CONCERT IN COOL OF GUILDHALL A IT must be ideal to be a York visitor to the Festival at present, being surrounded by sun, music, more sun, theatre, yet more sun, exhibitions and, yes, even more sun. A concert can, in fact, be a welcome relief in the cool of one of the many churches, or in the Guildhall, where on Saturday the Alberni Quar- tet continued the series of quartet recitals organised by the British Music Society of York. As the visitor drifts through the various recitals and con- certs, all of an adequate stan- dard, he or she can allow the music to drift through them like a cool breeze; everything is pleasant; it may not always reach the heights, but when it does, as in the Elgar Cello Con- certo, then it really is some- thing special. Unfortunately the critic can- not fall into the drifting mood: he or she must say some- thing. And if, at Festival time, the music does not reach the heights, it is probably more dis- to the critic than to appointing the visitor. Fortunately festivals inspire performers. The first thing to say about the Alberni Quartet is that it was in no way disappointing. I am sure that many of the audience will be there again to hear them when they play in the Tempest Anderson Hall in December. can These players may not have the ultimate in refinement, nor in detail, nor in imagination. But they do have one of the best-balanced ensembles of the GREAT RELIEF many quartets I have heard in recent weeks. interested in what was almost a synthesis of major and minor keys, although he does not take this as far as. say, Stravinsky. The second movement's waltz was a little difficult to take seriously, perhaps because several English composers of that period were inclined to parody Someone popular dance forms. like: can force one to take landler' seriously, but not not the same a Thomson has strength: of personality. The Adagio tango was much more impressive. According to the composer it is supposed to evoke the deepest cries of spirit'. Personally I cannot say that Thomson's music ever does that for me. But it was an effective movement, reminiscent in places of Purcell's Chaconne-and none the worse for that. It is quite unusual to find a quartet which does not have dominant voice, or a rather sub- dued Yet one. the Alberni angemile ensemble seemed to me well- a nigh perfect. That is not to say that the playing was perfect, and there were number of places which Howard Davis, the leader, would have wanted to do again in a recording studio. But taken overall this did not matter, and the result was a most enjoyable concert. IMPRESSIVE The two featured composers of this year's Festival seem to have been rather upstaged by Elgar. However, Virgil Thom- son's Second Quartet made our significant contribution to music, acquaintance with his especially in performing cir- cumstances. (Incidentally, reads of his Four Saints in one Three Acts in every programme note, what a pity it is that Wilfrid Mellers' original idea of having this staged at the Festi- val came to nothing.) as Could not Dennis Freeborn have been persuaded to revive the York Festival Opera Players, who delighted everyone with their Orff in 1969? To return to Thomson's Quartet: the opening movement would be an interesting one to set in a 'guess the composer' competition. Like many com- posers around 1930 he wast never The Alberni Quartet had started the concert with a good performance of Haydn's Bird Quartet Opus 33, No. 3, which has that marvellously dark Scherzo: C major has sounded like this before or since. The final item in the concert was Dvorak's American in Quartet, written 1893, an appropriate choice both for this year and to follow the Thomson. It has long, swinging, folk-like melodies, a Leonora-like opening theme, a vital scherzo (but surely too slowly on this occasion) and a brilliant rondo finale. It may not be the deep- est of quartets, but the Alberni virtually brought the house down with the last movement. played. G.P.

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ch he on an th- a TS 1s. a- off a- in nd I hat ad ke soy mit W. S 41- VO W by she ch. on ays ilar ho on gin m n, un re 0- or y he S. nd Music treat fails to lure audiences THE HE idea of a String Quar- tet series in the Guild- hall on Saturday mornings during the Festival is an excellent one. And the Guild- hall is a good setting, even, if, perhaps, the Assemgly Rooms might complement the classical composers rather better. The quartets involved in this series range from York Univer- sity's own talented Medici to the Aeolian, currently at the top of many people's list. On Saturday, it was the turn of the Delme Quartet - not quite such a well-known name. This may have been the reason why the concert was so sparsely attended. Much the same happened, I understand, on Friday evening, with Matrix poorly attended and Anemone well attended, which somehow seems the wrong way round. However, these are the perils the Festival organisers have to face, and pathises. sym- fact, The music on Saturday can- not surely have put off the potential audience, although the Delme Quartet did, in begin with late, good Haydn in- stead of the Opus 50 quartet originally advertised. They coped well with the wit and humo humour of Opus 77 No. al- though early in the concert some of the quicker figuration was not always as clear as it might have been. one an These players make interesting quartet in that the two lower strings, especially the viola, played by John Under- wood, seem much more promi- nent than usual. This осса- sionally meant that we could have done with more tone and definition from Galina Solod- .chin, the leader. Beethoven's "Harp" Quartet was written towards the end of his creative middle period. It has little of the soul-searching, autobiographical intensity of the Rasumovsky Quartets, nor is it in the same league as the late ones. But it shows Beethoven delighting in his mastery of the medium. Their excellent, always movement and vitality, with well-nigh perfect and the The Delme Quartet gave quite an impressive performance of Beethoven. pianissimo playing was having the quartet was as Between Beethoven, eeu joined by the soprano Jane Manning for a performance of Virgil Thomson's setting of Max Jacob's French poem based on the Stabat Mater. Miss Manning, it seems was to have no respite on this visit to York. However, the Thomson lasts about five minutes, and is a very straightforward, not to say ordinary, setting, this was not a very taxing concert for her, though it must make a pleasant change occasionally to music which requires basically sheer beauty of tone and has what one might call a recognisable lyricism. Sing As it was such a slight wor it would have been fairer to Thomson to combine it with some other composition of his; in this context it made little lasting impression, though it ob- viously received a very good performance. G.P. SMS 3/3/1 (36) the

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Aeolian Quartet shows skill MS 3/3/1 (34) and panache THE HE Aeolian Quartet and Ravel ended the Festival's series of Saturday morning string quartet concerts. The pre- vious Sunday this Qartet announced its arrival by playing late Beethoven in the Central Hall. On Saturday morning they signed off in the Guildhall with Haydn, Lutyens and, most splendid of all, Ravel. Thanks to the Ravel Centen- ary last year his quartet has become more part of the reper- toire. York is by no means the cultural wilderness that would beliive, and we had heard this quartet two or three times in the last 15 months. some It was therefore a slight sur- prise to see it occuring again so soon at the Festival. Perhaps the chamber music fans will eventually get round to the Duo and Trio: York was one of the few places in the country to have been given these in the Ravel Centenary, a fact which most concert-goers chose to ignore. Ravel's quartet, being an early attempt on his part to write a monothematic work, may be accused of a lack of ideas, par- ticularly towards the end. But if this is true it is well con- cealed beneath some brilliant, orchestral-type scoring and by the fact that, as always, the technical demands are con- siderable and thus exciting when brought off with the skill and panache of players such as these. At the start they seemed to take a few bars to settle into the work, when the texture lacked some transparency, but once on the way all such feel- ings were very quickly dispelled. It was playing of remarkable ease and relaxation, and yet so much the were they 'inside' work that no moment of expres- sion, drama, or tension was ever lost. The recital began with Haydn's Rider Quartet, Opus 74. no. 3 3 a superb performance. The slow movement had the delicacy and lyricism and the finale the wit and brilliance that one looks for in Haydn, and a Quartet such as the Medici would have learnt a great deal by listening to this. The ability to play Haydn seems to me a genuine measure of a Quartet's maturity. There are several excellent young Quartets, not only the Medici and the Fitzwilliam with which in York are particularly familiar, but also the Chilin- girian, winners of the European Broadcasting Union's Com- petition, and, best of all, the Lindsay. we All have their potentialities and their individual merits. If one of them is one day as good as the Aeolian Quartet, then charmber music will derive great benefit. The Aeolians also played Elizabeth Lutyens' Quartet No. 6. The brief programme note pointed out that the composer had thought enough of the work not to throw it away with Quartets No's 4 and 5, and also was anxious to point out that it only lasted eight minutes. Written 24 years ago it was a comparatively conservative piece in conception, asking for no oddities in technique and hav- ing moments of sustained legato lines for individual instruments. On a first hearing it is difficult to say more than that it did not appear to be one of the com- poser's most important works. Emanuel Hurwitz, Raymond Keenlyside, Margaret Major and Derek Simpson, the members of the Quartet, have achieved what is for many musicians the pin- nacle of music-making that is the reputation of being one of the best best string quartets in existence. This recital, albeit at eleven o'clock on a hot, stuffy morning, was proof of that. S -G.P.

