FESTIVAL NEWSLETTER
The latest, Spring 2008 edition of LHMF's newsletter, "Festival News", is now available.
In this edition Renee Stewart pays tribute to Ursula Vaughan Williams; Brian Kay takes a look at the music for this season with a peek into what
REALLY happens at Music Committee meetings; Paul Ives writes about the Surrey Festival; and Rachel Fardon talks about music, typewriters and horses.
Download Festival News here. (Requires Adobe Acrobat reader. Filesize is 15MB)
O THOU TRANSCENDENT
The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Now available on DVD.
2008 marks the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams death and this is the first ever full-length film biography of the great man, produced by the multi-award winning director, TONY PALMER, as featured in Classic FM magazine, December 2007.
Specially recorded extracts from all The Symphonies, Job, The Lark Ascending, and of course The Tallis Fantasia
Archive performances by Sir ADRIAN BOULT, newly discovered interviews with VAUGHAN WILLIAMS himself.
The last ever interview with URSULA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, and with unexpected contributions from HARRISON BIRTWISTLE, JOHN ADAMS, Mark Anthony Turnage, Tony Benn, Jordi Savall, Andre Previn, Sir Michael Tippett & Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys.
Read the Daily Telegraph review
MUSIC FOR 2009
The list music for the 2009 competition is now available. For details, please see the new announcements forum on the LHMF Central discussion board site.