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        TASWE Summer Music Evening

“THE GOLDEN AGE OF SONG”

With Pip Burley -Arts Society lecturer

Friday 19 June -6.30-9.30

Theydon Bois Village Hall

Tickets £25 (members only)

Come and enjoy a sociable & relaxed summer evening talk, with wine and canapes included

Numbers are limited to 100 so that we can talk to others comfortably.

Pip Burley will celebrate the lives and work of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, with words, music, slides and video clips – plus occasional demonstrations on the piano.

Pip has had a career embracing music, publishing, advertising, theatre and television.  He began his musical career as a keyboard player and then with the big bands of the 60’s including Joe Loss. 

He devised and produced The Darling Buds of May, starring David Jason and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and A Touch of Frost created for David Jason. Pip has composed, arranged and recorded music for commercials, theatre, film and television and, in 1990, won the Ivor Novello Award for best television theme music for The Darling Buds of May.

Contact: Liz Goodwin

10.30 am - 3.00 pm

Theydon Bois Village Hall

Please bring a packed lunch; coffee, wine and juice provided

Broadening the Palette – the creation of gardens from Medieval times to the end of the 19th century.  It includes gardens from Europe, Asia, and America, as well as England.

Seeing the Light – looks at the use of colour by humans in everyday life and gardening and art from 30,000 to the present day.

Planting the Picture – The final part picks up the story from part one at the start of the 20th century and examines the process of, and motivation for, creating living works of fine art in the garden.

Timothy Walker read Botany at University College Oxford. After graduation he worked as a trainee at Oxford Botanic Garden, the Savill Garden Windsor and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.  In 1985 he was awarded a Master of Horticulture by the Royal Horticultural Society of London.  From 1988 to 2014 he was director (Horti Praefectus) at the Oxford Botanic Garden.  Between 1992 and 2000 the OBGHA won 4 gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show London.  In 2009 the Botanic Garden was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for providing imaginative educational programmes for adults, students, children and the general public, thereby breathing new life into education for people of all ages and enriching their lives.  In 2010 he was elected as a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. In the same year he presented a 3-part series of films on the history of botany on BBC4.  Since 2014 he has been a tutor in Plant Biology at Somerville College, Oxford.  

http://www.timothywalker.org.uk

Image: Oxford Botanic Garden

10.30 am - 3.00 pm

Theydon Bois Village Hall

Tickets £30 which include coffee, wine and juice

Please bring a packed lunch

Patrick Craig is a Vicar Choral at St Paul's Cathedral. For twenty years he combined this with an international career singing over a thousand concerts with the world-renowned early music consort The Tallis Scholars. He also sings with the award-winning group The Cardinall's Musick. He founded and conducts this country's leading all-female professional choir, Aurora Nova. He has conducted concerts for the BBC Proms, the Brighton, Lichfield and Aldeburgh Festivals, and with the City of London Sinfonia. As a Cambridge history graduate with a lifelong interest in the arts, he has gone on to lead choral workshops for amateur singers across the world, where he places music in its historical and cultural context. He regularly lectures for the St Paul's Adult Education programme and for John Hall's Venice Courses, which have allowed him to incorporate his interests in theology, art and poetry.  In 2020, when his singing and conducting work disappeared overnight as a result of the Covid pandemic, Patrick poured all his experience into online presentations which have raised vital funds for the Help Musicians Charity.

1.  Entertaining Angels Unawares: Angels in the Bible, Music and Art.

Angels don't speak, they sing. And they have inspired much wonderful music. Patrick will investigate their roles as guardians, messengers and fighters through imaginative music by Britten, Elgar and Mendelssohn. Angelic words also feature in regularly repeated liturgical texts that Patrick sings daily in St Paul's Cathedral, such as the Sanctus and Te Deum. These will give us an opportunity to explore and enjoy angelic music by composers such as Bach, Mozart and Walton. Patrick will call on some of the world's finest art and poetry to further expand this journey into the heavenly realm.

2. A Christmas Special: Michael Praetorius.

Michael Praetorius's music was celebrated again in his anniversary year of 2021, and thanks to a wonderful 1994 disc from the Gabrieli Consort, his music for Christmas has become his most loved calling card.

3.  The Music of Epiphany: Gifts and Stars.

Epiphany is a feast of abundance and transformations, set in the very dead of winter. As well as focusing on the visit of the Wise Men and the extravagant gifts they bring, the season also considers Jesus' Baptism and his first miracle at the Wedding at Cana. T. S. Eliot's beloved poem The Journey of the Magi leads us to considerations of the dreams and journeys that also feature in Matthew's gospel account.  There is much wonderful music to illustrate this, and Patrick will also plunder the worlds of art and poetry to portray this rich array of stars, camels and gold.   Featuring music by Palestrina, Byrd, Mendelssohn and Britten

(Image courtesy of unsplash)
 

10.00-2.30

Little Baddow Memorial Hall, Little Baddow, Chelmsford CM3 4TA

Cost £40 per person including Lunch and Refreshments

We will join the 15,000,000 international visitors and recreate the experience of walking through ‘the magic silver obelisk towers into a dream city … arisen overnight in the heart of Paris’. Asking was there a distinctive Art Deco style?  Who were the key design movers, shakers and disseminators?  What was the ambition and motivation?