B an operation to remove the gall bladder. Today his wife, Mrs. Hilda Lyon, said he was "on the road. to recovery" but still had some way to go to recuperation. "He is still not well," Mrs. Lyon said. For Mr. Lyon it meant frust- ration over being unable to at tend the Commons for today's debate-initiated by the Conser- vatives on immigration. Mr. Lyon, former Home Office Minister of State, with respon- sibility for immigration mat- ters, argued as a minister for more liberal immigration poli- cies and for tougher action against racial discrimination. Recently, he spoke out against a report by a Foreign Office official which claimed abuses of immigration procedures. Today, Conservatives were set to call for a stronger clamp- down on illegal immigration. The Home Secretary Mr. Roy Jenkins, was expected to an- nounce some tightening of loop- holes. 'Happy families' plan LOCAL authorities are today urged to give old people council houses near their families. Age Concern, the campaign for the elderly, say that many old people cannot hope for council homes at present because the rules are too strict. They want councils to change their residential qualifications so that pensioners are not trapped in an area miles from their rela- tives. "Many councils insist that people wanting council accom-. modation must have been resi- dent in the area for a minimum. period of time before going on the waiting list," says the Age Concern report. "This means many old people who wish to move nearer grown- up children are being separated from them." "If old people could move closer to relatives who are anxious to care for them, it would very often ease the over- stretched social services depart- ments and save on the public purse," explained Mr. John Stan- ford, the campaign's housing in- formation officer. Elderly owner-occupiers should also be eligible to go on council house waiting lists, he said. "Many retired people cannot afford the upkeep of houses bought during working age. York man cleared on car charge A YORK man was unaware that the car he was travelling in to an all-night party at Cleethorpes was stolen, York magistrates heard today. Kenneth Walter Addison, aged. 24, exhaust fitter, of Millfield Road, York, claimed it was only after the car ran out of petrol at Reunion There was an unusual re- union in York at the weekend when Mrs, Elizabeth Deary re- called war-time days with three members of a bomber crew who were stationed at Melbourne, near Pocklington. During the war, Mrs. Deary Standpi drought

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Visit York's top night spot, it's easy to find, only a stone's throw from Bootham Bar. There is a large car park at the rear of the building. JACK & JILLS 25 BOOTHAM, YORK Tel 21002 FESTIVAL TEAM GAVIN HENDERSON Artistic Director Councillor JACK WOOD. Truly a Festival for all AS Chairman of the 1976 York Festival and Mystery Plays, and having been involved with the Festival since its incep tion in 1951, I am delighted to have this opportunity of thanking all those countless organisations and individuals who do so much to ensure their great success. The standard increases as time goes by and this year is certainly no excep- tion, as the fabulous pro- gramme covering all as pects of the arts will show. This year the York Fes- tival is the largest in England and not only is it held in high regard by the Arts Council, which sup ports us magnificently, but also is gaining in reputa- tion both nationally and internationally. It is a festival of which York can be justly proud, PHILLIP GILL Administrator THE FESTIVAL CLUB will once again be housed in the De Grey Rooms, Exhibition Square. There will be a late- night bar and food, which will consist of soup of the day and a hot dish of the day, various cold meats, pizzas, quiches and salad. The opening hours are from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. dally, admission by ticket. A ticket costs £3, a seven-day ticket £1.20, and a daily ticket 25p. The number of daily y tickets available is strictly limited. For those who arrive after 11 p.m. and do not have a membership By Coun. JACK WOOD, Festival Chairman for not only does it bring world-famous celebrities to perform for and delight the citizens, but it also brings visitors from all over the world who can programme, enjoy the and also revel in the other delights that our wonder- ful and ancient city has to offer. In addition, the tremen- dous amount of free pub- licity which the Festival attracts helps a great deal in promoting tourism, which is the largest growth industry in the city. FESTIVAL CLUB This year the Mystery Plays, which have always been the backbone of the Festival, celebrate the Silver Jubilee of their re- vival, and are to have a ticket or a ticket stub from any concert held on that day there will be a special late night ticket charge. From Monday to Thursday and Sunday the charge is 50p, and on and Saturday, eday A variety of enter- tainment will be pre- sented at the club during the Festival. During the first week June 14-June 19 The Fourth Estalte will be entertaining and during the weekend June 25-26 Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm orchestra will be play- ing their own particular brand of music. The Cambridge Buskers will also be making them- selves heard. On other pages Page 3-Jane Flatt describes the 1976 approach to the Mystery Plays. Page 4-Pictures of the Mystery Plays. Page 5-Gavin Henderson on the Festival music. Page 6-John Ingamells on an outstanding Pop Art exhibition Page 7-Michael Chaddock on the Theatre Royal's con- tribution to the Festival. Page 8, 9 and 10-Day by day guide to the Festival events. Page 11-Opera, and an evening of drama in miniature. Page 12-David Myton on the Arts Centre's most ambitious Festival yet. Page 13-Lord Mayor's Parade and Gala, street enter- tainments, exhibitions and lectures. Page 14-Festival portraits. Page 15-Old Tyme Music Hall, student drama, literary events, and Friends Of The Festival. eri php T h la P new look under the direction of Jane Howell. I am sure we shall see a most exciting produc tion. The major concerts in the Minster are to be all of a very high standard and this year we have a new festival chorus per- forming with the London Symphony Orchestra. The Guildhall and Unl versity, the Treasurer's House and Hovingham Hall are among several other venues for many more concerts to be per- formed by famous artists. In addition the Theatre Royal, with opera, ballet and drama and the Rown- tree Theatre with opera, drama and Old Tyme Music Hall, will provide top class entertainment in their own field. Brass band enthusiasts will be catered for in the Minster and a new venue this year Selby Abbey in addition to the Museum Gardens and the castle area. A great deal of firee entertainment for all will be offered in the form of band concerts and street theatre taking place in various parts of the city and the outlying suburbs; they will no doubt help enormously to create a happy and light-hearted festival atmosphere. Our art gallery and museums are all con- tributing in a large way to the programme, and in all some 350 events during the Festival period will pro- vide for every facet of enjoyment, and give our citizens a wonderful opportunity to sample all aspects of the arts at their most illustrious. This is once again a Festival of York for York, and one which I hope. everyone citizen and visitor alike thoroughly enjoy. will SELF-DRIVE CARS OR VANS one to suit your needs A complete range of vehicles for hire at competitive rates. FIAT 126, 127, 128, 131 CHEVETTE VIVA, VIVA ESTATE VX, VX ESTATES Chauffeur Services BEDFORD 12-seat MINI-BUS BEDFORD 22cwt Dropside pick-ups Call for details YORK 25448 Lendal Bridge, York. YORK 761121 Front Street, Haxby, York, Access cards welcome. Our fleet is up to date, kept clean and always ready for your service. 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all de d cule bee 品牌: Hurity to t www will pr face d ieour derfal - in & York, 7 hope EL EN ads d time ink There's a family touch about the Mystery Plays. with (left to right), BARBARA ASKHAM, DIANA THOMSON (holding ALASTAIR THOMSON, aged two), DANIELLE LOCKER and (seated) RACHEL (7) and ANGUS THOMSON (6) with DAVID BRADLEY (who plays Christ). Carnival mood is revived THIS year's production of the York Cycle of Mystery Plays may shock, affront, surprise or delight you but whatever else it may be, promises to be interesting. a In a century and country where people are at once less devout in their religious beliefs and more insistent on their outward forms, the carefree medieval approach could be too much to stomach. We cannot, of course, know exactly how the Mystery Plays were originally presented, but assuming that the average York citizen was much the same as he is now, they were more likely to have resembled a heat of It's A Knockout than an avant- garde Sunday evening at the Theatre Royal. They would have been an enactment of something es- sential to people's lives that did not have to be pompous to be devout - like a Cup Final. And, like a Cup Final, the spivs would have been there, selling fake holy relics, pardons for your sins, statues of the saints guaranteed com complete with Papal blessing, and enough fragments of the True Cross to build seven play- wagons. for Plays through the whole thing, greeted by cheering mul- instead of bits of it on titudes on His Palm Sun- travelling wagons, as in the day entry to Jerusalem, medieval original. you need at least 100 people to represent a mul- titude. In one of the two in- tervals. stalls will be open, hopefully capturing the fairground atmosphere. of the ceating hals. The audience rises straight from the stage, to help human contact this cuts the number of seats from 2,000 to 1,500, but still means that 36,000 can see the production. The animals on which Jane has insisted from the beginning, and which have cost her assistant Kevin Robinson several sleepless nights and a lot of search- By JANE FLATT ing time, will be a major. feature. A special pen has been built in the Museum Gar- dens for the Jacob's sheep which have been borrowed for al touch of Biblical verisimilitude: the three Kings from the Orient have had to learn to ride real horses sadly, they could not run to a camel. One thing which has been constant in modern as in ancient productions has been the involvement of local people sometimes rather to the detriment of the production. This year's compromise. between enthusiastic amateurism. and cool professionalism gives the roles of Christ, Satan, the Jewish high priest Annas, Pontius Pilate, Judas, the Archangel Michael, and Herod's Knight in the Mas- sacre of the Innocents to professionals. EXTRAS Jane Howell, this year's The Plays are still about. director, has chosen to ig- what they were always nore all the previous about people. As well as modern productions and the 90 speaking parts, this back, as far as possible on year's production has about a static stage, to the 200 non-speaking extras, original conception. arranged in family groups. She has cut Canon This is fairly logical, if you think about It - if Plays Bethlehem was packed out produce a version that will with people when Joseph last about three hours - came to sign his census. surely quite enough for an form it should look audience which has to sit crowded; and if Jesus was Purvis's transcription of herself, to the The rest, including God, the Virgin Mary and her older self as the Mother of Jesus, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Joseph, Herod, Mary Magdalen and the Archangel Gabriel, are played by amateurs, ex- clusively from the city of York or its surroundings. BACKSTAGE SEDATE And, even then, three of the four professional actors have links with York - David Bradley (Christ) was born and his parents still live in Burton Stone Lane; Paul Jesson (Judas Music live music, that. and Herod's Knight) lived for a time while his Mount School; and David Hill (Plate and Michael) has acted several times at the Theatre Royal, in- is was also one of Jane's orders; and she has it, with a revised, aug- in York taught at the Market stalls would spring up along the route of the wagons, selling food and drink, toys and rib- bons; and there would be side-shows, dancing bears, beggars, freaks, fire-eaters, mented York. Celebrations musicians, jugglers, pick- Choir, and three local brass. pockets, animals, children, bands sharing the per- dust, sweat and noise. formances Rowntree. Compare that with pre- Mackintosh, the Salvation vious productions of Army and the Railway In- Plays since they were stitute. revived in 1951, and the picture is quiet, sedate, and seemly. the 1969 York Festival. Local people form the backstage workers seamstresses army of as well working away on the hun- dreds of costumes, under the cajoling eye of ward- robe mistress Barbara Painter; scenery, builders. and painters, electricians and carpenters working with designer Hayden Grif- fin and lighting designer Rory Dempster; and the front-of-house staff, ushers and programme sellers and cleaners, under Front-of- House manager. Arthur Pickering, There are still quite a few Mystery Plays Cycles around Wakefield, Chester and Exeter, for ex- ample but nowhere can there be more local in- volvement, local pride and local talent than York - home of the York Mystery Plays. *** ante te Evening Press Festival Culde, 1976 $ Right beside the Festival Club Couldn't be handier York Theatre Royal P.S. 