WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB AND ORCHESTRA

WINCHESTER COLLEGE NEW HALL(with the kind permission of the Headmaster)Saturday 15 March 2008 at 7.30pm

RossiniPetite Messe SolennellePucciniI Crisantemi

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Winchester Music Club wishes to acknowledge the support given to this concert by:The Headmaster of Winchester College, Dr Ralph Townsend

Paul Provost for accompanying at rehearsals

NOTICES

Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off for the duration of the concert

Please take note of the nearest emergency exits to your seats

Smoking is not permitted in New Hall

A licensed bar will be available during the interval

WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB was founded by George Dyson in 1925 shortly after his appointment as Master ofMusic at Winchester College. Sir George, as he later became, was very active in the music life of Winchesterand devoted a great deal of his time to WMC and the Winchester and County Music Festival, as it then was.Through his influence WMC and Winchester College Glee Club began the practice of singing one of the greatchoral works in Winchester Cathedral each year, a custom which continues with a concert every Autumn. Inaddition the WMC performs a concert in New Hall, Winchester College each Spring. The current Master ofMusic, Nicholas Wilks, is also the Music Director of WMC and conducts tonight’s programme. WMC is verygrateful for the support which it has received from all the Masters of Music since Sir George’s tenure of office.The Governing Body has given further support in practical ways by making available Music School forrehearsals and New Hall for concerts. This generosity is very greatly appreciated.

As you will see from the back cover of this programme we are giving a concert on 31st May inWinchester Cathedral featuring the world famous soprano Dame Kiri te Kanawa. Winchester MusicClub is excited by the prospect of singing with such an outstanding performer. I hope that you willall be able to support the Club at this wonderful opportunity to show our skills.

Christopher Green (Chairman)

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WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUBWinchester College New Hall

Saturday 15 March 2008

Puccini

I CrisantemiBrian Howells leader of the Orchestra

Rossini

Petite Messe Solennelle

Nicholas Wilks conductor

Katherine Bond Soprano

Sarah Shorter Alto

Lynton Atkinson Tenor

Jamie Hall Bass Baritone

Malcolm Archer Harmonium

Paul Provost Piano

There will be one interval

The concert will end at approximately 9:45pm

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I Crisantemi Puccini

Puccini claimed to have written Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) in a single night in 1890. It was originally conceived as anelegy for string quartet in memory of the Duke of Aosta. The work is infused with Puccini’s characteristic melancholy,and he later used both its main themes as material for the tragic ending of his opera Manon Lescaut. The music also hasa distinctly Elgarian note to it, however. What we are given is not quite a fully fledged tragedy, but a poignant sense offleeting sadness and regret.

Petite Messe Solennelle Rossini

Kyrie - Christe – soloists and chorusGloria in excelsis Deo - Laudamus - soloists and chorusGratias agimus tibi - alto, tenor and bassDomine Deus - tenorQui tollis peccata mundi - soprano and altoQuoniam tu solus sanctus - bassCum Sancto Spiritu – chorus

 INTERVAL

Credo - soloists and chorusCrucifixus - sopranoEt resurrexit - soloists and chorusEt vitam venturi seculi – chorusPreludio Religioso during Offertory –piano and harmoniumSanctus - soloists and chorusO salutaris hostia - sopranoAgnus Dei - alto and chorus

  Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy, on 29 February, 1792. His father was horn player and trumpeter in various small bandsand orchestras, and his mother an opera singer. Rossini too developed a love for music and the theatre. Although by allaccounts academically lazy, he found singing and playing music easy and was a much requested boy soprano. By his teenscould play viola and horn, and had become a first-rate harpsichord-player and pianist. At 18, while at the Conservatoriode Bologna, he composed his first opera, a one-act comedy for La Fenice in Venice and within three years, following theenormous success of Tancredi (1812), and The Italian Girl in Algiers (1813), he had won fame throughout Italy andsecured an international reputation. In 1823 he moved to Paris where he was appointed director of the Théâtre-Italien.

By the age of 37 he had written over 40 operas, but, in 1829, after completing William Tell, he retired, a wealthy man,to live in Italy, and with the exception of his other significant religious work, the Stabat Mater, he effectively gave up

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composing. However, following a long depressive illness, he returned to Paris in 1855, where his health and inspirationto compose returned. He produced what he called his Péchés de Vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), a collection of light-heartedpieces for piano, songs and works for small ensembles, which he had performed at private occasions, attended by mostof the important public and artistic figures in Paris at the time, who were attracted by Rossini’s wit, hospitality and loveof good food.

