2006     2007

Lionel Bart     Oliver
well-loved family musical based on Dickens' Oliver Twist, with classic songs including Food glorious food and Consider yourself.

A one-day choral workshop on
Mozart     Missa brevis K.194
directed by Roger Durston

A one-day choral workshop on
Handel     The King shall rejoice
directed by Roger Durston

Concert

The Tallis Scholars sing The Magic Flute!
a semi-staged, fund-raising production of Mozart's opera with piano in aid of the Brighton Early Music Festival.
A rare chance to hear Britain's top a cappella group in something completely different.......

Boogie Nights 2
a musical which takes a whirlwind trip through the hits of the 1980s

Tsunami Appeal concert

Handel      Messiah
proceeds of this concert go to the Christian Aid Tsunami Appeal

Rock around the clock !
all-singing, all-dancing, fun-filled show from the students of Footlights.

another concert at Alfriston on 6 February

The Russian male voice choir of the Valaam Monastery
the programme will include sacred music from the Orthodox tradition, and Russian folksongs

The Songs of Nick Drake
an English singer / songwriter from the 1970s - "some of the most atmospheric and emotive guitar based music you will ever hear" (The Independent)

John Rutter      Magnificat
J S Bach          Magnificat in D
the concert also includes J S Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D major

Mozart      Requiem
the concert also includes Haydn's Symphony no.99 and Fanfare by Dennis Apivor

The Russian male voice choir of the Valaam Monastery
the programme will include sacred music from the Orthodox tradition, and Russian folksongs

Puccini      Madama Butterfly
a production set in a tranquil and beautiful Japanese water garden, Madama Butterfly is based on a true story of an innocent geisha girl who falls for an American sailor. Puccini's music gives a passionate and tender interpretation of the story, including the well loved Humming Chorus, the poignant aria One Fine Day; and the Love Duet.

Café Prague
the monthly show returns to a mid-week slot - Barb Jungr and guest Mari Wilson with contemporary cabaret.  To celebrate the re-launch the ticket price includes a 2-course meal.

Pavilion Theatre, Worthing
tickets: 01903 206 206 (box office)

South Pacific
U.S. marines and nurses discover romance and tragedy in the Pacific zone of World War 2

Little Shop of Horrors
a dark musical farce, like a Disney cartoon gone wrong - Seymour, a florist's assistant, discovers an unusual plant, which will only feed on human blood.

Singing Workshops
weekly workshops start with a Taster Session on Thursday 17 February and continue weekly till Thursday 12 May - concert for the Brighton Festival on Saturday 14 May.

Mozart     Requiem
this all-Mozart concert also includes the Serenata Notturna and the Clarinet Concerto in A with Andrew Marriner(clarinet)

Britten     A Ceremony of Carols
Britten     Missa brevis
and works by Schubert, Walford Davies and Matyas Seiber

Melodies for you

The best musicals ever !
these six singers met while performing Les Misérables in the West End, and now include in their show songs from My Fair Lady, Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and Evita.

Puccini gala
arias and scenes from all the operas

Choral Workshop on two works:
   Carl Orff     Carmina Burana
   Francis Poulenc     Gloria
led by Paul Spicer, conductor and Radio 3 presenter

From Iberia to the New World

16th and 17th century choral and organ music from Spain, Portugal and Mexico

Concert
fund-raising for Hurstpierpoint RNLI

Both sides of Phil Collins
a spectacular show bringing together the most popular songs from Phil Collins' 30-year career.

e-mail for more information

a Folk Double Bill
Two young stars of today's folk scene - Eliza Carthy was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, while Sharon Shannon is described as "one of Ireland's most adventurous musical spirits".

Stephen Sondheim     A Little Night Music
part musical comedy, part fairytale, three mismatched couples explore he flirtations, frustrations and delights of romance during enchanted summer evenings.   Songs include Send in the clowns, The miller's son and Every day a little death.

