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1989

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April 29th, 1989

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GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SEASON 1988/89
Saturday 1 October 1988 at 7.30pm

Sunday 22 January 1989 at 3.00pm

Debussy

The Crossley Clitheroe Concert

Prelude a L’Apres-Midi D’un Faune

Manuel de Fall

El Amor Brujo

Tchaikovsky

Ibert

Flute Concerto

Prokofiev

Ravel

Rhapsodie Espagnole

Tchaikovsky

Conductor
Flute

Odaline de la Martinez

Fantasy Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Violin Concerto No 1in D
Act II from the Nutcracker (Ballet)

Conductor Barry Wordsworth
Violin Stoika Milanova

Ingrid Culliford

Mezzo Soprano

Cynthia Buchan

Leisure Learning Weekend

CONSULT THE CONDUCTOR
Pre-concert conversation with Odaline de la Martinez. 6.00pm in the
County Room.

Sunday 23 October 1988 at 3.00pm
Walton

Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Wieniawski
Dvorak

Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor

Violin

Haydn

Symphony No 85 in B flat (‘La Reine’)

Mahler

Das Lied Von Der Erde

Conductor

Sir Charles Groves

Contralto

Linda Finne

Tenor

Symphony No 8in G

Conductor

Saturday 4 February 1989 at 7.30pm

Jeffrey Lawton

CONSULT THE CONDUCTOR

John Forster

Pre-concert conversation with Sir Charles Groves 6.00pm in the

Bradley Creswick

County Room.

Saturday 5 November 1988 at 7.30pm

Sunday 26 February 1989 at 3.00pm

GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL

Brahms

Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb

Mozart

Symphony No 25 in G minor (K183)

Sibelius

Karelia Suite

Mozart

Requiem

Stravinsky

Firebird (1919)

Conductor

Peter Stark

Conductor
Soprano

Alto

Melanie Armitstead

Piano

Peter Donohoe

Yvonne Howard

Tenor
Bass

Wilfried Boettcher

John Mark Ainsley

Saturday 11 March 1989 at 7.30pm

Alastair Miles

Rachmaninov

Guildford Philharmonic Choir

Delius

Sunday 20 November 1988 at 3.00pm

Smetana

Gloria

Conductor

Civic Concert

Alto

Overture ‘The Bartered Bride’

Symphonic Dances

North Country Sketches

Walton

Vernon Handley

Ameral Gunson

Tenor

James Martin

Bartok

Violin Concerto No 2

Bass

Brahms

Symphony No 4 in E minor

Guildford Philharmonic Choir

Andrew Shore

Conductor Sir Charles Groves
Violin Gyorgy Pauk

Sunday 16 April 1989 at 3.00pm

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COUNCIL CONCERTS 1988/89
CIVIC HALL
SATURDAY 29 APRIL 1989
at 7.30 p.m.

Guildiord
Philharmonic
Orchestra
SIR CHARLES GROVES

Sir Charles Groves

Conductor

Charles Groves was born in London and spent his
boyhood as a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

RICHARD BAKER

After leaving the Royal College of Music he joined the
BBC Opera Unit. From the age of 28 until he relinquished the English National Opera in 1980 he was

Orator

director of his own orchestra or opera company.

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC
CHOIR
Chorus Master: Neville Creed

His years with “‘the BBC Northern Symphony
Orchestra (now the BBC Philharmonic), the
Bournemouth Symphony, Welsh National Opera and
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras were full of
tremendous achievement, many first performances
and much encouragement of young composers,
conductors and soloists. Under his direction the RLPO
made some fine recordings and undertook foreign
tours. Sir Charles accepted the title of ‘Conductor
Laureate’ in 1985.

THIS CONCERT IS PROMOTED BY GUILDFORD

BOROUGH COUNCIL WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT
FROM THE SOUTH EAST ARTS ASSOCIATION.
THE GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE SUPPORT OF ITS
MAJOR SPONSORS: HART BROWN & Co., Solicitors,

BOC, ORPHEUS & BACCHUS, AND LLOYDS BANK, ITS
SPONSORS OF INDIVIDUAL CONCERTS THROUGHOUT
THIS SEASON.

THE GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA &
SOUTH EAST MUSIC TRUST ACKNOWLEDGES THE

Charles Groves is loved by choirs the world over and
has a large choral repertoire. He regularly conducts all
the London Orchestras and many in Europe and
America.

Since 1967 he has been Associate Conductor of the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra appearing with them
regularly in London, abroad and in the recording
studio. In 1987 he accepted the position of Principal
Conductor of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra.
His schedule is very full and adventurous including
many new works and constant travel around the world.