The Petite Messe Solennelle is the most substantial of the works written during these later years, and indeed it is one ofthe most remarkable compositions of his whole career, demonstrating his ability to write beautiful melodies (oftenfrankly operatic in character), an unfailing sense of colour and drama, and great contrapuntal skill. Its title exemplifiesRossini’s characteristic wit, as it is of course neither petite nor particularly solemn. The music ranges from hushedintensity to boisterous high spirits, and abounds in the memorable tunes and rhythmic vitality for which Rossini becamejustly famous.

Initially, the instrumental scoring of the Mass for two pianos and harmonium seems strange, but given its context as asalon piece (it was first performed at the consecration of a private chapel in March 1864 by a choir of 12 singers,including the four soloists), such instrumentation is not unusual and although. Rossini was later persuaded to orchestrateit, the original version for voices, piano and harmonium, which is being performed today, is considered the moreeffective setting.

Rhythm and modulation play an important part in the opening Kyrie , for the central part of which, the Christe Eleison,Rossini adopted a deliberately archaic style, echoing the 16th century church music of Palestrina and his contemporaries.The rhythmic excitement of the Kyrie continues into the Gloria, which is followed by four extended solo movements,operatic arias in all but name. The magnificent tenor solo Domine Deus recalls the Cujus animam from his earlier StabatMater. The final section, Cum sancto spiritu, is an extended fugue and a real tour de force of musical craftsmanship,which reflects the thorough classical training in harmony and counterpoint he received at the Bologna Conservatory. Inthe Credo Rossini ingeniously uses the word ‘credo’ as a unifying motif to which he repeatedly returns. This section ofthe Mass concludes with another brilliant fugue for the chorus, to the words ‘Et vitam venturi saeculi, Amen’. The Osalutaris (a hymn, not part of the Proper of the Mass) provided Rossini with an opportunity to explore the unusualharmonies he was using in the, even today modern-sounding, piano pieces among his last ”Sins”. The final, luminescentAgnus Dei for contralto (Rossini’s favourite voice) and choir brings the work to a dramatic close.

Rossini’s inscription in the introduction to the first version of his score reads:“PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE, in four voices with accompaniment of two pianos and harmonium (a small reed organ)composed during my country stay at Passy. Twelve singers of 3 sexes – men, women, and castrati – will be enough for itsperformance: that is, eight for the chorus, four for the soloists, a total of twelve cherubim. … Lord, rest assured, …that(my cherubim) will sing properly and con amore your praises and this little composition which is, alas, the last mortalsin of my old age.”

He ended the manuscript: “Dear God, here it is finished, this poor little Mass. Have I written sacred music or damnedmusic? You well know I was born to write comic opera. It contains scant learning, but all my heart. Praise be to you,and grant me entry into Paradise. G Rossini – Passy 1863”.

Whatever his intent, he has left us with a unique work in the religious repertoire.

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KYRIE

Kyrie eleison.

Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

GLORIA

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonaevoluntatis. Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te.

Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.

Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus,Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.

Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollispeccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Quisedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus. Tu solus Dominus. Tu solusAltissimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloriaDei Patris. Amen.

CREDO

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factoremcoeli e terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium.Credo in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, Filium Deiunigenitum. Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Deumde Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero.Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri: per quemomnia facta sunt. Qui propter nos homines et propternostram salutem descendit de coelis. Et incarnatus est deSpiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine: Et homo factus est.

sepultus est.

KYRIE

Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us.

GLORIA

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men ofgood will. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we adore Thee,we glorify Thee.

We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory.

O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty. OLord Jesus Christ, the onlybegotten Son! O Lord God,Lamb of God, Son of the Father,

Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.Who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.Who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have  mercy upon us.

For Thou only art holy. Thou only art Lord. Thou only, OJesus Christ, art most high, together with the Holy Ghost,in the glory of God the Father, Amen.

CREDO

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker ofheaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the onlybegotten Son

made. Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down

Pilate, and was buried.

PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE

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Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas.