Showtime

Carl Orff     Carmina Burana
Malcolm Archer     The Garden of Love
                      (1st performance, commissioned by Sussex Chorus)

J S Bach      St John Passion

Gabriel Fauré     Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams     Five Mystical Songs
Robert Chilcott     Canticles of Light
Gabriel Fauré     Cantique de Jean Racine
César Franck     Panis Angelicus
a meditative Lenten programme featuring music by English and French composers

Concert

Strangers
a musical by local writers

Rutter      Magnificat
Maunder     Olivet to Calvary

Mendelssohn      Elijah

Vivaldi      Gloria
Haydn     Nelson Mass

The Fletching Singers' 25th Anniversary Concert
G F Handel     Messiah

Purcell     O sing unto the Lord
Vaughan Willams     Five mystical songs
Haydn     Nelson Mass

Handel      Zadok the Priest
Mozart     Coronation Mass
Fauré     Requiem
the concert will also include Walton's Crown Imperial march

Stainer       Crucifixion
Kodály      Missa brevis
Britten      Rejoice in the Lamb

Britten      Serenade for tenor, horn & strings
Mozart     Arias for tenor
the concert also has Mozart's Symphony no.35 (Haffner), and Schubert's Symphony no.2.

Singing Masterclass with Deborah Roberts
singing pupils take part in a masterclass given by Deborah Roberts, a celebrated Early Music soprano and member of the Tallis Scholars

Stainer     The Crucifixion

Rutter      Mass of the Children
Carter     Benedicite

Lehár      The Merry Widow

Café Prague - Love me tender
Barb Jungr takes Presley songs on a journey through love, loneliness, obsession and eventual faith.

Haydn     The Creation
Haydn's greatest oratorio from the last years of the 18th century

a fund-raising event for the Martlets Hospice

Stainer     The Crucifixion
All are welcome to come and sing this immensely popular 'meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer' set to music by John Stainer. If possible, singers should bring their own music. A limited number of copies will be available on loan.

Vivaldi     Gloria
Handel     Dixit Dominus
Handel     Duets

Music for choir, organ & brass

Parry     I was glad
Parry     Jerusalem
Chilcott    Jubilate
and more music by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Fauré, Monteverdi, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky

Concert
fund-raising for St Catherine's Hospice

Richard Strauss     Four last songs
the orchestra will also be playing Wagner's Prelude to Act III of "Lohengrin", and Anthony Payne's realisation of Elgar's Symphony no.3

Haydn      The Creation

Orff      Carmina Burana
Poulenc     Gloria

P A L M  Sunday
the concert will include music by
Palestrina, Allegri, Lotti and Mozart

Cole Porter     High Society
adapted from the Hollywood movie, this musical focuses on the society wedding of the year - all that's needed is for the bride to choose the groom. Songs include Who wants to be a millionaire and I love Paris.

Bourne to celebrate
the Bourne School Choir, plus music for dance and gymnastics by the pupils

Jazz evening

Me and my girl
a colourful foot-tapping musical to delight both young and old - with songs like Leaning on the lamp-post, Doing the Lambeth Walk and The Sun has got his hat on!

Music for Passiontide
by candlelight

Bach      St John Passion

an "almost instant"
W A Mozart     Requiem
open to anyone who enjoys singing - ome and sing, or come and listen.

Handel     Messiah

John Stainer     The Crucifixion
John Rutter     Requiem

J S Bach     St John Passion

Gounod      St Cecilia Mass
during the High Mass for Easter Day

Mozart        Cosi fan tutte
a comedy of shifting sexual dynamics, as two women find their fidelity set to a test, when their fiancés submit to a bet.

Lionel Bart's     Oliver!
a musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic story Oliver Twist.. Having escaped the workhouse, he is befriended by the  Artful Dodger and recruited into the gang of boy pickpockets led by Fagin. The villainous Bill Sikes casts his long shadow, but Oliver is still able to find loving care. Features the classic songs: Food, Glorious Food, Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two and Consider Yourself

Donizetti      Mary Queen of Scots
at the heart of this dramatic story is the deadly conflict between Elizabeth I of England and her rival for the throne, Mary Queen of Scots

Beauty and the Beast
award-winning West End musical based on Disney's film of a romantic fairytale, coming to the Congress Theatre prior to a new national tour.

