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Concerts from the Past Saturday
30 November 2002 7.30pm St. James Church, Piccadilly W.1 Respighi – Lauda Alla Nativita Britten
– St. Nicholas
London Gala Chamber
Orchestra Leader Rolf Wilson Mark
Wilde - (Tenor) Carmen
Lasok - (Soprano) Katy
Bingham-Best (Mezzo) Robert
Aldwinckle - (Piano) Choir
of St. Martin’s School, Northwood
and The Malcolm Sargent
Festival Choir CHARLES FARNCOMBE Conductor Tickets £15.00, £10.00
& £5.00 Box Office on line
TicketWeb 08700 6021 156 TicketWeb UK Ltd., PO Box
43, London WC2H 7LD And Choir Office 020 7602
6818 Malcolm Sargent Festival
Choir malcolm.sargent@virgin.net @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Saturday 7 December
2002 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
Hospitals’
Christmas Carol Concert Massed
Choirs of the London Hospitals
Supported by The Malcolm
Sargent Festival Choir THE CLASSIC BUSKERS
IAN CURROR CHARLES & RICHARD FULLBROOK THE
FANFARE TRUMPETERS OF THE BAND OF THE WELSH GUARDS By
kind permission of Major General C R Watt CBE Regimental
Colonel Conductor
CHARLES FARNCOMBE ROYAL
FESTIVAL HALL £20,
£17.50, £15.00, £10.00 & £7.00 Booking
has opened In
aid of THE
NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY Royal Festival Hall Box Office +44 (0)20 7960 4242 Book on line www.rfh.org.uk @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sunday 15 December
2002 2p.m.
Royal Botanic
Gardens
Christmas Music at
Kew
- White Peaks Exhibition Hall Sing
carols with the choir Enquiries:
020 8332 5655 (Kew)
020 7602 6818 (Choir Office) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Monday 31 March 2003
7.30p.m.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
(South Bank, London S.E.1) Beethoven Mass in C Mozart Coronation Mass (K317) Solo quartet &
Orchestra to be announced Soloists include Carmen
Lasok (Soprano) Charles Farncombe Conductor Royal Festival Hall Box
Office 020 7960 4242 and Book online www.rfh.org.uk @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 17th Annual
Visit Saturday 9 August
2003 6.30p.m. &
Sunday 10
August 2003 11.00a.m. Arundel Cathedral of
our Lady and Philip Howard
(West Sussex) The music will include Casciolini
Mass in A Minor
and various Anthems and
Motets Simon Over Music Director, South Bank Sinfonia, St. John’s Waterloo Conductor @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Saturday
13 September 2003 7.30p.m. The Cathedral & Abbey
Church of Saint Alban (Hertfordshire) AL1 1BY
Beethoven Mass in C
Schubert Stabat Mater Soloists:- Carmen Lasok (Soprano) Katy Bingham-Best (Mezzo) Warren
Albers (Tenor) Hubert Matthews (Bass) London Gala Orchestra Charles Farncombe Conductor Tickets
£20, £17, £10 (some £10 & £6 unreserved) From
01727 860780 (10.30-4.30 Mon-Sat) Cheques payable to “Abbey Musical Events”. Most credit
cards accepted Or
from MSF Choir on 020 7602 6818 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Wednesday 8th
October 2003 Memorial Concert for Sally Farncombe @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Friday 5
March 2004 7.30pm St. John’s Church, Smith Square, SW1
Mozart – Mass in C K115 Faure – Messe basse (for women’s voices) Vaughan Williams –
Serenade to Music Vaughan Williams – Sancta
Civitas Soloists:- Carmen Lasok (Soprano) Katy Bingham-Best (Mezzo) Warren
Albers (Tenor) Hubert Matthews (Bass) Robert Aldwinckle (Organ) Philip Shannon (Piano) David Ward (Trumpet) The Chamber
Choir of King’s College Junior School Wimbledon
Conductor
James Millard Charles Farncombe Conductor @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 18th Annual
Visit Choir
in residence
Saturday 7 August
2004 6.30p.m. &
Sunday 8
August 2004 11.00a.m. Arundel Cathedral of
our Lady and Philip Howard (West Sussex)
The music will include Haydn - Missa Brevis
Alla Capella
“Rorate Coeli Desuper”
Schubert
- “The Lord is my Shepherd” and various Motets
Simon Over Music Director, South Bank Sinfonia, St. John’s Waterloo Conductor
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18 September 2004 7.30p.m. The Cathedral &
Abbey Church of Saint Alban (Hertfordshire) AL1 1BY
Haydn – The Seasons
Carmen Lasok - Soprano Nicholas Mulroy - Tenor John Milne - Bass London Gala Orchestra Dr Charles Farncombe Conductor Tickets £20, £17, £10
(some £10 and £6 unreserved) From 01727 860780
(10.30-4.30 Mon-Sat) Cheques payable to “Abbey Musical Events”. Most credit cards accepted. or
from MSFChoir on 020 7602 6818
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6 October 2004 7.30p.m. Royal
Festival Hall Elgar – Dream of
Gerontius
Massed
Choirs
Royal Choral Society Watford Philharmonic
Society Malcolm Sargent Festival
Choir Orchestra City of London Sinfonia Martyn Brabbins Principal Conductor
Huddersfield Choral Society Conductor
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Sunday 7
August 2005 11.00am
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THE MALCOLM SARGENT FESTIVAL CHOIR Patrons Richard Baker OBE Dr. John Birch DMus FRCO Sir Ian Gourlay KCB CVO OBE MC The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Heath KG MBE MP The Rt. Hon. The Lord King of Wartnaby The Rt. Hon. The Countess Mountbatten of Burma CBE CD JP DL The Hon. Georgina Stonor OSt.J Dr CHARLES FARNCOMBE CBE Director of Music SYLVIA DARLEY OBE Chairman The Malcolm Sargent Festival Choir formed in 1985
to be the principal choir in a massed performance of Messiah in Sweden during
the Handel Centenary Year. Since then it has performed widely in Western
Europe as well as Australia and Singapore, including a visit to Venice in
October 2001, performing in the famous Basilica di San Marco. Their Golden
Jubilee Celebration took place in The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St.
