'Midsummer Nocturnes': Echoes of Nature at St Mary the Virgin Church, Frensham on Sunday 22nd June 2025

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'Midsummer Nocturnes'

Echoes of Nature

Part of the Waverley Singers 2024-25 Cycle

Add to my Calendar 22-06-2025 17:00 22-06-2025 19:00 36 'Midsummer Nocturnes' The overarching theme of this concert is the connection between people and place: our relationship as human beings with the natural world, and how music – and poetry - can help to connect the two. We are glad to have the opportunity to remember and to pay tribute to our much missed and much-loved former choir member, Frensham parishioner, and owner of Pierrepont Farm, Josephine Baker, more commonly known as Jo Reader. This theme was close to Jo’s heart. It is thanks to a generous bequest from Jo that we can offer our audience at this concert the world première of a new work, "Five Nocturnes", commissioned from Owain Park, one of the country's most inspirational young composers, who is also an accomplished performer in his own right. The work sets five different poems to music, exploring the different shades of night-time, from the setting of the sun to its rising again the following morning. We think Jo would have approved! We think as well that she would have enjoyed the poems of Rosie May Jones, which seek to help us all imagine a better world. Complimentary bubbly and soft drinks will be served after the concert. St Mary the Virgin Church, Frensham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary the Virgin Church
The Street
Frensham
Surrey
GU10 3EA
England

Sunday 22nd June 2025
5:00 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (motet), BWV 230
Sergei Rachmaninov – Vocalise, Op.34 no.14 (arr. Jonathan Wikely)
Rosie May Jones – Poetry Readings
Sarah Quartel – Ripple Effect
William Lloyd Webber – Frensham Pond
Benny Goodman – Soft Winds
Howard Skempton – After Rain
Kristina Arakelyan – To a Skylark
~ Interval ~
Owain Park – Five Nocturnes
Johann Sebastian Bach – Pastorale in F major, BWV 590
Edward MacDowell – Pastorale
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei II (arr. Becky McGlade)
Bradley Ellingboe – Heart, we will forget him!
Rosie May Jones – Poetry Readings
John Rutter – Come Live With Me

Performers

Rosie May Jones – Poet
Joseph Spooner – Cello
Ian Scott – clarinet
Philip Scriven – organ / piano
Richard Pearce – Conductor

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Programme Note

The overarching theme of this concert is the connection between people and place: our relationship as human beings with the natural world, and how music – and poetry - can help to connect the two. We are glad to have the opportunity to remember and to pay tribute to our much missed and much-loved former choir member, Frensham parishioner, and owner of Pierrepont Farm, Josephine Baker, more commonly known as Jo Reader. This theme was close to Jo’s heart.

It is thanks to a generous bequest from Jo that we can offer our audience at this concert the world première of a new work, "Five Nocturnes", commissioned from Owain Park, one of the country's most inspirational young composers, who is also an accomplished performer in his own right. The work sets five different poems to music, exploring the different shades of night-time, from the setting of the sun to its rising again the following morning. We think Jo would have approved! We think as well that she would have enjoyed the poems of Rosie May Jones, which seek to help us all imagine a better world.

Complimentary bubbly and soft drinks will be served after the concert.

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