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1) with Left: the Three LARRY FTS THER LLENGES By GAVIN HENDERSON, Artistic Director ONCE in three years, the city of York virtually explodes with music: the Mystery Plays are cer- bainly the unrivalled reason for a festival, but just as the plays themselves are indigenous to the city - so too the programme of music has grown from within the character of the city itself. It is the nature of the buildings which lend them- selves to the choice of cer- tain works and thereby the selection of artists. Putting the music first has always been a criterion of York Festivals, as op- posed to choosing certain top name' artists to per- form and then asking them what they would like to play or sing. This is not to say that such artists are discouraged the line-up for this year's Festival is perhaps the strongest yet for once the nature of the programmes has been decided, then the best ar tists available are engaged. to perform them. old York has made man we friends in this way are delighted to see many of them back with us this year the Amadeus artet, Paul Torte- Claudio Arrau. Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Charles. Groves, Jane Manning and The King's Singers. PREMIERE Just as the Minster dominates the city, so, too, too, the concerts therein dominate the Festival's. music. programme, For ture - tradition evenee of the Festival was a per- formance of the Monteverdi Vespers. This year, the programme opens with an of that tradition, welcome the Monteverd! Choir and Or. chestra with the Equale Brass Ensemble to be con- ducted by John Eliot Gar- diner. forces These have become world renowned as leading interpreters of • baroque choral music at The their appearances Proms in London (their concerts are always among the first to sell out), their gramophone records and concerts at virtually all the majori music festivals. ************* A FEAST OF Their programme of Ger man sacred music admira- bly suits the Minster - the works by the 17th-cen- tury masters Scheldt and Schein will make full use of spatial effects,' with various groupings of brass, choir and continuo performing from different parts of the building. MUSIC TO SUIT ALL TASTES Haydn's Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross with the famous Yorkshire-born actor. Ken- neth Haigh, as narrator. The following Saturday sees the BBC Northern Symphony freshly returned from Orchestra. European tour, in a concert of English masterpieces - Holst's Planet Suite and Elgar's Cello Concerto with Paul Tortelier as soloist; this concert also has a specific York flavour - the opening work, John Taverner's Cain and Abel. is a setting of one of the York Mystery LOCAL For the final concert in the Minster, we welcome back Sir Charles Groves and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, their Choir, the boys of dies I the Liverpool Ang- lican Cathedral Choir and Helen Watts (not to men- tion several hundred in the audience from their sup- porters' club) for a per-. formance of Mahler's mas- sive Third symphony. For many, the highlight of the Festival's music pro- gramme will be 1 Dream of Gerontius 's this, Dame Janet Baker returns to her native York, with Richard Cassilly, Ben- jamin Luxon, the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Gib- CATALYST son. The choir will be Festival Chorucially-formed A vital aspect of the Festival the element of local participation indeed there is no other festival in the country that features 30 much truly local in- volvement. Here again, the ELISABETH LUTYENS Mystery Plays form. the core, but this year. the local commitment to the Plays will go further tha that of east, back s stage wardrobe staff for music plays an unprecedented role. See the OLYMPICS in real live COLOUR RENT your COLOUR TV from HERBERT TODD H & SON 65 PETERGATE - YORK Telephone 28676 VIRGIL THOMSON the garden of the Treas- urer's House), the Philhar- monic Male Voice Choir, the Chapter the world pre- In all, four centuries will be covered with Bruck- ner's powerful E Minor Mass and York's three major brass miere of a choral work (in) bands will be taking part, eight languages!) together with the Celebra- by Aribert Reimann one of Lions Choir- not to men- Western Germany's leading tion the audience. which composers. will be expected to join in Several days later, the also. Other local groups Amadeus Quartet who taking part include the have enjoyed a particularly York Musical Society (En- close relationship with gland's oldest choral York over the years, at one society) under the Minster time being in residence at Organist, Francis Jackson, niversity will give the Micklegate Singers (in the the City the Ebor Singers Choir. Opera Group (in Verdi's Nabucco at the Rowntree Theatre, the York Light Opera Society (also at the Rowntree Theatre, but in a somewhat lighter vein), many children's events with York's schools taking part and, of course, the Univer- sity Choir and Orchestra. some All in all, we estimate that 2,000 York people will actually par- ticipate as performers in this year's Festival. ed as one of Europe's centres for young composers. Some 30 works will receive either a world pre- miere or a first per- formance in the UK; many of these be by young composers -but IMPORTANT Opera has played an in- creasingly important part of the Festival and besides i Orlando, we play host at the Theatre Royal to Scot tish Opera a company always popular in York but who for this visit mount a particularly important production: the world pre In recent. years, the Festival has become recog- nised for its adventurous work in respect of con- temporary here also one finds an im- music and of Thomas Wilson's Confessions Of A Justified Sinner. The other works in their season will be Brit- portant local catalyst. ten's Midsummer Night's Under the and Richard Prof. Wilfrid allor (sev. Auf eral of whose compositions will be played during the Festival, including a first performances at Selby Abbey), the University's Music Department 1 has Drea Ariadne of Selby Festival, Peter Seymour the organist Abbey and a young artist closely associated with recent Festivals is the founder-director of Yorkshire Baroque Solofe and is also resident organ- ist of the University, hav- ing himself been a student of the Department. The 1973 Festival saw an innovation in the establish- ment of a York Festival Opera production. This year, Peter Seymour and the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists will take in an extension of the Festival. Opera at Hovingham Hall. The work opera, Or- I will be Handel's full of OPERA a The American composer and critic. Virgil is 80 later this year many of his chamber works will be performed as a tribute forming some- thing of celebration of the American Bicentennial also. (The Harvard Rad- cliffe Collegium Musicum will be visiting York dur- ing the Festival and will include some of Thomson's choral music in their pro- gramme. Both these distinguished composers have enjoyed a previous association with York through the Univer- sity's Music Department. The Department's influence, however, is not exclusively confined to new music - the Landini Consort sprung from the University some four years ago and has quickly established national reputation for its authentic performances of medieval music. lando a p magic, contemporary with Hovingham Hall itself, and considered by Handel to be one of his finest pieces. They will be giving sev- eral concerts during the MAL Pr The producer is Julisa Hope who works regularly at Glyndebourne, the Welsh National Opera and who worked during the Jast York Festival as producer for the Wexford production of Bellini's Il Pirata. Festival wild also fear the He will be the soloist in Vivaldi's Four Season 1 More events than ever will be held outside York this other concert year the othe at Selby will feature the Grimethorpe Colliery Band who give the first per two composers in par- formance of a piece by ticular: Elisabeth Lutyens, Anthony who celebrates her sev- Payne. Other entieth birthday this year events go out to Nun App- leton two programmes. (we have commissioned two new works from her the who liveduring an artist Fanfare which opens the and worked in proceedings, in this great house: the poet Exhibition Square on June 11 and the Andrew Marvell and the music theatre piece, One composer William Baines. And The Same, to be given by the Vesuvius Ensemble with Alexander Roy's Lon- don Ballet Company). Naxos. The Scottish Baroque En- semble will be accompany- ing them and will also be in Selby Abbey under their director. the violinist Leonard Fr.ed- man. OPEN AIR Two instrumentalists will be strongly featured the extraordinary clarinettist Alan Hacker comes with his group, Matrix, a kind of classical pop group, and also Music Party, which specialises in playing 18th and 19th-century music on the original instruments. con- Another group of his- the Whispering Wind Band - will give open-air c certs in the courtyard of St. William's College and in the Museum Gardens. istinguished cellist Amaryllis Fleming will play all Bach's unaccompaniat The cello sonatas Beethoven's tes pianist Bernard Roberts) in a series of four concerts. 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6 Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 Clarks CARIBEES Show a clean pair of heels The greatest open fashion show in town. PEDRO CLARKS of YORK JOCIETT Shop with the Private NSRO Retailer for Service and Satisfaction QUALIFIED SHOE FITTERS PAVEMENT & MICKLEGATE, YORK Also: MARKET PLACE MALTON and POCKLINGTON PHOTOGRAPHY Specialists in WEDDINGS, CHILDREN'S PORTRAITS and COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY VARNEY & SON 57 RIDGEWAY, ACOMB, YORK Tel. 791388. Daytime or Evenings 2. KOPY-ITT YORK PLAN-COPYING YORK'S MAIN REPRODUCING AND COPYING OFFICE ALMOST ANY SIZE COPIED INSTANTLY ELECTRONIC STENCIL CUTTING SPIRAL BINDING LETTER HEADS DUPLICATING RETAILERS ALL PRINTING REQUIREMENTS W.B.S BUSINESS COPY-TYPING PHOTOCOPYING BUSINESS CARDS WALLIS SERVICES 63 GILLYGATE, YORK Tel. 56731 By JOHN INGAMELLS JUST what is it?... Pop Art in England 1947-63, is an exhibition of paint- ings sponsored by the Arts. Council of Great Britain and York Festival Com- mittee; in York Art Gallery until July 4 (week- days 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Sun- days 2.30 mission free). 