Brahms     Requiem
Verdi     Grand Chorus from "Aida"
Parry     Jerusalem
the orchestra will also be playing Sibelius' Finlandia, and Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations

an opportunity to join singers from across the region for choral experience with professional tuition by top international artists, culminating in an evening Gala Concert with professional orchestra.

J S Bach     B minor Mass
Monteverdi     Beatus Vir

Annie
the musical tells the story of 11 year-old Annie, who has a miserable childhood in an orphanage until a millionaire businessman decides to offer a $50,000 reward to find Annie's real parents.  With classic songs including Tomorrow and You're never fully dressed without a smile.

Vaughan Williams      A Sea Symphony
the concert also includes choral pieces by Weelkes, Atkinson, Hind and Ireland

Beauty and the Beast
award-winning West End musical based on Disney's film of a romantic fairytale, coming to the Congress Theatre prior to a new national tour.

Carmen - the Musical
Bizet's glorious music is at the heart ofthis musical theatre production.

Mozart      The Magic Flute

Choral traditions and techniques
a workshop led by Bob Chilcott, with coaching for all singers
please register for all workshops by 1 April
see 21 May and 25 June for other workshops

Kaleidoscope
music by Weelkes, Grainger, Mozart and Rutter will feature in a programme of spirituals, folksongs and excerpts from musicals.
A concert in aid of the Steyning Museum extension fund

J S Bach     St John Passion

Concert
fund-raising for Newhaven RNLI

Mozart      Requiem
Mozart     Vesperae de Dominica
the concert also includes Mozart's Oboe Concerto, with Rob Hinchliffe (oboe)

The Who's Tommy
music and lyrics by Pete Townshend - a rock musical based on the 1970s classic film.  A deaf, dumb and blind kid breaks free from a life of hardship when he becomes a "Pinball Wizard".

Stephen Sondheim     Sweeney Todd
a musical thriller

One Blue Voice
Singer and songwriter Alison Moyet's One Blue Voice tour features songs from her recent album Voice. 
"There is an ocean of hurt in the amethyst depths of that enormous voice." The Guardian

Monteverdi      Beatus Vir
Puccini      Messa di Gloria (extracts)
Howells     Requiem
Bruckner     Motets
the programme will also include Marcello's Oboe Concerto and the Mendelssohn String Symphony

Dvořák      Mass in D
Mozart     Coronation Mass

Berlioz      Te Deum
the choir will also be performing
Britten's arrangement of the National Anthem Mozart's Laudate Dominum from Vespers KV339 Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine
Mascagni's Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana
The orchestra will play Brahms's Academic Festival Overture and another piece with tenor soloist.

G & S     The Mikado
a traditional production to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the operetta - in the small Japanese town of Titipu, ruled by the all-powerful Mikado, a wandering minstrel falls in love with the Lord High Executioner's fiancée. . . .

Furious Folk!

The Fureys emerged in the late 1960s when the folk revival was at its pinnacle of popularity and have since gone on to tour the world with their blend of stylish folk rhythms. They reunite here with former member Davey Arthur.

Choral singers are invited
to join rehearsals for a concert in Arundel on 31 July
(rehearsals continue on Tuesdays weekly, excluding 31 May)
Elgar      The Dream of Gerontius

Fauré     Requiem
explore the hauntingly beautiful Requiem in the Workshop, then a candlerlit performance of the complete work.

Johannes Brahms     Sieben Marienlieder
Robert Schumann     Four choruses for double choir
Gustav Mahler arr. Clytus Gottwald
     Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

in aid of The Sussex Beacon

Mozart      Requiem
Fauré     Requiem

The Schumanns and their friends
music for women's voices, cello and piano by Robert and Clara Schumann, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and by Brahms, with readings from letters.

Tchaikovsky     Eugene Onegin
set in St Petersburg in the early 19th century the opera tells the story of the vain and self-important Onegin who loses the love of Tatyana and later kills his best friend Lensky in a dual.. This production celebrates Southwick Opera's 40th anniversary.

Mendelssohn     Elijah
Mendelssohn's last major work, a dramatic setting of the Old Testament story, originally commissioned for the Birmingham Music Festival of 1846.