Et ascendit in coelum: sedet ad dexteram Patris. Et iterumventurus est cum gloria, judicare vivos et mortuos: cujus

qui ex Patre Filioque procedit. Qui cum Patre et Filio

Prophetas: Credo in unam sanctam catholicam et

peccatorum. Et exspecto resurrectionemmortuorum. Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

SANCTUS

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabaoth.Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Osanna in excelsis.Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.  Osanna in excelsis

O SALUTARIS

O salutaris hostia quae coeli pandis ostium.

AGNUS DEI

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis.

Agnus Dei: qui tollis peccata mundi: Dona nobis  pacem.

and ascended into heaven. He sitteth at the right hand of

I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and giver of life,Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Whotogether with the Father and the Son is adored and

holy catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptismfor the remission of sins. And I await the resurrection ofthe dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen

SANCTUS

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts.Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory.  Hosanna in the highest.Blessed  is  He  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord.Hosanna in the highest.

O SALUTARIS

O saving Host, opening the gate of heaven,

AGNUS DEI

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of theworld, have mercy on us.Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of theworld, grant us peace.

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Katherine Bond. Katherine graduated from Cardiff University with First ClassHonours in Music, and from the Royal Academy of Music Opera course with a DipRAM,supported by The Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Alfreda Hodgson Award forYoung Concert Artists from Making Music. She studies with Noelle Barker and has par-ticipated in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau, Robert Tear, Barbara Bonney andRenée Fleming.

Solo concert appearances include Bach’s Magnificat (Snape Maltings Concert Hall),Darlow’s Music for Holy Week (première for the London Handel Festival), Mozart’sRequiem (St Martin in the Fields & Dunblane Cathedral), Scarlatti Stabat Mater (StJohn’s Smith Square) and Mahler Symphony No.4 with Orchestra of the City at StAugustine’s Queensgate. For the Omaggio Festival, (RA/South Bank) she performedBerio’s Sequenza III in concert and on Radio 3’s In Tune and she guests on the recentlyreleased Copland & his Contemporaries CD with the Choir of New College Oxford. Operaperformances include Lucietta in Wolf-Ferrari’s I quattri rusteghi, Papagena Die Zau-berflöte and title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon (all with RAO), as well as AricieHippolyte et Aricie with Welsh National Youth Opera, Cis Albert Herring with Britten-Pears Young Artists, Genius Der Stein der Weisen with Garsington Opera, Clomiri Imeneo with Cambridge Handel Operaand Rose Lakmé with Opera Holland Park.

TONIGHT’S PERFORMERS

Sarah Shorter. Sarah Shorter read English at Clare College, Cambridge, whereshe held a choral scholarship with the chapel choir. Directed by Tim Brown, she sangconcerts with the choir in Austria, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Japan and all overthe United States, appearing in the Munich Opera Festival with Ivor Bolton on severaloccasions, in the BBC Proms under Sir John Eliot Gardener and making several record-ings with, among others, John Rutter and Renee Jacobs. She also features as a soloiston Tarik O’Regan’s CD, ‘Voices’. Since graduating in 2005, she has sung with variousgroups, including the English Voices, Illuminati, Concerto Carissimi and The OxfordChoir. In 2007, she was a finalist in the Hampshire Singer of the Year competition. Re-cent engagements have included the role of Emira in Hasse’s opera, ‘Siroe Re di Per-sia’, solos in Handel’s ‘Messiah’, Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’, the Nelson Mass, Rossini’s ‘PetiteMesse Solonelle’ and the Mozart Requiem. She sings at St. Pancras Parish Church inLondon and continues to learn with Nicola-Jane Kemp.

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Lynton Atkinson. Lynton received his early musical training under George Guestin the choir of St. John’s College Cambridge. Having graduated in Music, he continued hisvocal studies with David Mason and Gita Denise. He won the Richard Tauber Competition,which enabled him to study in Vienna with Anton Dermota, and was a prizewinner in theAlfredo Kraus International Singing Competition.

In his solo recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Virgin Classics, Meridian, Telarc, BBC TV andRadio, Channel 4 and Classic FM he has appeared with artists such as Dame Janet Baker,Jose Carreras, Richard Bonynge, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Edward Downes, RichardHickox, René Jacobs and the King’s Consort. Recordings include Respighi, Vivaldi, TheMessiah, Monteverdi, Strauss, Verdi and Lehar. Lynton has been a regular guest soloist inbroadcasts with the BBC Concert Orchestra. In opera Lynton made his debut at the RoyalOpera House, Covent Garden in Fidelio and having created the role of Sir Ywain in SirHarrison Birtwistle's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, became a contract principal artist.Since then he has sung the principal roles in L'Elisir d'Amore, La Traviata, Pearl Fishers,Don Giovanni, Zauberflöte, Entführung, and The Merry Widow, throughout the UK,Europe, including Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Turin, Trieste, Dublin and Berlin.

