CONCERT IN COOL OF IT must be ideal to be a visitor to the York 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 I must say some- thing. And if, at Festival time, the music does not reach the heights, it is probably more dis- appointing to the critic than to the visitor. Fortunately festivals can 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. 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 GUILDHALL A GREAT RELIEF many quartets I have heard in recent weeks. It is quite unusual to find a quartet which does not have a dominant voice, or a rather sub- dued Yet one. the Alberni ensemble seemed to me well- nigh perfect. That is not to say that the playing was perfect, and there were. a 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 a significant contribution to our acquaintance with his music, especially in performing cir- cumstances. (Incidentally, one reads of his Four Saints in 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 was 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 popular dance forms. Someone like Berg can force one to take 'landler' seriously, but Thomson has not the same strength of personality. a 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. 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 never sounded like this before or since. The final item in the concert was Dvorak's American Quartet, written in 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 played 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. G.P..

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ch he on an h- a 1s. a- ff a- in nd I hat ad ke Music treat fails to lure audiences HE idea of a String Quar- THE 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 complement the composers rather toy mit might W. classical S 1- vo w by he ch. on ays ilar ho on in m n, un re 0- or ry he S. nd 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. one sym- The music on Saturday can- not surely have put off the potential audience, although the elme Quartet did, in fact, begin with late, good' Haydn in- stead of the Opus 50 quartet originally advertised. They coped well with the wit and humour of Opus 77 No. 2, al- though early in the concert some of the quicker figuration was not always as clear as it might have been. These players make an 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 Rasumovsky Quartets, nor is it in the same league as the late ones. But it shows Beethoven delighting in his mastery of the medium. the The Delme Quartet gave quite an impressive performance of Beethoven. Their pianissimo playing was excellent, always having movement and vitality, with well-nigh perfect ensemble. Between the Haydn and the Beethoven, the quartet was 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, as 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 sing music which requires basically sheer beauty of tone and has what one might call a recognisable lyricism. As it was such a a slight work 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. 6MS 3/3/1 (36)

squeeze everyone to the ster and the service started only five minutes late. Long queues of traffic built up Top fire team wins four events A TEAM from W. & T. Avery Ltd., of Sherburn-in-Elmet, won four events out of seven at the annual competition for members of York and District Private Fire Brigades' Association, held in York on Saturday. The event, on the sports ground of the British Sugar Corporation in Boroughbridge Road, attracted teams from six firms. Results were:- Two men hose and hydrant drill: 1, Redfearn National Glass C (York); 2, W. & T. Avery Ltd. Four men hose and hydrant dividing breeching drill: 1, W. & T. Avery Ltd.; 2, Brook Mers 'A' (Huddersfield). Four me hose and hydrant drill: 1, Redfearn National Glass 'A'; 2, Brook Motors 'A'. Four men hose and hydrant collector drill: 1, W. & T. Avery Ltd.; 2, Redfearn National Glass 'B'. Four men light railer pump drill: 1, W. & T. Avery Ltd.; 2, Redfearn National Glass 'B'. Five men large trailer pump drill. 1, Brook Motors 'A'; 2, Redfearn National Glass 'B'. Four men light trailer pump, second drill: 1, W. & T. Avery Ltd.; 2, British Sugar Corpora- tion 'A'. Two gain degrees Mr. Paul Emmerson, son of Mr. and Mas W Timmonson of all mon was given by the Provinciar Moderator, the Rev. Alasdair Walker. Th United Reformed Church members at their rally in Nunthor New chief ta A WIGGINTON man, 38-year- old Flight Lt. Dennis Cheeseborough today took over command of B Flight of 202 Squadron of search and rescue

Aeolian Quartet GMS 3/3/1 (32) shows skill 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 some would beliive, and we had heard this quartet two or three times in the last 15 months. 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 were they 'inside the 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 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 we 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. 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 string quartets in existence. This recital, albeit at eleven o'clock on a hot, stuffy morning, was proof of that. -G.P.

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.' are "If old people could move closer to relatives who 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 cor ran out of netral 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 GAVIN HENDERSON Artistic Director PHILLIP GILL Administrator 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, 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 enjoy the programme, 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. 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 FESTIVAL CLUB 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 season ticket costs £3, a seven-day ticket £1.20, and a daily ticket 25p. The number of daily tickets available is strictly limited. For those who arrive after 11 p.m. and do not have a membership 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, Friday 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 I 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. new look under the direction of Jane Howell, I am sure we shall see a most exciting produc tion. 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. 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. Page 11-Opera, and an evening of drama in miniature. Page 12-David Myton on the Arts Centre's most ambitious Festival yet. The Guildhall and Uni- 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. 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. 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 free 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 - will thoroughly enjoy. 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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Evening Press Festival Culde, 1976 $ Right beside the Festival Club Couldn't be handier York Theatre Royal P.S. MAGNA CARTA Live at 10.30 p.m. on Thursday, June 24th, ial d by the Jam of tea ing shr bee allery new and in will pr facet d fe out onderful e all in & 1 bope te and ads 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. 