5 p.m. ad- This exciting exhibition illustrates the emergence of a group of young artists working in London mainly in the 1950s and early 1960s. Their work quickly. became known as Pop Art, though they differed very much in individual app- roach. ex- It may seem strange that so recent a development is already considered a fit subject for an in- ternationally-staged hibition (it was shown at Hamburg and Munich before finally coming to York), but the attitudes then declared by this group have remained inspirations to later painters and, in- deed, to other countries. What were these new at- titudes? They were founded on post-war prosperity, the beginning of that period Harold Macmillan as that in which you never had t so good. Its symptoms might be a chromium-plated toaster, a television set. American or Americanised films (much than life), cheap. colourful magazines, shin- ing motor cars revealing a material all new and better These were precisely the symbols chosen by Richard Hamil- to his collage 'Just that makes is it today's homes so different, so appealing?' which has provided the title, and the poster, for this exhibition. Looking back at Pop Art pioneers might all meet in a com- mentary on American cul- ture (shortly to become our own); real disasters of war meet the illusory glamour of a pin-up. His work can be funny or cynical, yet it was clea- rly the visual, not the moral, commentaries which excited him and many others. Interior II by Richard Hamilton. Richard Hamilton is now regarded, with Paolozzi, as a father of Pop Art, but his attitudes differed con- siderably. An immensely talented draughtsman and technician (master of the silk screen, collage, oil and water-colour), Hamilton in- trigues as much by the mixture of media as by his subject matter. His magnificent Interior II, showing the film star com- Patrician Knight in in a still from Shockproof, is a ly- rical picture, gentle atid and elegant yet the posure is reached in an ex- traordinary way. We find in his picture metals, col- lage, and oil paint side by side; it is well worth look- ing at very carefully. ALCHEMY Why should artists be so involved with such prosper- ity? It was very difficult to avoid involvement; a whole. new imagery was evolving, founded on the commercial enterprises which sold the new gadgetry. Advertising hoardings brashly offered the objects in Hamilton's collage, while the te teenage culture' engendered the original pop stars, lapel IMPISH badges, records; glamorous - pictures of Elvis and Cliff were the commercial suc- cesses of mindless rapture. The foundation of pop. then and now, was laid on hectic hard-selling. of the younger gener- ation of pop artists, Peter Phillips seems the most ob- viously 'Pop'; the Esso tiger, the pin-table machine and the pin-up, aggressive evidence of This may not sound very promising material for an artist, but art has always been a form of alchemy, transmuting base metals to gold. tion, are transformamisa- into large paintings to become brash heraldic devices. It was Eduardo Paolozzi, a Scot of Italian parentage, who first (it appears) ex- ploited and cial K he us recon- sider a familiar commercial. symbol simply by painting ly in a resistant Now they seem, belying the slick- paradoxically, old-fashioned ness of the printed but the context of the ex- * original.' In his hibition allows us to re- paintings little outline. create their original as- figures. fall across sembled cut-out images in citement. Allen Jones is a a series of small collages; more traditional painter. tinned American His huge Sun Plane is a fighting Mickey memorable. painting: Mouse and Betty Grable mechanical other new possibnounced the ex- other commercial devices: they represent us, the mani- mees, pulated, dwarfed by the product. a monster is David Hockney's The First Marriage. Gie Where The Railroad Leaves The Sea, by Ronald Kitaj. transmuted into a candy- coloured toy, yet with the maturest sense of colour and design. the same His Man/Woman, an amalgam of રી seated couple, offers beautiful colour sense in an incomplete sexual sexual state- ment. With Jones, I sus- pect, we encounter the most sophisticated form of pop art. Derek Boshier appears as the artistic ad-man with an impish imagination. In Spe- He ideas romantic of in- HAUNTING amalgamates these into a kind to see, if variably thrilling not always easy to read. Where The Rallroad Leaves The Sea is a haunting image, depicting a lovers" farewell on some European waterfront; is he a Tonary on the run? reveals great talents for observation, wit, draughtsmanship and First shows a man standing by an Egyptian figure in a museum; it is turned into a marriage pic- ture, with a gratuitous. church door to make the point clearer. painter, worked for two years his painting On The Balcony; four innocent children sit on a bench, their images obscured by other images drawn from the history of art (Manet, Matisse), magazines, news- papers and advertisements, as their own lives will be. His Self Portrait With Badges is alarmingly still, and totally intriguing: he balanced and simple, by a white palm tree. The exhibition is about the and the use (and recapturing) of an innocent curiosity concerning mid- 20th century values. Pain- At least half the canvas is bare; the man's head is painted through, the Egyp- tian mummy is childishly drawn; the whole com- position is most beautved in holding an Elvis magazine, his lapels covered with badges, looking very young, the counterpart of Alice in Wonderland. of tradition ng down com- Richard Smith with his large, at first sight abstract. paintings stands a little mentators on the human apart, yet his inspiration condition, and Hamilton (both imagery, shape and would be at least intrigued colour) was derived from to realise that British Rail an incessant refused to display the presene-day poster showing Just what civilisation.. they prac- is like tically stand in for the sumably, they didn't goods.' the times we live in. cartons... pre- in seco o fo it me roughly The last two artists seem to make a very special contribution, Ronald Kitaj (pronounced Kit-eye) and David Hockney. Kitaj, an American who came to study at the Royal College, brings to his pictures a complex vocabulary of images drawn from the in- tellectual history. of the twentieth centry; Peter Blake, a figurative Marris skill. The teku ZOE Albee BAL COM INV PRE THE porary) och har w cally Toeptre Fik during N perfon ben Com C T Doe belle and c by Clac les br an, Bobert Cha e vacious asp ning k pay based on techn Venis works being is company at be

Ponald ide ser ald K Kini, came al Colle picture bulas d to b t TING attin 4 Shaw and Albee plays as Theatre's contribution IT is perhaps something more than a coincidence that Shaw's last major work, In Good King Charles' Golden Days, is to be Richard Digby Day's final production after five years as director of York Theatre Royal. During those five years the director has made no secret of his weakness for Shaw and it was in fact Shaw's first play Mrs. Warren's Profession which began his career in York. Opening on June 30, Good King Charles is just one of the theatre's contributions to the Festival. Another major production is Edward Albee's prize-winning play given site Balance, to performances be ginning June 15. Delicate The Albee play represents another step in the Theatre Royal's policy of regularly staging plays away from the main theatre. Scottish Opera is performing at the Theatre Boyal during the week of A Delicate Balance, so the theatre company is moving ZOE HICKS is in the Albee play A Delicate. Balance. BALLET COMPANY IN WORLD PREMIERE Con- THE LONDON temporary Dance Company which has won wide acclaim recently will be at the Theatre Royal for one week during the Festival. During that week, June 21-June 27, the company will perform six works that have been choreographed by either Robert Cohan the principal choreographer o members of the com- pany. One ballet as yet untitled is a world premiere and is based on a picture of water lilies by Claude Monet. The music is by Debussy. On the Wednesday, at 4.30 p.m., members of the public can watch an open class. During the class Robert Cohan wil lexplain the various aspects of the dancing technique this Company uses, which is based on the Martha Graham technique. One of the works being performed Class is intended to show those who have never seen the company before some of those basic movements. By MICHAEL CHADDOCK out to the Rowntree Theatre customarily a Mecca for York's amateur stage groups for the first time. Eve Shapiro, who was Theatre Royal associate rector during Richard. Digby Day's first season, returns to direct A Delicate Balance. She is now a principal teacher at RADA famous play," as Richard Digby Day points out, is not necessarily his best, and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? in his down a list headed by A opinion comes somewhere Dellcate Balance and All Over. RARITY For Albee the female is always the deadliest of the species, and this play alter- nales being blazingly funny and blazingly violent," he says. In the cast are Doreen Andrew, Muriel Barker, Zoe Hicks, Ronald Donald Pelmear and Joy Ring. In the almost inexhaust- ble repertoire of Shaw's plays In Good King Charles' Golden Days is very much a performance rarity. premiered at that most familiar of Shaw launching platforms, the Malvern Festival, in 1939. Since then its produ including a television tation of recent memory, could perhaps be numbered on the fingers of one hand. They include Richard Digby Day's own staging of the FRANK BARRIE and RENEE ASHERSON appear in Bernard Shaw's last major work. play in Toronto seven years ago, when it packed out the theatre for three weeks. present seems anortune time to r revive it Richard Digby Day. says While there is action in the play it is basically a conversation piece evolved around a and after the York produc- between Rious meeting won the tion travels to the Middle East to direct an Israeli production of Ibsen's Ghosts. Albee, who Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for this play, concentrates on the tensions evolved in close writer's motionships, Micha Bergese is respon- sible for the choreography of Hinterland, Siobhan Dayles for The Calm and Robert North, The Troy Game. Masque of Separa- tion and the world pre- miere work are choreo- (who is 51) formed the company in 1969 by graph Adet Cohan. The early days of the Festival also catch the last two performances of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, which ends on June 12, as well as the ending of the theatre's Beckett season with a performance of Krapp's Last Tape at lunch- time on the same day. RECITALS The Theatre Royal's series: of free lunchtime literary recitals given by members of the comany continues throughout the Festival, Charles II with readings from John Clare on June 11, Lytton Strachey on June 18, A. E. Housman on June 25, and at special programme in cele- bration of the second centenary of American in- dependence on July 2. The theatre's Festival programme is completed by the visits of two touring companies, Scottish Operal during June 16-19 and the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, June 21-26. dance theatre is presenting two different programmes of works from its current repertory, with the bonus of a world premiere of a new work. Scottish Opera also has a The Pailan for York-Thomas The play has always fascinated me and I could never understand why it has been neglected. With the current high regard. for Shaw's later work, the and some of the VIPS of his reign Isaac Newton the scientist, Fox the Quaker, cure Kneller the artist, James Duke of York, and a trio of Charles' mistresses. The play opens in Isaac Newton's rooms at Cambridge and the final act takes the form of an epilogue between King Charles and his wife Catherine of Braganza, which to quote the director is among the most moving and touching things Shaw wrote," RETURN Frank Barrie, the York- bon actor who was for three years a of the Nating is returning to play Charles. The actor's previous roles in York have included Richard III, Hamlet and Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons. Renee Asherson is to Quion DrPlay tion Edmonstone features Susan as Nell It was Gwynne, Zoe Hicks as the of Cleveland and Muriel Barker as the Duchess of Portsmouth. Aileen Raymond plays Newton's housekeeper, Mrs. Basham and others are Ronald Magill as George Fox, Michael Cadman as the Duke of York, Donald Pelmear as Newton and Clive Carter as Kneller. SIOGHAN DAVIES and NAMRON in The Calm, one of the ballets being presented at the Theatre. Royal by The London. Contemporary Dance Theatre. Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The com- pany is also to perform A Midsummer Dream and Richard Strauss's Ariadne on Naxos. Lunch-hour services DURING the Festival a es of lunch hour serv- series ices based on themes from the Mystery will be held at St. Belf- rey Church. The services, running from 12.15-12.45 p.m. and 1-1.30 p.m. will be preceded by singing and dancing on the forecourt, including dramatised ex- tracts from the Mystery Plays The services will be on these dates: Tuesday, June 15; Thursday, June 17; Tuesday, June 22; Thurs- day, June 24: Monday, June 28; Tuesday, June 29; Wed- nesday, June 30; Thursday, July 1 and Friday, July 2. There will also be two special Festival services on Sunday evenings (6.30) on June 20 and July 4. 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Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME DI FIRST WEEK FRIDAY, JUNE 11 Exhibition Square, 5.30 p.m. - Opening Ceremony. Equale Brass Ensemble Fanfare (Lutyens). York Theatre Royal Company, Theatre Royal, 7.30 The Cocktail Party. