Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle - Winchester Music Club

Rossini

Petite Messe Solennelle

Puccini

I Crisantemi

WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB AND ORCHESTRA

WINCHESTER COLLEGE NEW HALL

(with the kind permission of the Headmaster)

Saturday 15 March 2008 at 7.30pm

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Winchester Music Club wishes to acknowledge the support given to this concert by:
The Headmaster of Winchester College, Dr Ralph Townsend
Paul Provost for accompanying at rehearsals

NOTICES

Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off for the duration of the concert

Please take note of the nearest emergency exits to your seats

Smoking is not permitted in New Hall

A licensed bar will be available during the interval

WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB was founded by George Dyson in 1925 shortly after his appointment as Master of
Music at Winchester College. Sir George, as he later became, was very active in the music life of Winchester
and devoted a great deal of his time to WMC and the Winchester and County Music Festival, as it then was.
Through his influence WMC and Winchester College Glee Club began the practice of singing one of the great
choral works in Winchester Cathedral each year, a custom which continues with a concert every Autumn. In
addition the WMC performs a concert in New Hall, Winchester College each Spring. The current Master of
Music, Nicholas Wilks, is also the Music Director of WMC and conducts tonight’s programme. WMC is very
grateful for the support which it has received from all the Masters of Music since Sir George’s tenure of office.
The Governing Body has given further support in practical ways by making available Music School for
rehearsals and New Hall for concerts. This generosity is very greatly appreciated.

As you will see from the back cover of this programme we are giving a concert on 31st May in
Winchester Cathedral featuring the world famous soprano Dame Kiri te Kanawa. Winchester Music
Club is excited by the prospect of singing with such an outstanding performer. I hope that you will
all be able to support the Club at this wonderful opportunity to show our skills.

Christopher Green (Chairman)

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WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB

Winchester College New Hall
Saturday 15 March 2008

Puccini

I Crisantemi

Brian Howells leader of the Orchestra

Rossini

Petite Messe Solennelle

Katherine Bond Soprano
Sarah Shorter Alto
Lynton Atkinson Tenor

Jamie Hall Bass Baritone
Malcolm Archer Harmonium

Paul Provost Piano

Nicholas Wilks conductor

There will be one interval
The concert will end at approximately 9:45pm

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I Crisantemi Puccini

Puccini claimed to have written Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) in a single night in 1890. It was originally conceived as an
elegy for string quartet in memory of the Duke of Aosta. The work is infused with Puccini’s characteristic melancholy,
and he later used both its main themes as material for the tragic ending of his opera Manon Lescaut. The music also has
a distinctly Elgarian note to it, however. What we are given is not quite a fully fledged tragedy, but a poignant sense of
fleeting sadness and regret.

Petite Messe Solennelle Rossini

Kyrie - Christe – soloists and chorus
Gloria in excelsis Deo - Laudamus - soloists and chorus
Gratias agimus tibi - alto, tenor and bass
Domine Deus - tenor
Qui tollis peccata mundi - soprano and alto
Quoniam tu solus sanctus - bass
Cum Sancto Spiritu – chorus

INTERVAL

Credo - soloists and chorus
Crucifixus - soprano
Et resurrexit - soloists and chorus
Et vitam venturi seculi – chorus
Preludio Religioso during Offertory –piano and harmonium
Sanctus - soloists and chorus
O salutaris hostia - soprano
Agnus Dei - alto and chorus

Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy, on 29 February, 1792. His father was horn player and trumpeter in various small bands
and orchestras, and his mother an opera singer. Rossini too developed a love for music and the theatre. Although by all
accounts academically lazy, he found singing and playing music easy and was a much requested boy soprano. By his teens
could play viola and horn, and had become a first-rate harpsichord-player and pianist. At 18, while at the Conservatorio
de Bologna, he composed his first opera, a one-act comedy for La Fenice in Venice and within three years, following the
enormous success of Tancredi (1812), and The Italian Girl in Algiers (1813), he had won fame throughout Italy and
secured an international reputation. In 1823 he moved to Paris where he was appointed director of the Théâtre-Italien.