With Sir Charles Mackerras he recorded Entführung, filmed in Istanbul in a production by Elijah Moshinsky and availableon a BBC DVD. Lynton's concert career has taken him to many major centres and European Festivals includingperformances with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, the Hallé and UlsterOrchestras, the Göttingen Festival and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in the MusikvereinVienna, with the RAI orchestra in Milan, and Monteverdi‘s Vespers in such venues as Westminster Abbey, Winchester andNorwich Cathedrals, Cologne's Philharmonie, Berlin's Neues Schauspielhaus, Disney Hall in Los Angeles and at theTanglewood and Ravinia Festivals. In the USA he sang the title roles in Monteverdi Orfeo and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse withBoston Baroque, to critical acclaim.

He sang Elgar's Dream of Gerontius and The Apostles with the Bonn Symphony Orchestra and Haydn's The Seasons in theStresa Festival. With René Jacobs Lynton performed the St. Matthew Passion and sang Britten's St Nicholas to acclaim inBerlin's Konzerthaus. Having sung twice at the Three Choirs Festival, Lynton has performed Elijah both with Willard Whiteand also with the CBSO.

Since 2005 Lynton has taught singing at Winchester College in addition to his busy private teaching practice.

Jamie Hall. Jamie W. Hall, Bass Baritone is a Lay Clerk of the world-famousWinchester Cathedral Choir with whom he sings the daily office as well as taking part inrecordings, broadcasts and international tours. In addition to this he is also Musical Directorto the Winchester Cathedral Nave Choir, and The Wolvesey Singers.

Jamie has extensive experience as a soloist having performed Oratorio across the countrywith many choirs, choral societies and orchestras including The London Concertante, The18th Century Concert Orchestra, The English Haydn Orchestra and more.His recent engagements have included Mozart Requiem, Handel Messiah, Handel Passion,Bach St John Passion, Stainer Crucifixion, Brahms German Requiem and Charles Wood StMark Passion.

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Nicholas Wilks. Nicholas Wilks has been Musical Director of Winchester Music Clubsince 2003, making his debut with a performance of Elgar’s The Kingdom. Now Master ofMusic at Winchester College, from 1996-2004 Nicholas was Musical Director of theHampshire County Youth Orchestra. His musical education began as a Quirister at Pilgrims’School, Winchester and continued as a music scholar at Cranleigh School. While readingEnglish at Christ Church, Oxford, Nicholas founded and conducted the Oxford Philharmonia.He subsequently spent three years studying conducting and clarinet at the Royal Academyof Music, London, where he was supported by generous funding from the Drapers’ Company.After leaving the Academy, he specialised in working with young musicians as MusicalDirector of the Finchley Children’s Music Group, conducting youth orchestras in London andthe Channel Islands, and as Musical Director of New Youth Opera. He has conducted inEurope, South Africa (leading the first tour by a British youth orchestra since the fall ofapartheid) and Chile, and has broadcast on BBC2, 3 and 4, Classic FM and the BBC WorldService. His opera credits include Eugene Onegin, Noye’s Fludde, Der Freischutz, La BelleHelene and The Bartered Bride. Nicholas conducted the premiere of Alec Roth’s Earth andSky at the BBC Proms in 2000 with Joanna MacGregor and Ensemble Bash, and was electedan Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for professional distinction in 2001. His recordings for Somm of Britten’sNoye’s Fludde and A Ceremony of Carols was a Sunday Telegraph Critic’s Choice, and his new CD of music by CharlesDavidson has recently been released by Naxos as part of the Milken Archive series of American Jewish music. Nicholas isalso Musical Director of the Winchester Symphony Orchestra with whom he has embarked on a series of Brahmssymphonies and concertos.

Malcolm Archer. Malcolm Archer is Director of Chapel Music at WinchesterCollege, where he trains and conducts the Quiristers and Chapel Choir and teaches organand composition in the College. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in cathedral music,which has taken him to posts at Norwich, Bristol, Wells Cathedrals and then Director ofMusic at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. During his time there he directed the choir forseveral State services, including the Tsunami Memorial Service, the London BombingsService and the 80th Birthday Service for HM The Queen, for which he was invited byBuckingham Palace to compose a special anthem, performed live on BBC.1. His manybroadcasts and recordings from Wells and St. Paul’s have received critical acclaim.

