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Royal Hall
Ripon Road
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG1 2RD
England
Programme
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Ode to Music
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – My Soul there is a country
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Songs of Farewell: 4, There is an old belief
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Songs of Farewell: 5, At the round earth's imagined corners
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Hypatia: Incidental Music
~ Interval ~
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Blest Pair of Sirens
Gerald Finzi – A Severn Rhapsody, Op.3
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – What Voice of Gladness
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – There Rolls the Deep
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – In Praise of Song
Ernest Bristow Farrar – Heroic Elegy
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Jerusalem
Performers
Andrew Padmore – Conductor
Harrogate Choral Society
Chapel Choir of Exeter College Oxford
Amici Ensemble
Programme Note
This concert has been planned to mark two important centennial occasions - the end of the Great War, and the death of two outstanding musicians closely connected with Harrogate: Sir Charles Hubert Parry and Ernest Bristow Farrar. It also opens the appeal to finance the flood lighting of the exterior of both the Royal Hall and the town’s principal War Memorial.
Parry conducted the concert on the opening night of the Kursaal (now called the Royal Hall) in May 1903 and the concert included his Incidental music to Hypatia, a rousing piece which we believe has not been performed again live since 1903! Other Parry works include his well known I Was Glad which is often performed at great state occasions.
Harrogate Choral Society, currently celebrating their 70th anniversary, will be joined by the Chapel Choir of Exeter College, Oxford – where Parry studied – who are conducted by Organ Scholar James Andrew Short.
The orchestra for the evening will be the Amici Ensemble who will be conducted by HCS Music Director Andrew Padmore