Vaughan Williams     A Sea Symphony
Vaughan Williams' first of nine symphonies is a massive choral work using poems of Walt Whitman.  The concert opens with Elgar's Violin Concerto (James Ehnes, violin)

The Ministry of Biscuits
satirical musical fantasy set in a sinister post-war London.

The Hermitage Ensemble
a capella sacred hymns and folk songs from Russia - a one hour concert in this recently restored Regency church

1605 - Treason & Dischord
music from an Elizabethan age rife with schism but rich in musical innovation - the rich sonorities of Byrd's four-part Mass and the melancholic introspection of John Dowland's Lachrimae Variations, to the world premiere of Francis Pott's contemporary reflection Tresham's Duck.

Venice, Voices and Brass
fanfares, chants and music by Gabrielli, the 12 part Magnificat and Sonata Pian e Forte, Monteverdi's Beatus Vir and Vivaldi's Gloria

Fallen Women and Virtuous Wives

a song recital of ballads, arias, love songs and laments - from Mozart and Haydn via the classics of Schumann, Brahms and Strauss to the wit and wordplay of Gershwin and Coward.   Felicity Lott is regarded as one of the world's finest sopranos since she made her debut at the English National Opera back in 1975.

Naked Voices in the Spiegeltent
an evening of unaccompanied songs, including arrangements of the Drifters, Gershwin, the Beatles, rounds, madgrigals, jazz and more . . . .

Concert
fund-raising for St. Barnabas Hospice

Choral Evensong
the finest young singers of the Royal School of Church Music sing choral evensong including music by Halsey Sumsion and Archer.

a dramatised performance of
J S Bach     St Matthew Passion

Grand Opera Gala
the programme includes the quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto, the prayer for peace Casta Diva from Bellini's Norma, the intermezzo from Puccini's Manon Lescaut and the well-known duet from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers.

Grand Concert
the grand finale of weekly workshops this spring

Two Voices and a Piano
Matthew Quirke and Patrick Walshe with highlights from opera, operetta, music theatre and folk, accompanied by Rupert Jones (piano).

Abyssinia Infinite featuring Gigi

Gigi is making a huge impact on the music of her Ethiopian homeland, earning the extraordinary epithet 'Gift of God' for her mellifluous melodies and shimmering desert invocations. Abyssinia Infinite has revived a new era of Ethiopian music with soul.

A Festival of Music to celebrate Heathfield Choral Society's 60th birthday
Handel     Zadok the Priest
Brahms     German Requiem
and the orchestra will play Vaughan Williams' Five variants of Dives and Lazarus

Gilbert & Sullivan Gala
The Hanover Band in the role of an 1990s period orchestra celebrates G&S with solos and excerpts from The Pirates of Penzance, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Gondoliers, HMS Pinafore and The Mikado.

Vivaldi      Gloria
Handel     Zadok the Priest
the programme also includes the overture to Mozart's Magic Flute and Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto in G minor.

It's about Time
close harmony vocals from the choir, accompanied by the Quire Quartet, all on the theme of Time.

Gospel concert
modern and old-style gospel music, including new material and songs from their recently released album.

Memories of Howard Keel
lunchtime concert of songs associated with Howard Keel, including Oklahoma, South Pacific, Annie get your gun and Kiss me Kate.

Handel      Coronation Anthems

Songs of Innocence and of Experience
three singer-songwriters with original material drawing on life experience and the innocence that lies within.

Songs of Field and Village
a miscellany of folksong, including arrangements by Butterworth and Vaughan Williams of poems by Housman, Tennyson and Stevenson.

Mozart      The Marriage of Figaro

The day of Figaro's marriage to his sweetheart Susanna finally arrives, but will the designs of the master Count Almaviva on Susanna upset their plans?
Mozart's opera mixes broad comedy with social comment, all of which is set with his sparkling  music.