By the age of 37 he had written over 40 operas, but, in 1829, after completing William Tell, he retired, a wealthy man,
to live in Italy, and with the exception of his other significant religious work, the Stabat Mater, he effectively gave up

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composing. However, following a long depressive illness, he returned to Paris in 1855, where his health and inspiration
to compose returned. He produced what he called his Péchés de Vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), a collection of light-hearted
pieces for piano, songs and works for small ensembles, which he had performed at private occasions, attended by most
of the important public and artistic figures in Paris at the time, who were attracted by Rossini’s wit, hospitality and love
of good food.

The Petite Messe Solennelle is the most substantial of the works written during these later years, and indeed it is one of
the most remarkable compositions of his whole career, demonstrating his ability to write beautiful melodies (often
frankly operatic in character), an unfailing sense of colour and drama, and great contrapuntal skill. Its title exemplifies
Rossini’s characteristic wit, as it is of course neither petite nor particularly solemn. The music ranges from hushed
intensity to boisterous high spirits, and abounds in the memorable tunes and rhythmic vitality for which Rossini became
justly famous.

Initially, the instrumental scoring of the Mass for two pianos and harmonium seems strange, but given its context as a
salon piece (it was first performed at the consecration of a private chapel in March 1864 by a choir of 12 singers,
including the four soloists), such instrumentation is not unusual and although. Rossini was later persuaded to orchestrate
it, the original version for voices, piano and harmonium, which is being performed today, is considered the more
effective setting.

Rhythm and modulation play an important part in the opening Kyrie , for the central part of which, the Christe Eleison,
Rossini adopted a deliberately archaic style, echoing the 16th century church music of Palestrina and his contemporaries.
The rhythmic excitement of the Kyrie continues into the Gloria, which is followed by four extended solo movements,
operatic arias in all but name. The magnificent tenor solo Domine Deus recalls the Cujus animam from his earlier Stabat
Mater. The final section, Cum sancto spiritu, is an extended fugue and a real tour de force of musical craftsmanship,
which reflects the thorough classical training in harmony and counterpoint he received at the Bologna Conservatory. In
the Credo Rossini ingeniously uses the word ‘credo’ as a unifying motif to which he repeatedly returns. This section of
the Mass concludes with another brilliant fugue for the chorus, to the words ‘Et vitam venturi saeculi, Amen’. The O
salutaris (a hymn, not part of the Proper of the Mass) provided Rossini with an opportunity to explore the unusual
harmonies he was using in the, even today modern-sounding, piano pieces among his last ”Sins”. The final, luminescent
Agnus Dei for contralto (Rossini’s favourite voice) and choir brings the work to a dramatic close.

Rossini’s inscription in the introduction to the first version of his score reads:
“PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE, in four voices with accompaniment of two pianos and harmonium (a small reed organ)
composed during my country stay at Passy. Twelve singers of 3 sexes – men, women, and castrati – will be enough for its
performance: that is, eight for the chorus, four for the soloists, a total of twelve cherubim. … Lord, rest assured, …that
(my cherubim) will sing properly and con amore your praises and this little composition which is, alas, the last mortal
sin of my old age.”

He ended the manuscript: “Dear God, here it is finished, this poor little Mass. Have I written sacred music or damned
music? You well know I was born to write comic opera. It contains scant learning, but all my heart. Praise be to you,
and grant me entry into Paradise. G Rossini – Passy 1863”.

Whatever his intent, he has left us with a unique work in the religious repertoire.

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PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE

KYRIE KYRIE

Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy on us.

Christe eleison. Christ, have mercy on us.

Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy on us.

GLORIA GLORIA

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of
voluntatis. Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te. good will. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we adore Thee,
we glorify Thee.

Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam. We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory.

Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty. O
Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Lord Jesus Christ, the onlybegotten Son! O Lord God,
Agnus Dei, Filius Patris. Lamb of God, Son of the Father,

Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui Who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.
sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis. Who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us.