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. a We cannot, of course, know exactly how the Mystery Plays were originally presented, but assuming that the a average York citizen was much the same as he is now, they were more likely to have resembled a heat of It's 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 selling there, fake holy relics, pardons for your sins, statues of the saints guaranteed complete with Papal blessing, and enough the fragments of True Cross to build seven play- wagons. SEDATE 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, musicians, jugglers, pick- pockets, animals, children, dust, sweat and noise. Compare that with. pre- vious productions of the Plays they were revived in 1951, and the picture is quiet, sedate, and seemly. Jane e Howell, this year's for Plays thing. through the whole instead of bits of it on travelling wagons, as in the medieval original. In one of the two in- tervals, stalls will be open, hopefully capturing the fairground atmosphere of the originals. The audience seating rises straight from the stage, to help human contact this I 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 Jacob's sheep which have been borrowed for a 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. is Music live music, that was also one of Jane's orders; and she has mented York Celebrations it, with a revised, aug- Choir, and three local brass bands sharing the per- formances - Rowntree. Mackintosh, the Salvation. Army and the Railway In- stitute. EXTRAS The Plays are still about. director, has chosen to ig- what they were always about people. As well as the 90 speaking parts, this year's production has about 200 non-speaking extras, arranged in family groups. nore all the previous modern productions and go back, as far as possible on to the a static stage, of to original conception. She has cut Canon Purvis's transcription the Plays herself, produce a version that will last about three hours - surely quite enough for an audience which has to, sit This is fairly logical, if you think about It - Bethlehem was packed out with people when Joseph came to sign his census form, it should look crowded; and if Jesus was greeted by cheering mul- titudes on His Palm Sun- day entry to Jerusalem, you need at least 100 people to represent a mul- titude. compromise enthusiastic cool the 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 between amateurism and professionalism gives 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. 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, played by amateurs, ex- clusively from the city of York or its surroundings. BACKSTAGE three of And, even al actors the four have links with York - David Bradley (Christ) was born here, and his parents still live in Burton Stone Lane; Paul Jesson (Judas and Herod's Knight) lived in York for a while his wife taname at the Mount School; and David Hill (Pilate and Michael) has acted several times at the Theatre Royal, in- cluding a production during the 1969 York Festival. 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Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 5 T) with Left e Thre LARRY COPE FTS By GAVIN HENDERSON, Artistic Director ONCE in three years, the city of York virtually explodes with music: the Mystery Plays are cer- tainly 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 d the line-up discouraged 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. York has made many old friends in this way and we are delighted to see 30 many of them back with us this year the Amadeus String Quartet, Paul Torte- lier, Claudio Arrau, Sir Adrian Groves, Ja, Sir Charles Manning and The King's Singers. PREMIERE Just as the Minster dominates the city, so, too, the concerts. therein dominate the Festival's music programme, For many years a notable fea- ture tradition even of the Festival was a per- geance of the Monteverdi year, the programme opens with an extension of that tradition, when we welcome the Monteverdi Choir and Or- Same with the Equale Ensemble to be con- ducted by John Eliot Gar- diner. have These forces of become world renowned as leading interpreters baroque choral music The per appearances sell Proms in London (their concerts are always among the first to out), their gramophone: records and concerts at virtually all the major music festivals. Their programme of Ger- man sacred music admira- bly suits the Minster - the works by the 17th-cen- 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. In all, four centuries will be covered with Bruck- ner's powerful E Minor Mass and the world pre- miere of a choral work (in eight languages !) by Aribert Reimann one of Western Germany's leading composers. Several days later, the Amadeus Quartet who have enjoyed a particularly close relationship with York over the years, at one time being in residence at the University will give A FEAST OF 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 Orchestra. freshly returned from 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 Plays. LOCAL For the final concert in the Minster, we welcome back Sir Charles Groves and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, their Ladies' Choir, the boys of the Liverpool Ang- licahedral Choir and Helen (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- grammet I will be Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. For this, Dame Janet Baker returns to her native York, with Richard Cassilly, Ben- jamin Luxon, the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Gib- son. The choir will be York's specially-formed Festival Chorus. A vital aspect of the Festival is the element of local participation indeed there is no other festival in the country that features. so much truly local in- volvement. Here again, the ELISABETH LUTYENS the the Mystery Plays form core, but this year. local commitment to the Plays will go further than that of cast, back stage and wardrobe staff for music plays role. an unprecedented York's three major brass bands will be taking part, together with the Celebra- tions Choir not to men- tion the audience which will be expected to join in also. Other local groups taking part include the York Musical Society (En- choral gland's oldest society) under the Minster Organist, Francis Jackson, the Micklegate Singers (in 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 House Choir, the Ebor Singers, the City Opera Group (in Verdi's Nabucco at the Rowntree Theatre, the York Light Opera Society (also at the Rowntree Theatre, but in somewhat lighter vein), many children's events with York's schools taking part and, of course, the Univer- sity Choir and Orchestra. All in all, we estimate that some 2,000 York people will actually par- ticipate as performers in this year's Festival. CATALYST years, the In recent. Festival has become recog- nised for its adventurous work in respect of con- temporary music and here also one finds an im- portant local catalyst. Under the guidance of Prof. Wilfrid Mellers (sey- eral of whose compositions will be played during the Festival, including a first performance at Selby Abbey), the University's Music Department has emerged as one of Europe's centres for young composers. Some 30 works will receive a world pre- miere a first per- formance in the UK; many of these will be by young composers but the Festival wild also feature two composers in par- ticular: Elisabeth Lutyens, who celebrates her sev- entieth birthday this year. (we have commissioned two new works from her the Fanfare which opens the Exhibition Squares, in on June 11 and the music theatre piece, One And The Same, to be given by the with Vesuvius Ensemble Roy's