Festival Weekend 1999

1999 is the fourth weekend festival to be held at St. Stephens over the May Bank Holiday weekend. We have had the theme of "Whitlock" in 1996 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, "Pearson" in 1997, the year of his centenary, and a celebration of the Organ in 1998. The theme this year can be no other than a farewell to the 20th Century

The festival is a musical celebration within a liturgical framework, and as such highlights are the High Masses (on Saturday and Sunday).

Saturday 1st May
10:45 a.m. Festival High Mass
Music : Missa Brevis Sancti Pauli, Anthony Caesar Motet : Tantum Ergo by Andrew Fletcher
(Festival comission, first performance)
St. Stephen's Choir (Ian Harrison)
Festival Organist : Andrew Fletcher

3.00 p.m. LECTURE
Canon Anthony Caesar and Martin How talk about Church Music

4.30 p.m. FESTIVAL TEA

6.00 p.m. FESTIVAL CHORAL EVENSONG
sung by the choir of WELLS CATHEDRAL
Directed by : Malcolm Archer

7.30 p.m. The "PERCY WHITLOCK" RECITAL
given by DAVID SANGER
(Sponsored by the Whitlock Trust)


Sunday 2nd May
10:45 p.m. HIGH MASS
Music : Haydn "St.Nicholas Mass"
St. Stephen's Choir and Orchestra.
Preacher: The Very Reverend Michael Mayne
(Retired Dean of Westminster Abbey)

3.00 p.m. CHORAL EVENSONG
Sung by the choir of St. Peter's, Bournemouth
Directed by : David Beeby

7.00 p.m. CHORAL CONCERT
Including "COME, YE SONS OF ART" by HENRY PURCELL
and "THE NIGHTINGALES"
first performance of a new work written fro this festival by Malcolm Riley
St. Stephen's Choir and Orchestra
Soloists Durlston Court School Choir

Monday 3rd May
11.00 Low Mass

12:30 p.m. LUNCHTIME RECITAL
Chamber Music with the Festival Ensemble

3.30 p.m. VESPERS
Corpus Christi Boys' Choir Directed by : April Golding

6.0 p.m. A SEQUENCE OF MUSIC AND READINGS.
Music written by composers who have been associated with the St. Stephen's.
Holloway, Whitlock, Caesar, Jackson etc