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus. Tu solus Dominus. Tu solus For Thou only art holy. Thou only art Lord. Thou only, O
Altissimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Jesus Christ, art most high, together with the Holy Ghost,
Dei Patris. Amen. in the glory of God the Father, Amen.

CREDO CREDO

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of
coeli e terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium. heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
Credo in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, Filium Dei I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the onlybegotten Son
unigenitum. Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Deum
de Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero. made. Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down
Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri: per quem
omnia facta sunt. Qui propter nos homines et propter
nostram salutem descendit de coelis. Et incarnatus est de
Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine: Et homo factus est.

sepultus est. Pilate, and was buried.
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Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas. and ascended into heaven. He sitteth at the right hand of

Et ascendit in coelum: sedet ad dexteram Patris. Et iterum
venturus est cum gloria, judicare vivos et mortuos: cujus

qui ex Patre Filioque procedit. Qui cum Patre et Filio I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and giver of life,
Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who
Prophetas: Credo in unam sanctam catholicam et together with the Father and the Son is adored and

peccatorum. Et exspecto resurrectionem holy catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism
mortuorum. Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen. for the remission of sins. And I await the resurrection of
the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen
SANCTUS
SANCTUS
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Osanna in excelsis. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts.
Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini. Osanna in excelsis Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.
O SALUTARIS Hosanna in the highest.

O salutaris hostia quae coeli pandis ostium. O SALUTARIS

O saving Host, opening the gate of heaven,

AGNUS DEI AGNUS DEI

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the
Agnus Dei: qui tollis peccata mundi: Dona nobis pacem. world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the
world, grant us peace.

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TONIGHT’S PERFORMERS

Katherine Bond. Katherine graduated from Cardiff University with First Class

Honours in Music, and from the Royal Academy of Music Opera course with a DipRAM,
supported by The Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Alfreda Hodgson Award for
Young Concert Artists from Making Music. She studies with Noelle Barker and has par-
ticipated in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau, Robert Tear, Barbara Bonney and
Renée Fleming.

Solo concert appearances include Bach’s Magnificat (Snape Maltings Concert Hall),
Darlow’s Music for Holy Week (première for the London Handel Festival), Mozart’s
Requiem (St Martin in the Fields & Dunblane Cathedral), Scarlatti Stabat Mater (St
John’s Smith Square) and Mahler Symphony No.4 with Orchestra of the City at St
Augustine’s Queensgate. For the Omaggio Festival, (RA/South Bank) she performed
Berio’s Sequenza III in concert and on Radio 3’s In Tune and she guests on the recently
released Copland & his Contemporaries CD with the Choir of New College Oxford. Opera
performances include Lucietta in Wolf-Ferrari’s I quattri rusteghi, Papagena Die Zau-
berflöte and title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon (all with RAO), as well as Aricie
Hippolyte et Aricie with Welsh National Youth Opera, Cis Albert Herring with Britten-
Pears Young Artists, Genius Der Stein der Weisen with Garsington Opera, Clomiri Imeneo with Cambridge Handel Opera
and Rose Lakmé with Opera Holland Park.

Sarah Shorter. Sarah Shorter read English at Clare College, Cambridge, where

she held a choral scholarship with the chapel choir. Directed by Tim Brown, she sang
concerts with the choir in Austria, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Japan and all over
the United States, appearing in the Munich Opera Festival with Ivor Bolton on several
occasions, in the BBC Proms under Sir John Eliot Gardener and making several record-
ings with, among others, John Rutter and Renee Jacobs. She also features as a soloist
on Tarik O’Regan’s CD, ‘Voices’. Since graduating in 2005, she has sung with various
groups, including the English Voices, Illuminati, Concerto Carissimi and The Oxford
Choir. In 2007, she was a finalist in the Hampshire Singer of the Year competition. Re-
cent engagements have included the role of Emira in Hasse’s opera, ‘Siroe Re di Per-
sia’, solos in Handel’s ‘Messiah’, Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’, the Nelson Mass, Rossini’s ‘Petite
Messe Solonelle’ and the Mozart Requiem. She sings at St. Pancras Parish Church in
London and continues to learn with Nicola-Jane Kemp.

