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English Music Festival: Shakespeare in Song and Verse
Part of the The English Music Festival: May 2021
Add to my Calendar 29-05-2021 14:30 29-05-2021 16:30 36 English Music Festival: Shakespeare in Song and Verse The annual English Music Festival celebrates the brilliance, innovation, beauty and rich musical heritage of Britain with a strong focus on unearthing overlooked or forgotten masterpieces of the late 19th and the early/mid 20th centuries. Concerts run throughout the weekend, and take place in St Mary’s Church, Causeway and in the historic 1920s Drill Hall, just five minutes’ walk away. The English Music Festival | WELCOME St Mary's Church, Horsham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Mary's Church
Causeway
Horsham
West Sussex
RH12 1HE
England
Programme
Henry Purcell – If Music be the Food of Love, Z.379
Gerald Finzi – Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Op.18 no.3
Arthur Sullivan – The willow song
Madeleine Dring – Take, O take those lips away (Soprano Solo)
Joseph Horowitz – Lady Macbeth: A Scena
Roger Quilter – Come away, Death
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Blow, blow, thou Winter wind
Benjamin Britten – Fancie
Eric Coates – Who is Sylvia?
John Christopher Smith – You spotted snakes
Michael Tippett – Where the bee sucks
Michael Tippett – Full Fathom Five
Madeleine Dring – Under the Greenwood Tree
Roger Quilter – O Mistress Mine
Performers
Lucy Stevens – Singer
Elizabeth Marcus – piano
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Programme Note
The annual English Music Festival celebrates the brilliance, innovation, beauty and rich musical heritage of Britain with a strong focus on unearthing overlooked or forgotten masterpieces of the late 19th and the early/mid 20th centuries. Concerts run throughout the weekend, and take place in St Mary’s Church, Causeway and in the historic 1920s Drill Hall, just five minutes’ walk away.
