Aeolian Singers

  featuring
Konzertchor der Stadt Mannheim

Lionel Fawcett      Conductor and Baritone

Vaughan Williams
Anniversary Concert

 including
Five Mystical Songs, Serenade to Music,
Toward the Unknown Region

(and works by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Toch)

Anna Le Hair and Adrian Johnson piano

Stephen Jones Musical Director

Saturday 12th April 2008   7.30pm
St. John’s Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead

Tickets:
Under 21s:
Box Office:
£10
£5
01442 871598

In this concert they are joined by the Konzertchor der Stadt Mannheim, whose
conductor, Lionel Fawcett, will be singing the baritone solo in Vaughan Williams’
beautiful Five Mystical Songs.

The concert marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872 - 1958). As well as the Five Mystical Songs it will include the magical Serenade
to Music, a setting of lines from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, and Toward the
Unknown Region, a setting of poetry by the American Walt Whitman which expresses
a mystical awareness of nature and humanity.

The Konzertchor will also be singing works by Mendelssohn and Brahms and
performing a spoken piece called ‘Geographical Fugue’ by Toch.

The concert is accompanied by pianists Anna le Hair, the Aeolian Singers’ rehearsal
accompanist, and Adrian Johnson and is conducted by Stephen Jones, Musical
Director of the Aeolian Singers.

To Book:
      By telephone from the Box Office (01442 871598)
              or
      By post with SAE and cheque (£10 for an adult; £5 for under21) payable to 'Aeolian
   Singers'  from:   Aeolian Singers Box Office, 46 Fieldway, Berkhamsted, HP4 2NY

Registered charity No.281612