Musical Director: David Wordsworth

Percy Grainger Festival - Thursday 17 February 2011

'The Harmonious Songsmith'

Grainger's World in Song

7.30pm in Hall One
at King's Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

The Chamber Choir
Conducted by David Wordsworth

Featuring:
Yvonne Kenny: Soprano
Stephen Varcoe: Baritone
Penelope Thwaites: Piano

Programme

A journey through Grainger's wonderful song and choral repertoire: English and Scottish folk-settings - some haunting, some fun - plus Grainger's idiosyncratic Kipling settings, and finally a rollicking Danish sequence, with the god Thor appearing as an old woman at a christening! This will be an intimate event with the choir and soloists sharing the stage in informal fashion, the conductor not always obvious, and the whole evening resembling a musical gathering in a 400-seat drawing room!.

The full music programe is as follows

British Folk Music - Brigg Fair, There Was A Pig Went Out To Dig, The Lost Lady Found.
Kipling Settings - Ganges Pilot, Soldier, Soldier, The Widow's Party.
Minstrelsy Of The Scottish Border - Lord Maxwell's Goodnight.
Songs Of The North - Willie's Gang To Melville Castle, Skye Boat Song, Fair Young Mary, O Gin I Were Where Gadie Rins.
Special Guest, Yvonne Kenny - Died For Love,The Sprig Of Thyme, The Love Song Of Har Dyal, Early One Morning.
Shallow Brown
Australia - Australian Up-Country Song, The Lonely Desert-Man Sees The Tents Of The Happy Tribes.
British Folk Songs - British Waterside, The Gypsy's Wedding Day.
Danish Folk Songs - The Power Of Love, Under En Bro, Husband And Wife, The Old Woman At The Christening.
Finale - I'm Seventeen Come Sunday.

Venue:

Hall One at King's Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
(nearest tube: Kings Cross, St Pancras)
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Kings Place Box Office: 020 7520 1490

Please note that ticket sales and seat allocation were managed by the Percy Grainger Festival organisers.

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