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'Midsummer Nocturnes' - Waverley Singers Concert
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.
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.
Sunday 22 June
St Mary’s Church, Frensham, Surrey GU10 3EA
Concert starts at 1700 hrs Tickets £15 in advance; £17 on the door; students £5; U16s free subject to conditions.
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