Lon- don Ballet Company). OPERA of a ce The American composer and critic. Virgil Thomson is 80 later this year and 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 sily's Muse the Univer 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 reputation a its inperformances of medieval music. They will be giving sev- eral concerts during the Festival, Peter Seymour the organist of Selby Abbey and a young artist closely associated with recent Festivals is the founder-director of the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists 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 establisn- ment of a York Festival Opera production. This year, Peter Seymour and the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists will take part in ад extension of the Festival Opera at Hovingham Hall. The work. will be Handel's opera, Or- lando a piece full of magic, contemporary with Hovingham Hall itself, and considered by Handel to be one of his finest pieces. The producer is Julisa Hope who works regularly at Glyndebourne, the Welsh National Opera and who worked during the last Festival as producer for the Wexford production | of Bellini's Il Pirata. IMPORTANT Opera has played an in- creasingly important part of the Festival and besides Orlando, we play host at the Theatre Royal to Scot tish Opera - a company always popular in York but who for this visit mount s Farticularly important production; the world pre miere of Thomas Wilson's Confessions Of A Justified Sinner. The other works in their season will be Brit- ten's Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard Strauss's Ariadne . Auf Naxos. The Scottish Baroque En- semble will be accompany- ing them and will also be Ang a concert in Selby under their director, the violinist Leonard Fr.ed- man. who He will be the soloist in Vivaldi's Four Season 1. More events than ever will be held outside York this year the other concert at Selby will feature the Grimethorpe Colliery Band give the first per formance of a piece by Anthony Payne. Other events go out to Nun App- leton. two programmes. each featuring an artist who lived and worked in this great house: the poet Andrew Marvell and the composer William Baines. 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 his Music Party, which specialises in playing 18th and 19th-century music on the original instruments. Another group of his the Whispering Wind Band will give open-air con- certs in the courtyard of St. William's College and in the Museum Gardens. The distinguished cellist Amaryllis Fleming will play all Bach's unaccompanied cello suites and all Beethoven's cello sonatas (with pianist Bernard Roberts) in a series of four concerts. ou One could go on for ever describing each and all of concerts and recitals,. for there is so much more -promenade concerts at the Museum ay Museum and is Gardens, Jazz, Rock, Folk and Electronic Music. Truly, there something for everyone, grasp it while you can the Festival only comes once in three years! It pays to visit us first and see a floor full of garments for the fashion conscious woman. Leak ano Thorp CONEY STREET, YORK. 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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 GC CLARKS of YORK OCIE Shop with the Private Retailer for Service and Satisfaction QUALIFIED SHOE FITTERS SHOE SR RETAILERS 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 KOPY-ITT - YORK YORK'S MAIN REPRODUCING AND COPYING OFFICE ALMOST ANY SIZE COPIED INSTANTLY ELECTRONIC STENCIL CUTTING PLAN-COPYING LETTER HEADS DUPLICATING WALLIS SPIRAL BINDING ALL PRINTING COPY-TYPING REQUIREMENTS PHOTOCOPYING W.B.S BUSINESS BUSINESS CARDS 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 (weck- days 10 a.m.5 p.m. Sun- days 2.30 5 p.m. ad- mission free). 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 memorably described by Harold Macmillan as that in which you never had it so good. Its symptoms might be a chromium-plated toaster, a television set, American or Americanised films (much larger than life), cheap, all colourful magazines, shin- ing motor cars- revealing a new and better material life. These were precisely the symbols chosen by Richard Hamil- ton for his collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?' which has provided the title, and the poster, for this exhibition. 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 teenage culture engendered the original pop stars, lapel badges, records; glamorous. pictures of Elvis and Cliff were the commercial suc- cesses of mindless rapture. The foundation of pop. then and : d now, was laid on hectic hard-selling. This may not sound very promising material for an artist, but art has always. been a form of alchemy, transmuting base metals to gold. as- Interior II by Richard Hamilton. 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. funny His work can be or cynical, yet it was clea- rly the visual. not the moral, commentaries which excited him and many others 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- as much by the mixture of media as by his subject matter. His magnificent Interior Where The Railroad Leaves The Sea, by Ronald com- II, showing the film star Patrician Knight in a still from Shockproof, is a ly- rical picture, gentle 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. IMPISH 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 Americanisa- tion, are transformed into large paintings to become brash heraldic devices. seem, ex- It was Eduardo Paolozzi, Now they a Scot of Italian parentage, paradoxically, old-fashioned who first (it appears) ex- but the context of the ex- ploited and announced the hibition allows us to re- new possibilities. He create their original 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 planes, Mickey memorable painting; Mouse and Betty Grable mechanical monster meat David Hockney's The First Marriage. Gejcs a Kitaj. transmuted into a candy- coloured toy, yet with the maturest sense of colour and design. His Man/Woman, an amalgam of a seated couple, offers the same beautiful colour sense in an incomplete state- exual 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- cial K he makes us recon- sider a familiar commercial symbol simply by painting a resistant it roughalving the slick- medium, ness of 'original.' the printed In his other they paintings little outline. figures fall across other commercial devices: represent us, the pulated,' dwarfed by the product. mani- Peter Blake, a figurative painter, worked for two years on his painting On The Balco 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 stands in a denim suit, holding an Elvis magazine, his lapels covered with badges, looking very young, the counterpart of Alice in Wonderland. Richard Smith with his large, at first sight abstract paintings stands a little apart, yet his (both imagery, shanion and colour) was derived from cartons ... an incessant theme in Payday prac- civilisation. tically stand in for the goods.' The last two artists seem to make a very special contribution, Ronald Kitaj and (pronounced Kit-eye) David Hockney. Kitaj, an American who came to study at the Royal College, brings to his pictures a vocabulary in- complex of images drawn from. tellectual history of the twentieth centry; HAUNTING amalgamates these He ideas. into a kind of romantic in- painting, variably thrilling to see, it not always easy to