Music on Thursdays
at Leatherhead Methodist Church
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in Church Road |
Season Sponsor: Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
Diminished 5th appear courtesy of the Music Department of the University of Chichester
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Programme
Howard Goodall (b1958)
The Lord is My Shepherd (1994) John Rutter (b1945) The Lord Bless you and keep you (1981) John Dowland (1563-1626) Flow My Tears Soloist: Tom Underwood Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Ave Verum Corpus in D major K618 (1791) Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) Text: Walter John (Jack) de la Mare (1873-1956) Silver Op 30 No 2 (1922) Soloist: Stephanie Drake Ivor Novello (1893-1951) from The Dancing Years (1950) I Can Give you the Starlight Guest Soloist: Kiera Smitheram Jason Howland (b1971) Text: Mindi Dickstein from the 2005 musical Little Women Here Alone Soloist: Oliver Franklin (Baron) Andrew Lloyd Webber (b1948) Text: Charles Hart (b1961) & (Sir) Richard Stilgoe (b1943) from the 1986 music The Phantom of the Opera All I Ask of You Duet: Stephanie and Oliver Wallace Willis (c1820-c1880, a freed slave) Steal Away (before 1862) Concert duration: 40-45 minutes |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Diminished 5th:
Soprano: Stephanie Drake is a classical soprano, studying BMus Vocal Performance at the University of Chichester. While she covers mostly classical and operatic repertoire, she also sings in a numerous variety of styles. As well as being in Diminished 5th, Stephanie is also part of the University’s Chamber Choir, and has previously been a part of Surrey Youth Choir. Stephanie hopes to pursue a career in Opera and solo classical performance.
Mezzo Soprano: Katie Utting studies BMus Vocal Performance and covers a wide range of repertoire. As well as working with Diminished 5th, Katie takes an active interest in theatre and will be performing in Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Sleeping Beauty during December 2018.
Tenor: Oliver Franklin studies BMus Vocal Performance, focusing on Musical Theatre repertoire. As well as singing with Diminished 5th, he is also tenor and arranger for Teatro Classico and works as a Musical Director for RARE Productions in Andover, Basingstoke, Newbury, Portsmouth and Reading. He is currently in the process of writing an original musical and is entering his third year of partnership with DU/AL Films as a composer.
Baritone: Tom Underwood is a baritone studying BA Music Performance at the University of Chichester. Working mainly with classical music, but also covering jazz and musical theatre, Tom hopes to begin a career in professional choral and solo classical singing. Outside of Diminished 5th, Tom largely has experience within large choral settings such as Taplow Youth Choir, his university Chamber Choir, and recently the National Youth Choir.
Piano: Lauren Potiphar studies BMus Performance and is being coached in both piano and voice. As well as working with Diminished 5th, she is exploring a range of solo repertoire from all over the world and is developing her skills as an accompanist. Following her music studies she hopes to become a primary school teacher and help children develop a love of music.
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Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
Howard Goodall
The Lord is My Shepherd
This is the recording of Goodall's setting used with the opening credits of the TV programme The Vicar of Dibley, with those soaring views from the M40 as it comes out of the Chilterns and onto the open plains of Oxfordshire. The singers are the Cathedral Choir of Wells Cathedral:
The Lord is My Shepherd
This is the recording of Goodall's setting used with the opening credits of the TV programme The Vicar of Dibley, with those soaring views from the M40 as it comes out of the Chilterns and onto the open plains of Oxfordshire. The singers are the Cathedral Choir of Wells Cathedral:
John Rutter
The Lord Bless you and keep you
John Rutter conducts the Festival Adult Choir of the Mark Thallander Foundation Choir Festival, in The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles California. The Foundation runs up to six choir festivals each year across the United States. This recording comes from the 2008 Southern Callifornia Festival:
John Dowland
Flow My Tears
Next we hear the celebrated counter-tenor Andreas Schall sing Flow my tears, accompanied by a lute.
You will see the music, the text, and the lute notation here:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave Verum Corpus
You will have to be a little patient with this recording, but it is worth it in the end for the wonderful effect of a large choir singing in public, in a beautiful space. This is Turin's Coro INCONCTROCANTO, singing as a flash mob, (un Flash Mob corale) in the city's Galleria Subalpina, during the choir's 20th year, 2013:
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Text: Walter John (Jack) de la Mare
Silver
Dame Felicity Lott takes the song at a far gentler pace than most of the online performances I have heard.
See whether you agree that she is right to do so. The pianist is Graham Johnson:
Ivor Novello
from The Dancing Years
I Can Give you the Starlight
The Dancing Years is set in Vienna in the period from just before the First World War, through what we now call the Inter-War Years, to 1938. It was first performed in March 1939. In this scene, Gisèle Préville (as Maria Zeitler) sings the song I Can Give you the Starlight to Dennis Price (as Rudi Kleber):
Jason Howland ♦ Text: Mindi Dickstein
from the 2005 musical Little Women
Here Alone
Howland & Dickstein's musical Little Women is based on the Louisa M Alcott novel of the same name.
Jane Kenney (Marmie) sings Here Alone from a production by St Paul's Performing Arts, at St Paul's High School, Bristol:
(Baron) Andrew Lloyd Webber
Text: Charles Hart (b1961) & (Sir) Richard Stilgoe
from the 1986 music The Phantom of the Opera
All I Ask of You
A lovely performance, a beautiful Lloyd Webber setting of a Hart/Stilgoe text. Here are Josh Groban and Kelly Clarkson:
Wallace Willis (c1820-c1880, a freed slave)
Steal Away (before 1862)
From a multi-millionaire Baron to a freed slave! We shall hear the National Taiwan University Chorus, conducted by Jennifer Yang-Chin Chi. The arrangement is by Moses Hogan:
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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