Guildford International Music Festival 2005
Events for Sunday 20 March 2005
Croissant Concert
Event number: 75
Debenhams Restaurant, 11am - 12 noon
Free event
Retiring collection in aid of Chase
These relaxed and informal Sunday morning concerts have proved a popular Festival favourite. Featuring talented young groups from the University of Surrey's Department of Music and Sound Recording, the concerts are a mixture of popular classical works, songs from shows and lighter repertoire. Get there in time to get a seat!
Celebrity
Piano Recital
Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa
Event number: 76
University of Surrey, PATS, Studio One, 3.30pm
£15, £13 senior citizens, £5 concessions
Precision-tooled piano duettists. The Times
Mozart Sonata in F major, K497
Schubert Variations on an Original Theme in A Flat major, D813
Schubert Allegro in A minor 'Lebenssturme', D947
Edwin Roxburgh Reflets dans la Glace
Debussy Six Epigraphes Antiques
Ravel arr Garban La Valse
This young, dynamic and communicative prize-winning duo has a wide ranging repertoire. This special Festival programme contains several major works for four hands from Mozart's sparkling Sonata, one of the composer's most perfect works, to an exhilarating arrangement of Ravel's La Valse. The short contemporary work by local composer, Edwin Roxburgh, is just one of the many pieces the duo has commissioned, and was shortlisted for the BBC's British Composer Awards.
Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa gratefully acknowledge financial support from the PRS Foundation.
My
Long Journey Home
Event number: 77
The Electric Theatre, 8pm
£10, £7.50 GATA members and Friends of The Electric Theatre,
£6 concessions
…a smooth blend of storytelling, music, physical theatre, mime and even the odd puppet… The Stage
… surprisingly funny, beautifully crafted and genuinely moving… The Herald
…the humour is almost as dark as a Siberian Forest...magical... ***** Fest
An epic tale of love, loss, laughter and lunacy, loosely based on the true story of Hungarian Andras Tomas, press ganged by the wehermacht in 1941 and lost in Russia for 53 years.
The international theatre company NIE, based in Prague, present a show
full of physical theatre, clowning, puppetry, music and a dark and magical
blend of comedy and tragedy with a distinctly Eastern European flavour.
My Long Journey Home was nominated for the Stage Awards Best Ensemble
Performance at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival.