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Music Around Town

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he next few pages will give you information about Arundel Music's events at the Arundel Town Festival 2009. Once again we've put together a very exciting programme featuring some of Britain's best performers together with an enlarged programme of talks and readings. Since some of the venues are quite small, there is a limited number of tickets so early booking is recommended.

Arundel Music is very grateful for financial support from the West Sussex County Council and the Performing Rights Society, as well as from our generous sponsors - Neil Holland Architects, Venture New Generation Portraits and Hamlyn Sparks Estate Agents. We are also very grateful to venue owners for hosting events.

Saturday 22nd August - 8.00pm - Victoria Institute, Tarrant Street - £10

ARUNDEL JAZZ CLUB presents ‘Direct From Ronnie Scott's...'

Alex Garnett – sax and Nigel Price - guitar with the Arundel Jazz Club House Band Steve Thompson - double bass Terry Seabrook - piano Alex Eberhard - drums Joining the wonderful Arundel Jazz Club band for this special Festival gig are two of the young guns from Ronnie Scott’s house band saxophonist Alex Garnett, a regular with Ray Gelato and Anita Wardell, and a return by the astonishing Nigel Price, now established as one of Britain's top jazz guitarists whose electrifying playing at the Club in March was one of the highlights of the year.

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Tickets for all events available from: Arundel Visitor Information Centre.

1-3 Crown Yard Mews, River Road, Arundel. T: 01903 882268

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Music Around Town Sunday 23rd August - 10.00am - St Nicholas Church

FESTIVAL SERVICE

Music to include Haydn's Little Organ Mass sung by the choirs of St. Nicholas, Arundel and St. Mary Magdalene, Lyminster.

Celebrant and Preacher: The Rt. Rev. David Farrer, Vicar of Arundel

Monday 24th August - 12 noon - 47 Maltravers Street - £8

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD Sarah Corp - soprano, Adrian West - square piano A rare chance to hear Schumann's Kinderscenen and songs by Mendelssohn and Brahms performed in a domestic setting by two well-established and highly regarded musicians based in the Sussex area. Adrian West will play on a square piano by William Stodart from 1837.

Monday 24th August - 6.00pm - 57 Maltravers Street - £8

NATURE’S DYNAMICS A talk by Dr. Jacqueline Dyer This talk examines the ups and downs of nature and the causes and effects of ecological change. At the human scale, nature seems relatively stable (a heathland may remain a heathland for hundreds of years) or cyclical (seasons follow one another in a relatively predictable way). Occasionally we see catastrophic effects (a landscape gets wiped out by fire or flood). However, at both larger and smaller scales, nature is often up to things beyond our perception. We shall see how large-scale ecosystem properties may relate to micro-scale genetic dynamics. Effects at both ends of the scale contribute to nature's persistent, yet ever-changing forms.

Tuesday 25th August - 12 noon - 2.00pm - 57 Maltravers Street - £8 to include a sausage roll and a glass of wine

ONE EMPIRE DREAMS ANOTHER THE ROMANS IN THE LITERATURE OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN A poetry reading by James McKay The centrepiece of this year’s reading is Macaulay’s Horatius, which is about as much fun as you could possibly hope for at a poetry reading; but the programme also includes some of the scandalously irreligious portions of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in all its elaborate, thundering prose; and also a representatively bitter and waspish excerpt from A E Housman’s classical papers. James McKay is a lapsed classicist and practicing poet.

Tuesday 25th August - 3.00pm - Just Organics, 4-6 Queen Street - £8

ORGANIC DUETS Part 1 (see also Thurs 27th Aug.) with members of the Arundel Ensemble Emma Smith, Kerenza Peacock - violins, Jessica Beeston - viola, Oliver Coates - cello The first of two concerts in the relaxed surrounding of Just Organics Cafe exploring duets both old - Bach and Mozart - and new - Anna Meredith and David Fennessy. The newly formed Arundel Ensemble features some of the country's leading musicians including cellist Oliver Coates, who has recently been appointed Artist in Residence at London’s South Bank Centre.

Tuesday 25th August - 7.30pm - Arundel Cathedral - £12

AN ORGAN EXPERIENCE THE ART OF THE ORGAN IMPROVISER Nigel Allcoat (Saint-Antoine l'Abbaye) One of the world’s greatest organ improvisers playing the magnificent Hill organ in Arundel Cathedral is an evening not to be missed. Nigel Allcoat's performance will include improvisations based on Gregorian chant, chorale preludes, song, dance and folk tunes.

Tickets for all events available from: Arundel Visitor Information Centre.

1-3 Crown Yard Mews, River Road, Arundel. T: 01903 882268

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Music Around Town Wednesday 26th August - 12 noon - 47 Maltravers Street - £8

A FEAST OF KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Adrian Bawtree - harpsichord, clavichord and square piano.

Another opportunity to sit in a domestic setting and hear performances on period instruments performed by Adrian Bawtree, Director of Music elect at Christ's Hospital.

The concert will include two Suites by Handel (d.1759) and a sonata by Haydn (d.1809).

