Festival Brochure 2021 - Flipbook - Page 5
Monday 17th May, 11 am: Anniversary Talk - Ralph
Vaughan Williams – Britain’s Most Popular Composer?
With Simon Coombs
Ralph Vaughan Williams is today enjoying greater popularity
than at any time since his death in 1958. Through the efforts
of several British record companies, a very large percentage
of his enormous output, in almost every kind of musical form,
from symphonies to string quartets, concertos to choral
works, songs to stage works, is now available. The immense
popularity of The Lark Ascending and the Tallis Fantasia is just
the tip of the iceberg. Simon Coombs, Chairman of the RVW
Society, will be exploring some of the music which is not so well known, but which
ought to be! Haslemere Museum, £5
Monday 17th May, 2.30pm: Anniversary Talk - The ‘Rosetta Stone’: The many
lives of an icon of translation, with Professor Parkinson
The so-called Rosette Stone famously enabled the 19th century
European decipherment of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic
script. This lecture will discuss the troubled histories of its
creation and discovery, its role in allowing an ancient culture to
be understood in its own terms, and its modern iconic status.
Richard Bruce Parkinson is the Professor of Egyptology at the
University of Oxford. He specialises in the poetry of the classic
period of Egyptian culture, and used to be a curator at the
British Museum, where projects included the display of the
Rosetta Stone. Zoom only, £5
Monday 17th May, 7.30pm: Sing-In the Summer with
Janet Ayers (on Zoom)
Join Natural Voice Practitioner Janet Ayers as she leads you in song on an early summer
evening. Open to seasoned singers and newbies alike.
If you're missing your regular choir, this is a perfect
opportunity to get back into singing again. If you've
always wanted to have a go at singing, now you can
do it from the safety of your own home.
The session starts with breathing and vocal exercises
and then you'll learn some lovely songs from around
the world in glorious harmony. Janet has been
running community choirs and singing for health
groups for fifteen years. She has a down to earth and
friendly approach to song leading and is looking
forward to meeting you on Zoom. £8