BOC

He still finds time to show a great interest in the
training of young musicians and is proud to be
President of the National Youth Orchestra of Great
Britain. He serves on the Councils of a number of

The College of Law

colleges.

GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE MUSICIANS’ UNION
The Orchestra is also pleased to acknowledge the Corporate
Memberships of:

The Pirbright Research Institute Social Club

Plastic Coatings Ltd
Sterling-Winthrop Group Ltd

Sir Charles Groves was knighted in 1972.

also appears with Julius Drake and Nicholas Daniel in
“Music Menagerie” and takes part in the Shakespeare

anthology “Was There Every Such Stuff?” with Jill
Nott-Bower and Robert Spencer. In addition he is

often asked to compere or narrate at choral and
orchestral concerts.

Richard is a writer too, with six books to his credit.

Three of them are about music, and two of the others
are naval biographies — a reminder that he served at
one time in the Royal Navy. More recently he has

written theatre shows about Gilbert and Sullivan (“Mr.
Gilbert and Mr. SullivanTM) and Giuseppe Verdi (“Viva
Verdi”), both of which have been performed with
success at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford

and elsewhere.
Richard Baker is married and lives in Hertfordshire.
He is a Trustee of the D’Oyley Carte Trust and Haddo
House Hall Trust, a director of Youth and Music and a
governor of the National Youth Orchestra. In 1979 he

was awarded the OBE, and has received honorary

degrees

from

the

Universities

Aberdeen

and

Strathclyde. After many years service in the Royal
Naval

Reserve,

was

awarded

the

Reserve

Decoration.

Richard Baker was born in North West London and

educated at Kilburn Grammar School and Cambridge
University. There, he acted with the Marlow Society,
played the piano for the Footlights, and managed to

graduate in History and Modern Languages.
Music and the spoken word have been among
Richard’s greatest interests since his schooldays and
they have provided the basis of a long and successful
career. He began broadcasting for the BBC in 1950 and
continues to do so frequently, presenting “Melodies
for You” on Radio 2, “Comparing Notes” and “Music
in Mind” on Radio 4, and, from time to time, “Mainly

Guildford Philharmonic Choir

Guildford Philharmonic Choir (formerly the Festival

Choir) was formed in order to perform the major
choral repertoire with the Guildford Philharmonic
Orchestra. The choir made its first recording in 1973 of
Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality with the Guildford

Philharmonic and in 1979 recorded Hadley’s The Trees
So

High

with

the

Philharmonia

Orchestra,

both

recordings being conducted by Vernon Handley.
Neville Creed was appointed Chorus Master to the
Philharmonic Choir in September 1987, when Lynette

for Pleasure” on Radio 3. Television engagements
include the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna and
the first and last nights of the Proms. Richard Baker is
also remembered for many appearances on BBC 2’s

appointed.

“Face

delightful work, Acis and Galatea, and the choir will be

the

Music”,

commentaries

on State
occasions, his narration of the children’s series “Mary,
Mungo and Midge”, a year as presenter of “Omnibus”,
17 years on Radio 4’s “Start the Week” and many other
programmes, not to mention 28 years as

Newman,

the

Choir’'s

accompanist,

was

also

On 24 June, Neville Creed will conduct Handel’s

joining

Goldsmiths

Choral

Union

for

huge

performance of Berlioz Grand Messe des Morts in the

Albert Hall on Saturday 15 July.

a BBC TV

newsreader. He received the Newscaster of the Year

Award on three occasions, and in 1984 was the Variety
Club’s Radio Personality of the Year.

Neville Creed — Chorus Master

Richard has also developed a career outside the broad-

Neville Creed began his conducting career whilst a

casting studios. Briefly an actor before he joined the
BBC, he still relishes contact with a live audience.

of Choral Music at Tiffin School in Kingston upon

choral scholar at Cambridge. He then became Director

Since 1987 he has greatly enjoyed returning to the

Thames, providing choirs for several highly acclaimed

stage to present, under the management of Martin

recordings on radio, television and disc. The Tiffin

McEvoy, “Richard Baker’s Grand Tour to Melody” (a

journey through the world of operetta) in which he gets
the chance to play the piano, and even to sing a little.
He is in demand for his solo autobiographical evening
“Music in My Life” and a variety of other entertainments. Pianist Raphael Terroni and guitarist Caroline
McCausland are his most frequent partners, but he

Boys’ Choir’s recording of Mahler’s 8th Symphony

with the London Philharmonic under Klaus Tennstedt
gained a nomination for a ‘Grammy’ award. During
this time, Neville was also conductor of the Milton
Keynes Chorale. In 1986 he was awarded a scholarship
to study conducting at the Guildhall School of Music
where he won the Ricordi Conducting Prize. He is now

conductor of both the Guildford Philharmonic Choir

Morning Heroes

and the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and is often

Bliss b. 1891 - 1975

employed as a conductor at the Guildhall. He has

Programme note by the composer

conducted many of the main London choirs and also
conducted in Denmark and Italy last Summer. In
September 1988 he won the second prize in the First
International Choral Conducting Competition held in

Italy.

