Lunchtime Song Recital: April Fredrick and Eric McElroy at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester on Friday 30th May 2025

Lunchtime Song Recital: April Fredrick and Eric McElroy

Part of the Elgar Festival 2025

Add to my Calendar 30-05-2025 01:00 30-05-2025 03:00 36 Lunchtime Song Recital: April Fredrick and Eric McElroy Since its inception in 2018, the annual Elgar Festival has grown from a weekend to a 9-day celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and Britain’s great composer, Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), and held at a number of integral venues of both historic interest and personal significance to the composer including Worcester Cathedral and Guildhall, St George’s RC Church and Great Malvern Priory. This song-recital bridges the Atlantic with an inspired blend of British, American, and Anglo-American composers. It begins with a selection of some of Elgar’s most beloved songs and includes a rare performance of Lennox Berkeley’s exquisite Counting the Beats. The programme commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur Bliss, presenting songs that variously sample the cheeky, romantic, and introspective sides of his personality. The 70th birthday of local-composer Ian Venables is also marked with a performance of one of his early song-cycles. The recital concludes with Eric McElroy’s own song-cycle of war-poems by Robert Graves, A Dead Man’s Embers, which has been hailed by Musical Opinion as a ‘masterpiece’ of contemporary song. Tickets are on sale now and further information is provided on the website  Huntingdon Hall, Worcester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Huntingdon Hall
Crowngate
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 3LD
England

Friday 30th May 2025
1:00 AM

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Programme Note

Since its inception in 2018, the annual Elgar Festival has grown from a weekend to a 9-day celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and Britain’s great composer, Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), and held at a number of integral venues of both historic interest and personal significance to the composer including Worcester Cathedral and Guildhall, St George’s RC Church and Great Malvern Priory.

This song-recital bridges the Atlantic with an inspired blend of British, American, and Anglo-American composers. It begins with a selection of some of Elgar’s most beloved songs and includes a rare performance of Lennox Berkeley’s exquisite Counting the Beats. The programme commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur Bliss, presenting songs that variously sample the cheeky, romantic, and introspective sides of his personality. The 70th birthday of local-composer Ian Venables is also marked with a performance of one of his early song-cycles. The recital concludes with Eric McElroy’s own song-cycle of war-poems by Robert Graves, A Dead Man’s Embers, which has been hailed by Musical Opinion as a ‘masterpiece’ of contemporary song.

Tickets are on sale now and further information is provided on the website

April Fredrick (photo, Michael Whitefoot)

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