Malcolm is much in demand as a choir trainer and choral and orchestral conductor, andhe has directed concerts, workshops and courses in various parts of the globe, as well asworking with several leading professional orchestras. As an organ recitalist he has playedin nine European countries, the USA and Canada, and his CD’s include repertoire asdiverse as J.S. Bach and Olivier Messiaen, as well as his own music.

As a composer, Malcolm receives regular commissions from both sides of the Atlantic, and he has many published works.Recently he has composed works for the Southern Cathedrals Festival, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Festival of the Sonsof the Clergy.

He has been an adjudicator for the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the year competition, and for four years was a judgefor the BBC Songs of Praise School Choirs competition, including chairing the judging panel for two of those competitions.He is also a frequent contributor to that programme as both interviewee and musical arranger.

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Malcolm has served as council member of the Royal College of Organists, and he is a member of the council of SalisburyCathedral, and of the Guild of Church Musicians, from whom he was recently awarded the Fellowship for his services tochurch music over many years.

Paul Provost. Paul Provost began studies on the Piano and Cello at the ages of fourand six – his early musical inspiration coming from attending choir rehearsals at the localCatholic Church. Since then church music has played a large part in his life. He was educatedat Chetham’s School of Music, where alongside the cello, organ became increasingly hisprincipal study. During this time, Paul gave many organ and cello recitals and was a memberof Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra, and the Wolstenholme Piano Trio who were highlyregarded at the Lake District Summer Music Festival. He was also Organ Scholar at ManchesterCathedral between September 1999 and 2004.

For the past three years, Paul was Organ Student at St John’s College, Cambridge, where hewas responsible for accompanying the daily round of services, and assisting the Director ofMusic, David Hill, in training the famous chapel choir. With St John’s, he has toured to Paris,Austria, Estonia, the USA, Holland and Venice, in addition to numerous concerts, recordings,and broadcasts much less further afield. During this time, he also co-founded a baroque group, contrapunctus xiv, andhas been widely active as accompanist, recitalist and conductor. He has given organ recitals in such venues asWestminster Cathedral, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Kings College, Cambridge, and in the Buxton Festival, as well asplaying continuo organ for such groups as the Sagittarian Consort, Florilegium, and the Southern Sinfonia.

Paul is now Assistant Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. There, he has a wide varietyof duties, as accompanist, choir trainer, organ tutor, and teacher, and finds time to perform in the occasional concert.He has also been appointed chief organist for the newly formed chamber choir Purely Choral, and is in demand as arecitalist, accompanist, and choral director. Paul enjoys training children to sing, and looks forward to a career inCathedral Music.

Further Listening

If you have enjoyed this evening’s performance, you may like to explore this unusual area ofrepertoire further. There are outstanding recordings of the Petite Messe Solennelle from WolfgangSawallisch, and, closer to home, Nicholas Cleobury with King’s College Cambridge and Simon Halseywith the City of Birmingham Chorus. Rossini’s Stabat Mater is a wonderfully involving and quirkysetting, and Richard Hickox’s recording is a joy. Puccini’s early Messa di Gloria sounds like a crossbetween Verdi and Rossini, and is well served in Antonio Pappano’s recording, which has theadditional bonus of Puccini’s Crisantemi. There is a chapter on Rossini’s sacred music in TheCambridge Companion to Rossini.

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Winchester Music Club Orchestra

VIOLIN 1Brian Howells (leader)

David AmosTom Dutton

Melinda Samms

VIOLIN 2Bernard GreenPaul JefferyAnne ShorterPrue Skinner

VIOLATom GriffithsGill CollymoreMargy JefferyLouise Woods

CELLOJane AustinSteve ClarkeFannie Leigh

Catherine MitchellFiona Smith

BASSBarry Glynn

Forthcoming Events

Saturday 31 May 2008

Celebrity Concert

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

(see back cover)

Thursday 20 November 2008

Walton

Belshazzar's Feast

Winchester Cathedral7:30pm

with orchestra, soloists, Winchester CollegeGlee Club and Quiristers.