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - Mystery Plays, Arts Centre, 7.30 pm.-Long Day's Journey into Night. College of Ripon and York St. John, 8 pm. Gray's Court, Ogleforth. A tribute to John Constable to cele- brate the bicentenary of his birth. SATURDAY, JUNE 12 Guildhall, 11 a.m. - Medici Quartet, Alan Hacker (clarinet), Quartet No. 2 (Janecek) Tre, Op 94 (Lutyens) New Work (Lutyens), Quintet in A major (Mozart), Museum York 2.30 and 7.45 Mystery Plays. 8.0 pm. Monteverdi Choir a rand. Orchestra, Equale Brass Ensemble, German sacred music, including works by Schutz, Scheidt and Schein Aribert Reimann, Mass in E minor (Bruckner). Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. - York Theatre Royal Com- pany. The Cocktail Party. River Ouse, adjacent to Museum Gardens, 11.30 p.m. - Grand Firework Display. Arts Centre, 7.30 p.m.-Long Day's Journey into Night. SUNDAY, JUNE 13 York Minster 10.30 am. - Civic Service (Matins), Preacher: the Dean of York. Treasurer's House, 3 p.m. - Micklegate Singers, selection of folk songs and madrigals (indoors if wet), 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. Museum Garde Micklegate. 8. p.m. Alan Hacker Arts Centre, (baroque classical and folk clarinet) Richard Burmett (Hellman fortepiano) music by Dieupart, Haydn, Handel, Maxwell-Davies, Schubert and Weber. College of Ripon and York St. John, College Chapel 8 p.m.-Lemare Orchestra, Wissemma Quartet: Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis (Vaughan Williams Petite Symphonie Concertante (Martin). Introduction and (Elgar) Danse sacree et danse profane (Debussy) Jazz Harpsichord Concerto (Horovitz), Treasurer's House, 8 p.m. - Honor Sheppard (soprano) Robert Elliott (harpsichord). Music by Dowlands, Byrd, Purcell, Croft, Handel. An Exhibition National Railway Museum, 8 p.m. Promenade Con- cert of Railway Music, Huddersfield Philharmonic College of Ripon and York St. John Choir, oth Musical Society, orator William Hindle. the includes: Railway Song. Berlioz; Trains in distance, Butterworth; Pacific 231, Honegger. Arts Centre, 10.30 pm.-Recital, Poppy Holden, Wilfrid Mellers, works by Ives, Mellers, Satie, Berberian. MONDAY, JUNE 14 St. Anthony's Hall, Peaseholme Green. 5.15- Lecture: The Age Of The Vikings (1). College of Walk, 5.30 p.m. Wheel Of The World. JOHN ELIOT GARDI- NER conducts the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in a Minster concert of German sacred music on Sunday! June 12. Arts Centre, 7.30 p.m.-Long Day's Journey into Night. 11 p.m.-Film: The Lavender Hill Mob. Lyons Concert Hall, York University, 8 p.m. - University of York Chamber Choir. Requiem Canticles (Stravinsky), Missa L'Homme Arme (Dufay), Pneuma for 7 soloists (Smalley). Guildhall, 10.30 p.m. - Lecture: Stained Glass of York Minster. I NEAR YORK MINSTER TUESDAY, JUNE 15 College of Ripon and York St. John, Lord Mayor's Walk College Drama Department, 5.30 p.m.-The Wheel Of The World. Treasurer's House, 6.15 p.m. - Micklegate Singers, Open air folk songs and madrigals (indoors if wet). of CALLIGRAPHY ILLUMINATION and and College Drama Department in The HERALDIC ART including work by staff and students of Reigate School of Art and Design, will be open to visitors on weekdays from 9.30 a.m.-5 p.m. during the Festival...at YORK INSIGNIA PETERGATE AT STONEGATE Enquiries should be addressed to the Head of Department Mr. Anthony Wood, N.D.D., F.R.S.A., Reigate School of Art and Design, Blackborough Road, Reigate, Surrey. (Principal: John F. Slaughter, A.R.C.A.) JOHN MITCHINSON, tenor, is soloist with the University of York Choir. and Orchestra SOO-BEE LEE, soprano, is soloist in a concert by York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir ALEXANDER GIBSON conducts one of the Festival's major concerts FLX Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. - Scottish Opera, Confessions Of A Justifled Sinner (Wilson). Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 pm. York Theatre Royal Company, A Delicate Balance (Albee). Arts Centre, 7.30 p.m.-Long Day's Journey Into Night. 11 p.m.-Film: Cruel Sea. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - Mystery Plays. Assembly Rooms, 7.45 Scandinavian Food Tasting. Minster, 8.0 York Amadeus Kenneth Haigh (speaker). Quartet No. 6 in F minor (Haydn), Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Haydn), WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16. St. Anthony's Hall, 5.15 Lecture: The Age Of The Vikings (2). College of Ripon and York St. John, Lord Mayor's Walk, College Hall, 5.30 p.m. - College Drama Depart ment, The Wheel Of The World. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - Mystery Plays, Theatre Royal, St. Leonards, 7.30 p.m. - Scottish Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten). Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. York Theatre Royal Company, A Delicate Balance (Albee). Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, 8 p.m. - (organ), music by J. S. Bach, Virgil Thomson, Merchant Taylor's Hall, 8 p.m. - Ceilidh with Fourth Estate folk group. Peler Seymers. Assembly Rooms, 8 p.m. The Music Party. Flute Quartet in A major (Mozart), Clarinet Quartet in F (Wanhal), Flute Quartet in D (Mannheim), Clarinet Quartet in D (Krommer). Arts Centre, 2.30 p.m. - David Nelson and Simon Wright, 7.30 pm.-Long Day's Journey into Night. 11 p.m. -Film: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, THURSDAY, JUNE 17 College of Ripon and York St. John, 5.30 pm. College Drama Department, Wheel Of The World. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. - Scottish Opera, Ariadne on Naxos (Strauss). Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 pm. York Theatre Royal Company, Delicate Balance. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - Mystery Plays. College Chapel, 8.00 p.m. - Hepzibah Menuhin (piano), music by Handel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Block and Beethoven. of Andrew Marvel, with the Landini Consort. Green Shade, Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 p.m. Actors in Consort, Lykos, An original concert drama. Caliban Lives. 10 p.m. Film: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Assembly Rooms, 8.00 pm.-1 a.m. Viking Beerfest. FRIDAY, JUNE 18 Museum Gardens, 11 a.m. - Matrix. Overture Clarinet (McGuire), Signals (Birtwozart), solo for on theme from Marriage Of Figaro and Don Giovanni. St. Anthony's Hall, 5.15 p.m.Lecture: The Age Of The Vikings (3). College of Ripon and York St. John, 5.30. Drama Department, The Wheel Of The Worm-College Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - Mystery Plays. York Minster, 8.00 p.m. -Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, York Musical Society, Honor 3 (Bach), Nelson Scottish Opera, Confessions nificat (Bach). Suite in D Noppard (soprano), Danntree 2 Theatre Royal, 7.30 pm. Of A Justified Sinner. 7.30 p.m.-York Theatre Royal Com- 7- Aatre Balance (Albee). Nun Appleton Hall. 8.00 p.m. - In A Green Shade, with the Landini Consort. Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 p.m. Actors in Consort, Lykos Guildhall, 8.00 p.m. - Matrix. Vision Of Youth (Lutyens), Little German Cantata (Mozart). Death of Orpheus (Birtwistle), Children's Rhymes (Janacek). Guildhall, 10.30 p.m.Lecture, Stained Glass of York's Churches and Historic Buildings. Merchant Taylors Hall. Poetry and literary weekend; readings and music from Ambit and Stand. Club, Arts Centre, 3.00 p.m.-Caliban Lives. 10.30 p.m.-Jazz College of Ripon and York St. John, College Chapel, 10.30 p.m.-Anemone: Syrinx (Debussy), Sonate for flute, viola and harp (Debussy). Rosaces 1 (Harrison), Ariel 1 (Hoyland). SATURDAY, JUNE 19 (Haydn), Stabat Mater Harp (Beethoven). River Ouse, noon to 7.00 p.m. Regatta. (Thomson), Op 74, The York Rowing Club -York Theatre Rowntree Theatre, 2.30 and 7.30 10 p.m. Royal Company in A Delicate Balance. College of Ripon and York St. John, Lord Mayor's Walk, 5.30 p.m. - The Wheel of the World (Crosse). Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - Mystery Plays. York Minster, 8.00 p.m. - BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Singers, Paul Tortelier (cello). Sir Adrian Boult, Vernon Handley conductors. Cain and Abel (Tavener). cello and orchestra (Elgato in E minor for violin, Planet Suite (Holst). St. William's College Courtyard, 8.30 pm. ing Wind Band. Harmonie menades and noc- Krommer, and Beethoven. Whisper- turnes by Mozarturers' Hall, 8.30 pm. - Actors in Merchant Consort, Lykos. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. - Scottish Opera, Ariadne on Naxos (Strauss). Merchant Taylors' Hall-Poetry and literary weekend. Arts Centre, 8.00 pm.-Caliban Lives. 10.30 p.m.-Jazz Club. Riverside, north of Searborough Bridge, 10.30- Viking boat-burning. 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7110 11219 the 1. PA- 31 in p ree Se cart Adi C Night Beerfest Creetrace sin br verte Go The Ag n-Ole d Plast la Orde Bach, Se Stak NJ da eary S Tric NE 19 00 Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 DIARY OF EVENTS DAY BY DAY CLAUDIO ARRAU, the distinguished pianist, plays works by Beet- hoven and Ravel in a con- cert in York University's Central Hall (June 29). SECOND WEEK SUNDAY, JUNE 20 Museum Gardens, 2.30 and 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. Selby Abbey, 3.00 pm. Scottish Baroque Ensemble, Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani (Paulene), Threnody (Mellers), The Seasons (Vivaldi). Brass house and Rastrick Band, City of Coventry Band, paig Fairey Band. Introduction to Act 3 Lohengrin (Wagner), Suite Kenilworth (Bliss). Works by Senaille, Bach, Boellmann and Mendelssohn, Treasurer's House. 8 p.m.Landini Consort, Music from the Courts of Maximilian I and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m.-Donna Stoering: Piano recital. 10.30 pm.-John Stuart Anderson: Phantom and Phantasy. MONDAY, JUNE 21 of York Electronic Music Studio, live and taped electronic music. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. - London Contemporary Dance Theatre. Class (Robert Cohen), Hinterland. Masque of Separation, Lyons Concert Hall, 8.00 p.m. - Vesuvius Ensemble, One and the Same (Lutyens). Pierrot Lunaire (Schoen- berg). Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. -York Light Opera Society, Old Tyme Music Hall. Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m.-American Poets. 10.30 p.m.- Films: Cathy Come Home and Amelia and The Angel. TUESDAY, JUNE 22 Assembly Rooms, Blake Street, 1 p.m. and 7.30 pm. University of York Electronic Music Studio, live and taped electronic music. House, 6.15 p.m. Micklegate Singers, reas folk songs and madrigals. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays.. air Theatre Royal, St. Leonards, 7.30 p.m.London. Contemporary Dance Theatre: Class, Hinterland, Masque of Separation. &Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. -York Light Opera Old Tyme Music Hall, Guildhall, 8.00 p.m. The Scholars, John Kozar (piano). Madrigals also Capital Capitals (Virgil Thomp son), Ceremony After a Fire Raid (William Mathias). Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.00 p.m. - Landini Con- sort, Music from the courts of Henry VIII and Philip the Good of Burgundy. Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m.-Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre, 10.30 p.m.-Films: Poor Cow, Henry Nine "Til Five. Paul Hansard's Puppets. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 Riding's Literary Luncheon. Speakers: Freddle Trueman, Colin Cowdrey, Gerald Summers. by York Minster, 5.30 p.m. - Gillian Weir (organ): works Messaien. Dupre, Franck. Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - York Minster, 8.00 p.m. - Ustery Plays. of York Choir and Orchestra, God's Grandeur (Paynter), Biblical Songs Glagolitic Mass (Janecek). Theatre Royal St. Leonards, 7.30 p.m. - London Contemporary Dance Theatre: Class, Hinterland, Masque of Separation. Open class at 4.30 p.m., Rowntree Theatre, Haxby Road, 7.30 p.m. York Light Opera Society, Old Tyme Hall. Arts Centre, 2.30 p.m.-Der Zah. 8.00 p.m.- Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre. 10.30 p.m.-Films: Family Life and Daybreak Express. THURSDAY, JUNE 24 College of Ripon and York St. John, 11.00 a.m. - Variations on a theme of Prometheus (Beet- hoven), Sonata in B Flat (Schubert). Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. p.m. Mystery Plays. London Contemporary Theatre Royal, 7.50 P. New Cohan Work; Troy Game. York Light Opera Theatre, The C Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. Society, Old Tyme Music Hall. Lyons Concert Hall, 8.00 p.m. - Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano), Peter Dickinson (plano), John Kozar (plano), Virgil Thomson and his friends-a salute for his 80th birthday. Melly wil Hall, York University. 