Tallis 500 - the legacy
the programme includes Tallis Lamentations, Latin motets and English anthems, as well as music by Byrd, Morley and Tomkins

Mozart     Ave Verum
Bruckner     Ave Maria
Parry     I was glad
Fauré     Cantique de Jean Racine
Willcocks     Lacrymosa
and choruses from Handel's Messiah

Verdi      La Traviata
Based on a true love story from the 19th century La Dame aux Camelias, the opera tells of the passionate but consumptive Violetta.  Well-known highlights include  Brindisi, perhaps the best known drinking song in opera, the duet Un di felice and the haunting tenor aria Addio del passato.

by candlelight
Rachmaninov     Vespers

Choral discovery
a workshop led by Ronald Corp, to expand choral singing horizons
please register for all workshops by 1 April
see 23 April and 25 June for other workshops

Workshop and concert
Karl Jenkins    The Armed Man.
a chance to take part in this powerful work, which has captured the imagination of both singers and listeners

Song recital

part of the Berwick, Selmeston and Alciston Festival of Flowers

Vocal Tango
a choral extravaganza of original contemporary music by local composers

Music for Maytime

Song Cycle
world premiere of a special commission
four songs written specially for the Brighton Festival Youth Choir, composed. by Stewart Copeland (The Police), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Peter Gabriel and Brighton's very own Fat Boy Slim. Accessible and dynamic songs for young musicians.

The concert also includes Gershwin's Piano Concerto (Joanna MacGregor, piano) and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite

Gioachino Rossini     La Cenerentola
a new production for the 2005 Festival, directed by Peter Hall and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Mozart     Coronation Mass
Handel     The King shall rejoice
Mozart     Laudate Dominum
Britten     Hymn to St Cecilia

Lamentation - a celebration of Thomas Tallis
2005 marks 500 years since the birth of Tallis - Sequentia will perform a varied programme in honour of this great English Renaissance composer.

Songs
in this programme:
Saint-Saëns: Patiently have I waited, Purcell: Dido's Lament, Peri: Nel Pur Ardor, Chausson: Le temps des Lilas, Armstrong-Gibbs: Silver, Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon, Schubert: Seligkeit, Franz Lehar: Vilia
plus songs by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Ivor Novello.

W A Mozart     Die Zauberflöte
a revival of the 2004 Festival production, directed by Adrian Noble and conducted by Charles Mackerras. Sung in German with English supertitles.

City of Angels
music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel
a musical set in 1940s Los Angeles - fact and fiction merge as an author struggles to adapt his latest novel into a movie screenplay.

Arthur Bliss     Morning heroes
Arthur Bliss was former Master of the Queen's Music. His deeply personal choral requiem one of the most moving compositions to come out of the 1st World War. It expresses the anguish of the transatlantic experience of war using Walt Whitman's The City Arming about the New York experience of war. The performance is a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of VE Day.

The concert also includes John Adams Short ride in a fast machine and the UK premiere of Philip Glass Cello Concerto (with Julian Lloyd Webber, cello)

Webern, Berg and a little Mozart
songs and chamber music by the three composers

J S Bach     The Six Choral Motets

proceeds in aid of the Sussex Beacon

Mozart     Cosi fan tutti

Lerner & Loewe      My Fair Lady
charming and romantic musical satire on the upper classes, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion

Me and my girl
a colourful foot-tapping musical to delight both young and old - with songs like Leaning on the lamp-post, Doing the Lambeth Walk and The Sun has got his hat on!

tickets: 01273 736272 (office hours)

Puccini      La Boheme

a performance "in the round", sung in English and accompanied by the Heber Opera Orchestra.

The Kings of Swing
a show of classic songs from the swing era, such as Night and day, Luck be a lady tonight, I get a kick out of you and Mack the Knife.

World music night
celebrated master kora player, composer and singer Doudou Cissoko performs soothing, beautiful and emotive world music.
Cissoko's kora (a 21 stringed African harp) and superb vocals are backed by Jenny Adejayan (cello) and the percussion of Alicia Davies.   "Profound and spiritual, imbued with timeless wisdom, yet folksy and sunsplashed. " (The Guardian)

Puccini    Madama Butterfly
a traditionally staged production from one of the celebrated opera houses of Europe, Madama Butterfly is a tale of beauty, love, betrayal and sacrifice in the exotic world of  Japan.

tickets: 01273 736272 (office hours)

Puccini      La Boheme

a performance "in the round", sung in English and accompanied by the Heber Opera Orchestra.

