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OCTOBER 10, Sunday,
4:00 p.m. The Song cycle, Ludlow and Teme,
is presented as part
of a song performance titled When I Was
One-and-Twenty: Songs on Texts of A.E. Housman. At the
Sebring-Lewis Recital Hall on
the campus of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Performers are
Patrice Ewoldt,
piano and Michael Oxley, tenor. The program will also include George
Butterworth’s
Six Songs from A
Shropshire Lad, John Ireland’s The Land of Lost Content
and Ralph Vaughan
Williams’ On Wenlock Edge.
For more information, e-mail Michael
Oxley.
DECEMBER
10, Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. The Newcastle upon Tyne Literary and
Philosophical Society presents ‘So sweet a
noise’ the songs of Ivor Gurney — a lunchtime
concert featuring Peter Carey (baritone) and David Murray (piano), and
a string quartet of Marion Hillier, Noel Broome (violins), Laura Newton
(viola) and Michael Borthwick (cello). The programme will include
Gurney’s The Western Playland and Frank
Bridge’s Idyll.
For further information, e-mail Kelsey Thornton.
MAY 11, Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Ivor Gurney Society Spring Weekend: Graham Middleton will be leading a walk in the Minsterworth area, hopefully taking in Redlands, the former home of the Harvey family. The walk will start at 10:00 am at The Apple Tree in Minsterworth and conclude (at about 12.30/1.00 pm) with a ploughmans lunch at the same location. The number of tickets for this walk will be limited to 25. A map and details will be sent out to those who request tickets. Details and Booking Form.
MAY 10, Saturday, 2:15 p.m. Ivor Gurney Society Spring Weekend: Announcing the Annual General Meeting of the Ivor Gurney Society, which will be held at the Royal Grammar School, Upper Tything, Worcester. The meeting will be followed at 3 p.m. by poetry readings given by Lynn (Rennie) Parker, the IGS Journal Reviews Editor, and Desmond Graham, a member of the IGS Journal Editorial Board. A high tea/light supper will be provided on the premises between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Details and Booking Form.
MAY 10, Saturday, 6:30 p.m. The Ivor Gurney Society presents a Recital by tenor Paul Martyn West and pianist Nigel Foster, performing Five Songs of Rupert Brooke by Gurney, Celtic Song Cycle by Bax, Six Poems of Seumas O’Sullivan by Moeran, and a group of Gurney’s Yeats settings, and at least one of Gurney’s piano preludes. At the Royal Grammar School, Upper Tything, Worcester. Tickets are £8; contact John Phillips, 7 Carlsgate, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford HR3 5BS Details and Booking Form.
NOVEMBER 16, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. The choral work, Severn Meadows by Martin Bussey is performed for the second time at Tewkesbury Abbey with baritone Thomas Guthrie, Chester Bach Singers and Chetham’s Chamber Choir, with instrumentalists from Chethams’ Music School, Martin Bussey, conductor. Text based on Gurney's poems and letters. Also to be performed is John Sanders' Urbs Beata, with alto James Bowman. Tickets are £10 (students £5.00); call John Sanders at 01989 780482, or purchase in person at the Tewkesbury Abbey Shop, Audiosonic, 6 College St., Gloucester (01452 302280).
OCTOBER 19, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. The choral work, Severn Meadows by Martin Bussey is premiered at Chester Cathedral with baritone Thomas Guthrie, Chester Bach Singers and Chetham’s Chamber Choir, with instrumentalists from Chethams’ Music School, Martin Bussey, conductor. Text based on Gurney's poems and letters. Also to be performed is John Sanders' Urbs Beata, with alto James Bowman. Tickets are £10 (students £5.00); call Jane Murray at 01928 724713, or purchase in person at the Chester Cathedral Shop or Chester Tourist Information. Also performed on November 16th.