Andromache speak their last words to each other

‘Tristan and Isolde’

before he goes down into the plains to fight Achilles

Wagner 1813 - 1883

Wagner had two sorts of overture at his command. The
full-blooded ‘Tannhauser’ or ‘Meistersinger’ type, and
the more disarming and atmospheric ‘Lohengrin’ and
‘Tristan’ preludes. The Prelude to the first act of

‘Tristan and Isolde’ does discuss the basic subject of
the work, but not necessarily all the musical subject
matter. The longing of passionate love, consuming yet
not fulfilled, is felt throughout the great build-up of the
Prelude. From very dark beginnings where the upward
striving figure is heard, a yearning, almost naggingly
unsatisfying feeling pervades. Several pauses and
whispered arguments heighten this effect, until the
material

begins

its

development.

The

passionate striving is the climax of the prelude, and
soon after the loudest moments the music sinks to
piano. The phrases once again become fragmented and
eventually cellos and basses are left to comment

quietly on the main phrase that has been used.
Their last two pizzicato notes lead directly into Isolde’s
Liebestod. In a strange way, the linking of these two
parts of the opera produces a satisfactory structural
entity. Wagner himself described this great scene in the

following words,

the Great War of 1914-1918. Each of its five
movements describes an aspect of war common to all
ages and to all times.
The first movement, which is spoken by the orator
against a background of music, portrays the poignancy
of the farewell between husband and wife in wartime.
For a famous example I have taken the passage from
Homer’s Iliad, where Hector bids goodbye to his wife
Andromache and to his little son. The three of them
are on the ramparts of Troy and Hector and

Prelude and Liebestod from

musical

‘Morning Heroes’ was written as a tribute to my
brother and all my other comrades in-arms who fell in

‘Over Tristan’s body,

the dying

Isolde awaits what she sees as the blessed fulfilment of

and, as we know, to be killed by him.
In the second movement ‘The City Arming’ I have
tried to recall the spirit of devotion and self sacrifice in
which in August 1914 the many thousands volunteered
for active service. These were later to be known as ‘The
First Hundred Thousand’. The large majority
belonged to my own generation. Few survived and
hence the name ‘The lost generation’. The nearest
parallel I could find was in a poem by Walt Whitman
describing the spirit of New York at the outbreak of the
American Civil War in 1861.

The third movement is in two parts; the first depicts the
thoughts and emotions of a young wife left alone, the
second the thoughts and dreams of a young soldier far
from home.
Women’s voices first sing of a Chinese girl embroider-

ing her cushion of white silk. As she pricks her finger
and a drop of blood falls on the silk, tears fill her eyes,
as she visualizes her husband perhaps wounded on the
icy battlefield. This poem is over 1200 years old, but its
emotion seems to me just as real and true to-day.

The men then sing of the soldier on watch and how his
thoughts stray to his home and those he loves there.

her consuming desire: to be united for ever in limitless

In the fourth movement the subject is heroism in

space, freed from all bonds and fetters — inseparable!”
Isolde’s vocal line is ingeniously continued throughout

battle, and I have chosen Achilles as the classical

the piece by different instruments in the orchestra, so

himself to avenge the death of his friend and comrade

example of manly courage. He is pictured arming

that her notes are never entirely lost in the strange

Patroclus. At the end of this movement the chorus

colours of the orchestral accompaniment.

declaims a roll call of heroes chosen from both sides,
Greeks as well as Trojans. It would be easy for
everyone to put contemporary names to these.