Verdi    La Traviata
a traditionally staged production from one of the celebrated opera houses of Europe, La Traviata is a story of love thwarted by social hypocrisy, set in the glittering whirl of Parisian society.  The story comes from La Dame aux Camelias.

Lunchtime concert
100 strong ladies choir with an enjoyable mix of music

Rossini     The Barber of Seville
a delightful comedy staged in 18th century costume.

Tallis 500 - the legacy
celebrating the 500th anniversary of the composer's birth, the programme includes Tallis Lamentations, Latin motets and English anthems, as well as music by his pupils Byrd, Morley and Tomkins.

Bedřich Smetana     The Bartered Bride
a revival of the 1999 Festival production, directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff and conducted by Dietfried Bernet. Sung in Czech with English supertitles.

the concert will also include African and Nigerian music, and a choral medley from the musical Miss Saigon

Summer concert

The Spirit of Friendship - Qawwali night
Indian and Pakistani performers join in an evening of qawwali singing.  Qawwali has its origins in the songs performed at the shrines of Sufi saints. Beautiful words, improvisation and poetry.

Plaisir d'Amour
the pleasures and pains of love as expressed by song through the ages.

Kirsty McGee
nominated this year for best song on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

Schola concert
Christ's Hospital senior chamber choir joins in this concert with the 6 and 7 year-olds from Southwater Infants school.

A candlelit concert arranged by the Musicians of All Saints
Scarlatti     Stabat Mater
Britten     Five Flower Songs
the String Ensemble will also be playing Telemann's Don Quixote suite and a Meditation on a theme of St Nicholas by Josef Suk.

Seung-Wook Seong
a programme of opera and song by the Korean baritone who won the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award at the Royal Academy of Music in 2002.  He is accompanied by Laura Baxter (piano) another RAM award winner in 2005.

Summer concert

An evening with Queen Victoria
Prunella Scales is Queen Victoria in a portrait drawn from her diaries, letters and other writings.  The music is selected from pieces enjoyed by Victoria herself.

The magic of Judy Garland
Denise Nolan sings songs of Hollywood legend Judy Garland

Friday 18 June at 7 pm
The Hawth Theatre, Hawth Avenue, Crawley
tickets: 01293 553636

all proceeds of this concert
are in aid of the UNICEF emergency relief programme

A celebration of Mozart
with Jack Tarlton as W A Mozart
and Sally Taylor (narrator)

in this semi-dramatised narration, the story of Mozart's life will unfold in a series of dialogues between music. Jack Tarlton plays Mozart - as he did in last year's BBC2 series. Soloists from Glyndebourne and English National Opera share the stage with the orchestra and 130 young singers and musicians from Sussex schools and churches to perform the music.

Concert

part of the Adur Festival

Café de l'Opéra
an evening featuring special guest the Bulgarian soprano Vania Vatralova-Stankov and singers from major opera companies alongside some of the very best local singers, in a programme of operatic favourites, plus a few rarities.

part of the Adur Festival

Concert
music by Handel, Vaughan Williams, Stanford and Rutter

proceeds from this concert will go to Global Action Nepal

Summer concert

Elgar      Sea pictures
Jennifer Johnstone won the Philip & Dorothy Green Award for young concert artistes in 2004 - the concert programme also includes Eric Coates' suite The Three Elizabeths and Vaughan Williams' Symphony no.5.

Fauré      Requiem
the first part of the concert programme has music by Handel and J S Bach, and the Horn Concerto no.4 by Mozart with Richard Wainwright (horn)

Music and Merriment for a summer's evening
Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, humorous part songs and witty rreadings - bring a picnic for 7 pm, before joining the concert.

Anúna
best known for creating the haunting choral sounds of Riverdance, Anúna have toured the world bringing the voices to venues from the BBC Proms to a Sultan's palace in Morocco.

