John Milton in Voice & Verse

Friday 11th June 2010 - 13:00
Tickets: £5

		LANCE PIERSON Actor BELINDA YATES Soprano HEATHER CHAMBERLAIN Piano

PROGRAMME:

Let us with a gladsome mind (a paraphrase of Ps.136)		Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (1670-1739) arr. John Antes
L'Allegro & II Penseroso (abridged) - Let me not wander unseen - Or let me merry bells ring round - Come, rather, goddess sage and holy - Far from all resort of mirth		George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Comus (abridged) (a masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) - Now Phoebus sinketh in the west		Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778)
- Sabrina Fair - Back, shepherds, back - Now my task is smoothly done		Henry Lawes (1596-1662)
Sonnets: 'On his Blindness' - When I consider how my light is spent - To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness		Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Paradise Lost (abridged) - Now vanish before the holy beams ("Creation")		Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Samson Agonistes - Eyeless in Gaza - Let the bright Seraphim ("Samson")		George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

BELINDA YATES studied at the Royal College of Music and has appeared as soloist in recital, opera and chamber choir. She was awarded a Young Artists Platform BBC Recital and has performed abroad for the British Council. As a member of the Monteverdi Choir her opera experiences include Berlioz’s ‘The Trojans’ in Paris, Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ in the Far East and Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ in Paris and Granada.

LANCE PIERSON is an actor and professional poetry performer. He has presented entertainments and biographies of famous poets in the Victoria and Albert Museum, St Paul’s Cathedral, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Other biographical shows cover the lives and work of George Herbert, William Cowper, Gerald Manley Hopkins and John Betjeman. 

HEATHER CHAMBERLAIN studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Alexander Kelly (piano), Georgina Dobree (clarinet) and Wilfrid Parry (chamber music). Heather has enjoyed a varied career as an accompanist, instrumental and class teacher, chamber music coach, amateur singer, conductor, freelance organist and director of music at several North London churches.

 

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the back of the Church from 12.30pm onwards.