Conductor

NICHOLAS WILKS

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Winchester Music Club Choir

SOPRANOS

Elaine BiddleSarah Carruthers

Mandy HaasLiz HakeJean Hart

Janette LloydMettelise LloydKatie MydlarzHilary Otter

Miranda PasseyDiana Preston

Pamela SargentBarbara ShawBetty SpencerHelen WebbSue Webb

Heather WillsonAlison Wood

Caroline AndrewsJenny Brown

Carrie EisenhauerWelly Green

Romy HalliwellJane JessopAnn Johns

Alison LatchamRuth Walton

ALTOS

Jane AndertonPat CarruthersAngela Clarkson

Valerie CorkSarah Ede

Christine FoxAngela Garrett

Jan Gwynne-HowellGillian Harris

Grace HoneysettMaureen Jackson

Nicola KeeneCarol Leighton-DavisBarbara Longlands

Lizzie LoweRosemary Merchant

Ros NellPat Pearce

Angela Ryde-Weller

Jillian AndrewsGeorgina Busher

Jill CurtisAlison DevesonElizabeth DuffIsabel Elton

Janet GoodmanPamela Jones

Jo LloydAlex Pugh

Janet Rowland-WhiteAnne SharpeLucia TaylorAnne Tubbs

Debbie WebbFrancine Weller

TENORS

Michael EltonJulian HarveySteve HynardBrian PurkissJim Sampson

Trevor SticklandLen TathamJack Walters

BASSES

Andrew CarruthersRobin Cork

Stuart CowanJeremy Daniel

Bob FrostBob JonesIan Lowe

David MorganMichael Palette

Hugh PeersArnold Renwick

Bruce Ryde-WellerJohn SatchellJohn Stanning

Roy Weller

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During Gioacchino Rossini’s Lifetime

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29 Feb Rossini born,Pesaro, Italy.

The Marriage Contract

Aurelius in Palmyra

The Barber of Seville

Moses in Egypt

Semiramis

William Tell (Rossini‘retires’)

Stabat Mater 1st vers.

Stabat Mater 2nd vers

Petite Messe Solennelle1st vers

13 Nov Rossini dies,Passy, Paris.

W H Smith born.

France adopts the metre

1st one-pound note

Volta invents the battery

Lewis & Clark expedition

Charles Darwin born

Richard Wagner born

Otto von Bismark born

Jane Austen dies

Start George IV’s reign

Louis Pasteur born

Stockton-Darlington railway opened

Start William IV’s reign

Johannes Brahms born

Start Victoria’s reign

Thomas Hardy born

Friedrich Nietzsche born

Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

Bunsen Burner invented

Start of Crimean War

Sigmund Freud born

Giacomo Puccini born

1st Telephone

Abraham Lincoln assassinated

Brahms ‘German Requiem’ written

Percy Bysshe Shelley born

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Vice Presidents:The Dean of Winchester: The Very Reverend James AtwellThe Headmaster of Winchester College: Dr Ralph Townsend

The Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Winchester: Cllr Chris Pines

Chairman: Christopher GreenHon. Secretary: Janette Lloyd

Hon. Treasurer: Liz Hake

Executive CommitteeAndrew Carruthers

Welly GreenRodger HakeLizzie Lowe

Angela Ryde-WellerCo-opted Members

Joanna SelborneJack Walters

Rehearsals for the Choir are held weekly during term time from September to March on Fridays at7:30pm in Winchester College Music School, Culver Road. If you would like to audition for the Choir orreceive any further information, please contact the Secretary, Mrs Janette Lloyd, 6 Oliver’s BatteryGardens, Winchester SO22 4HF telephone 01962 851915 or email mrsjanettelloyd@hotmail.com, or visit ourwebsite www.winchestermusicclub.org.uk

Winchester Music Club is affiliated to Making Music, which represents and supports amateur choirs, orchestras andmusic promoters throughout the United Kingdom

Winchester Music Club is a registered charity No. 1095619

Forthcoming Celebrity Concert

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Winchester CathedralSaturday 31 May 2008 7:30pm

with

Peter HarveySouthern Pro Musica

Winchester Music Club ChoirWinchester College Glee Club

conductorNicholas Wilks

Tickets priced from £30 to £80 will be available from 1 April 2008

Winchester Cathedral Box Office Tel: 01962 857275boxoffice@winchester-cathedral.org.uk

www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk

www.winchestermusicclub.org.ukRegistered Charity No. 1095619