Please address enquiries and to book a place to: 

Mrs Megan Bashir.  Email meganbashir@gmail.com   TEL: 01277 374314

10.30 am - 3.00 pm

Theydon Bois Village Hall

Tickets £28 including coffee, wine and juice

Please bring a packed lunch

Mark Hill studied History of Art & Architecture (BA Hons), and began his career as a porter and Junior Cataloguer at Bonhams, before moving to Sotheby's where he was a Specialist in the Collectors' Department. Became director of an internet company forming and running a ground-breaking deal with eBay Live Auctions. Was co-author of the internationally published Collectables Price Guide with Judith Miller from 2002-17. Founded his own publishing company in 2005 and has published over 15 books on emerging specialist subjects in the decorative arts. A Miscellaneous expert on the BBC 'Antiques Roadshow' since 2007 and an expert on the BBC's 'Antiques Roadtrip', has also co-presented five primetime TV series on antiques and collecting for BBC2. A member of the British Antiques Dealers' Association (BADA.org). Senior Vice President at a company offering digital solutions to the antiques industry. Has lectured across the world, including at the V&A in London, and contributed to many newspapers, magazines, radio and TV programmes. A Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars and a Freeman of the City of London

1. Curved, Colours and Cool

The antiques market has changed dramatically and now pieces that were made during the 1970s can fetch many times more than a piece made in the 1770s. This practical and inspirational lecture looks at furniture, ceramics, glass, lighting and metalware, identifies key designs and designers and then examines the revolutionary design movements they began.

2. Cracking Glass

An overview of Britain's 'Big Four' postwar glass companies, comprising Whitefriars, King's Lynn (Wedgwood), Caithness and Dartington. As well as company and designer histories, special slides examine, compare and contrast 'Good, Better, Best' examples from each company.

3. Identification and valuation event

Please bring along a 20th Century ceramics or glass object for discussion and valuation in this "Antiques Roadshow" style session.

TASWE has supported CDRC with donations over the past two years and volunteers have helped to provide knitted garments, trim hats, support the office and other tasks.  Now there is an opportunity to visit the fascinating storerooms and learn more about the wonderful work that CDRC does in supporting schools and charitable institutions with costumes for productions.  Go along and be impressed!

10.30 am to 3.00 pm

Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, lecturer and translator whose work ranges across the arts, and across the cultures of Eastern and Northern Europe. She completed her doctorate at Oxford, and has published several books, including biographies of Chekhov and Tolstoy, as well as a collection of articles about Shostakovich. Her new translation of Anna Karenina for Oxford World's Classics was published to acclaim in 2014.   She has written on art for publications such as Apollo and The Burlington Magazine and received commissions for articles and programme notes from institutions such as the Tate, Covent Garden, the RSC and the Salzburg Festival.  She is currently writing a book about the revolution in the arts which took place in the early 20th century in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv, and its connection to European modernism.

She has led art, architecture, design and music tours throughout Europe, and contributes regularly to Proms events and opera broadcasts on the BBC. Her lecturing work has taken her from the V&A in London to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. 

1. The Culture of Ukraine

This lecture tells the multifaceted Ukrainian story through the shared culture which binds its diverse people together, including the sacred art and architecture of Kyiv inherited from Byzantium, the rich legacy of the Cossacks, and a treasury of poetry, painting and song. We will also look at the key role played by folk culture in the years before Ukraine's emergence as an independent nation, whether "red icons" on glass or the country's remarkable embroidery tradition, which had a surprising influence on avant-garde art.

2. Grandfather Frost and Old New Year.  Traditions of the Slavonic Christmas,

For Orthodox believers in Eastern Europe, Christmas is celebrated according to the old Julian calendar on 7 Januar; begins after a 40-day fast, and continues until the blessing of the waters on the Feast of Epiphany. This lecture explores the Eastern and Western traditions associated with Christmas in the Slavonic world, and the accompanying festivities of yuletide, rooted in colourful folklore, which include midnight sleigh rides, fortune-telling, the preparation of special dishes, carolling, and dressing up.  Instead of Father Christmas, the Slavs have Grandfather Frost, whose faithful assistant is Snow Maiden - a character from fairy tales invented to explain the passing of winter.

3. The Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy. The story of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

Before The Nutcracker became everybody's favourite Christmas ballet, it was staged in Tsarist Russia.  With reference to the glorious history of the Imperial Ballet company in St. Petersburg, this lecture discusses how Tchaikovsky came to write his magical score and Petipa created its choreography, and also tells the story of the dancers who created the leading roles.  It also explores Tchaikovsky's role in transforming classical ballet into the vibrant art form it is today.