Guildford International Music Festival 2007
Events for Saturday 17 March 2007
Guildford Life
Event number: 34
The Electric Theatre, 12noon
£5 full/senior citizens, £2.50 concessions
Ian Mitchell director/clarinet
Stephen Goss composer/guitar
Joby Burgess percussion
A public showing of the composition project with a Year 5 class from Queen Eleanor's School, Onslow Village. This short concert of a new work takes the idea of Guildford life as its starting point. The composition has emerged over several weeks; some sections written by Stephen Goss but most of them composed by the children themselves. There is an accompanying exhibition of the work by the children and an opportunity to hear some sections again in a curtain raiser to the lunchtime performance on 21 March (concert no 50)
University of Surrey Symphony Orchestra
Event number: 35
University Hall, 7.30pm
£7.50 full/senior citizens, £3 concessions
Beethoven Overture Egmont , Op 84
Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn, in B flat, Op 56a
The final orchestral concert of the academic year will include two great works of the symphonic repertoire; conducted by students.
University of Surrey Box Office only 01483 686876
Guildford Choral Society and Guildford Philharmonic
Brahms Requiem
Rachel Nichols soprano
Andrew Slater baritone
Hilary Davan Wetton conductor
Event number: 36
Guildford Cathedral, 7.30pm
£20 Nave, £15 West Gallery, £3 concessions
Guildford Choral Society and the Guildford Philharmonic join forces once again for this beautiful Requiem written in memory both of the composer's mother and of his great friend Robert Schumann. This grandiloquent and moving work is not only Brahms' greatest vocal composition but also the central work of his career.
Promoted by Guildford Choral Society and Guildford Philharmonic.
Box Office 01483 444777 only
Jazz Classics Revisited
Keith Nichols Band
Event number: 37
The Electric Theatre, 8pm
£12.50
Jazz Classics Revisited takes us on an exhilarating journey through 50 years of jazz history. Keith Nichols and his versatile band recreate great jazz moments covering Ragtime, Dixieland, with glimpses of the 20s and 30s via Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Fats Waller, through Swing to Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Boogie-Woogie. We dare you not to tap your feet!
Promoted and sponsored by Bell & Colvill plc
