Summer School Week Five Concerts - 23 August to 31 August

The Peter Maxwell Davies tribute continues with a production of his opera The Lighthouse, in conjunction with the New Century Players from Calarts, LA. This week we also explore the settings of Michelangelo’s poems.

A new commission from David Bedford will bind various elements of the Summer School together in a celebratory performance. The eversimmering flavour of tango and Herbie Flowers’ everfresh Rockshop bring a social mix to round off the 60th anniversary Summer School.

PLEASE NOTE times in the table below are approximate, please check the individual listing for the exact time of performance.

Date	3:30pm	5:00pm	8:15pm	10:30pm
Sat 23	-	-	Dartington Festival Orchestra	-
Sun 24	The Speaking Stone:	Landscapes in Blue	Diotima Quartet	Peter Maxwell Davies
Mon 25	Enduring Magic	Julian Byzantine	Matthew Trusler & Mark Fielding	Graham Ashton, Ann Ellsworth & Juliet Edwards
Tue 26	Gerry Silverman Anthony Phillips	Sally Burgess & Richard Shaw	Andrew Zolinsky	Laura Hanson & Carlos Morera
Wed 27	Gerry Silverman	Settings of Michelangelo	Fine Arts Brass Maxwell Davies	Barn Dance
Thu 28	Tea Time Gig	David Bedford	Tchaikovsky Maxwell Davies	Tango ball
Fri 29	–	Chamber Choir Advanced Composition	Rockshop’s Big Night Out	Summer School Choir
Sat 30	–	–	Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin	–
Sun 31	–	–	Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin	–

Saturday 23 August

Dartington Festival Orchestra

Diego Masson – conductor
Graham Ashton – trumpet
Ann Ellsworth – horn
Pauls Putnins – bass

Liszt
La Notte (no 2 of Trois
Odes Funèbres)
Maxwell Davies
Strathclyde concerto No 3
Shostakovich
Suite on Verses of
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Op145a

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18 reserved/£13 unreserved

Sunday 24 August

The Speaking Stone: Michelangelo, Shostakovich

The Speaking Stone:
Michelangelo,
Shostakovich
(and others) and
the Art of Dissent

Gerry Silverman lecture

3.45pm
SOLAR
Admission FREE

Landscapes in Blue

Elena Riu – piano

Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness
Peter Sculthorpe
Mountains
Janácek
In the Mists
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Sometimes I feel like
a motherless child
Aaron Copland
No 1 from Piano Blues
Stephen Montague
You don’t know the
troubles I’ve seen

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

Diotima Quartet

Naaman Sluchin – violin
Yun-Peng Zhao – violin
Franck Chevalier – viola
Pierre Morlet – cello

Haydn
String Quartet in Eb
Op20 No 1
Maxwell Davies
Naxos String Quartet No 5
“Lighthouses of Orkney and
Shetland”
Beethoven
String Quartet No 15
in A minor Op132

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18 reserved/£13 unreserved

Peter Maxwell Davies and Waves from the Pacific: Part II

New Century Players

A programme of ensemble
music by Peter Maxwell Davies,
including The Bairns of Brugh,
and Our Father Whiche in Heaven
Art, and also music by Liza
Lim, Manuel Enriquez, Andrew
Tholl and James Tenney.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5 unreserved

Monday 25 August

Enduring Magic

The Spell of Italy
and the Spirit of
Michelangelo,
1519 to 2003

Gerry Silverman lecture

3.45pm
SOLAR
Admission FREE

Julian Byzantine- guitar

Maximo Diego Pujol
Elegia por la muerte
de un tangero
Confuseta
Melancolia
Epilogo
Nikita Koshkin
Usher Waltz, Op29
Mikis Theodorakis
3 Epitafio
Peter Sculthorpe
From Kakadu
José Luis Merlin
Three Movements from
Suite del Recuerdo
Isaac Albeniz
Puerta de Tierra
Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

Matthew Trusler & Mark Fielding

Matthew Trusler
violin
Mark Fielding
piano

Maxwell Davies
Violin Sonata (world premiere)
Grieg
Sonata for piano and
violin in C minor Op45
Prokofiev (arr Fichtenholz)
Cinderella Suite
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No 1
in D major Op19

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18 reserved/£13 unreserved

Graham Ashton, Ann Ellsworth & Juliet Edwards

Graham Ashton
trumpet
Ann Ellsworth
horn
Juliet Edwards
piano

Maxwell Davies
Trumpet Sonata
Maxwell Davies
Sea Eagle
Graham Ashton
New work
Maxwell Davies
Trumpet Sonatina
Interspersed with
readings of poetry by
George Mackay Brown.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5 unreserved

Tuesday 26 August

Gerry Silverman Lecture

Britten and
Michelangelo on Love:
The Seven Sonnets
Gerry Silverman Lecture

1.30pm
SOLAR
Admission FREE

Anthony Phillips lecture

Prokofiev, Russia
& the lure of the
homeland
Anthony Phillips lecture

3.45pm
SOLAR
Admission FREE

Sally Burgess & Richard Shaw

Sally Burgess
mezzo-soprano
Richard Shaw
piano

A recital of well-known operatic
arias including the Habanera
from Bizet’s Carmen and Una
Voce Poco Fa from Il Barbiere
di Seviglia by Rossini, with
songs by Duparc, Chabrier and
Mahler, and some numbers by
Gershwin and Jerome Kern.