8.00 p.m. - George with John Nun Appleton Hall, 8.00 p.m. Suite Bergamasque Seven Preludes (William Baines), (Debussy), Ondine (Ravel), Modere Menuet Anime (Sonatine), Poem-Fragment, Dreaming, Water Pearls, Poem Nocturne, Glancing Sunlight (Baines). Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 p.m. Actors in Consort, The House of Faust. Arts Centre, 2.30 p.m. Paul Hansard's Puppets. 8.00 p.m. Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre 10.30 p.m. Full Film. The Knack and The Running, Jumping & Stand- ing FRIDAY, JUNE 25 Museum Gardens 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. - London Contemporary Dance Theatre: Calm, New Cohan Work, Troy Game. Lyons Concert Hall, 8.00 p.m. Nicholas Danby (organ), Olinkaby Frascobaldi, Kerli, Hindemith, Brahms, Bach, Arts 8.00 pm. Poppy Holden. Musicians from the University. Programme includes works by Harrison, Mellers, Lutyens, Adams, Crumb. Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 pm.-York Light Opera Society, Old Tyme Music Hall. Selby Abbey, 8.00 p.m. - Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Cornet Concerto (Tomlinson), New work (Payne), Rag- times Fireworks works by Byrd, Farnby, Bull, Foster, Gershwin, Brubeck, Nun Appleton Hall, 8.00 p.m. - John Clegg (piano). Music by Baines, Ravel, Debussy. Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 pm. Actors in Consort, The House of Faust, Arts Centre, 2.30 pm. Paul Hansard's Puppets. 8.00 pm. Recital of music by Crumb, Lutyens and Mellers. 10.30 p.m.-Jazz Club. SATURDAY, JUNE 26 Guildhall, 11.00 a.m. Alberni Quartet. Op 33 No. 31 in C, The Bird (Haydn). Quartet No. 2 (Thomson). Op 96 in F major, The American (Dvorak). Lord Mayor's Parade and Gala, 1.30 p.m. - Parade leaves Castle grounds and moves to Knavesmire. Museum Gardens, 3.00 and 8.00 p.m. Mystery Plays. York Minster, 8.00 p.m. - London Symphony Festival (Mezzo- Soprano). Richard Cassilly (tenor). Benjamin Luxon (bass), Alexander Gibson (conductor). The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar). Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. - London Contemporary Dance Theatre: Calm, New Work, Troy, Game. Rowntree Theatre, 6.00 and 8.30 p.m. York Light Opera Society, Old Tyme Music Hall. BENJAMIN LUXON, bass, is a soloist in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius. HELEN WATTS, soprano, is soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 3 JON SILKIN, editor of Stand, takes part in the poetry and new writing. weekend AMARYLLIS FLEMING, cello, plays in two Beethoven concerts on the mornings of June 29 and June 30. The con- certs are in the Guild- hall, Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 p.m. - Actors in Consort, House of Faust. Arts Centre, 2.30 pm. Paul Hansard's Puppets. 8.00 p.m. Eric Hill: Classical guitar recital. 10.30 p.m.- Jazz Club.. THIRD WEEK SUNDAY, JUNE 27 Museum Gardens, 2.30 p.m. - Mystery Plays. Treasurer's House, 3.00 p.m. - Micklegate Singers, Open air folt 3.00 pm. - (indoors if 39 No. 2 and madrigalsartet, i Rasumovsky (Beethoven), Op 132 in A minor (Beet- hoven). Hall. Museum Gardens. 7.30- City of Birmingham Sym- phony Orchestra. Promenade Concert (Tchaikovsky). Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Marche Slav, 1812 Over- ture (York Minster if wet). S Treasurer's House, 8.00 ming. Yorkshire Baroque Sterne Evening. Arts Centre-All-day film event. MONDAY, JUNE 28 Holy Trinity Church, Micklegate, 11 a.m. Poppy Holden (soprano), Edward Huws Jones (lute), lute songs. from England and Italy. (Continued on next page) Our stage is set... Come exploring in one of York's lovelier, large shops. We can offer you iced coffee, tea or lunch with cocktails. Enjoy browsing around our Exhibition Furnishing Galleries. We have taken one hundred years to set this singular scene- bringing art into everyday life. Hunter & Smallpage GOODRAMGATE YORK 25522 OPEN EACH WEEKDAY EXCEPT MONDAYS

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The popular group, the KING'S SINGERS, whose musicianship is equally admired on the concert platform, radio and television, are in concert at the Theatre Royal on Sunday, July 4 (Continued from Page 9) Central Hall, 7.30 p.m. -York Scrick's All Good Massed Choir, Robin Black (conductor). Mick Children, Golden Varity, Friday Afternoon. Guildhall, 8 p.m. Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Works by Billings, Ives, Carter, Barber, Thomson and others, Guildhall, 10.30 p.m.-Lecture, European Stained Glass. King's Manor Celiars, 8.00 pm. York University Drama Society. Don Juan. Arts Centre, 2.30 pm.-Suitcase Circus. 8.00 pm.- Barry Smith Theatre of Puppets. 10.30 pm. Films: Bronco Bullfrog and Opus. TUESDAY, JUNE 29 Guildhall, 11.00 a.m. Amaryllis Fleming (cello), Bernard Roberts (piano). Sonata in F No. 1. Sonata in C major No. 1, Sonata in D No. 2 (Beethoven), air folk songs and madrigam-Micklegate Singers. Open Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m.-Mystery Plays. Bowntree Theatre, 7.30 pm, City Opera Group. Nabucco (Verdi). Central Hall, 8 p.m.-Claudio Arrau (piano), Sonata in (Beethoven), Sonata in B minor (Lászt), Etudes Symphoniques (Schumann). King's Manor Cellars, 8.00 pm. York University Drama Society. Don Juan. Arts Centre, 2.30 pm.-Suitcase Circus, 8.00 p.m.- Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus, 10.30 p.m. - Film: Bleak Moments. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30 Guildhall, 11.00 a.m. Bernard Roberts (piano). Sonata in G minor, 7 variations Amarylis Fleming (cello). on the theme from Mozart's The Magic Flute, Sonata in A (Beethoven). York Minster, 5.30 p.m. Francis Jackson (organ): music by Walond, Bach, Kodaly, Mathias, Franck, Liszt, Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. York Theatre Royal y Gardens, 7.45 pm.-Mystery Plays, In Good King Charles Golden Days (Shaw). Hovingham Hall, 8.00 pm. York Festival Opera. Orlando (Handel). Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. - City Opera Group. Nabucco (Verdi). Assembly Rooms, 7.30 p.m.-York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir. Songs from Palestrina to Mozart to Vivian. Ellis and Henry Mancini. Soo-Bee Lee (soprano). King's Manor Cellars, 8.00 pm. York University Drama Society. Don Juan, Arts Centre, 2.30 p.m. Suitcase Circus. 8:00 p.m.-Dr. Faustus. 10.30 p.m.-Phantom and Phantasy. THURSDAY, JULY 1 College of Ripon and York St. John, 11.00 a.m.-Yitkin Seow (piano). Waldstein Sonata (Beethoven), Sonata in A minor (Schubert). Nocturne in C (Chopin), Jeux d'eau (Ravel), opin), Fantaisie of Joyeuse Muse Gardens, 7.45 p.m.-Mystery Plays. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m.-York Theatre Royal Company in Good King Charles' Golden Days. All Saints' Church, North Street, 8.00 p.m.-Amaryllis Fleming (cello), Suite No. 2 in D minor, Suite No. 4 in E flat, Suite No. 6 in D for 5-stringed cello (Bach). Lyons Concert Hall. 7.30 pm.-York Schools Concert. Midnight Thief, All the King's Men (Richard Rodney Bennett). King's Manor Cellars, 8.00 pm. York University Drama Society. Don Juan. Merchant Adventurers Hall, 8.30 p.m. - Actors in Consort. Songs and Dances of Pontius Pilate. Arts Centre, 8 p.m.-Annie Stainer: Moon. 10.30 p.m.-- Films: The Moon & The Sledgehammer and My Childhood, FRIDAY, JULY 2 Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, 6.15 p.m.-Ebor Singers. Five-setting Herrick (Clemments), Jesu Priceless (Bach). Gardens, 7.45 p.m.-Mystery Plays. York Minster, 8.00 pm.-Concert by members of the Aeolian Music Course. Bach, Handel, Pergolesi, Elgar. Theatre Royal, 7.30 pm. -York Theatre Royal Company. Good King Charles Golden Days, Hovingham Hall, 8.00 p.m. - York Festival Opera. Orlando (Handel).. Rowntree Theatre, 8.00 p.m. - City Opera Group. Nabucco (Verdi). Real Ale and Jazz Assembly Rooms, 7.30 p.m, Weekend. All Saints' Church, North Street, 8.00 pm.-Amaryllis Fleming (cello). Suite No. 5 in C minor, Suite No. 4 in G, Suite No. 3 in C (Bach). King's Manor Cellars, 8.00 pm. York University Drama Society, Don Juan. Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 p.m. - Actors in Consort-Songs and Dances of Pontius Pilate. Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m.-Moon. 10.30 p.m.-Jazz Club. SATURDAY, JULY 3 Guildhall, 11.00 a.m.-Aeolian Quartet, Op. 74 No. 3 in G minor (Haydn), Quartet in F (Ravel), Op. 25 No. 6 (Lutyens). Theatre Bay auteur Verdis Nak perfomance Pestival Oper Celu The Sou mit Irel ce 18 to ors figulad n phs the en and pean Assembly Rooms, 11.00 a.m. and 7.30 p.m.-Real Ale and Jazz Weekend, Wheldrake Victorian Fair-2 p.m. Museum Gardens, 2.30 and 7.45 p.m.-Mystery Plays. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m.-York Theatre Royal Company. In Good King Charles' Golden Days. Nowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. City Opera Group. (Verdi). York Minster, 8.00 p.m.-Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral verathedral Boy Choir, Helen Watts (soprano), Sir Charles Groves (conductor). Symphony No. 3 (Mahler). King's Manor Cellars, 8.00 pm. - York University Drama Merchant Adventurers Hall, 8.30 pm. - Actors in Consort. Songs and Dances of Pontius Pilabe. Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m.-Moon. 10.30 pm.-Jazz Club, SUNDAY, JULY 4 Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m.-An Evening with The King's Singers. Hovingham Hall, 8.00 pm. - York Festival Opera. Orlando (Handel). Museum Gardens, 10.30 p.m.-Pop Concert, W One of the most remarkable musicians in the Festival is ALAN HACKER, clarinettist extraordinary, who brings his group Matrix (a kind of classical pop group), and also his Music Party, which specialises in playing- 18th and 19th century music on the original instruments. 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ntd.) en s e und Jun Acryl Thed in G 3 -De Play N d y Fres Open World premiere highlight THE opera-lover is well pre- catered for in this year's Festival, with the return of Scottish Opera- always a great attraction in to previous visits the tury theatre, for sentation at the delightful country house, Hovingham Hall, home of Sir Marcus and Lady Worsley. The cast includes John Angelo Messana, Richard Jackson, ackson Yvone Seymour, Judith Simmons and dell'Acqua. Iris Theatre Royal - plus an amateur production of Verdi's Nabucco, and a performance by York Festival Opera of Handel's Orlando. Opera The Scottish season is from. Tuesday, June 15 to Saturday, June 19 at the Theatre Royal, and offers two dis- tinguished modern works, plus the excitement of a world premiere. This latter is The Confessions Of A Justified Sinner, by Thomas Wilson, adapted by John Currie from James Hogg's dark and troubling book. The story has strik- operatic elements. for lovers of opera The sinner, a weak character torn by guilt, is assured by a father-figure the Rev. Wringham, that God has chosen him, and consequently he can do no wrong. He is persuaded by a sinister figure to put the world to rights by a series of murders. There is a powerful and dramatic climax to an opera in which composer and lib- rettist have preserved the rhetorical power of Hogg's book, FANTASY The cast includes Thomas Hemsley as the Rev. Lan- Wringham, Philip gridge as the Sinner and John Shirley Quirk as the strange and persuasive Gil-Martin. In completely. different mood is Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's! Dream, in which the com- poser captures beautifully the wit and fantasy of Shakespeare's play. It is a rich score which has des- ervedly become popular throughout the musical world. The cast includes Patricia Kern, William McCue, Julian Littman, Angelo Messina, Glenys Fowles, David Hill- man and Gordon Sandison. From the worlds of sin and retribution, make- believe and earthy realism, John in miniature THE concept of chamber musie is familiar enough: but chamber drama? That is the descrip- tion of an unusual form of entertainment being offered during the Festival in one of York's noblest old buildings, the medieval Merchant Adventurers' Hall, Fossgate. Peler Bell has played many roles in repertory, and has also played in numerous radio. and TV plays. The Consort's Festival contribution in the Merchant Adventurers' Hall consists of three plays, two specially written for the occasion. Maze (June 17-19) concerns Lykos, or Danger In The a doctor interviewing a mysterious patient, and