Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Presented by OVATION
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
Directed by John Plews
Presented by arrangement with TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. NEW YORK
14th December 2016 – 29th January 2017
Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London featuring the songs:
Anything Goes
Blow Gabriel Blow
You’re the Top
I Get a Kick Out of You
Creative Team
Director: John Plews
Musical Director: Dan Glover
Choreographer: Chris Whittaker
Designer: Emily Bestow
Lighting Design: Sam Waddington
Come and meet Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy, authors of the wonderful Mango & Bambang books, appearing at 11.00. Book signing from 11.30.
Books, including their latest title ‘Mango & Bambang, Superstar Tapir’ (published 2 March), will be sold at the Fair by Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop.
Also: secondhand books, home-made refreshments and children’s activities.
Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, so-named as it uses a ninth century text written in Old Church Slavonic, is also known as the Slavonic Mass. Rather than a traditional sacred piece, Janacek is thought to have conceived his mass as a celebration of Slavic culture and the pan-Slavic movement that he supported.
The Glagolitic Mass was first performed in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in April 1926. It is a highly original work for choir, organ and orchestra that expresses dramatic energy and tenderness in equal measure, and is recognised today as one of most significant contributions to choral music in the twentieth century.
Poulenc’s Gloria is a joyful rendering of the Gloria text from the Catholic Mass, and one of Poulenc’s most celebrated works. Scored for soprano, choir and large orchestra, it was composed in 1959 and first performed in 1961 in Boston to critical acclaim. Poulenc was known for composing music of sharp contrasts and his Gloria, which is jocund as well as solemn, is no exception.
Always Moving On is a brand new work for choir and orchestra, written by newcomer Christopher Ashley. An eight-minute orchestral march of aspiration and healing, it provides a modern twist to the familiar and popular format pioneered by Elgar and Walton in the early 20th century. The piece gives expression to the timeless virtues of hope, joy, patience and tolerance, offering respite from uncertainty and gloom.