Wednesday 26th August - 7.30pm - St Nicholas Church - £12

ARUNDEL ENSEMBLE Steve Dummer - clarinet, Kerenza Peacock, Emma Smith - violins, Jessica Beeston - viola, Oliver Coates - cello The Arundel Ensemble is a collective of some of the country's leading musicians who meet up specially for the Festival. In tonight's concert James MacMillan's Tuireadh, a haunting memorial to the victims of the Piper Alpha disaster, is framed by one of Haydn's first explorations into the possibilities of the string quartet and Brahms' great autumnal Clarinet Quintet.

Thursday 27th August - 12 noon - Humphrey's, Greatham - £8 to include a glass of wine

D H LAWRENCE AT GREATHAM A STING IN THE TALE A talk by Oliver Hawkins In the spring of 1915 D H Lawrence stayed at Greatham as a guest of the Meynell family, in order to finish his novel The Rainbow. But other, more contentious fiction was to result from his visit. The talk will take place in the library at Humphrey's. A map with directions will be issued with tickets.

Thursday 27th August - 3.00pm - Just Organics, 4-6 Queen Street - £8

ORGANIC DUETS Part 2 (see also Tues 25th Aug.) with members of the Arundel Ensemble James McKay - speaker The second of two concerts exploring duets both old and new featuring music by Mozart, Ravel, Anna Meredith and Matt Rogers.

Thursday 27th August - 8.00pm - Arundel Vicarage, 26 Maltravers Street - £12

ARUNDEL JAZZ CLUB AT THE VICARAGE The Arundel Jazz Suite by Steve Thompson (world premiere) Bobby Wellins – tenor sax Christian Brewer – alto sax with the Arundel Jazz Club House Band A special night, bringing Arundel Jazz Club to Arundel Vicarage with a brand new piece written especially for and about the town. Commissioned by Arundel Music for this year’s Festival, Steve Thompson’s The Arundel Jazz Suite is a series of movements reflecting different aspects of the town and scored for small jazz ensemble.

Joining the AJC House Band are one of Britain’s legendary tenor sax players, Bobby Wellins, and Christian Brewer, a rising star in the jazz firmament whose beautiful, insightful alto playing has won him a legion of admirers.

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1-3 Crown Yard Mews, River Road, Arundel. T: 01903 882268

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Music Around Town Friday 28th August - 12.00 noon - 47 Maltravers Street - £8

A DUTCH HOUSE ORGAN Martin Ford - organ Martin Ford (St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London) was Organ Scholar both at Magdalen College, Oxford and Southwark Cathedral and is already an experienced recitalist. Programme to include music by Handel, J.S. Bach, Byrd, Weelkes and Pachelbel.

Friday 28th August - 6.00pm - 57 Maltravers Street - £8

DIRECT RED A talk by Dr. Gabriel Weston Direct Red is Gabriel Weston’s first book. Published earlier this year, it enjoyed widespread critical success. Gabriel Weston is a surgeon whose first degree was in English, and it shows. This is the story of her training, of the patients and doctors she encountered and what they taught her. Her use of words is as precise and courageous as her use of the surgeon’s scalpel. At times a thrilling page-turner, always wise and intelligent, Direct Red speaks of how it is to enter the highly competitive world of alpha males - and to succeed.

In conversation with Justine Cummins, herself a consultant dermatologist, Gabriel Weston will talk about her book.

Friday 28th August - 8.00pm - St Nicholas Church - £15

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN - A Song Cycle (world premiere) Music and Lyrics by David Newton Heather Cairncross – voice, David Newton - piano, Chris Hill - bass Owen Gunnell – percussion, Arundel Ensemble The internationally renowned, Grammy-winning vocalist Heather Cairncross returns to Arundel with a fascinating new project. With music and lyrics by David Newton and string arrangements by Dee Palmer, Portrait of a Woman is song cycle blending jazz with classical music where each song is a chapter in the book of a real life story.

David Newton has been voted Best Pianist at the British Jazz Awards eight times and arranger Dee Palmer has worked with some of the world’s great artists from Jethro Tull to the London Symphony Orchestra. With the addition of bassist Chris Hill, who has recently joined Jamie Cullum’s band, the “phenomenal artistry” (Daily Telegraph) of percussionist Owen Gunnell and the Arundel Ensemble, this promises to be a truly great night. "…her clarity, extraordinary range and distinctive style seemed to me like a sort of combination of Cleo Laine, Ella Fitzgerald and Edith Piaf. Wonderful!" Littlehampton Gazette

Sunday 30th August - 7.30pm - Arundel Cathedral - £12

DARK SUN Performers to include members of Arun Choral Society, Angmering Chorale, Boundstone Chorus, Horsham Symphony Orchestra, Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra, COMA Sussex Conducted by Stephen Montague Programme to include: Stephen Montague - Dark Sun; August 1945 With the dropping of the first atomic bomb on theJapanese city of Hiroshima on Monday 6th August 1945 the nuclear age began. Stephen Montague’s modern classic Dark Sun, a threnody for this tragic event, is one of the most extraordinary works of our time. Written with amateur performers in mind and scored for chorus and orchestra, this unique performance brings together members of many of the area’s community music groups under the direction of the composer. The concert also features other works by Montague, as well as music by Howard Skempton and Gabrieli, which utilise the amazing acoustics of Arundel Cathedral.

Tickets for all events available from: Arundel Visitor Information Centre.

1-3 Crown Yard Mews, River Road, Arundel. T: 01903 882268

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