becoming involved in the fantastic world revealed. With it is Nutmeg Hill, a piece of abstract theatre based on the nursery tale. of three kings transformed into trees. The entertainment is of fered by Actors In Consort on Thursday, Friday, Satur- day, June 17, 18, 19; Thursday, Friday, Saturday, June 24, 25, 26, and Thurs- day, Friday, Saturday, July 1, 2 and 3, starting at 8.30. Actors In Consort consist of three professional actors, John Stuart Anderson, Andrew Jackson and Peter Bell. Mr. Anderson has almost every lifetime, and performed his one man which, perhaps, it is foolish solo theatre show in many to ignore. parts of the world. Songs And Dances Of Andrew Jackson was born Pontius Pilate deals with the Emperor Tiberius and appeared many times at the Pontius Pilate; the Emperor Harrogate Theatre. He expecting the home-coming directed his own company of Pilate with Jesus of at the Gulbenkian Theatre, Nazareth: Pilate becalmed Canterbury, and has toured at sea, never to return extensively in leading roles. home. The House Of Faust (June 24-26), deals with those curious moments of recognition which occur in NOTED PHOTOGRAPHER is AS ITS contribution to the ival, York Impressions of Photography mounting a special ex- hibition, entitled A Darker Side Of The Moon. featur- ing the photographs of Angus McBean. fashion P 1910 of the McBean was born in 1904 in South Wales. After a brief period studying ar- chitecture he became in- terested in making masks. this ex- 1930s and His work with stage des- hibition, which includes. igners, the Morleys, many original prints and brought him into contact much unpublished work, fascinating insight with Ivor Novello, who gives a commissioned his first into the work of an out- stage photographs for The standing photographer. mun yang me? T Scottish Opera turns with its third production to the mannered world of pre-war Vienna. It is Richard Strauss's Ariadne On Naxos, written by Strauss às a form of light hearted relief after his work on the operas Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier. It is a glittering and joyous work ideally suited to round off the company's week. The cast includes Linda Esther Gray, Anne Howells, Iain Cuthbertson, Norman White, David Fieldsend and Hugh Beres- ford. WILSON, THOMAS composer of The Con- fessions Of A Justified Sinner. Evening of drama STORE... Happy Hypocrite (1934). This began a long career during which McBean became Britain's leading theatrical photographer. Hel also worked for magazines. in particular The Sketch, which featured his 'Surreal' portraits. At a time of revival in interest in celebrity and York Festival Opera has chosen Handel's Orlando, regarded as one of the masterpieces of 18th cen- FOOD HALL WELCOME TO YORK'S LARGEST DEPARTMENTAL • FASHIONS • FOOTWEAR • MEN'S & BOYS' WEAR • JEWELLERY . COSMETICS • DRAPERY • HARDWARE & D.I.Y. 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PREEN 12 Evening Press Festival Guide, 1978 By DAVID MYTON YORK Arts Centre is throwing itself into the Festival in a big way. It is the most ambitious programme ever put on by the Centre for a Festival. For in just over three weeks, 54 events will be staged there a demanding ad- ministrative task for Centre co-directors Chris Butchers and Tim Haunton who has also found time to perform in one of the items. Events include theatre, jazz, films, puppetry and ballet. Long Day's into Night, by Eugene O'Neill performed by the Arts Centre Theatre group, be- gins the programme, on June 10. The play, autobiogra- phical, was written in 1941 and is set in a small seaside town near Boston, USA, in 1912. It takes place in the summer home of one time stage star James Tyrone and his f family, where the close fisted father, drug addicted mother, drunken and degen- erate elder son, and con- sumptive younger son, feed on their failings, doubls and fears. through one long summer day, into the night. Director is Ossie Heppell, with John White as James Tyrone, Jeannie Heppell (Mary Cavan Tyrone), Ian McElhinney (James Tyrone Jnr.). Tim Hauton (Edmund Tyrone) and Fiona Minty (Cathleen) It is on June 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16. A man considered to be one of the most exciting musicians of the decade, pops up at the Centre on 7. Arts Centre lines up ambitious programme Sunday, June 13. He is Alan Hacker, who plays the clarinet, and he will be joined by Richard Burnett, on the Heilmann fortepiano. On Wednesday, June 16, David Nelson and Simon Wright play Bach. Mozart. Lutyens and Hindemith, using flute and piano.. The Temba Theatre Com- pany, a company formed to give artistic expression to black culture. performs Caliban Lives, at the Centre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 17, 18 and 19. DIALOGUE The play is a kind of modern version of Shakes. pear's The Tempest. Cali- ban emerges in this work to tell a different story about his master Prospero. American pianist Donna Stoering appears on Sunday, June 20, in a recital of works by Beethoven, Casella, Gottschalk, Go and Schubert. She won the 1975-77 Mar- shall Scholarship, and is presently living in England teaching piano at York University. Alany Stattle. N.D.DR.C.A.F.R.S.A. Limited editions of York signed by Artist. Originals and Prints. Alan Stuttle Gallery 50 Micklegate, York YOI1LF Phone York 24907 KEN SPELMAN offers a rapidly changing stock of some 40,000 second hand and antiquarian books Also a wide selection of 18th and 19th century prints and maps. A walk up Micklegate Hill, "perhaps the finest street in Europe," and an hour or so's rewarding browsing awaits your pleasure Open 6 days a week. 70 MICKLEGATE, YORK On Monday, June 21, as part of the American bi- centennial celebrations, three US poets Louise Gluck, Philip Levine and Mark Strand will give a reading. Ballet fans are in for a treat on June 22, 23 and 24 when the Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre Con- pany performs. Alexander Roy, formerly principal with the Ameri- can Festival Ballet and Nederlands Dance Theatre, formed the group in 1965 and it has since toured widely throughout the con- tinent and the Far East, as well as Britain. Its reper- toire is essentially "con- temporary ballet-threatre involving many works in- spired by the other arts. John Stuart Anderson, who played Christ in the 1973 Mystery P Plays, per- forms on Evening of Phan- tom and Phantasy on June 20 and 30. It is the story of St. Sebastian and the Emperor Diocletian. Classical guitarist Eric Hill, who lives in York, will be giving a recital on June Cast and producer of Long Day's Journey Into Night (left to right): JOHN WHITE, FIONA MINTY, IAN MCELHINNEY,, TIM HAUNTON, OSSIE HEP- PELL, JEANNIE HEPPELL. PUPPETS Puppets continue to take the spotlight on June 28, 29 and 30 when the Barry Smith Theatre of Puppets performs Dr. Faustus. The play, which is for adults, has been to York before. As part of the Centre's line-up, a series of films illustrating the development of British cinema is being shown. a Hansard is who w o will delight. The first week has films both adults and children of the Fifties the Last when he performs four Days of Ealing and the Free puppet plays in the Centre. Cinema Movement. It is The first, on Wednesday, followed by three of Ken Micklegate - 26. He has broadcast on radio and television and has appeared with the Halle, BBC Northern and Ulster Orchestras. Late night jazz clubs will also be held at the Centre at various times, presented by Eric Hill Trio and guests. On June 28, Long Green Theatre Company will per- form Suitcase Circus, a pro- duction specially for child- ren. Whitby C OLIVER & Sons Ltd Dancer and mime artiste Annie Stainer comes to the Centre on Thursday, July 1 to perform a "solo extrava- ganza". This one-woman show follows a pattern: the seasons of the year, the phases of the moon and the ages of a woman. For Your Specialist Machining:- Re-Boring Crank Grinding Head Skimming Valve Seats Re-Cut Paul puppeteer Eric Gibbs (York) Ltd. 58 Micklegate, York. Tel. 23802 Stockists for:- PISTONS RINGS BEARINGS GASKETS- ETC. June 21, is Der Zauber- apruch, a fairy tale. The next, on June 24 is Sin- bad. Next, on June 28 is Spellbound a new fairy- tale. On June 26 comes Snoop. a puppet atyle send-up of the master detective, Sher- lock Holmes. Loach's social essays and a Dick Lester comedy. The films are: June 14, The Lavender Hill Mob: 15, The Cruel Sea: June 16, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: June 17, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; June Cathy Come Hune 21. and Amelia and The Angel; June 22, Poor Cow. 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JOHN SIE HEP BUSE IN aye eky June 14 ELM Chal Sex ener Night a June 21 Fred api: Jae Mean Xy 2. Fariz Expre Erk Jiy Fix ele i vit ener Seventies The New cot and its and 96 Parade and gala provide spectacle ONE of the most spec tacular events held during the Festival is un- doubtedly the Lord Mayor's Parade and Gala. The Parade sets off at 1.30 p.m. on Saturday, June 26 from the the Castle Car Park and finishes at the Knavesmire. The theme of this year's parade is Travel Through The Ages and the 50 or so organisations taking part will use this theme when designing their floats. for all GIFTS As well as all the fun of Doubtfire's Fun Fair, top- line entertainers have been engaged to show what. they can do during the two-day event. One highlight will be he sensational act of Mike Blondini, which includes his being placed in a coffin packed with explosives. Also featured are Demon Bill Deegan and his team of trick and stunt motorcyclists. Micklegate YORK SOUVENIRS The floats and paraders will walk along the York streets to the strains of various bands including that of the 5th Royal In- niskilling Dragoon Guards. Resplendent in his of ficial regalia will be the Lord Mayor of York and resplendent in her beauty will be the newly-crowned Festival Queen. The parade can be seen all along the route which goes from the car park to Tower Street, Paragon Street, Fawcett Street, Fishergate, Tower Street, Skeldergate Bridge, Bishop- gate Street, Prices Lane, Nunnery Lane, Blossom Street, The Mount Vale. Tadcasad to Knavesmire Road and on to the racecourse. And that is only the beginning. At the racecourse is the Gala TT'S not just Aberdonians ing in York that something which is open on Saturday, who tell jokes about free of charge is at "York's June 26 from 2.30 to 11 p.m. and on Sunday June their own canny instincts popular price". 27 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. with money; there's a say- Other groups taking part include the North York- shire Police who will put on a dog display, the Blue Eagles an Army Aircorps helicopter display team, an Army free-fall parachute team, the Golden Lions, the Huntington Scouts and Railway Institute Bands, and the London Girl Pipers. There is excitment of a different kind when the Escafeld Medieval Society give a display of a Both the Gala and he Medieval Tourney,. with Lord Mayor's Parade haver knights battling on foot, been organised by York knocking the medieval Junior Chamber of Com- stuffing out of each other. merce for York District. The ladies dance an olde Council Festival Committee. 