The last movement deals with the 1914-1918 war and
specifically with the Battle of the Somme in which my

brother fell. The orator first speaks a poem by Wilfrid
Owen, which in moving words tells of the young soldier
as he waits for the signal to advance into ‘No man’s
land’ against the enemy’s barrage. Finally the chorus

@’@

INTERVAL

sing a poem by Robert Nichols in which as the sun rises
over the ‘Scarred plateau’ of the Somme, the words
‘Morning Heroes’ occur, from which this Symphony
takes its title.
Arthur Bliss

So spake glorious Hector, and took up his horse-hair crested

Hector’s Farewell to Adromache
So Andromache met Hector now, and with her went the
handmaid bearing in her bosom the tender boy, the little

helmet; and his dear wife departed to her home oft looking
back, and letting fall big tears.
From

the

lIliad,

Book

VI.,

translated

child, Hector’s loved son, like unto a beautiful star. And he
smiled and gazed at his boy silently, and Andromache stood
by his side weeping, and clasped her hand in his, and spake
and called upon his name. ‘Dear my lord, this thy hardihood

permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.)

will undo thee, neither has thou any pity for thine infant boy,
nor for me forlorn that shall soon be thy widow; for soon will

the Achaians all set upon thee and slay thee. But it were

First O songs for a prelude,

better for me to go down to the grave if I lose thee; for never
more will any comfort be mine, when once thou, even thou,
hast met thy fate, but only sorrow. Moreover, I have no father
nor lady mother, and the seven brothers that were mine
within our halls, all these on the selfsame day went within the
house of Hades. Nay, Hector, thou art to me father and lady

mother, yea and brother, even as thou art my goodly
husband. Come now, have pity and abide here upon the
tower, lest thou make thy child an orphan and thy wife a
widow’.
Then great Hector of the glancing helm answered her: ‘Surely
I take thought of all these things, my wife; but I have very sore
shame of the Trojans and Trojan dames with trailing robes, if
like a coward I shrink away from battle. Moreover mine own

W. Leaf (By

The City Arming

Lightly strike on the stretch’d tympanum pride and joy in my
city.
How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue,
How at once with lithe limbs unwaiting a moment she sprang,

(O superb! O Manhattan, my own, my peerless!
O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crises! O truer than

steel!)
How you sprang — how you threw off the costumes of peace
with indifferent hand,
How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife

were heard in their stead,
How you led to the war (that shall serve for our prelude, songs
of soldiers)
How Manhattan drum-taps led.

soul forbiddeth me, seeing I have learnt ever to be valiant and
fight in the forefront of the Trojans, winning my father’s great

Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,

glory and mine own. Yea, of a surety I know this in heart and

and turbulent city,

soul; the day shall come for holy Ilios to be laid low, and
Priam and the folk of Priam of the good ashen spear. Yet doth
the anguish of the Trojan’s hereafter not so much trouble me,
neither Hekabe’s own, neither King Priam’s, neither my
brethren’s, the many and brave that shall fall in the dust
before their foeman, as doth thine anguish in the day when
some mailclad Achaian shall lead thee weeping and rob thee
of the light of freedom. And then shall one say that beholdeth
thee weep: ‘This is the wife of Hector, that was foremost in
battle of the horse-taming Trojans when men fought about
Ilios’. Thus shall one say hereafter, and fresh grief will be
thine for lack of such an husband as thou hadst to ward off the
day of thraldom. But me in death may the heaped-up earth be
covering, ere I hear thy crying and thy carrying into captivity’.
So spake the glorious Hector, and stretched out his arm to his
boy. But the child shrunk crying to the bosom of his fairgirdled nurse, dismayed at his dear father’s aspect, and in
dread at the bronze and horse-hair crest that he beheld
nodding fiercely from the helmet’s top. Then his dear father
laughed

aloud,

and

his

lady-mother;

forthwith glorious

Hector took the helmet from his head, and laid it, all
gleaming, upon the earth; then kissed he his dear son and
dandled him in his arms, and spake in prayer to Zeus and all
the gods: ‘O Zeus and all ye gods, vouchsafe ye that this my
son may likewise prove even as I, pre-eminent amid the
Trojans, and as valiant in might, and be a great king of Ilios.
Then may men say of him. ‘Far greater is he than his father’,

as he returneth home from battle, and may he bring with him
blood-stained spoils from the foeman he hath slain, and may
his mother’s heart be glad’.
So spake he, and laid his dear son in his dear wife’s arms; and
she took him to her fragrant bosom, smiling tearfully. And
her husband had pity to see her, and caressed her with his

hand, and spake and called upon her name: ‘Dear one, I pray
thee be not of over-sorrowful heart; no man against my fate
shall hurl me to Hades; only destiny, I ween, no man hath

escaped, be he coward or be he valiant, when once he hath

Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming

Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
With her million children around her, suddenly,
At dead of night, at news from the south,
Incens’d struck with clinch’d hand the pavement.
A shock electric, the night sustain’d it,
Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour’d out its
myriads,
From the houses then and the workshops, and through all the

doorways,

Leapt they tumultuous.
To the drum-taps prompt,
The young men falling in and arming,
The mechanics arming (the trowel,

the jack-plane,

the

blacksmith’s hammer, tossed aside with precipitation),

The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving
the Court,
The driver deserting his wagon in the street,
The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper,
porter, all leaving.

Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to
wear their accoutrements,

Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musketbarrels,
The white tents cluster in camps, the arm’d sentries around,
the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
Arm’d regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and

embark from the wharves.
(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty,
with their guns on their shoulders!
How I love them; how I could hug them, with their brown

faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover’d with dust!)
The blood of the city up-arm’d! the cry everywhere,
The flags flung from the steeples of churches and all the public
buildings and stores;

The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding,
clearing the way,

been born. But go thou to thine house and see to thine own
tasks, the loom and distaff, and bid thine handmaidens ply
their work; but for war shall men provide and I in chief of all

The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers of the crowd for their

men that dwell in Ilios’.

rumble lightly over the stones.

favourites,
The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along,

Silent cannons, soon to cease your silence.
Soon unlimber’d, to begin the red business;)

Unsuffer’d grief and anger at the Trojans so combin’d.

The tearful parting, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses

His greaves first us’d, his goodly curets on his bosom shin’d,
His sword, his shield that cast a brightness from it like the

(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to
detain him.)

His crested helmet, grave and high, had next triumphant
place

his mother,

War! an arm’d race is advancing; the welcome for battle, no

turning away;

War!

be it weeks, months, or years, an arm’d race is
advancing to welcome it.

(Pass, pass, ye proud brigades, with your tramping sinewy
legs,
With your shoulders young and strong, with your knapsacks
and your muskets;
How elate I stood and watch’d you, where starting off you

march’d!)

Walt Whitman. From ‘Drum-Taps’

11X

moon.

On his curl’d head, and like a star it cast a spurry ray,
About which a bright thicken’d bush of golden hair did play,
Which Vulcan forg’d him for his plume. Thus complete

arm’d, he tried

How fit they were, and if his motion could with ease abide
Their brave instruction.

Then from his armoury he drew his lance, his father’s spear.
Huge, weighty, firm, that not a Greek but he himself alone
Knew how to shake.

Then

from

the

stable

their

bright

withdraws

horse,

Automedon

And Alcymus; put poitrils on and cast upon their jaws
Their bridles, hurling back the reins, and hung them on the
seat.

Vigil

The warrior’s wife is sitting by her window.
With a heavy heart she embroiders a white rose on a cushion

of silk. She pricks her finger!

The fair scourge then Automedon takes up, and up doth get

To guide the horse. The fight’s seat last, Achilles took behind;

Who look’d so arm’d as if the sun, there fall’n from heav’n,
had shin’d.

The blood falls upon the white rose and turns it red.

From the Iliad, Book XIX
translated by George Chapman

Swiftly her thoughts fly to her beloved one, who is at war, and
whose blood perhaps reddens the snow.
She hears the gallop of a horse. Has her beloved come at last?
It is only the tumultuous beating of the heart in her breast.

Lower she bends over the cushion, and with a silver thread
embroiders the tears that have fallen about the reddened
rose.

Li-Tai-Po (702-763)

(By permission of Messrs. Ernest Benn, Ltd.)

The Heroes

Zneas, Prince of Trojans,
Divine Sarpedon,

Prince Ulysses,

The Bivouac’s Flame

Great-souled Archilochus,
Brave Ajax Telamon,

By the bivouac’s fitful flame,

God-like Loamedon,

A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow;

Unconquered Diomede,
Young Alastor,

The tents of the sleeping army, the fields’ and woods’ dim

Young Phyleides,
Young Deiphobus,

The darkness, lit by spots of kindled fire — the silence;

Like a phamtom far or near an occasional figure moving;

Best-beloved Patroclus,
Agememmon, King of Men,

While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous

Hector, brave Hector!

but first I note
outline,

The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be
stealthily watching me);

Hector, like man-killing Mars,
Hector, fierce and grim as any stormy night,

thoughts,

Of life and death — of home and the past and loved, and of
those that are far away;
A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,

By the bivouac’s fitful flame,

Walt Whitman. From ‘Drum-Taps’
18%

Achilles goes forth to Battle
The host set forth, and pour’d his steel waves far out of the

fleet,

And as from air the frosty north wind blows a cold thick sleet,

That dazzles eyes, flakes after flakes incessantly descending;

So thick helms, curets, ashen darts, and round shields, never
ending,

Flow’d from the navy’s hollow womb. Their splendours gave
heav’n’s eye
His beams again. Earth laugh’d to see her face so like the sky;

Arms shin’d so hot, and she such clouds made with the dust

she cast,

She thunder’d, feet of men and horse importun’d her so fast.