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Lynton Atkinson. Lynton received his early musical training under George Guest

in the choir of St. John’s College Cambridge. Having graduated in Music, he continued his
vocal studies with David Mason and Gita Denise. He won the Richard Tauber Competition,
which enabled him to study in Vienna with Anton Dermota, and was a prizewinner in the
Alfredo Kraus International Singing Competition.

In his solo recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Virgin Classics, Meridian, Telarc, BBC TV and
Radio, Channel 4 and Classic FM he has appeared with artists such as Dame Janet Baker,
Jose Carreras, Richard Bonynge, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Edward Downes, Richard
Hickox, René Jacobs and the King’s Consort. Recordings include Respighi, Vivaldi, The
Messiah, Monteverdi, Strauss, Verdi and Lehar. Lynton has been a regular guest soloist in
broadcasts with the BBC Concert Orchestra. In opera Lynton made his debut at the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden in Fidelio and having created the role of Sir Ywain in Sir
Harrison Birtwistle's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, became a contract principal artist.
Since then he has sung the principal roles in L'Elisir d'Amore, La Traviata, Pearl Fishers,
Don Giovanni, Zauberflöte, Entführung, and The Merry Widow, throughout the UK,
Europe, including Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Turin, Trieste, Dublin and Berlin.

With Sir Charles Mackerras he recorded Entführung, filmed in Istanbul in a production by Elijah Moshinsky and available
on a BBC DVD. Lynton's concert career has taken him to many major centres and European Festivals including
performances with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, the Hallé and Ulster
Orchestras, the Göttingen Festival and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in the Musikverein
Vienna, with the RAI orchestra in Milan, and Monteverdi‘s Vespers in such venues as Westminster Abbey, Winchester and
Norwich Cathedrals, Cologne's Philharmonie, Berlin's Neues Schauspielhaus, Disney Hall in Los Angeles and at the
Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals. In the USA he sang the title roles in Monteverdi Orfeo and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse with
Boston Baroque, to critical acclaim.

He sang Elgar's Dream of Gerontius and The Apostles with the Bonn Symphony Orchestra and Haydn's The Seasons in the
Stresa Festival. With René Jacobs Lynton performed the St. Matthew Passion and sang Britten's St Nicholas to acclaim in
Berlin's Konzerthaus. Having sung twice at the Three Choirs Festival, Lynton has performed Elijah both with Willard White
and also with the CBSO.

Since 2005 Lynton has taught singing at Winchester College in addition to his busy private teaching practice.

Jamie Hall. Jamie W. Hall, Bass Baritone is a Lay Clerk of the world-famous

Winchester Cathedral Choir with whom he sings the daily office as well as taking part in
recordings, broadcasts and international tours. In addition to this he is also Musical Director
to the Winchester Cathedral Nave Choir, and The Wolvesey Singers.

Jamie has extensive experience as a soloist having performed Oratorio across the country
with many choirs, choral societies and orchestras including The London Concertante, The
18th Century Concert Orchestra, The English Haydn Orchestra and more.
His recent engagements have included Mozart Requiem, Handel Messiah, Handel Passion,
Bach St John Passion, Stainer Crucifixion, Brahms German Requiem and Charles Wood St
Mark Passion.