read. Where The Rallroad Leaves The Seatin is a haunting image, depicting a lovers' farewell on some European waterfront; is he revo on the run? reveals great talents for observation, wit, draughtsmanship and painterly skill. The First Marriage 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. whole com- At least half the canvas is bare; the man's head is painted through, the Egyp tian mummy is childishly drawn; the position is most beautifully balanced and simple, locked by a white palm tree. The exhibition is about the breaking down tradition, and the use (and of ring) of an inne concerning 20th century values. Pain- ters have always been com- mentators on the human condition, and Hamilton would be at least intrigued to realise that British Rail the refused to display poster showing Just what 7 because, pre- sumably, they didn't like is it the times we live in. a C ZOE H Abee BAL COM IN PRE THE temporary Toestre Bu Feek during perform the principal Doe balle! woeld per ased on a pi by Claud a by De Do the e An, nm During various asp andlar techn Bobert Ca works alan techning Class is inlede dewan have e basic m

Ponald ald Kit cme b al Colle bility f teb TING 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. inal 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 Festivaler major production is Albee's prize-winning play A Delicate Balance, to be given six performances be inning June 15. The Albee play represents another step in the Theatre Ron policy of regularly 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 director during Richard Digby Day's first season, returns to direct A Delicate Balance. She is now a principal teacher at RADA and after the York produc- fion travels to the Middle East to direct an Israel production of Ibsen's Ghosts. Albee, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for this concentrates on the tensions evolved in close family relationships. writer's most famous as Richard Digby Day points out, is not necessarily his best, and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? in his opinion A play plays away from the down a list Somewhere main theatre. Scottish Opera is performing at the Theatre Royal 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 THE Con- 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 works that have been choreographed by either Robert Cohan the principal choreographer of 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 clase can watch an open 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. headed by A Delicate Balance and All Over. RARITY "For Albee the female is always the deadliest of the species, and this play alter- nates between being blazingly and funny blazingly violent," he says. In the cast are Doreen Barker, Zoe Magill, Donald Pelmear and Joy Ring. Hiew, Ronald In the almost inexhaust- ble repertoire of Shaw's plays In Good King Charles Golden Days is very much a performance rarity. It was premiered at that most familiar of Shaw launching platforms, the Festival, in 1939. Malvern Since then its prod tation a television 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. 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 present seems an opportune time to revive Richard Day. says While there is action in the play it is basically a conversation piece evolved around a fictitious meeting between King Charles II and some of the VIPS of his reign Isaac Newton the scientist, George Fox the Quaker, Godfrey Kneller the artist, James Duke of York, and a trio of Charles' mistresses. The play opens in Isaac Newton's Cambridge and the final act takes the form epilogue and Charles Catherine of rooms betwhis at of an King wife Braganza, which to quote the director is among the most moving and touching things Shaw wrote," RETURN Frank Barrie, the York- born actor who was for three years a leading member of the National Theatre, is returning to play The actor's Charles. previous roles in York have included Richard III. Hamlet and Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons.. Renee Asherson is to play the Queen and the produc- tion also features Susan Edmonstone Nell Gwynne, Zoe Hicks as the Duchess of Cleveland and Murlel 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. Micha Bergese is respon- SIOGHAN DAVIES and sible for the choreography of and, Dayles Caobhan and Robert North, The Troy Game. Masque of Separa- tion and the world pre miere work are choreo graphed by Robert Cohan, Robert Cohan (who is 51) formed the company in 1969 NAMRON in The Calm, one of the ballets being presented at the Theatre- Royal by The London Contemporary Dance Theatre. 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 senson with a 1 Tape at lunch- time on the same day. Krapp's Last Tormance of RECITALS The Theatre Royal's series of free lunchtime literary recitals given by members of the comany continues throughout the Festival, with readings from John Clare on June 11, Lytton Strachey on June 18, A. E. Housman on June 25, and a 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 Opera during June 15-19 and the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, June 21-26. The dance theatre is presenting two different programmes of works from its current repertory, with the bonus of a world premiere of a new work. Opera also has a premiere for York Thomas Wilson's com- Justified Sinner. The fa pany is also to perform Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard Strauss's Ariadne on Naxos. Lunch-hour services DURING the Festival a series of lunch hour serv- ices based on themes from the Mystery Plays will be held at St. Michael-le-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. 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Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME FIRST WEEK FRIDAY, JUNE 11 Exhibition Square, 5.30 p.m. Opening Ceremony. Equale Brass Ensemble Fanfare (Lutyens). Theatre Royal, 7.30 The Cocktail Party. York Theatre Royal Company, Museum Gardens, 7.45 pm. Mystery Plays, Arts Centre, 7.30 p.m.-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). Young 2.0 and 745 Mystery Plays. Minster, 8.0 pm. Monteverdi Choir a Orchestra, Equale Brass Ensemble, German sacred music, including works by Schutz, Scheidt and Schein Aribert Reimann, Mass in E minor (Bruckner). and 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. p.m. Micklegate Singers, Treasurer folk songs and madrigals (indoors if wel). selection Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. - Mystery Plays. Arts Centre, Micklegate, 8. pm. Alan Hacker (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.-I Lemare Orchestra, Wissemma Quartet: Fantasia on a Theme by Talis (Vaughan Williams Petite Symphonie Concertante (Martin). Introduction and Allegro (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 JOHN ELIOT GARDI- NER conducts the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in a Minster concert of German sacred music on Sunday June 12. National Railway Museum, 8 p.m. Promenade Con- cert of Railway Music, Huddersfield Philharmonic College of Ripon and York St, John Choir, Musical Song, Berlioz; Trains in Programme Ray, orator William Hindle. the distance. Butterworth; Pacific 231, Honegger. Arts Centre, 10.30 p.m.-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 Ripon and York St. John, Lord Mayor's Walk, 5.30 p.m. College Drama Department in The Wheel Of The World. Arts Centre, 7.30 p.m.