In midst of all, divine Achilles his fair person arm’d,
'
His teeth gnash’d as he stood, his eyes so full of fire they

warm’d,

Spring Offensive

Halted against the shade of a last hill,
They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease
And, finding comfortable chests and knees,
Carelessly slept. But many there stood still
To face the stark, blank sky beyond the ridge,

Knowing their feet had come to the end of the world.

Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled

By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge.
For though the summer oozed into their veins
Like the injected drug for their bones’ pains,
Sharp on their souls hung the imminent line of grass,

Fearfully flashed the sky’s mysterious glass.

Hour after hour they ponder the warm field —
And far valley behind, where the buttercups

Had blessed with gold their slow boots coming up,
Where even the little brambles would not yield,

But clutched and clung to them like sorrowing hands;
They breathe like trees unstirred

Till like a cold gust thrilled the little word

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

At which each body and its soul begird

This evening’s concert marks the end of a successful

And tighten them for battle. No alarms

1988/89 Subscription Series concerts and Guildford

Of bugles, no high flags, no clamorous haste —
Only a lift and flare of eyes that faced
The sun, like a friend with whom their love is done,

thanks the help received in the organisation and

O larger shone that smile against the sun,

promotion of the concerts by the South East Arts

Borough Council acknowledges with very grateful

Mightier than his whose bounty these have spurned.

Association,

So, soon they topped the hill, and raced together
Over an open stretch of herb and heather

pupils of the County School and the Red Cross organi-

the

Guildford

Philharmonic

Society,

sation.

Exposed. And instantly the whole sky burned

The

With fury against them; and soft sudden cups

orchestra

undertook

large

number

engagements throughout the South East. This was

Opened in thousands for their blood; and the green slopes
Chasmed and steepened sheer to infinite space.
Of them who running on that last high place

made possible by financial assistance from the South

Leapt to swift unseen bullets, or went up

the orchestra would like to express its appreciation to

East Arts Association and the Musicians’ Union and

On the hot blast and fury of hell’s upsurge,
Or plunged and fell away past this world’s verge,

these bodies.
Sponsorships for concerts were received this season
from Lloyds Bank, BOC Ltd, Orpheus & Bacchus and

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

But what say such as from existence’ brink

Hart Brown & Co, Solicitors. The last mentioned

Ventured but drave too swift to sink,
The few who rushed in the body to enter hell,

company, as a first time sponsor of the arts, received an

And there out-fiending all its fiends and flames

award from the Association for Business Sponsorship
of the Arts. As a result of this award, the orchestra
performed a Classical Road Show project with Hilary

With superhuman inhumanities,
Long famous glories, immemorial shames —
And crawling slowly back, have by degrees

Davan

Regained cool peaceful air in wonder —

Wetton.

The

orchestra

looks

forward

continuing its association with its sponsors next season.

Why speak they not of comrades that went under?

The Subscription Series brochure is at present being

Wilfred Owen
(By permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus)

printed and full details of the scheme will be available
from the orchestra’s office in June.

Dawn on the Somme

Last night rain fell over the scarred plateau,

Subscribers will receive the new brochure as soon as it

And now from the dark horizon, dazzling, flies

is available and anyone wishing for information about

Arrow on fire-plumed arrow to the skies,

the Subscription Series should contact the orchestra’s

Shot from the bright arc of Apollo’s bow;

office: The Lodge, Allen House Grounds, Chertsey

And from the wild and writhen waste below,

Street, Guildford GU1 4HL. Tel: (0483) 444666.

From flashing pools and mounds lit one by one,
Oh, is it mist, or are these companies

Of morning heroes, who arise, arise

SUNDAY 7MAY 1989 at 3.00 pm, Civic Hall, Guildford

Toward the risen god, upon whose brow

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

Burns the gold laurel of all victories,

Mozart

String Quartet in A (K464)

Bridge

Three Idylls

Hero and heroes’ god, th’ invincible Sun?
Robert Nichols
(By permission of the author)

Wolf

Italian Serenade

Beethoven

String Quartetin F
Op 59 No.1.