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In addition Well, there's plenty in the Festival at York's popular price. to the many exhibitions, there are dozens of shows with the emphasis formality, to be seen in pubs and on the streets of York. Many of them are happening without fixed times or be seen- as wel round the city. a to AG There are many and varied events happening throughout York during the Festival too many to list here. But they represent at colourful and important section of the three-week activities THE FESTIVAL pro gramme includes a number of standing exhibitions of the visual arts. In addition to the important Pop Art exhibition at the Art Gal- lery, these include: as you Enjoy the happenings" stroll through the streets, but if you want more specific times and places (where available) consult the Festival Office's information sheets). GEORGE MELLY (centre) with John Chilton's Feetwarmers, will be appear- ing in the Central Hall, York University, on Thursday, June 24. for at Others have specific times. These include, instance, the Holgate Grammar presentation of a Wagon Play. being presented 4.50 at the West Door of the Minster and 5.40 out- side St. William's College on the following days; June 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, July 1 and 2. In addition the play will be performed in Exhibition Square after the Festival opening ceremony on June at 5.30 LECTURES Other entertainments in- A SERIES of lectures on clude country dancing, pup- stained glass will be given pet shows, street theatre, in the Guildhall during the folk groups, buskers, mum- Festival by Peter Gibson, mers, b brass bands and superintendent of York Glasgow University Pipe Glaziers' Trust. Each Jec- Band (to be seen in processions on the morning of June 30).. ture starts at 10.30 p.m. The first, on Monday, June 14, The Stained Glass out- School pupils are playing their part in the free Of York Minster, will des- shows in addition to the some of Archbishop standing examples of glass Holgate's Wagon Play, York schools painting in the cathedral brass bands and youth a collection described by marching bands will per- Mr. Gibson as the complete form in the Castle area at visual commentary on glass 3 p.m. on June 20. painting. Other attractions include Fourth Estaite folk group, Sergeant Stone puppets, John Bull The lecture on Friday. June 18 describes some of the noted windows in The Theatre, Cam- Parish Churches And bridge Buskers, Phantom Historic Buildings Of York, Captain, York Theatre, Shoestring another major collection of the Galactic glass. While the emphasis Theatre, the Harry Strut- will be on the medieval. ters folk group, York windows the lecturer be Youth Theatre, Mike West- lieves that the late 17th and brook's All-Star Brass 18th centuries glass in par- Band, Kingston Strolling ticular will impress because Players, the Friends Road of the wealth of detail Show, Whitworth Morris revealed. Men, Matchbox Purveyors and an impressive array of brass bands. The third and final lec- ture on Monday, June 28 concentrates on European Stained Glass. The beauty. of the windows in the great French cathedrals of Chartres, Le Mans and Poitiers will be illustrated, together with glass from Germany and Switzerland. Outstanding English glass in Canterbury Cathedral, Fairford and Great Witley will also be described. Aspects Of British Avant Garde Art, in the Chapel Gallery of the College of Ripon and York St. John, arranged by Robert Self. Contemporary Polish Weaving also sculpture by James Boyle at the church of St. Martin-cum-Gregory, Micklegate. James Boyle, a prisoner long-termi in a Scottish jail, has gained wide recognition for works as a sculptor. Earth Patterns, Rhythms and Symbols, paintings by Ray Elliott, in St. Leonard's Hospital, Library Square. Artists In A Working STAINED GLASS The three lectures each lasting about an hour il- lustrated by colour slides Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 13 Environment, at the Royal Station Hotel. Drawings by Glynn Boyd Harte, in the Theatre Royal. The Viking Kingdom of York, in the Yorkshire Mu- seum. The York Cycle of Mystery Plays, an hibition. depicting their origin and revival, in the Yorkshire Museum. Sculpture by Sally Arnup and paintings by Mick Arnup, in the Arnup Studios. Holtby (off the Stamford Bridge Road). Ale and jazz GOOD ALE and good jazz go well together hence the Festival's Jazz and Real Ale Weekend. WEDDINGS The weekend is organised by the York branch of CAMRA in conjunction with the Festival Com- mittee and takes place in the Assembly Rooms on Friday and Saturday, July 2 and 3. The Friday night session. is from 7.30 to midnight and the two Sat- urday sessions are from. 11.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. to midnight. Ten different kinds of beer will be sold from the barrel. Charles Galbraith's All-Star Jazz Band will be and playing mainstream dixieland and will be joined by guest artists. DIAL-A-MEAL TEL.27365 SPECIALISTS IN OUTSIDE CATERING SPECIALISTS IN ALL TYPES OF CATERING PARTIES ANNUAL DINNERS BARBECUES, Etc. Reg. Office: 16 BOOTHAM CRESCENT YORK 54513 FOR DIESEL POWER Specialist Service on C.A.V., Simms, Bosch REPAIRS of Power Tools, Electric Fencers, Battery Chargers ELECTRIC POWER in Starting, Charging, Ignition, Lighting, Radio YORK ZA AUTOLECTRICS LIMITED 58 LAYERTHORPE YORK YORK 54513 YORK 54513

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AITS a summer ed at W York T leading 19. Comedy and song in Old Tyme Music Hall Old the AND now, for your delec- Potts, who is producing the tation and delight, a comic cornucopia of cock ney cameraderie and musi- cal mellifluity - in other words, here's a Festival flurry of family fun in Old Tyme Music Hall! says hearty fun lots of the emphasis is on good traditional music hall songs like Burlington Bertie, Honeysuckle and The Bee Where Did You Get That Hat, Bird In A Gilded Cage etc. It is hoped the audience will join in and singalong - and the printed programme will in- clude the words of some of the songs so everybody can have a go. With Just to show that there really is something in the Festival for those who like their entertainment in ligh- ter mood, the official pro- gramme includes a full week of Music Hall in the Rowntree Theatre, from Monday June 22 to Satur- day June 26. Performances are at 7.30 nightly, except on the Saturday, when there will be two houses' one at 6 p.m. and one at 8.30 p.m. The show is being pre. sented by York Light Opera Society, an amateur group well known for its big musical productions each January at the Theatre Royal and also for its Songs From The Shows in early summer. This summer the Songs have given way to the special Festival Music Hall. Society chairman John FESTIVAL LITERARY EVENTS THERE WILL be a number of poetry readings and lit- erary events during the Festival. These include: Poetry and New Writing Weekend, in the Merchant Taylors' Hall, June 18 to June 20. Featuring the work of Ambit and Stand, New Departures and the Yorkshire Dialect Society. In A Green Shade, at Nun Appleton, the poetry of Andrew Marvell with musle by the Landini Con- sort. Readings From Laurence Sterne, with the Yorkshire Baroque Sololsts, in Treas- urer's House, where Sterne once lived. Theatre lunchtime. Royal free readings: June 18, Lytton Strachey; June 25, A, E. Housman; July 2, Amerlea Hurrah! (1.15 p.m. in each case). Poems For People, by York Poetry Society, Pop- pleton Methodist Chapel, June 23, at 7.30 p.m.; Edward's Dringhouses, June 25 at 7.30: King's Manor, June 28, at 7.30 p.m. Richard Digby Day reads a personal choice in King's Manor on Friday, July 2, at 10.30. heyday, and Included shows like Quaker Girl, Country Girl and Arcadians, There will be lots of in- dividual comedy numbers, ranging from Arthur Askey's old hit, The Villian He Pursued Her to an unu- sual version of The Road To Mandalay. y. In to the songs there comedy gags not forge: ting those 'I say, I say, I say type routines essential to this type of show. No Old Tyme Music Hall would be complete without its chairman, that pusil- lanimous purveyor of pedantry and pomposity - and York Light Opera Society has just the man in Peter Blanshard, a well known local actor enjoying his first taste of this role. Another special section. The show is backed by a will include songs from the small orchestra under the old Edwardian musical baton of musical director comedies of Leslie Monck. John Parkes, with Graham ton, which played at Daly's Royston as chief accompan- Theatre in the Music Hall ist. Students' version of Don Juan SOMETHING a little dif- ferent will be taking place. King's Manor Cellars, Exhibition Square, from Monday, June 28, until Sat- urday, July 3. at 40 taking of. the society part there will be some big production numbers and rousing choral emsembles. In addition to the music hall sections, there will be some traditional ballads in keeperiod of the show, with the Edwar- grosi dian plus a selection of songs by Leslie Stuart, famous for tunes like Lily Of Laguna, Tell Me Pretty Maiden, Soldiers Of The Queen and so on. Members of the York University Drama Society are putting on their own special version of Don Juan. Loosely based on the poem by Lord Byron the production is set in modern times. There is plenty of action and surprises during this production which the society has been rehearsing for the last year. To commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the Settlement of Yorkevian the Friends of York Archaeological Trust are sponsoring three lec- tures during the first week of the Festival. The lec- tures, given by specialists in the field, will be at 5.15 p.m. in St. Anthony's Hall, Peasholme Green. June 14: Professor Olaf Olsen, Professor of Ar- chaeology, University of Aarhus: Five Viking Ships From The Bottom Of A Fjord. June 16: Mr. Mogens The Photo Shop will deal with your photographic problems with experience. interest and know-how, backed by good service. ablway om te who Panut no eros etenity PETER BLANSHARD... Music Hall chairman. 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There will also be a Scandinavian Food Tasting the Assembly Rooms, June at 7.45), and a Beerfest (in. 17, at 2.45), with a tradit- fonal Up Helly Aa ceremony near the Scarborough rail bridge at 10.30 pm. on Saturday, June 19. The Studio is essentially & service to industry & commerce dealing with exacting reproduction, record and copying work. ll be Elisabeth Lutyens and Richard Rodney-Bennett. It takes place in the Festival Club (De Grey Rooms) on Wednesday, Tune 11, 8.30 p.m. Friends of the Festival in the A festival this year is the recently-formed organisa- tion, Friends of York Fes tival, now with a member- ship of nearly 600, Always a Festival of Fashion at the Its aim is not only to support Festival events and help to arouse public in- terest, but also doing many useful jobs like ushering at concerts, helping with of fice work, and having as guests in their homes some of the visiting artists. They also aim to keep in touch after the Festival and SKINN provide a forum for public SHOP discussion. The Friends are organ Ising a number of events during the festival, with one preliminary occasion to interest music-lovers. This is a Composers' Forum, at which the speakers will be During the Festival a number of lunch-time talks are being arranged, of which further details will be given later. These in- clude: con- During the first week of the Festival, a talk ductor Norman Del Mar in the Festival Club, 1.10 p.m. Second week: June 25, a talk by Robert Cohan, of the London Con- temporary Dance Theatre, Festival Club, 1.10 p.m. Third week: A talk by cellist Amaryllis Fleming, Huntington Room, King's Manor, 1.10 p.m. ship of the Friends is st and anyone in- terested can learn more from the Friends' treasurer at 1 Museum Street, York. FIERY FREDDIE AT LUNCHEON A FESTIVAL Literary Lunch is being held in the Assembly Rooms on June 23 by the Yorkshire Rid- ings Magazine. The speakers are ex-Yorkshire and England cricketer Freddie Trueman, whose book Ball Of Fire is launched the day after the luncheon; Colin Cowdrey, another distinguished crick- eter with Kent and En- gland, and Gerald Sum- mers, writer on animal subjects, who recently raised an eagle from a chick. Suede & Leather Coats, Jackets and Waistcoats of quality for both women and men. FOSSGATE, YORK Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 MECOGAS LTD. CALOR GAS AREA MAIN DEALERS Huntington Rd., York. Tel. 56726 borc CHEMICAL TOILETS/TOILET TENTS TENT PROOFING SOLUTION TENT PEGS/EYELET KITS INSULATED BOXES/ICE PACKS FOLDING CHAIRS/TABLES CHAIR BEDS/SUN LOUNGERS WAFFLE BOX SIDED AIR BEDS, etc. DISCOUNT Camping & Caravan ACCESSORY CENTRE Also CAMP/CARAVAN COOKERS HEATERS REFRIGERATORS - LIGHTS (Not subject to discount) Beningbrough Hall, Nr. York. Also at: "The Calor Centre" - Malton 3901 THE NATIONAL TRUST invites you to visit (8 miles N.W. of York, 3 miles W. of Shipton, A19). SPECIAL FESTIVAL OPENING: Wednesdays to Sundays. House 2-6 p.m., Gardens 11-6 p.m. Treasurer's House, York. Most of this fine and interesting house, standing just behind York Minster, dates from the early 17th century. OPENING TIMES: Daily, 10.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. and some evenings See Festival Programme. Further information from: 32 Goodramgate, York, Telephone: 29621 Enjoy a visit to this beautiful Queen Anne mansion, noted for its wood carving and superb staircase. Ted (y weetper

749 Played out amid the ancient ruins of St. Mary's Abbey, the Mystery Plays are at the heart of York Festival. These colour pictures show scenes from the Plays: Front page - Joseph, the Virgin Mary and the Holy Infant; This page (above), the Three Kings arrive to see the Babe; (below), Christ is brought before Pontius Pilate, and (below right), Christ tempted by Satan. For names of players- see inside pages. +