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Nicholas Wilks. Nicholas Wilks has been Musical Director of Winchester Music Club

since 2003, making his debut with a performance of Elgar’s The Kingdom. Now Master of
Music at Winchester College, from 1996-2004 Nicholas was Musical Director of the
Hampshire County Youth Orchestra. His musical education began as a Quirister at Pilgrims’
School, Winchester and continued as a music scholar at Cranleigh School. While reading
English at Christ Church, Oxford, Nicholas founded and conducted the Oxford Philharmonia.
He subsequently spent three years studying conducting and clarinet at the Royal Academy
of Music, London, where he was supported by generous funding from the Drapers’ Company.
After leaving the Academy, he specialised in working with young musicians as Musical
Director of the Finchley Children’s Music Group, conducting youth orchestras in London and
the Channel Islands, and as Musical Director of New Youth Opera. He has conducted in
Europe, South Africa (leading the first tour by a British youth orchestra since the fall of
apartheid) and Chile, and has broadcast on BBC2, 3 and 4, Classic FM and the BBC World
Service. His opera credits include Eugene Onegin, Noye’s Fludde, Der Freischutz, La Belle
Helene and The Bartered Bride. Nicholas conducted the premiere of Alec Roth’s Earth and
Sky at the BBC Proms in 2000 with Joanna MacGregor and Ensemble Bash, and was elected
an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for professional distinction in 2001. His recordings for Somm of Britten’s
Noye’s Fludde and A Ceremony of Carols was a Sunday Telegraph Critic’s Choice, and his new CD of music by Charles
Davidson has recently been released by Naxos as part of the Milken Archive series of American Jewish music. Nicholas is
also Musical Director of the Winchester Symphony Orchestra with whom he has embarked on a series of Brahms
symphonies and concertos.

Malcolm Archer. Malcolm Archer is Director of Chapel Music at Winchester

College, where he trains and conducts the Quiristers and Chapel Choir and teaches organ
and composition in the College. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in cathedral music,
which has taken him to posts at Norwich, Bristol, Wells Cathedrals and then Director of
Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. During his time there he directed the choir for
several State services, including the Tsunami Memorial Service, the London Bombings
Service and the 80th Birthday Service for HM The Queen, for which he was invited by
Buckingham Palace to compose a special anthem, performed live on BBC.1. His many
broadcasts and recordings from Wells and St. Paul’s have received critical acclaim.

Malcolm is much in demand as a choir trainer and choral and orchestral conductor, and
he has directed concerts, workshops and courses in various parts of the globe, as well as
working with several leading professional orchestras. As an organ recitalist he has played
in nine European countries, the USA and Canada, and his CD’s include repertoire as
diverse as J.S. Bach and Olivier Messiaen, as well as his own music.

As a composer, Malcolm receives regular commissions from both sides of the Atlantic, and he has many published works.
Recently he has composed works for the Southern Cathedrals Festival, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Festival of the Sons
of the Clergy.

He has been an adjudicator for the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the year competition, and for four years was a judge
for the BBC Songs of Praise School Choirs competition, including chairing the judging panel for two of those competitions.
He is also a frequent contributor to that programme as both interviewee and musical arranger.

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Malcolm has served as council member of the Royal College of Organists, and he is a member of the council of Salisbury
Cathedral, and of the Guild of Church Musicians, from whom he was recently awarded the Fellowship for his services to
church music over many years.

Paul Provost. Paul Provost began studies on the Piano and Cello at the ages of four

and six – his early musical inspiration coming from attending choir rehearsals at the local
Catholic Church. Since then church music has played a large part in his life. He was educated
at Chetham’s School of Music, where alongside the cello, organ became increasingly his
principal study. During this time, Paul gave many organ and cello recitals and was a member
of Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra, and the Wolstenholme Piano Trio who were highly
regarded at the Lake District Summer Music Festival. He was also Organ Scholar at Manchester
Cathedral between September 1999 and 2004.

For the past three years, Paul was Organ Student at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he
was responsible for accompanying the daily round of services, and assisting the Director of
Music, David Hill, in training the famous chapel choir. With St John’s, he has toured to Paris,
Austria, Estonia, the USA, Holland and Venice, in addition to numerous concerts, recordings,
and broadcasts much less further afield. During this time, he also co-founded a baroque group, contrapunctus xiv, and
has been widely active as accompanist, recitalist and conductor. He has given organ recitals in such venues as
Westminster Cathedral, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Kings College, Cambridge, and in the Buxton Festival, as well as
playing continuo organ for such groups as the Sagittarian Consort, Florilegium, and the Southern Sinfonia.

