Summer concerts 2008


Saturday 28 June
Priory School Chapel, Mountfield Road, Lewes
with the Lewes Junior Choir

and

Saturday 5 July
Varndean School, Balfour Road, Brighton
with Nicola Grunberg (piano) and Juliet Davey, Lucy White (violins)

A journey in song

Elgar's Choral Songs From the Bavarian Highlands, Bruckner motets,
Over the Rainbow – an entertaining selection of part-songs, madrigals, folk-songs,
and some popular music for fun.


Programme on 28 June

Edward Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands
(1)  The dance
Anton Bruckner Christus factus est
Nancy Telfer
Sue Stevens		 On the back of an eagle
Sometime, somewhere
Edward Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands
(2)  False love
(3)  Lullaby
(4)  Aspiration
trad. Yiddish, arr. Stevens
trad. Yiddish		 Tumbalalaika
Hava nagila
Edward Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands
(5)  On the alm           
(6)  The marksmen

Interval – refreshments will be available
arr. Mátyás Seiber Three Hungarian Folksongs
   The handsome butcher
   Apple, apple
   The old woman
Johann Strauss Radetzky march
Anton Bruckner Locus iste
Zoltán Kodály See the gypsies
trad. South Africa Wimbaway
Iván Eröd Viva la musica
Anon. Rocka ma soul
Cole Porter, arr. Andrew Carter Night and day
Guy Turner Tequila samba
Mary Donnelly, arr. George Strid We are the young
Harold Arlen arr. Guy Turner Over the rainbow



Programme on 5 July

Edward Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands
(1)  The dance
Anton Bruckner Christus factus est
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in A minor for two violins                        
Edward Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands
(2)  False love
(3)  Lullaby
(4)  Aspiration
Frédéric Chopin Nocturne in E minor op.72 no.1 for piano
Edward Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands
(5)  On the alm           
(6)  The marksmen

Interval – refreshments will be available
arr. Mátyás Seiber Three Hungarian Folksongs
   The handsome butcher
   Apple, apple
   The old woman
Anton Bruckner Locus iste
Zoltán Kodály See the gypsies
J S Bach Slow movement from
Concerto in D minor for two violins
Iván Eröd Viva la musica
Richard Genée, arr. C E Rowley Italian salad
Dmitriy Shostakovitch Prelude, Gavotte and Waltz
for two violins and piano
Cole Porter, arr. Andrew Carter Night and day
Guy Turner Tequila samba
Harold Arlen arr. Guy Turner Over the rainbow




A date for your diary

Saturday 6 December
at St John's Church, Preston village, Brighton

Haydn   Nelson Mass
and Christmas music


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The Lewes Junior Choir is a 40 strong choir of children aged 8-11, many of whom are participating this evening. It meets in the Priory School Chapel, Lewes on Saturday mornings during term -time as part of the Lewes Area Music Centre which in turn is part of the East Sussex County Music Service. Stella Hull conducts the choir in addition to its older associated organisation, the Lewes Youth Choir.

Susan Bain accompanies the choir.  She lives in Lewes and works as an organist, music teacher and accompanist. She has been regular accompanist for the East Sussex Community Choir since 2003 and also works with the University of Brighton Choir.
Muriel Hart has been an accompanist to the choir for over sixty years this year. She has spent all her life in Brighton and has thus become well-known in local music circles. She was awarded an MBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours, for services to music in Brighton & Hove.

For twenty years she taught at Patcham Junior School, specialising in music, and has seen several past pupils become highly regarded professional musicians. After a year as a lecturer at the former College of Education, she became Music Adviser for primary schools in the Brighton, Hove and Portslade area. During this time she was also responsible for three levels of training orchestras which fed the Brighton Youth Orchestra.  She now directs the Golden Age Singers in Lewes and a U3A Singing Group. For many years she has been an active member of the Sussex Musicians' Club and is its Honorary Secretary. Accompanying singers and instrumentalists is her special interest. She is also a very keen gardener!
Stella Hull   After gaining a BMus from Birmingham University, Stella began teaching music to A Level in secondary schools in Worcestershire and West Midlands. After teaching music in various primary schools in Staffordshire she became the County Advisory Teacher for Music. She moved with her family to Lewes in 1996.

Stella studied singing in London with John Carol Case and is a contralto soloist. She teaches singing privately and conducts the Lewes Junior Choir and the Lewes Youth Choir. She began conducting the Brighton Orpheus in September 1999. She has directed performances including Vivaldi’s Gloria, Purcell’s Come, ye sons of Art, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St.Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s
St Nicholas Mass, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C, Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, Brahms’ Requiem and Song of Destiny, Fauré’s Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Elgar’s The Kingdom and The Music Makers, Poulenc’s Gloria, Dvořák’s Te Deum, Vaughan Williams’ Benedicite and Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Britten’s Saint Nicolas and Ceremony of Carols and Rutter’s Requiem, Psalmfest and Feel the Spirit.
Nicola Grunberg trained at the Royal College of Music and has since pursued a career as soloist and chamber musician. She has worked as official accompanist at the Britten-Pears School, Stowe Opera and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. For many years she taught at the Purcell School of Music in London and privately at all levels.

She was married to the distinguished violist Cecil Aronowitz with whom she performed the first British performance of Shostakovich’s last work, the sonata for viola and piano, at the 1976 Aldeburgh Festival in the presence of the composer’s widow.

Nicola has recently moved to Brighton from where she continues her teaching and freelance activities. She is an active member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, serving as a committee member for the Brighton Centre.
Juliet Davey was a prizewinning student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Robert Masters and Frederick Grinke. An Arts Council Scholarship took her to Switzerland for study with Max Rostal. As a freelance orchestral player she played with the Royal Opera House orchestra and the London Bach Orchestra. After performing worldwide with a French chamber ensemble she formed a string quartet and gained second prize at the international chamber music competition in Colmar. Chamber music has always been central to her varied musical life which has included teaching both privately and at Wells Cathedral School.

Lucy White won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied with Marie Wilson. She taught the violin for a period whilst bringing up her two sons and then worked in several London orchestras as a freelance player on both violin and viola. As a viola d’amore soloist she appeared with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Stamitz Players. She performed at the Purcell Room on several occasions and in concerts with the Davey String Quartet. She was a founder member with Juliet Davey of Four Strings Each, a scheme to provide concerts for the sick and elderly. There were over 4000 of these concerts in 14 years, including two TV appearances.