-Long Day's Journey into Night. 11 p.m.-Film: The 2 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. TUESDAY, JUNE 15 College of Ripon and York St. John, Mayor's Walk College Drama Department, 5.30 pm The Wheel Of The World. Treasurer's House, 6.15 p.m. Micklegate Singers, Open air folk songs and madrigals (indoors if wet). NEAR YORK MINSTER of CALLIGRAPHY ILLUMINATION and 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 GIBSON ALEXANDER conducts one of the Festival's major concerts Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. Scottish Opera, Confessions Of A Justifled Sinner (Wilson). Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. York Theatre Royal Company, A Delicate Balance (Albee). Arts Centre, 7.30 p.m.-Long Day's Journey Into Night. 11 p.m.-Film: The Cruel Sea. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. Assembly Rooms, 7.45 York Scandinavian Food Tasting. Halon Maker), 8.0 p.m. Amadeus Quartet. Kenneth 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 Opena, 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. - Peter Seymour (organ), music by J. S. Bach, Virgil Thomson, Mellers. Merchant Taylor's Hall, 8 p.m. Ceilidh with Fourth Estate folk group. 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 p.m. - College Drama Department, Wheel Of The World. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. Scottish Opera, Ariadne on Naxos (Strauss). Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. York Theatre Royal Company, A 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. DL SEC SU Me Garde Sy Abber ce in G Painel Three Enster Bed baduti Selve (Bis and Madelen Teaper's Ho fathe Coarta Arts Cebe, Ba 1030 pan-John MO of Sink Electroni In Theatre Actors in Nun Appleton Hall, 8.00 p.m. In A Green Shade, Poetry of Andrew Marvel, with the Landini Consort. Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 p.m. Lykos, An original concert drama. Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m. Temba Theatre Company : Caliban Lives. 10.30 p.m. Film: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Assembly Rooms, 8.00 p.m.-1 a.m. Viking Beerfest. FRIDAY, JUNE 18 Museum Gardens, 11 a.m. Matrix. Overture (Hummel), Larghetto and Minuet (Mozart), solo for Clarinet (McGuire), Signals (Birtwistie), Divertimento 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 p.m.-College Drama Department, The Wheel Of The World. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. York Minster, 8.00 p.m. - Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, York Musical Society, Honor 3 (Bach), Nelson Magnificat (Bach). Suite in D No. Ppard (soprano), (Haydn). Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. Scottish Opera, Confessions Of A Justified Sinner. Rowntree 0 p.m.-York Theatre Royal Com- pany A Delicate 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 Rhymes (Janacek). of Orpheus (Birtwistle), Chilure, Stained Glass of Guildhall, 10.30 p.m.-1 York's Churches and Historic Buildings. Merchant Taylors Hall, Poetry and literary weekend; readings and music from Ambit Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m.-Caliban and Lives. 10.30 p.m.-Jazz. Club, College of Ripon and York St. John, College Chapel, 10.30 p.m.-Anemone: Syrinx (Debussy), Sonate for flute, viola and harp (Debussy). Rosaces i (Harrison), Ariel 1 (Hoyland). SATURDAY, JUNE 19 Guildhall, 11 a.m. Delme Quartet. Op 50 No 4 in D major (Haydn), Stabat Mater (Thomson), Op 74, The Harp (Beethoven). River Ouse, noon to 7.00 p.m. York Rowing Club Regatta. Rowntree Theatre, 2.30 and 7.30 p.m. York Theatre i 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 Sir Adrian Boult, Vernon Handley conductors. Cain and Abel (Tavener). Concerto in E minor for violin, cello and orchestra (Elgar). Planet Suite (Holst). St. William's College Courtyard, 8.30 p.m. Whisper- ing Wind Band. Harmonie music-serenades and noe- turnes by Mozart, Krommer, Haydn and Beethoven. Merchant Adventurers' Hall, 8.30 p.m. Actors in 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 Scarborough Bridge, 10.30 - Viking boat-burning. ef Sepa Luca Concent Ohe and the S Rowntree Th Society, Old Ty Arts Centre, TUES Assembly Bon Tricity of You Treasur's Ho Cove air folk y Mean Garde Theatre Regal Clemporary Dis Separation Route The Sudety, Old Tyme Calhall RM Ceremury All Werhard Advent Music from the Good of Burgu s Centre L 330 pm- Tr. Pul Ha WEDNE ely Room ngs Litenry La Cowdrey, Ger Tek Mister, 1.30 Messen, Duane Gardens Park Master, & d Ondestra Gord Bora, St Open ke Theate Chen Softy Ja Centre, 2.30 p der By Lan My Wife and Duy THURS A flans Suta la F Then, The C

Me 1 Strat Arade 58 B ve Stude Cart Ada Can Earlest Creste sobr verti Gசா The Ag -Op 1. Plays fre Bal S Sak Bri NE 19 - 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 pm. Mystery Plays.. Selby Abbey, 3.00 p.m. Scottish Baroque Ensemble, Concerto in G minor for (Paulene), Threnody (Mellers). The age and timpani Seasons (Vivaldi). York Minster, 8.00 p.m. Massed Brass Bands Brig- house and Rastrick Band, City of Coventry Band, Fairey Band, Introduction to Act 3 Lohengrin Kenilworth (Bliss). Works by Senaille, Bach, Bood Suite and Mendelssohn, Treasurer's House, & p.m. Land Ferdinand and from the Courts of Maximilian I Isabella of Spain. Consort, Music Arts Centre, 8.00 p.m.-Donna Stoering: Piano recital. 10.30 p.m.-John Stuart Anderson: Phantom and Phantasy. MONDAY, JUNE 21 Assembly Rooms, Blake Street, 5.00 p.m. - University of York Electronic Music Studio, live and taped electronic heatre 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 p.m. - University of York Electronic Music Studio, live and taped electronic music Treasurer's House, 6.15 p.m. Micklegate Singers, Open air folk songs and madrigals. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. 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 Society, Old Tyme Music Hall, Guildhall, 8.00 p.m. The Scholars, John Kozar . Madrigals also Capital Capitals (Virgil Thomp 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. Thestre, 10.30 .00 Alexander Roy London Ballet Cow, Henry Nine "Til p.m.-Films: Five. Paul Hansard's Puppets. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 Assembly Rooms, Blake Street, 12.30 Yorkshire Ridings Literary Luncheon. Speakers: Freddle Trueman, Colin Cowdrey, Gerald Summers. York Minster, 5.30 p.m. Gillian Weir (organ): works by Messaien, Dupre, Franck Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. York Minster, 8.00 p.m. University of York Choir and Orchestra. God's Grandeur (Paynter), Biblical Songs- (Dvorak), Glagolitic Mass (Janecek). Theatre Royal, St. Leonards, 7.30 p.m. (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. Films: The Knack and The Running, Jumping & Stand- ing Still Film. 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, Kerl, Hindemith, Brahms, Bach, from the University, Programme includes works by 8.00 p.m. Poppy Holden. Musicians. 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 and Habaneras (Henze), Fireworks (Howarth), also by Byrd, Farnby, Bull, Foster, Gershwin, Brubeck, Works 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 p.m. Paul Hansard's Puppets. 8.00 p.m. Recital of music by Crumb, Lutyens and Mellers. 10.30 p.m.