrinx Wind Ensemble
Holy Trinity
Church
Recording.
Saturday 16 March at 7.30 pm
THE
ENGLISH
DRAWING
ROOM—'Music for a
Georgian
Saloon”
An entertainment in words and music.
YVONNE
FULLER —Soprano
DAVID SMITH
— Cello
Members’ Evening
Dr. Gerald Abraham
7.30 pm
CELIA HARPER — Harpsichord
ANNETTE THOMPSON
—Contralto
Wednesday 27 March at The Manor Inn, Farncombe
DINNER AND DANCE
Tickets for this event must be purchased separately.
Saturday 27 April at 7.30 pm
THE HAFFNER QUARTET
Membership cards must be produced at these evenings
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Jeffrey Siegel
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
7.00 pm
15 December
7.45 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Rosemary Hardy
Civic Hall
25 November
Robin
Doveton
Barry
Wordsworth
Doreen Walker
Stephen Roberts
Guildford Singers
Anthony Ridley
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— Guest
Conductors
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1974
19 January
7.30 pm
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
Vernon Handley
Methodist Hall
20 January
7.45 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Philip Hirschhorn
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
2 February
7.45 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Gwenyth Annear
Enid Hartle
Civic Hall
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
23 February
7.45 pm
Lunchtime Recitals and Evening Concerts take place
regularly in the Great Hall of the University during
term time. Admission is free and members of the public
are welcome.
Martyn Hill
lan Caddy
Proteus Choir
Vernon Handley
9 February
7.30 pm
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
If you would like to receive information about these
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
Barry Rose and Nicolas Ware
Methodist Hall
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
James Brown
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
Mrs. Amanda Jackson,
Secretary,
Department of Music,
University of Surrey,
9 March
7.45 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonic Choir
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
16 March
7.30 pm -
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
The English Drawing Room
Methodist Hall
24 March
3.00 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
The Crossley Clitheroe Concert
Malcolm Binns
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
27 March
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Dinner and Dance
The Manor
Hotel
Farncombe
7 April
3.00 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Van Kampen
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
27 April
7.30 pm
Guildford Concertgoers’ Society
Members’ Evening
The Haffner Quartet
Methodist Hall
4 May
7.45 pm
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Fiona Kimm
Gerald English
Christopher Keyte
Philharmonic Choir
Vernon Handley
Civic Hall
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concerts please send your name and address to:—
Guildford, Surrey.
PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Assistant Conductor: Kenneth Lank
There are vacancies this season in the tenor and bass sections of
the choir. Rehearsals are on MONDAY evenings 7.15pm - 9 pm
Concerts for the 1973/74 season:
Saturday 10 Nov 1973
Intimations of Immortality
Sunday 16 Dec 1973:
Carol Concert
Saturday 9 March 1974:
Symphony of Psalms
Saturday 4 May 1974:
Dream of Gerontius
Please apply to:
Mrs. Kathleen Atkins
Concerts Manager
Director of Music’s Office
155 High Street, Guildford
Telephone: 73800 11 am - 1 pm; 2 pm - 4 pm
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GB 1972
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Monday 5
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Monday 12 November—DOCTOR FAUSTUS (X)
GB/Italy 1967
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