Paul is now Assistant Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. There, he has a wide variety
of duties, as accompanist, choir trainer, organ tutor, and teacher, and finds time to perform in the occasional concert.
He has also been appointed chief organist for the newly formed chamber choir Purely Choral, and is in demand as a
recitalist, accompanist, and choral director. Paul enjoys training children to sing, and looks forward to a career in
Cathedral Music.

Further Listening

If you have enjoyed this evening’s performance, you may like to explore this unusual area of
repertoire further. There are outstanding recordings of the Petite Messe Solennelle from Wolfgang
Sawallisch, and, closer to home, Nicholas Cleobury with King’s College Cambridge and Simon Halsey
with the City of Birmingham Chorus. Rossini’s Stabat Mater is a wonderfully involving and quirky
setting, and Richard Hickox’s recording is a joy. Puccini’s early Messa di Gloria sounds like a cross
between Verdi and Rossini, and is well served in Antonio Pappano’s recording, which has the
additional bonus of Puccini’s Crisantemi. There is a chapter on Rossini’s sacred music in The
Cambridge Companion to Rossini.

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Winchester Music Club Orchestra

VIOLIN 1 Forthcoming Events
Brian Howells (leader) Saturday 31 May 2008

David Amos Celebrity Concert
Tom Dutton Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Melinda Samms
(see back cover)
VIOLIN 2
Bernard Green Thursday 20 November 2008

Paul Jeffery Walton
Anne Shorter Belshazzar's Feast
Prue Skinner
Winchester Cathedral
VIOLA 7:30pm
Tom Griffiths
Gill Collymore with orchestra, soloists, Winchester College
Margy Jeffery Glee Club and Quiristers.
Louise Woods Conductor

CELLO NICHOLAS WILKS
Jane Austin
Steve Clarke 16
Fannie Leigh
Catherine Mitchell
Fiona Smith

BASS
Barry Glynn

SOPRANOS Winchester Music Club Choir TENORS

Elaine Biddle ALTOS Michael Elton
Sarah Carruthers Julian Harvey
Jane Anderton Steve Hynard
Mandy Haas Pat Carruthers Brian Purkiss
Liz Hake Angela Clarkson Jim Sampson
Jean Hart Trevor Stickland
Valerie Cork Len Tatham
Janette Lloyd Sarah Ede Jack Walters
Mettelise Lloyd
Katie Mydlarz Christine Fox BASSES
Angela Garrett
Hilary Otter Jan Gwynne-Howell Andrew Carruthers
Miranda Passey Gillian Harris Robin Cork
Diana Preston Grace Honeysett
Pamela Sargent Maureen Jackson Stuart Cowan
Barbara Shaw Nicola Keene Jeremy Daniel
Betty Spencer Carol Leighton-Davis
Barbara Longlands Bob Frost
Helen Webb Bob Jones
Sue Webb Lizzie Lowe Ian Lowe
Rosemary Merchant David Morgan
Heather Willson Michael Palette
Alison Wood Ros Nell Hugh Peers
Pat Pearce Arnold Renwick
Caroline Andrews Angela Ryde-Weller Bruce Ryde-Weller
Jenny Brown John Satchell
Jillian Andrews John Stanning
Carrie Eisenhauer Georgina Busher Roy Weller
Welly Green
Jill Curtis
Romy Halliwell Alison Deveson
Jane Jessop Elizabeth Duff
Ann Johns
Isabel Elton
Alison Latcham Janet Goodman
Ruth Walton Pamela Jones

Jo Lloyd
Alex Pugh
Janet Rowland-White
Anne Sharpe
Lucia Taylor
Anne Tubbs
Debbie Webb
Francine Weller

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During Gioacchino Rossini’s Lifetime

1792 29 Feb Rossini born, W H Smith born. Percy Bysshe Shelley born Joshua Reynolds dies
Pesaro, Italy. 1st smallpox vaccination Josiah Wedgewood dies
France adopts the metre
1795 1st one-pound note George Washington dies
1796 1797 World population 1 billion