Finzi      My Spirit Sang All Day
Gershwin     Porgy and Bess (selection)
Stanford     Blue Bird
Rowley     Lark in the Clear Air
Simon & Garfunkel     Scarborough Fair
Hughes     Doctor Foster

part of the Adur Festival

Vaughan Williams     Songs of Travel
the recital will also include music by John Ireland, C V Stanford, Michael Tippett and Edward Elgar.

and Prunella Scales in
An evening with Queen Victoria
music enjoyed by Queen Victoria illustrates a portrait drawn from her diaries and letters.

Abbie Lathe
folk singer and songwriter

Raised voices
local groups and schools present a diverse evening of song..

Centenary celebration
songs from light opera and the West End, with singers from Glyndebourne, English National Opera and the international stage, celebrating the centenary of Rotary International.

Fauré      Requiem

Friday 24 June at 7.30 pm    Music for a Summer's Evening
Aanna Cools, Vaninne Parker and Pat Williams sing songs from Purcell to Duke Ellington.

Saturday 25 June  at 5.30 pm  An Evening of Opera
featuring scenes from Don Giovanni, L'Elisir D'Amore and Die Fledermaus

Sunday 26 June  at 3 pm  The Counterpoint Choir
celebrate Trafalgar with a light Sunday afternoon programme of songs from the sea    -  a cream tea in the interval

Opera choruses for choirs
a workshop led by Piers Maxim, with focus on operatic and oratorio choruses, including works by Bizet and Handel
please register for all workshops by 1 April
see 23 April and 21 May for other workshops

A 25th anniversary concert
the concert will be held in the delightful setting of the open air theatre at Cumnor House School. There will be a long interval during which the audience is invited to picnic in the grounds.

A concert of sacred and secular music
including
Buxtehude     Das neugeborene Kindelein
Gibbons        This is the record of John

The English Collection
an evening of English music, with sparkling wine for a summer evening, featuring
Purcell  Dido and Aeneas
and a selection from favourite operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan

Concert
fund-raising for facilities for disabled people

Great Oratorio Choruses
a selection of choruses from great oratorios - from the plainsong rhythms of Lauda Jerusalem from Monteverdi's Vespers, to the popular In Paradisum from Fauré's Requiem, the rich Kyrie from Bach's B minor Mass, and many more.

Summer concert

Kerouac's Dream
". . .one of the very finest singer songwriters produced in this country" (BBC Radio 2), performing as part of the Crawley Folk Festival.

also on Saturday 2 July

Open air concert

Benjamin Britten     War Requiem
In skilfully combining texts from the Requiem Mass with poems of Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten produces one of the most enduring choral works of the 20th century. This performance commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War 2

English music breaking formation
the Copper Family and Shirley Collins present an evening of traditional song, contemporary instrumental music and spoken word celebrating the music of Sussex.  Part of the Crawley Folk Festival.

Words and Music from the Romantic Age
Many works by poets such as Verlaine, Goethe, Victor Hugo and Rossetti have been set to music. Mezzo-soprano Linda Grace sings the beautiful songs of Chausson, Debussy, Schubert and Vaughan Williams, and reads English translations of the poetry which forms their lyrics.

a National Trust event

The great songwriters
celebrating songwriters from Cole Porter to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Lunchtime concert
a 45 minute recital in the intimate Chapel Royal

Summer holiday
the 1960s musical based on the classic film starring Cliff Richard - songs and high energy action follow an adventure holiday to Greece on a London double-decker bus.

Junctions: English music breaking formation
combines the best of English folk and contemporary classical

Lunchtime concert
versatile young singers

fund-raising for CHASE, hospice care for children

The Enchanted Ottoman
a fast-paced one-act opera in which a girl's toys from the ottoman come to life. Lyrics by Jeffrey Mayhew, music by Stephen Buckman.

England expects
a musical telling the story of the battle of Trafalgar through the eyes of the Signal Lieutenant of the flagship HMS Victory - the songs are based on the signals given to the British fleet. Lyrics by Jonathan Jeffery, music by Adrian Bawtree.

A Night at the Opera

in aid of the Mary How Trust