-Jazz Club. SATURDAY, JUNE 26 Guildhall, 11.00 in C. The Bird (m. Alberni Quartet. Op 33 No. 3 (Haydn). Quartet No. 2 (Thomson). Op 96 in F major, The American (Dvorak). Lord leaves Mayor's Parade and Gala, 1.30 p.m. -- Parade grounds and moves to Knavesmire.. Museum Gardens, 3.00 and 8.00 p.m. Mystery Plays. York Minster, 8.00 p.m. London Symphony Orchestra. York Festival Chorus. Janet Baker (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 bass, is a LUXON. soloist in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius. two AMARYLLIS FLEMING, cello, plays 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 folk songs and madrigals (indoors if wet). Central Hall, 3.00 p.m. Aeolian Quartet, Op 59 No. 2 hoven) y (Beethoven), Op 132 in A minor (Beet- 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) Treasurer's House, 8.00 p.m. - Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, Laurence 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) WATTS, soprano, is soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 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. London HELEN Contemporary Dance Theatre: Class, Hinterland, Masque of Separation. Open class at 4.30 p.m. Haxby Road, 7.30 p.m. Rowntree city, Old Tyme Music Hall Light Opera York 3 Arts Centre, 2.30 p.m.-Der Zauberspruch. 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. Michael Roll (piano), Prelude and Fugue in E flat (Bach), Variations on a theme of Prometheus (Beet- hoven), Sonata in 1 Flat (Schubert). Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m. Mystery Plays. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m. London Contemporary rk: Troy Game. Dance Theatre, The Calm; New Cohan Work; T Rowntree Theatre Music Hall. 7.30 p.m. York Light Opera Society, Old Tyme Lyons Concert Hall, 8.00 p.m. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano), Peter Dickinson (plano). John Kozar o).homson and his friends-a salute for his Central Hall, York University, 8.00 p.m. George Melly with John Chilton's Feetwarmers. 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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 Barry Stre, 2.30 p.m.-Suitcase Circus. 8.00 p.m.- 1 Theatre of Puppets. 10.30 pm. Films: Bronco Bullfrog and Opus. TUESDAY, JUNE 29 Guildhall, 11.00 am. Amaryllis Fleming (cello), Bernard Roberts (piano). Sonata in F No. 1. Sonata in C major No. 1, Sonata in D No. 2 (Beethoven). Treasurer's House, 6.15 p.m.-Micklegate Singers, Open air folk songs and madrigals. Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m.-Mystery Plays. Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 pm, City Opera Group. Nabucco (Verdi). Central Hall, 8 p.m.-Claudio Anrau (piano), Sonata in C major (Beethoven), Symphoniques (Schumann), a in B minor (Liszt), Etudes King's Manor Cellars, 8.00 pm. York University Drama Society. Don Juan, Arts Centre, 2.30 pm Faustus, 10.30 p.m. - Film: Suitcase Circus, 8.00 p.m.- Cha Marlowe: Dr. Bleak WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30 Guildhall, 11.00 am. Amaryllis Fleming Bernard Roberts (piano). Sonata in the theme from Mozart's The in A Gminor, 7 vari). (Beethoven). 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 Company. In Good King Charles Golden Days (Shaw). Museum Gardens, 7.45 pm.-Mystery Plays. Hovingham Hall, 8.00 pm, York Festival Opera. Orlando (Handel). Rowntree Nabucco (Verdire, 7.30 p.m. City Opera Group. 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 p.m. York University 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), Fantaisie (Chopin), Jeux d'eau (Ravel), of Joyeuse Gardens, 7.45 p.m.-Mystery Plays. Theatre Royal, 7.30 p.m.-York Theatre Royal Company in Good King Charles' Golden 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 Hal. 7.30 p.m.-York Schools Concert. Right Thief, All the King's Men (Richard Rodney 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 Treasure (Bach). Museum Gardens, 7.45 p.m.- Aeolian Music Course. Bach, Handel, Pergolesi, Elgar. York Minster, 8.00 p.m.-Concert says. by members of the 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. Nabucco (Verdi). Assembly Rooms, 7.30 pm, Weekend. year's Res urs of S always a gre prestinus V Theatre Ho arateur P Verdis Na place Patinal Ope City Opera Group. Real Ale and Jazz All Saints' Church, North Street, 8.00 p.m.-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 p.m. 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). 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. Rowntree Theatre, 7.30 p.m. City Opera Group. Nabucco (Verdi). York Minster, 8.00 p.m.-Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Ladies' Choir, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral Boys' Choir, Helen Watts (soprano), Sir Charles Groves (conductor). Symphony No. 3 (Mahler). King's Manor Cellars, 8.00 p.m. York University Dnama 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, 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, 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. THOMAS Composer fessions Of Eve nás ext drana The tion of at extertainmen iring the F of York's kurines Merchant Fall Fungate ed by Act Thandas, T de Candy, Pri 28, 25, 2 11 and 1 sta Mon to Ch M of the wo Ampl new Jack ed his Catebary, and NOTED

mtd.) en Grup Auris 4 in G University 3 1 35 De Ae Ple Op an Widy Frey yi Open World premiere highlight THE opera-lover is well to the catered for in this year's Festival, with the return of Scottish Opera- always a great attraction in previous visits Theatre Royal - plus an amateur production of Verdi's Nabucco, and a performance by York Festival Opera of Handel's Orlando. The Scottish Opera 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 Justinfessions Of A Sinner, by Thomas Wilson, adapted by John Currie from James Hogg's dark and troubling book. The story has strik- ing operatic elements. THOMAS WILSON, composer of The Con- fessions Of A Justified Sinner. The for lovers of opera 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 in opera which composer and lib- rettist have preserved the rhetorical power of Hogg's book, FANTASY The cast includes Thomas Hemsley as the Rev. Wringham, Philip Lan- 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 throughout the world. The cast Patricia Kern, McCue, John popular musical includes William Julian Littman, Angelo Messina, Glenys Fowles, David Hill- man and Gordon Sandison, From the worlds of sin and retribution, make- believe and earthy realism, 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 as a form of light hearted relief after his work on the operas Salome, Elektra and Rosenkavalier. It Der 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-1 ford. tury pre- theatre, for sentation at the delightful country house, HoMar Hall, home of of Sir and Lady Worsley. The cast includes John Angelo Messana, Richard Jackson, Yvone Seymour, I Judith Simmons and dell'Acqua. NABUCCO The City Iris Opera Group, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary has performed varied operatic fare over the past decade, and Verdi's Nabucco is a notable contribution to the Festival, calling for a lar- ger cast than some of the group's previous operas. It is to be presented in the Rowntree Theatre on June 29, July 1, 2 and 3. Production is Roy Gittins. and Isobel Dunn, with Les- lie Bresnen as musical director. David Ward plays the title role, Nabucco, with Pauline Chadwick as Abigail, Galloway Bell as Zacharia, Robert Wade as Ismael and Eileen Henderson as Fenana. There is a chorus of about York Festival Opera has chosen Handel's Orlando, regarded as one of the masterpieces of 18th een- 40 singers. Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 11 THOMAS HEMSLEY plays a leading role in The Confessions Of A Justified Sinner. WELCOME TO YORK'S LARGEST DEPARTMENTAL Evening of drama STORE... in miniature THE concept of chamber music 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. 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 performed his one solo theatre show in many parts of the world Andrew Jackson was born where he mant in Harrogany times at the appeared Harrogate Theatre. He directed his own company at the Gulbenkian Theed Canterbury, and has extensively in leading roles. Peler Bell has played many roles in repertory, and has also played in | numerous radio and TV plays. The Consort's Festival livai the contribution in Merchant Adventurers' Hall consists of three plays, two specially written for the occasion. Lykos, or Danger In The Maze (June 17-19) concerns a doctor interviewing at mysterious patient, and becoming involved in the fantastic world revealed. With it i Nutmeg Hill, a piece of abstract theatre. based on the nursery tale of three kings transformed into trees. The House Of Faust (June 24-26), deals with those curious moments of recognition which occur in almost every lifetime, and which, perhaps, it is foolish to ignore. Songs: And Dances Of Pontius Pilate deals with the Emperor Tiberius and Pontius Pilate; the Emperor expecting the home-coming of Pilate with Jesus of Nazareth: Pilate becalmed at sea, never to return home. NOTED PHOTOGRAPHER AS ITS contribution to the Festival, York Impressions Gallery of Photography is mounting a special ex- entitled A Darker Side Of The Moon. featur- ing the photographs of Angus McBean. McBean was born in 1904 in South Wales. After a brief period studying ar- chitecture he became in- terested in making masks. His work with stage des- igners, the Morleys, brought him into contact with Ivor Novello, who commissioned his first stage photographs for The Happy Hypocrite (1934). 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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 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 summer day, into the night. Director is Ossie Heppell, with John White as James Jeannie Heppell Arts Centre lines up ambitious programme He is Sunday, June 13. 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.. to The Temba Theatre Com- pany, a company give artistic formed to expression 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 long Tempest. Cali- ban emerges in this work to tell a different story about his master Prospero. Tyrone. (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 MU American pianist Donna. Stoering appears on Sunday, June 20, in a recital of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Casella, Gottschalk, Granados and Schubert. She won the 1975-77 Mar- shall Scholarship, and is presently living in England teaching piano. at York University. Alan Stattle. N.D.D R.C.A.,F.R.S.A. Limited editions of York signed by Artist. Also Originals and Prints. Alan Stuttle Gallery 50 Micklegate, York YÓI ILF Phone York 24907 On Monday, June 21, as part of the American bi- celebrations, centennial three US poets Louise Gluck, Mark Slip Levine and reading, will give a Ballet fans are in for treat on June 22, 23 and 24. when the Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre Cotn- pany performs. Alexander Roy, formerly a 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- ballet-threatret temporary involving many works in- spired by the other arts. John Stuart Anderson, who played Christ in the 1973 Mystery 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- 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. Dancer and mime artiste Annie Stainer comes to the Centre on Thursday, July I to perform a "solo extrava- ganza". This one-woman show follows a pattern: the of the year, seasons ( the phases of the moon and the ages of a woman. Paul Hansard is a puppeteer who will delight both adults and children he performs four puppet plays in the Centre. The first, on Wednesday, when PELL, JEANNIE HEPPELL. June 21, is Der Zauber- spruch, 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 style send-up of the master detective. Sher- lock Holmes. 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. Loach's social essays and a Dick Lester comedy. 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JOHN SIE HEP BASE WI June it Cruel Sex aettes of Puser Xa Bear Ne The Exp -day eles depesi Sevesties The New Cort vi 96 g 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 I will use this theme when designing their floats part 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 Street, Paragon Tower Street, Fawcett Street, Fishergate, Tower Street, Skeldergate Bridge, Bishop- gate Street, Prices Lane, Nunnery Lane, Blossom Street, The Mount, Mount to Vale, Tadcaster Road Knavesmire Road and on to the racecourse. And that is only the beginning. At the racecourse is the Gala which is open on Saturday, June 26 from 2.30 to 11 p.m. and on Sunday June 27 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. for all 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 'her 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. English dance, and are archery displays. there. The Society has grown from small beginnings into reputedly one of the largest medieval societies in En- gland. 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 Institute Bands, and the London Girl Pipers. There is excitment of a different kind when the Escafeld Medieval Society give a display of a Medieval Tourney, with knights battling on foot, knocking medieval stuffing out of each other. 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Well, there's plenty in the Festival at York's popular price. In addition to the many exhibitions, there are dozens of shows with the emphasis on in- formality. to be seen in pubs and on the streets of York. Many of them are without happening fixed times or venues, to be seen- as we wander round the city. Others I have. specific times. These include, for instance, the Archbishop Holgate Grammar School's presentation of a Wagon Play. being presented at 4.50 at the West Door of the Minster and 5.40 out- side St. William's College one blowing days June 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 Exhibition SCULPTURES 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: Aspects Of British Avant Garde Art, in the Gallery of the CaChapel Ripon and York St. John, arranged by Robert Self. Polish Contemporary Weaving also sculpture by James Boyle at the church of St. Martin-cum-Gregory, Micklegate. James Boyle, a long-term prisoner in a Scottish jail, has gained wide recognition for his works as a sculptor. in a St. Earth Patterns, Rhythms. and Symbols, paintings by Ray Elliot Leonard's Hospital, Library Square. Artists In A Working STAINED GLASS Square after the Festival LECTURES opening ceremony on June 11. at 5.30 p.m. Other entertainments in- clude country dancing, pup- pet shows, street theatre, folk groups, buskers, mum- mers, brass bands and Glasgow University Pipe Band (to be seen in processions on the morning of June 30). School pupils are playing their part in the free shows in addition to the Archbishop Holgate's Wagon Play, York schools