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STEP TOWARDS | REATING CULTURAL CENTRE
Having in mind the increasing ¢n- tween many different organisations.
couragement of cultural pursuits in Mr, Clitheroe
has had a great success.
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THE MUSIC FESTIVAL
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Guildford, particularly music, the
The Musical Festival, which opens
"Surrey Advertiser” sought the views
July 12th, carries a stage further
on
‘of Alderman Lawrence Powell, chairCorporation's policy. It is nopec
the
man of the Library, Museum, and thet it will become an annual even!
Arts Committee,
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which will be looked forward to snd
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|patronised by people all over Weat Surto rey and beyond the county boundary
being Alderman Powell readily consented
comment upon a number of points An annual festival is, of course, no
Inew thing, even in towns smaller than
oody, Submitted to him by our represen- Guildford. Instances among our neigh(tage,
tative, and his reply may be sum- bours are the Leith Hil) Festival, held
loyed
at Dorking, and centred round the
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marised as follows!—
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“I don't think I am ane fedigy
person of Dr. Vaughan Williams, anc
the Petersfield Festival.
But a festi-
secret in saying that when,later this|val sponsored by the Corporation of 4
a fiah month, the outline plan for .Gulld- town ofGuildford's sige is, so fay as ]
r the ford is made publicit. will be found to know,
a new thing, and in this respect
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foody be bullt on two general principles, one we claim to be pioneers.
of which is-that the central area of
“Por thisfirstyear Mr. Clitheroe has
town should be developed as @ arranged a programme to suit all serit+ the suet centre for a surrounding dis- ous tastes. In the opening and clos: : * ; ie “S ing concerts, which are fully orches{ not tr Cv.
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“A cultural centre must provide a tral, somevery well-known and popua the good library service, a theatre where lar classics will be played; at the fina!
good dramatic productions can he coneert the Festival Choir will join
moon
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regularly enjoyed, a gallery for the fine the orchestra in Parry’s ‘Blest Pair of
t day. arts and crafts, a museum of local Hise Sirens.’
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afternoon, July
On Sunday
n the tory, and, quite
as important as any \14th, the Guildford Teachers’ Choir,
ning,
of these, regular opportunities for with orchestra, will sing the first pert
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hearing good music well performed,
of Bach's ‘Mass in B minor,’ in the
To imple-
robably the pee: work ever writ-
There are other ingredients, of course, opinion of the majority of musicians
the but these are the chief,
: Her« iment this cultural policy, the Library, ten. It will be heard in conditions
rdner Museum and Arts Committee of the more like those of Bach's day than
usual—in the Cathedral Church, with.
must Couneil was formed...
a limited number of performers,. A reietersave musical side, Mr. Crossley Clitheroe was peat performance (hy special request)
“To develop and co-ordinate the
appointed 18 months ago as musical of the opera ‘Dido and Aéneas,’ by Pur-
urrey director, with
the
twofeld task of cell, greatest of English composers,
properly graduated scheme will be given by the Girls’ County
under which the citizens of Guildford, Grammar School, and will give
large from childhood onwards, should be the public an opportunity of sae| inte able to hear and learn to appreciate ing and hearing what was, by com-‘Acci- framing a
puscle! good musie—he had already unique mon consent, a superlative presentaa work not often done; and the.
iad if opportunities of access tothe schools tion of
9 the of the borough, which the new educa- ‘New English String Quartet will give |
radu- tion authority has allowed to con- an evening of Haydn, Mogart, and
s the tinue; and of organising under muni- ‘Beethoven at the Borough Hall (now
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auspices concerts which should the Repertory Theatre).
addition attract to them people
FORWARD
mus- cipal
part in
LOOKING
‘hage. lfrom a surrounding area which Guild.
might réasonably expect to serve, “Such a programme cannot fail. to
njury To promote these ends, in addition to attract, I hope Guildford people will
Lie: ford
have a good deal of work in the schools, the give it
their support and rally round
Death. Guildford Teachers’ Choir was formed, Mr. Clitheroe, who has worked untirag.
the Municipal Philharmonic Orchestra ingly a8 manager, chorus-maater, and
(which includes a small number of conductor of this, his first,venture of
their best local amateur players) built the kind. It obviously looks to the
y, of up, and a regular series of concerts, time when we have in the town a pro-
‘ather orchestral, chamber, and choral, held, perly equipped concert hall. auch sa,
i him Contact was established with a large but for the war, would by now have
norn.
number of choral bodies and church been built. I hope that under the new
an the choirs
in
and around the town, and scheme of building
it will have high
® this the festival choir, inaugurated through riority. With this and other build‘the bringing together of many of these ngs which go to make a cultural cenaugh- for special
purposes,
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This choir made tre,and to which we may now reae-
d she ite debut in
Mendelasohn’s ‘Hymn of onably look forward, Guildford should
In the difficult be as pleasant a town as any In which
wh to Praise’ in February.
s and task of arranging for co-operation.
be~ te spend a week of Summer Festival,”
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