OCTOBER
11, Friday, 8:15 p.m. In Flanders Field
presents tenor Ian Partridge, pianist David Owen Norris, cellist
Jennifer Langridge, and speaker Tom Lanoye in a recital at Flagey,
Brussels
(part of the Flanders Festival);
will include songs by Ivor Gurney (In
Flanders, Even such is time),
and others by George Butterworth, Claude Debussy, Rudi Stephan,
André
Caplet, Elgar, Poulenc, and David Owen Norris; cello pieces by
Fauré,
and piano pieces by George Dyson. For more information, visit Programme
details. Visit Ian Partridge's
website for more information, or call 01497-820541.
MAY
11, Saturday, 2:15 p.m. Ivor Gurney Society Recital featuring
soprano
Fiona Harrison, baritone Jonathan Wood, and pianists James Longford and
Sara
Wood; at St. Andrew's Church, Churchdown, Gloucestershire; will
include songs by John Ireland, Ian Venables, Michael Head, Christian
Wilson, Richard Carder, Hubert Parry, Peter Warlock, and Ivor
Gurney (The Halt of the Legion, There's Wisdom in Women, Black
Stitchel, Snow, Sowing, Red Roses, On the Downs, and
Captain Stratton's Fancy). For more
information, visit Programme
details.
APRIL 20, Saturday, 2 p.m. Recital featuring Tenor Ian Partridge and Pianist Jennifer Partridge at St Mary's Church, Higham Ferrers, Northants; will include songs by Schubert, Fauré, Duparc, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Quilter, Purcell, Peter Warlock, and Ivor Gurney (Severn Meadows and In Flanders). For more information, call 01933 419885 or visit Programme details.
NOVEMBER 16, 2001: Friday, 7:30 p.m. Faculty Recital featuring Tenor David Kenneth Smith and Pianist Marie Libal-Smith; includes Gerald Finzi’s Oh Fair to See song cycle, which contains a setting of Ivor Gurney’s poem Only the Wanderer (Severn Meadows). Also includes songs and arias by Paolo Tosti, G. F. Handel, Charles Gounod, and Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder. At the new home of the Ivor Gurney Website, Geneva College, in the Old Main Auditorium at 3200 College Ave., Beaver Falls, Penn. Admission free. For more information, contact David Kenneth Smith, or call 724-847-6662.
OCTOBER 21, Sunday, 3 p.m. “Ivor Gurney ‘Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-sort.’” Malcolm Sinclair, Jan Carey, Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge, Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, London. —A portrait in words and music of the First World War poet from Gloucester who was also known as the English Schubert. Directed by Auriol Smith; compiled by Jan Carey. For more information, visit Programme details.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2001: Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Recital featuring Tenor Ian Partridge and Pianist Jennifer Partridge at Blackheath Concert Halls, in aid of Jessie's Fund; will include songs by Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, Peter Warlock, Ivor Gurney, and others (Programme details nearer the time). Visit Ian Partridge's website for more information, or call 01497-820541.
MAY 19, 2001: Saturday, Chairman Anthony Boden and several members of the Ivor Gurney Society attended the unveiling of a plaque to Ivor Gurney at the former Chapman family home in High Wycombe. For more information, visit High Wycombe details.
MAY 5, 2001:
Saturday, 12:00 noon. The Seventh Annual
General Meeting of the Ivor Gurney Society, being held at St.
Mary's Congregational Church, Archdeacon Street/St. Mary's Street,
Gloucester. Copies of
the minutes of the previous AGM, and a statement of expenditure and
income
for 2000/2001 will be available at the meeting. For more information,
contact John
Phillips, or call 01497 820541.
| MAY 5, 2001: Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Recital featuring Tenor Ian Partridge and Pianist Jennifer Partridge at St. Mary de Lode, Goucester (site of new Gurney stained glass Window). Programme: Gurney songs: Down by the Salley Gardens, The Singer, All Night Under the Moon, The Folly of Being Comforted, In Flanders, and Praise of Ale. Songs by Warlock (including Sleep) and Jeffreys (including Black Stitchel) will also be performed. Tickets £8 (£15 including lunch and lectures). Visit Ian Partridge's website for more information, or call 01497-820541. |  |
NOVEMBER 30, 2000: Thursday, 9:30 a.m. Student Recital, including a performance Ivor Gurney’s Severn Meadows and the Peter Warlock setting of Sleep, performed by soprano Suzy Naumann. Admission free. At the home of the Ivor Gurney Website, Roberts Recital Hall on the Huntsville Campus of the University of Alabama, U.S.A. For more information, contact David Kenneth Smith, or call 256-824-2583.