brass bands and youth marching bands will per- form in the Castle area at 3 p.m. on June 20, Other attractions include Fourth Estaite folk group, Sergeant Stone puppets, John Bull Theatre, Cam- Buskers, Phantom bridge Captain, York Shoestring Theatre, the Galactic Theatre, the ters folk group rat York Youth Theatre, Mike West- brook's All-Star Brass Band, Kingston Strolling Show the Friends Road Whitworth Morris Men, Matchbox Purveyors and an impressive array of brass bands. and There are many varied events happening throughout York during the Festival too many to list here. But they represent a colourful and important section of the three-week activities. Enjoy the happenings' as you stroll through the streets, but if you want more specific times and places (where available) consult the Festival Office's information sheets). on A SERIES of lectures on stained glass will be given in the Guildhall during the Festival by Peter Gibson, superintendent of York. Glaziers' Trust. Each lec- ture starts at 10.30 p.m. The first, Monday, June 14, The Stained Glass Of York Minster, will des cribe some of standing examples of glass. painting in the cathedral- a collection described by Mr. Gibson as the complete visual commentary on glass. painting. the out- And The lecture on Friday, June 18 describes some of the noted windows in The Parish Churches Historic Buildings Of York, another major collection of glass. While the emphasis will be on the medieval. windows the lecturer be- lieves that the late 17th and 18th centuries glass in par- ticular will impress because of the wealth of detail revealed. on The third and final lec-1 ture on Monday, June 28 concentrates 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. The three lectures each lasting about an hour il- lustrated by colour slides Environment, at the Royal Station Hotel. Drawings by Glynn Boyd. Harte, Royal. in the Theatre The Viking Kingdom of York, in the Yorkshire Mu- seum. ex- 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). 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ATS Comedy and song in a summer ed at Y York ster concert of Ripon Old Tyme Music Hall AND now, for your delec- 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! 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 the Saturday, when on 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 music by the Landini Con- sort. Readings From Laurence Sterne, with the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, in Treas- urer's House, where Sterne once lived. Theatre Royal free lunchtime readings: June 18, Lytton Strachey; June 25, A, E. Housman; July 2, America 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.; St. Church, 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. Potts, who is producing the Old Tyme Music Hall says hearty fun lots of the 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. I With over 40 members of. the society taking 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 keeping with the Edwar- dian period of the show, plus a Leslie Sion of songs by famous for tunes like Lily Of Laguna, Tell Me Pretty Maiden, Soldiers Of The Queen and so on. Another special section will include songs from the old Edwardian musical comedies of Leslie Monck- ton, which played at Daly's Theatre in the Music Hall PETER BLANSHARD... Music Hall chairman. 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 זבד sual version of The To Mandalay. In addition to the songs there will be 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 of Friends of the Festival A NEW influence in the festival this year is the recently-formed organisa- tion, Friends of York Fes tival, now with a member- ship of nearly 600, Its aim is not only to support Festival events and help to arouse public in- terest, but also doing many useful jobs 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 provide a forum for public discussion. The Friends are organ Ising a number of events during the festival, with one preliminary occasion to is rest rest music-lovers. This Composers' Forum, at which the speakers will be Elisabeth Lutyens and Richard Rodney-Bennett. It takes place in the Festival Club (De Grey Rooms) on Wednesday, June 11, 8.30 p.m. During the Festival a number of lunch-time talks are being arranged, of which further details will pedantry and pomposity be given later. These in- and York Light Opera Society has just the man. in Peter Blanshard, a well known local actor enjoying his first taste of this role. The show is backed by a small orchestra under the baton of musical al director John Parkes, with Graham Royston as chief accompan- ist. Students' version of Don Juan SOMETHING a little dif- ferent will be taking place. at King's Manor Cellars, Exhibition Square, from Monday, June 28, until Sat- urday, July 3. Members of the York Drama Society Uputting on their own are 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 Entirely written, produced, choreographed and designed by the mem- bers, the main characters are played by Max Eilen- berg (Don Juan), James Carter (Don Juan's father), Gary Lyons (Don Juan's father's accomplice), Lind- say Durant (Catherine the Great, Joanna Warin (Haidee) and Jean Venn (a schoolteacher and a sul tana). The sultan is played by a shop dummy which is just one of the many unu- sual innovations in this production. The songs were written by Sacha Gebbler and members of the society. VIKING HERITAGE commemorate the the 1100th anniversary of Scandinavian Settlement of Yorkshire 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- Bencard, Director, Ribe Antikvariske Samling: Ribe, The First Danish Town. June 18: Professor David M. Wilson, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Uni- versity College, London: York, Capital Of The Vik- ing West? There will also be a Scandinavian Food Tasting the Assembly Rooms,.. June at 7.45), and a Beerfest (in. 17, at 245), with a tradit- Jonal Up Helly Aa ceremony near the Scarborough rail bridge at 10.30 pm. on June 16: Mr. Mogens Saturday, June 19. chacology, University of Aarhus: Five Viking Ships From The Bottom Of A Fjord. clude: During the first week of the Festival, a talk by con- ductor Norman Del Mar 1 in the Festival Club, 1.10 p.m. Second week: Friday, 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, ntington Room, King's 1.10 p.m. Membership of the Friends is still open, and anyone in- terested can more from the Friende asurer 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 erick- eter with Kent and En- gland, and Gerald Sum- mers, writer on animal subjects, who recently raised an eagle from a chick. Evening Press Festival Guide, 1976 f Suede & Leather Coats, Jackets and Waistcoats of quality for both women and men. Always a Festival of Fashion at the SKINN SHOP FOSSGATE, YORK MECOGAS LTD. CALOR GAS AREA MAIN DEALERS Huntington Rd., York. Tel. 56726 DISCOUNT Camping & Caravan ACCESSORY CENTRE CHEMICAL TOILETS/TOILET TENTS TENT PROOFING SOLUTION TENT PECS/EYELET KITS INSULATED BOXES/ICE PACKS FOLDING CHAIRS/TABLES CHAIR BEDS/SUN LOUNGERS WAFFLE BOX SIDED AIR BEDS, etc. Also CAMP/CARAVAN COOKERS HEATERS REFRIGERATORS - LIGHTS Also at: (Not subject to discount) "The Calor Centre" - Malton 3901 THE NATIONAL TRUST invites you to visit Beningbrough Hall, Nr. York. 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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.