Alban. The Festival Choir is
drawn from members of Choirs from every part of England, from the South Coast
to Newcastle in the North, from Bristol in the West to Aldeburgh in the East,
after passing an audition. They pay all their own travel and personal
expenses to rehearsals in London, however far afield the concerts are
scheduled. The Choir performs voluntarily in order to raise substantial sums
of money for children's charities. New Members always
welcome. Why not join us? Enquiries for Concerts and
Auditions: Malcolm Sargent Festival Choir 34 North End Road London W14 OSH Tel: 020 7602 6818 / 020
7352 6805 Fax: 020 7602 8162 / 020
7376 3503 Email: malcolm.sargent@virgin.net Charity Registration no
1055426 DIRECTORS Sylvia Darley OBE (Chairman) Sir
Euan A-G-Calthorpe, Bt
Julian Cotterell (Hon Treasurer) Mrs Henrietta Davies-Cooke Dr Charles Farncombe CBE (Director of Music) James Stitt Henry Wickham Avril Phillips Wilson Chorus Master: Malcolm
Hicks @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ CHARLES FARNCOMBE CBE Born in SE London in 1919
his early years saw a period as a choir boy at Canterbury Cathedral, followed
by attendance at Dulwich College and later graduation with honours from
Imperial College. The onset of the Second
World War saw him volunteer for REME and he was drafted as Captain into a
tank recovery unit in 21 st Army Group. Wounded at Caen, it was whilst in
hospital that he decided on a change in career. He entered the Royal
Academy of Music in 1947 and with the encouragement of Vaughan Williams he
became conductor of one of the composer's Festival Choirs. In 1955 he founded
the Handel Opera Society and was Musical Director until 1985. From 1968 to 1979 he was Chief Conductor at the baroque Drottningham Court Theatre in Stockholm, followed by 15 years as Chief Conductor at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival. Between 1994 and 1998 he was a regular guest conductor at the Komische Oper, Berlin. Charles Farncombe is the
Music Director of the Malcolm Sargent
Festival Choir, founded in 1985, with which he has conducted a
wide variety of works including the Verdi Requiem, the Berlioz Grande Messe
des Mortes, Mahler's 8th Symphony, the Petite Messe Solennelle of Rossini and
of course Messiah. In 2001, he conducted a
series of orchestral concerts in the San Carlo Opera House in Naples,
featuring the music of Britten, and this year, as part of the 25th
Anniversary of the Annual Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, he conducted a series
of performances of Handel's "Ottone". Charles Farncombe was
awarded the Royal Gold Medal of Drottningham in 1972, the CBE in 1976. He was
made a Knight Commander of the Royal Swedish Order of the North Star in 1982,
and was awarded the Karlsruhe Gold Medal in 1992. He is a fellow of the Royal
Academy of Music and Royal Swedish Academy, with Honorary Doctorates of Music
from Yankton College, South Dakota, Capital University, Colombus, Ohio and
City University, London. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2001/Oct01/SargentBook.htm TUNES OF GLORY : THE LIFE
OF MALCOLM SARGENT …. Richard Aldous has now produced a biography which uses …. family archives and papers retained by his former secretary Sylvia Darley. …. His death (movingly described in this highly readable book) occurred on 3 October [1967], the same day as his beloved Gerontius was first performed 67 years earlier, and it was the Angel's Farewell which Sylvia Darley was playing for him from his own recording as he slipped away. |