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

Andrew Zolinsky – piano

Haydn
Sonata in B minor Hob XV1:32
Maxwell Davies
Five pieces Op2
Unsuk Chin
Six Etudes
Liszt
Il penseroso (from ‘Les
Années de pèlerinage’)
Nuages gris
Sonata in B minor

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18 reserved/£13 unreserved

Laura Hanson & Carlos Morera

Laura Hanson
voice & percussion
Carlos Morera
piano & bandoneon

A broad fan of Argentinean
folklore styles, including Tango,
with the unique conception of
La Mariposa Tango.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5 unreserved

Wednesday 27 August

Flesh Become Word

Deciphering
Michelangelo the Poet
in his own context
Gerry Silverman lecture

3.30pm
SOLAR
Admission FREE

Settings of Michelangelo

Vocal students from the
Summer School accompanied
by Richard Shaw.

A recital of songs exploring
the poetry of Michelangelo
di Buonarotti, including
works by Britten, Wolf,
Strauss, Rheinberger,
Wolf and Dallapiccola.

5.00pm
STUDIO 3
£7.50 unreserved

Fine Arts Brass

Simon Lenton – trumpet
Angela Whelan – trumpet
Chris Parkes – horn
Katy Jones – trombone
Sam Elliott – tuba

A typically varied programme
from Fine Arts Brass, from
Renassiance to Jazz Fusion
including music by Elliott
Carter, Maxwell Davies,
James MacMillan, Michael
Tilson Thomas, Mozart and
Chick Corea.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18 reserved/£13 unreserved

Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse

Mark Menzies – musical director
Peter Harris – director
Sophie Neil – designer

A staged production of
Maxwell Davies’ acclaimed
work of music theatre, with
singers from the Royal Academy
of Music and instrumentalists
from the California Institute
of the Arts in LA.

This production is supported
by The Transatlantic Arts
Consortium.

8.15pm
BARN THEATRE
£13 unreserved

Barn Dance

The Barnacles
Val Orchin Caller

Another great Rockshop event.
Loosen up and mosey on
down for the time of your life.
No previous experience is
necessary. Just do what you’re
told and everything’ll be alright. *Please note early start time.

10.00pm
STUDIO 31
For Summer School
participants only

Thursday 28 August

Tea-time Gig

Rockshop Big Band
& Rockshop Choir

Basie, Ellington, Glenn Miller,
Elvis, Bill Haley, Stevie Wonder,
Blues Brothers and more. Pure
swing. Jitterbug contest,
fabulous prizes.

3.30pm
GREAT LAWN, DARTINGTON
Admission FREE

David Bedford – Wake into the Sun

Commissioned by the
Dartington International
Summer School.

‘There is beautiful work for us
to do and we shall at last wake
into the sun’ Kenneth Patchen.
This extraordinary new work
uses the beautiful Dartington
gardens to magical effect,
beginning with processions
by the orchestra from distant
points to the central Tiltyard.
Throughout, soloists improvise
over the orchestra, and the
piece ends with a complex
canon with all instruments
playing the same music.

5.00pm
DARTINGTON HALL GARDENS
Admission FREE

Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

Alexander Oliver director

The story of a selfish hero who
lives to regret his indifferent
rejection of a beautiful but
provincial admirer, Tatyana,
and his careless incitement
of a fatal duel with his friend,
Lensky.

Retaining much of Pushkin’s
original poetry, Tchaikovsky’s
dramatic music pierces deeply
into the tragic relationship of
love and fate.

Tonight’s performance will
be given by students on the
Advanced Opera course
accompanied by the Dartington
Festival Orchestra and conducted
by students from the Advanced
Conducting class.

This performance is dedicated
to the memory of Pricilla Mitchell. *Please note early start time

7.30pm
GREAT HALL
£23 reserved/£18 unreserved

Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse

Please see Wednesday 28
August, 8.15pm concert for
details.

8.15pm
BARN THEATRE
£13 unreserved

Tango Ball

The culmination of a weeklong
course directed by Laura
Hansen and Carlos Morera.

10.30pm
STUDIO 6
For Summer School
participants only

Friday 29 August

Chamber Choir

Jeremy Walker director
John Flinders piano
Fine Arts Brass

Gesualdo
O vos omnes
Peter Maxwell Davies
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Victoria
O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen
O Magnum Mysterium
Purcell
Thou knowest, Lord, the
secrets of our hearts
Canzona
Edmund Jolliffe
(New work)
Monteverdi
Cantate Domino
John Woolrich
The Years Glide Swiftly
(after J.S. Bach)
John Tavener
A Hymn to the Mother of God
G. Gabrieli
Buccinate in neomenia tuba
à 19

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

Advanced Composition

New Century Players
A performance of works
composed by the students
on the Advanced Composition
course, taught by Peter
Maxwell Davies.

5.00pm
STUDIO 3
£7.50 unreserved

Rockshop’s Big Night Out

Herbie Flowers Director
Rockshop 08’s Grand Finale
Concert, showcasing what the
students have been up to all
week. At least fifty original
songs. Phwoar! *Please note early start time

7.30pm*
STUDIO 31
For Summer School
participants only

Summer School Choir, Dartington Festival Orchestra

Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Sea Elegy
Prokofiev
Alexander Nevsky
Paul Daniel director
Sally Burgess mezzo-soprano
Ian Forbes bagpipes

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18 reserved/£13 unreserved

Saturday 30 August

Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

Alexander Oliver director
Please see Thursday 23rd August,
7.30pm concert for details. *Please note early start time

7.30pm
GREAT HALL
£23 reserved, £18 unreserved
Not included in the
Summer School package

Sunday 31 August

Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

Alexander Oliver director
Please see Thursday 23rd August,
7.30pm concert for details. *Please note early start time

7.30pm
GREAT HALL
£23 reserved, £18 unreserved
Not included in the Summer
School package