Calendar of Events

Johann Sebastian Bach
St JOHN PASSION

Evangelist - Thomas Hobbs Christus - Jimmy Holliday
Amy Haworth - soprano
Matthew Venner - counter-tenor
Thomas Cockett - tenor
Alexander Learmonth - bass
St Peter’s Church Choir and Friends
London Concertante Chamber Orchestra
conducted by
Sylvia Pritchard

The St John is the more dramatic of Bach’s two famous Passion settings and will be sung, appropriately on Palm Sunday evening, by an extended St Peter’s Choir and brilliant young soloists. The orchestral accompaniment will be provided by the London Concertante Chamber Orchestra, who are coming on a Sunday especially to play for this. Sylvia Pritchard will be conducting this performance, which is being given in memory of her husband, Tom, who died last year.

Tickets: £10

“THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN”
A Celebration of the Four Seasons
in Words and Music
Divertimento Ensemble

Divertimento entertained us last season with two Clarinet Quintets, thoroughly enjoyed by those who attended. We have asked them back but with a performance that is a bit different. The quartet will be joined by an actor reading excerpts from literature and poems to celebrate gardening. This is obviously appropriate for the many lovely gardens and keen gardeners in Budleigh Salterton.

Tickets: £10

The Choristers of Exeter Cathedral
directed by
Andrew Millington and Stephen Tanner

The senior choristers, both the boys and the girls, from Exeter Cathedral will sing a programme of church and secular music including works by Fauré, Purcell and Howard Goodall. There will also be some organ solos.
It is a few years since St Peter’s welcomed the cathedral choir and we are delighted to have them back again. They are, of course, different youngsters from those we welcomed last time but we can be sure they will be equally entertaining.

Tickets: £10

Elizabeth Drury - soprano
accompanied by
Brendan Ashe

Elizabeth Drury’s home is in Topsham. She is currently at the Royal College of Music studying singing and saxophone. She is becoming well known as a recitalist and oratorio singer. Her programme will include the cantata Elvira, anima mia by Vivaldi, Mozart’s solo motet Exsultate, jubilate and some Mozart songs.

Tickets £10

A Musical Entertainment by
Exeter School
Musical Director: Simon Foxall

The annual visit by the talented youngsters from Exeter School is welcomed by their parents and our local audience. As before their programme will feature their chamber orchestra, some solo items and the chamber choir. It is too early to be able to quote their programme but rest assured that it will be as entetaining and as exuberant as ever. Exeter School has an enviable reputation for its musical studies and performance. As always St Peter’s Music is pleased to be able to support the work of these young people.

Tickets; £6

25th July - - 2nd August
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON
MUSIC AND DRAMA FESTIVAL

The fourth Budleigh Salterton Festival will be held during this period. St Peter’s Music is pleased to support that Festival which will be advertised separately by the festival organisation. St Peter’s Church will host at least four events, including a performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto and the last event which is to be a double bill of Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale and William Walton’s Façade. Click here for further details.

LONDON CONCERTANTE
an ensemble of 7 players

Canon in D Pachabel
Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 J S Bach
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Handel
Viola Concerto in G Telemann
Autumn and Winter from The Four Seasons Vivaldi

Last year we were thrilled by the playing of the London Concertante. We had to have them back again! You will note that they are also accompanying the St John Passion in the first concert of this season. Under the dynamic leadership of international recording artist, Adam Summerhayes, the ensemble gives around 100 concerts a year, both in the UK and overseas.Their programme in this concert contains several pieces well-known to all music lovers.

Tickets: £10

Come and Sing
Haydn’s CREATION
Soloists - to be announced
Mark Perry- organ
conducted by
Sylvia Pritchard

It is some years since we, that is St Peter’s Music and Sylvia Pritchard, held a Come and Sing Day. We will rehearse Haydn’s great oratorio Creation during the afternoon and perform it the same evening. The text is derived from the biblical story of the creation and is told by the Archangels Raphael, Uriel and Gabriel but includes extracts from the Psalms and Milton’s Paradise Lost. There are some great choruses like The Heavens are Telling and Achieved is the Glorious Work.

Come and sing yourself. Or come to the evening performance if you don’t think you are a singer!

Tickets: £5
Singers See below about how to book in.
Audience tickets from usual outlets

BOOKING IN AS A SINGER
Send your name/address/telephone number or Email address and your voice part and whether you need a copy or not

to the contact address shown on the Contact Us page.
with your cheque for £5, made payable to St Peter’s Music.

Bring your own copy if you have one or add £1 for the hire of a copy to your cheque.

Please note that as this is a long work to cover in an afternoon, there will be a preliminary rehearsal at 7.pm on Wednesday 15th October at St Peter’s Church and the afternoon rehearsal on the 18th at 2.30pm.

Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided during the Saturday afternoon.