Concerts
For discounted tickets to any of the following events, please contact Caroline Sartin, Box Office Manager of the National Centre for Early Music (NCEM), quoting "University of York - SRS Conference".
The discount is not available for online booking, please phone or email:
Tel: 01904 658338 Mon-Fri, 9-5
NOTE: Bookings for the NCEM events listed below commence Monday 29th March 2010.
Friday 16th July, 7.30pm, York Minster
The Sixteen: The Choral Pilgrimage 2010
| William Byrd (c.1540-1623) |
Thomas Tallis (dc.1505-1585) |
John Sheppard (c.1515-1559) |
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Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 (no concessions); Reserved seating rear nave: £15.00 (concessions £13.00); Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £6.00).
Please note that the 10% discount is only applicable to the full price (£12.00) unreserved side aisle seats.
Saturday 17th July, 7.30pm, St Michael le Belfry Church, High Petergate
The original royal opera
John Blow's 'Venus & Adonis', 1682/3, is an hour-long opera in English written for King Charles II at the height of his power. When first performed it was royal through and through. The opera covers an extraordinary emotional range and at the time was seen as a companion-piece to Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas'. The mother-daughter partnership of Venus and Cupid was a celebrity as well as musical attraction: royal mistress and virtuoso Mary Davis joined her (and Charles') daughter Lady Mary Tudor. A soloist from the Minster Minstrels joins Daneman in teasing Charles-Adonis-Brook's lazy hedonism, resulting in tragedy.
Soloists
Venus - Sophie Daneman, Adonis - Matthew Brook, Cupid will be chosen from Salisbury Cathedral girls' choir who also provide "little Cupids".
THEATRE OF THE AYRE: some of the leading names in early music including:
Violins: tbc Rachel Podger Clare Salaman
Viola:
Bass violin: Alison McGillivray
Recorders: Pamela Thorby, Kate Latham, Merlin Harrison
Theorboes/Guitars: Elizabeth Kenny, David Miller
Harpsichord: James Johnstone
Vocal quartet:
Directed by Elizabeth Kenny
Cupid and small Cupids from the Minster Minstrels, directed by Sue Hollingworth
Ayres from John Blow's Amphion Anglicus, 1700 (Welcome, welcome every guest, Go, perjured man, Cloe found Amintas Lying all in Tears)
Instrumental music by Robert de Visée and Marc-Antione Charpentier
Ayres from Michel Lambert's Livre d'Airs de Cour, 1689 (Il est vrai, l'amour est charmant; Vos mespris chaque jour me causent des alarmes).
Interval
Venus and Adonis
A collaboration between THEATRE OF THE AYRE (Kenny's hand-picked ensemble), the National Centre for Early Music (education partner) Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Society (Bruce Wood's new edition of Venus & Adonis will be used professionally for the first time), and the University of Southampton. The education programme supporting Venus & Adonis will introduce children in years 4 and 5 to singing and spelling games like the one in the opera, and encourage them to invent their own.
£17.00 (£15.00 concessions) unreserved sides and balcony: 10% discount available on these seats.
(Reserved central nave seats may be purchased at the full price of £20.00).
Sunday 11th & Sunday 18th July
York Mystery Plays
12 plays from the famous York Cycle will be performed on wagons moving through the City streets - organised by the guilds of the City and accompanied by musicians from across the UK - a vivid spectacle of colour and sound. Performances start at Noon and will finish around 6.00pm. Contact the Visitor Information Centre on 01904 550099 for tickets.
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