PETER WARLOCK SOCIETY MEMBERS CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY
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| Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) in his prime |
Brentwood's De Rougemont Hotel was a happy place for the celebrated composer Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) during his lifetime. Of course, in those days (1894-1930) he relaxed during his holidays spent at this lovely building's former name The Goldings and his Heseltine family owned most of Great Warley in Essex. He spent much of his later life in Wales.
On Wednesday 6 November at 1.15pm there will be a commemorative concert at the Dora Stautzker Hall at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Members of the Peter Warlock Society who will remember the great composer on what would have been his 119th birthday.
The concert programme
consists of songs that Peter Warlock composed in Wales : Captain Stratton’s Fancy; Mr
Belloc’s Fancy; The Three Belloc Songs: Ha’nacker Mill, The Night, My own
Country; Chopcherry and Sad Song (from Peterisms); Autumn Twilight; Sleep;
Balulalow; Late Summer; Piggesnie, and Good Ale.
More detail:
The Peter Warlock Society
| Contact Details | John Mitchell Woodstock, Pett Bottom, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 5PB begin_of_the_skype_highlighting FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting mmitchelljohn@aol.com |
We are always pleased to help members gain access to Warlock material.
posted by Sylvia Kent @ 10:02 PM
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