1799 Volta invents the battery Battle of Trafalgar
1800 Lewis & Clark expedition
Edgar Allan Poe born
1802 John Dalton’s Atomic Theory Franz Liszt born
Immanual Kant dies
1804 1805 Giuseppe Verdi born
Battle of Waterloo
1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi born Waterloo Bridge opened

1809 The Marriage Contract Charles Darwin born Charles Dickens born Rosetta Stone translated
1810 1811 British burn Washington DC Athenaeum founded
Joseph Lister born
1814 1813 Aurelius in Palmyra Richard Wagner born Karl Marx born
1816 1815 The Barber of Seville Otto von Bismark born Napolean 1 dies James Clark Maxwell born
1818 1817 Alexandre Dumas born Hansom cab introduced
Moses in Egypt Jane Austen dies Ludwig van Beethoven dies John Constable dies
1820 1821 Claude Monet born
1822 1823 Semiramis Start George IV’s reign Edouard Manet born
1824 1825 Louis Pasteur born Mark Twain born Hong Kong ceded to Britain
YMCA founded
Stockton-Darlington railway opened Georges Bizet born
Pierre-Auguste Renoir born Revolutions in Europe
1827 The Great Exhibition, London

1830 1829 William Tell (Rossini Start William IV’s reign Vincent van Gogh born
1832 1831 ‘retires’) Johannes Brahms born
1833 Indian Mutiny
Stabat Mater 1st vers. Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’

1835 Frederick Delius born
Wellington New Zealand capital
1837 Start Victoria’s reign
1838 Thomas Hardy born Michael Faraday dies

1840 1841 Stabat Mater 2nd vers
1842

1844 1845 Friedrich Nietzsche born Start of Irish Potato Famine
Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco Communist Manifesto published
1847
1848 Bunsen Burner invented J M W Turner dies
Start of Crimean War Steinway Pianos established
1850 Sigmund Freud born Alexander 2 becomes Tsar
1851 Giacomo Puccini born
1853 1st Telephone Gustav Mahler born

1856

1858 1859
1860 1861
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1864 1865 Petite Messe Solennelle Abraham Lincoln assassinated Henri Toulouse-Lautrec born
1866 1867 1st vers Nobel invents Dynamite
1868 Benjamin Disraeli PM
13 Nov Rossini dies, Brahms ‘German Requiem’ written
Passy, Paris.

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Vice Presidents:
The Dean of Winchester: The Very Reverend James Atwell
The Headmaster of Winchester College: Dr Ralph Townsend
The Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Winchester: Cllr Chris Pines

Chairman: Christopher Green
Hon. Secretary: Janette Lloyd

Hon. Treasurer: Liz Hake

Executive Committee
Andrew Carruthers
Welly Green
Rodger Hake
Lizzie Lowe
Angela Ryde-Weller
Co-opted Members
Joanna Selborne
Jack Walters

Rehearsals for the Choir are held weekly during term time from September to March on Fridays at

7:30pm in Winchester College Music School, Culver Road. If you would like to audition for the Choir or
receive any further information, please contact the Secretary, Mrs Janette Lloyd, 6 Oliver’s Battery
Gardens, Winchester SO22 4HF telephone 01962 851915 or email [email protected], or visit our
website www.winchestermusicclub.org.uk

Winchester Music Club is affiliated to Making Music, which represents and supports amateur choirs, orchestras and
music promoters throughout the United Kingdom

Winchester Music Club is a registered charity No. 1095619

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Forthcoming Celebrity Concert

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Winchester Cathedral
Saturday 31 May 2008 7:30pm

with

Peter Harvey
Southern Pro Musica
Winchester Music Club Choir
Winchester College Glee Club

conductor

Nicholas Wilks

Tickets priced from £30 to £80 will be available from 1 April 2008

Winchester Cathedral Box Office Tel: 01962 857275
[email protected]
www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk

www.winchestermusicclub.org.uk

Registered Charity No. 1095619