Tickets: £7.00., £6.00., £5.00.,

£1.00. reduction for subscribers
and University of Surrey Music Students
Promoted in association with the University of Surrey

Music Department
SATURDAY 24 JUNE 1989 at 7.30 pm, Civic Hall,

Guildford
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR perform

ACIS and GALATEA
Tracey Chadwell

Soprano

Ian Partridge

Tenor

Rufus Muller

Tenor

Michael Pearce

Bass

GUILDFORD

PHILHARMONIC

ORCHESTRA

conducted by NEVILLE CREED
Concert sponsored by Laura Ashley
Tickets: £6.00 Balcony £5.00 Stalls. Concessions for

OAP’s/Children/Students. £1 reduction for Virtuoso
card holders. Available from Civic Hall, Guildford,

’phone (0483) 444555

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
Sopranos:

Altos:

Kathleen Aldridge

Tenors:

Marion Andrews

Chris Anderson

Michael Allen

Louise Barnfield

Helen Archibald

Peter Andrews

Caroline Bennett

Dixon Asquith

Iris Ball

Brian Avery

Graham Barwick

Marion Blackburn

David Bennett
Chris Blatchford

Andrew Baxter

Jilly Bradshaw

Juliana Baxter
Iris Bennett

Mary Brown

Alison Bosley

Robert Bromham

David Bowman

Mary Broughton

Jean Brown

Elaine Chapman

Adrian Buxton

Geoff Boyt

Amanda Clayton

Bob Cowell

Michael Bradbeer

Basses:

Gerry Biles

Isobel Charsley

Val Cowan

Toby Crowe

Peter Brackfield

Louise Compton

Sheila Davidson

John Britten

Lesley Corrigan
Rachel Crookenden

Ruth Durbridge

Michael Dawe

Andrea Dombrowe

Ingrid Hardiman

Barbara Doyle

Geoffrey Edge
Geoffrey Forster
George Fordham
Leslie Harfield
Alfred Knowles
Maggie van Koetsveld
Nick Lamb

Karen Hart

Peter Lemmon

Terence Field

Valerie Edwards

Pamela Harman

Elizabeth Lyon

Don Hendy

Celia Embleton

Lesley Haugh

Peter Herbert

Josephine Field

Bruce Macdonald

Marilynn Hill

Laurie James

Mary Fox
Rita Frith

Christopher Morris

Carol Hobbs

Roy Price

Sheila Hodson

Elizabeth Gordon-Clark

Christopher Robinson

Michael Jeffery
Michael Longford

Olanna Horhut

Andrew Ross

Roy Miles

Jenny Hakim

Joy Hunter

Colin Walford

Martin Monier-Williams
Maxwell New

Fiona Davis

Margaret Dare

Diana Forder

Jill Davies

Maggie Guilfoyle

Maura Dearden

Celia Harrisson

Stephen Bryer
Henry Carew
Walter Chattaway
Neil Clayton

Douglas Corr

Elaine Harre

Claire Ingrams

Sheila Hendy

Peter Wilford

Kathleen Isaac

Susan Hinton
Rita Horton

Jeni Young

Helen Lavin

John Parry

Mary Laws

Peter Pearce

Elaine Inglis

Hilary Marsden

Roger Penny

Ruth Joad

Christine Medlow
Brenda Moore

David Ross

Nora Kennea

Barry Norman

John Schlotel

Judith Lewy
Evelyn Macmillan
Sue Maddox

Sheila Morris

Don Skipper

Jean Munro

Philip Stanford

Penny Muray

Tony Theobald

Elizabeth McCracken

Cherry Nurse

Noel Monier-Williams

Andy Thomas

Cynthia Pepler

Alison Munro

Damian Thompson

Anne Philps

Donald Walden

Rosemary Munro

Grace Price

Christine Nicholson

Andrew Whitehouse

Fay Richardson

Ralph Whitehouse

Susan Norton

Carol Rodford

Martin Wilks

Lady Onslow

Grace Rose

Alexandra Palmer

Stephen Wright

Carol Rowe

John Yeomans

Margaret Parry

Catherine Shacklady

Vicky Payne

Gillian Sharpe

Rosalind Plowright

Judy Smith

Jean Radley

Rosemary Smith

Jean Shail
Maureen Shortland

Prue Smith

Corinne Sinclair

Margaret Tingley
Hilary Trigg

Judy Smith

Alison Tumber

Janus Smith

Pauline Vince

Marie Sprott

Jean Whitehouse

Adrienne Warrilow

Carol Wyllyams

Enid Weston

Fiona Yeomans

Barbara Williams
Christine Wilks
Caroline Woodruffe

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Principal Conductor: SIR CHARLES GROVES
Conductor Emeritus: VERNON HANDLEY
Associate Leaders: Hugh Bean and John Ludlow

