Events@OLSJ  2012 Season

Sat  28 Jan	2.30pm	UK Cathedrals@OLSJ - Connoisseur Organ Recital		£10 adults
		David Poulter        POSTPONED until Autumn 2012		£5 under 18s
		Director of Music at Liverpool Cathedral
		“Great French Organ Symphonies”
		...composers including Louis Vierne & Charles-Marie Widor...
Sat  25 Feb	7.45pm	Opera@OLSJ - Opera Recital:POSTPONED until Autumn 2012		£10
	after 7pm	Sean Boyes – Tenor (RNCM)		£5 under 18s
	Vigil Mass	Zoe Milton-Brown – Soprano (RNCM)
		Peter Durant - Accompanist
		…composers including Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Bizet, Giordano, Puccini, Bellini, Dvorak, Gounod and Lehar…
Fri  23 Mar	7.00pm	Barbershop@OLSJ - Ian Tracey's Close Harmony:		£15
		Close Harmony is a male-voice King's Singer-style group which evolved in the Music Department of Liverpool Cathedral in 1987. It consists of a mixture of Layclerks, ex-Layclerks and Organists, originally formed to provide domestic entertainment for Cathedral functions.
		...The Boring Song (Fascinating Aida), What kinds of things do Close Harmony sing? (Ron Goodwin), Pastime with good Company (Henry VIII), Ding-a-dong & Killing me softly with his song (David Olverton), George Jones (Henry Beckton), The Jimmy Brown song (Reisfield/Kay), Mister sandman    (Pat Ballard ), Bad Times just around the corner (Noel Coward), Short People (Randy Newman), Simple Gifts (Appalachian Traditional) Please don't alter the psalter any more Anglican Chant (with apologies), Mrs. Beamish (Peter Skellern/Richard Stilgoe), Has anybody seen my girl     (Ray Henderson), I got rhythm (George Gershwin), A nightingale sang in Berkley Square    (Cole Porter), On the sunny side of the street    (Jimmy McHugh), Money, money, money (ABBA/Olverton), Can’t buy me love (McCartney), Goodnight my angel (Billy Joel), Lets call the whole thing off! George Gershwin)...		Event kindly sponsored by Mr & Mrs Bernard Wright
Sat  26 May	7.45pm	Organ & Orchestra@OLSJ - Orchestral Concert (in partnership with Heswall Arts Festival):		£20
	after 7pm	Soloist Ian Tracey, L’Orchestra dell’Arte
	Vigil Mass	conducted by Edward Peak
		"Late-Romantic orchestral works with organ solo”
		...Strauss “Festival Overture” (Op. 61), Guilmant “1st Symphony” (Op. 42), Saint-Saens “3rd Symphony” (Op. 78)…
Sun  24 June	7.00pm	International Artists@OLSJ - Season Finale Organ Event		£15
		Carlo Curley (USA)
		“Last Night of the OLSJ Proms – American Lollipops”
		With St. Peter’s Singers, the Choir of OLSJ, the Beacon Choir and singers from Churches Together in Heswall, (conducted by Adrian Griffiths). Audience Participation in the Closing Sequence.
		...Sousa, Lindlad & Elmore followed by Proms Closing Sequence – Ives “America Variations” (the National Anthem), , “Rule Brittania” Arne, “Pomp & Circumstance in G” (Land of Hope & Glory) Elgar, Parry “Jerusalem”...

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