Friday 24 September, 7.30 pm Melbourne Festival
St Michael and St Mary’s Church, Church Square, Melbourne, Derbyshire DE73 8EN

£12.50, to include a glass of wine and nibbles

Festival Booking Office 07962 430450

Supported by The Friends of Melbourne Parish Church
www.melbournefestival.co.uk

‘Scandal in the cathedral close:
the singer and the swan’

A scandal involving the celebrated poetess Anna Seward, unmarried daughter of a cathedral canon, and John Saville, a vicar-choral and nationally famous singer, which rocked Lichfield in the 18th century. The story is told in music of the period by composers such as Handel, Philip Hayes and Thomas Arne, with readings from letters, newspapers and journals.

See here for more details

Saturday 4 December

St Nicolas’ Church, High Street, Taplow, Buckinghamshire SL6 0ET

www.st-nicolas.org.uk

Monteverdi Vespers (1610)

further details to be announced

Saturday 11 December

Waltham Abbey Church, Highbridge Street,
Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 1DT

www.walthamabbeychurch.co.uk www.walthamabbeymusic.co.uk

Vivaldi Gloria
JS Bach Cantatas 140 and 147

Choir of Waltham Abbey

further details to be announced

Sunday 12 December
2.30 pm and 6.30 pm

Holme Pierrepont Hall
Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire NG12 2LD

www.holmepierreponthall.com

£15 (reserved front row) and £12.50 (unreserved), children free;
includes mulled wine (or orange juice) and mince pies

From Classical CD 0115 948 3832

Music from Christmas Past

Musica Donum Dei chamber ensemble

“Anyone who complains that Christmas isn’t what it used to be (or ought to be) needs to escape to Musica Donum Dei’s festive concert at Holme Pierrepont Hall. The intimacy of the performances, the vitality of the music, the conviviality of the mulled wine and mince pies: it’s a winning formula.” - William Ruff, Nottingham Evening Post, 14.12.09