First Violins:

Cellos:

Contra Bassoon:

General Manager:

Hugh Bean
John Ludlow
Philip Augar

Geoffrey Thomas
John Stilwell

Mark O’Neill

Kathleen Atkins

Horns:

Music Administrator:

Sheila Beckensall
Jennie Goldstein
Robert Hyman
Patricia Lovell
Robert McIntosh
Avril McLellan
Peter Newman
Julian Saxl
Alex Suttie
Ginny Wray

John Franca

Peter Clack
George Woodcock
David Clack
Kevin Abbot
Ron Harris

Peter Holt

Christina Macrae

John Kirby
Martin Heath
Rhian Isaacson
Basses:
Michael Lea

Second Violins:

Jeremy Gordon
Ian Eyres
Peter Box
Kate Saxby
Simon Oliver

Nicholas Maxted Jones

Flutes:

Rosemary Roberts
Andrew Bentley

Timothy Callaghan
Stephen Dinwoodie
Marilyn Downs
Peter Fields
Peter Hembrough
Ruth Knell
Elizabeth Ovenden
Adrienne Sturdy
Paula Tysall
Violas:

John Meek
John Graham
Justin Ward
Jean Burt
Frederick Campbell
Robert Winquist
Paul Appleyard
Karen Demmel

Trumpets:

Michael Hinton

Colin Moore
Denis Edwards
Trombones:

Jim Casey
Christopher Guy

Jane Pickles
Kathy Russell

Bass Trombone:

Piccolo:

Tuba:

Martin Nicholls

Simon Hunt

Kevin Morgan

Oboes:

Timpani:

James Brown
Ann Greene

Roger Blair
Richard Benjafield

Cor Anglais:

Percussion:

Janice Knight

Clarinets:
Wilfred Goddard
Victor Slaymark
Bass Clarinet:

Chris Nall
Keith Bartlett
Steven Lees
Harp:

Julie Allis

Paul Allen
Bassoons:

Nicholas Hunka
Anna Meadows

The audience may be interested to know that the violin

sections are listed in alphabetical order after the first
desk because a system of rotation of desks is adopted in
this orchestra so that all players have the opportunity
of playing ini all positions in the section.

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
THE LODGE
ALLEN HOUSE GROUNDS
CHERTSEY STREET
GUILDFORD GU1 4HL
TEL: 0483 573800

Over 125 years Of service to

The Guildford Philharmonic Society is the ‘Supporters Club’ of the

Surrey MUSiC Lovers

the prime object of encouraging not only its members but also the

(EStabI'Shed In GUIIdfOrd n 1857)

concerts in the Civic Hall by the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra.

PIANOS
an

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra and was originally founded with

general public in the awareness of and to attend the season of

It still has this main object but also the Society assists with the

provision of the finances for considerable extra publicity for the
concert season. The Society is a registered charity and welcomes
the payment of subscriptions by a Deed of Covenant, as payment
by this method also ensures that the subscription is not raised for
four years. Members receive certain benefits in return for a very
modest minimum annual subscription and these facilities include:

Priority booking at the beginning of each concert season

AN ADDITIONAL DISCOUNT
on Subscription Series Tickets

The Society’s newsletter

MUSIC

Special Events such as visits to other concert venues, musical

‘B

evenings in members’ homes and certain social gatherings

during the season
The opportunity to attend rehearsals of the Orchestra by applying

to the Orchestra’s Office

Certain

discount facilities

Record

records and cassettes

Corner,

Godalming

New Members to the Society are always welcome and by being a
member you are also helping to ensure the continued success of
the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra.

The membership rates are as follows:
Annual Subscription (minimum)
Husband/Wife—Joint Subscription (minimum)
Persons under the age of 18 (minimum)

Pianos for hire, music by post

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Retirement Pensioner (minimum)

If you would like to join the Society, Covenant forms are obtainable
from the General Administrator below or you may send a cheque

62 MEADROW, GODALMING

Tel: 22459 (PianOS) or 6414 (MUSiC)

for your subscription together with your name and address to:
Mr R A Forrow

Flat No 3, 6 Mareschal Road,

Guildford, Surrey GU2 5JF Tel: Guildford 575274
Alternatively you may enrol at the Society’s stand in the foyer of

the Civic Hall on concert days.

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ORCHESTRA!

IT° NEEDS you!

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