OCTOBER 13, 2000: Friday, 7:30 p.m. Nightwalker, A Portrait of Ivor Gurney with pianist Jennifer Partridge and David Goodland, a part of the Stroud Festival, at St Swithun's Parish Church in Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire. Written by David Goodland based on newly unearthed archival material, with faithful interpretations of Gurney’s music by Jennifer Partridge, combine to produce new insights into the life and work of a remarkable man who was, by turns, passionate, angry, indignant, comical, shy, contradictory—and thoroughly adorable. Nightwalker reveals the many side of Gurney’s complex character, the friends who loved him, those who hated him, and the pressures that would not let him rest.” Tickets are 6 pounds and available from The Stroud Information Centre, 1 John St, Stroud, GL5 2HA. (10:00 a.m. -5:30 p.m.) Telephone 01453 765199. Email stroud.tic@dial.pipex.com For credit card bookings, leave name and telephone number, credit card number, valid from and expiry date. 50p handling charge on all telephone credit card bookings.
JANUARY, 2000: The
Latest Gurney
Dissertation, Smith's Interpretive Analysis—
Is Now Available !
“An Interpretive Analysis of Three Early
Songs of Ivor Gurney (1890-1937): Song of Ciabhan, Tears,
and Severn Meadows,” by David Kenneth Smith. 2nd
ed.
with Expanded Appendixes. D.M. diss., Indiana University, 1999. On this
site, view the Abstract, Table of Contents, Errata, and Information
on Ordering.
NOVEMBER 11, Thursday, 8 p.m. Nightwalker, A Portrait of Ivor Gurney with Jennifer Partridge and David Goodland, St. Mary de Lode Church, Archdeacon Street, Gloucester, England. Written by David Goodland. New archival material unearthed by David Goodland, and faithful interpretations of Gurney’s music by Jennifer Partridge, combine to produce new insights into the life and work of a remarkable man who was, by turns, passionate, angry, indignant, comical, shy, contradictory—and thoroughly adorable. “Nightwalker” reveals the many side of Gurney’s complex character, the friends who loved him, those who hated him, and the pressures that would not let him rest.” A Special Armistice Day Remembrance Concert with the unpublished Preludes and Nocturnes of Gurney plus poems and letters ... laced with newly discovered archive letters from Ronald Gurney, Marion Scott, Herbert Howells and others. For information, contact Pam Blevins or David Goodland.
OCTOBER 31, Sunday, 3 p.m. Ivor Gurney ‘Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-sort.’ Malcolm Sinclair, Jan Carey, Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge, Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, London. —A portrait in words and music of the First World War poet from Gloucester who was also known as the English Schubert. Compiled by Jan Carey. Information call 0171 960 4242.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1999 -- The Ivor Gurney Website is Launched, with daily improvements since!
MARCH 30, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. The Joys and Tears of Love Doctoral Recital featuring Tenor David Kenneth Smith and Pianist Marie Libal-Smith; includes Ivor Gurney songs Tears, Song of Ciabhan, Song of Silence, Lament, Severn Meadows, Sleep, and other songs by Bellini, Duparc, Dowland, Parry, Quilter, and Clara Schumann. At Indiana University Bloomington, School of Music, Ford Hall (corner of Jordan and Third Streets) Free Admission. For more information, contact David Kenneth Smith, or call 256-890-6436.
MARCH 25, Thursday, 7:30 p.m. The Joys and Tears of Love Faculty Recital featuring Tenor David Kenneth Smith and Pianist Marie Libal-Smith; includes Ivor Gurney songs Tears, Song of Ciabhan, Song of Silence, Lament, Severn Meadows, Sleep, and other songs by Bellini, Duparc, Dowland, Parry, Quilter, and Clara Schumann. At the home of the Ivor Gurney Website, Roberts Recital Hall on the Huntsville Campus of the University of Alabama. $5 adults, $2 students. For more information, contact David Kenneth Smith, or call 256-890-6436.
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