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Thursday
May 31st
>15:00
At the Elgar Birthplace Museum
“Regal
Elgar”
The festival launch event is a talk by Dr Donald Hunt examining
Elgar’s Royal connections, a theme of the Festival in the lead-up
to Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee.
Tickets £8 to include refreshments. Early booking recommended.
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>20:00
At Worcester Cathedral
Jubilee
Concert
English Symphony Orchestra
Peter Adams cello
The Worcestershire Choir
Christopher Robinson conductor
Walton
Parry
Elgar
Elgar
Elgar |
Orb and Sceptre
I Was Glad
Cello Concerto
Severn Suite
Banner of St George |
Tickets £25, £20, £10
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Friday
June 1st
>11:00
At Croome Court
The
Croome Ensemble
Jacqui Allen violin
Noriko Tsuzaki violin
Isobel Adams viola
Joanne Jefferis cello
Vaughan Williams
Elgar |
String
Quartet No2
String Quartet |
Tickets £20
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>15:00
At Pershore Number 8 Community Arts Theatre
The
ESO Players
Barry Collett conductor
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Elgar |
Music
for the Powick Asylum |
Tickets £10
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>19:30
At Worcester Cathedral
English
Music for String Orchestra
English String Orchestra
Kate Symonds-Joy soprano
Elgar Chorale
Donald Hunt, Christopher Robinson conductors
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Elgar
Howells, Bliss
Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Elgar
Vaughan Williams
Bliss
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Introduction and Allegro for Strings
A Garland for the Queen
Serenade
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Pastoral |
Tickets £25, £20, £10
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Saturday
June 2nd
>13:00
At Malvern Priory
Organ
Recital by Roy Massey
Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams
Elgar |
Prelude
and Fugue in C
Three Welsh Hymn Preludes
Organ Sonata |
Tickets £8
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>16:00
At St George’s RC Church Parish Hall
“The
Kingdom” A talk by Michael Kennedy
This is the biennial AT Shaw Lecture, in
the award-winning Parish Hall of the church where, as a young
man, Elgar was organist and choir-master.
Tickets £8
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>19:30
At Worcester Cathedral
Closing
Concert
English
Symphony Orchestra
Elgar Chorale
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Naomi Harvey soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo
Paul Nilon tenor
Alan Fairs bass
Donald Hunt conductor
Tickets £30, £25, £10
The concert will be preceded by the Elgar
Society’s annual laying of the wreath below the Elgar “Gerontius”
window. The wreath will be placed by Michael Kennedy, a Vice-President
of the Society.
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