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York Festival & Mystery Plays 8 June-2 July 1984 Programme

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British Arts Festivals Association The British Arts Festivals Association is a non-profitmaking organisation formed with the primary object of encouraging greater interest in British Arts Festivals both at home and abroad. The membership is limited in number with only Festivals fulfilling the Association's high standards and criteria being admitted into membership. The list below gives the dates of the Festivals to be held by members in 1984/85. Aldeburgh York Ludlow Chichester Cheltenham Cambridge City of London Chester Fishguard King's Lynn Harrogate Three Choirs: Gloucester Edinburgh Salisbury Windsor North Wales: St. Asaph Swansea Belfast Cardiff Camden Brighton Newbury Bath Greenwich June 8-24 (072885 2935) June 8-July 2 (0904 26421) June 23-July 10 (0584 2150) July 7-21 (0243 785718) July 7-22 (0242 21621) July 13-August 1 (0223 358977 ext. 350) July 15-28 (01 377 0540) July 18-28 (0244 40392) July 21-28 (0348 873612) July 20-28 (0553 4725) August 1-15 (0423 62303) August 18-25 (0905 20421) August 12-September 1 (031 226 4001) September 1-15 (0722 23883) September 15-October 1 (0784 32618) September 23-29 (0745 583429) October 8-27 (0792 468321) November 7-24 (0232 667687) November 24-December 8 (04463 3474) March 16-30 (01 278 4444 ext. 2482) May 2-18 (0273 29801) May 8-18 (0635 49919) May 24-June 9 (0225 66411, 63362) June (01 317 8687) For further information contact: The Co-ordinator, B.A.F.A. 33 Rufford Road, Sherwood, Nottingham NG5 2NQ or the individual Festivals-telephone numbers above. British Arts Festivals Association (

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MUSIC by MCCNLIGHT A FESTIVAL IN AID OF THE FOUN·T·A·I·N·S A.B.B.E.Y A P P E A L Teme wo evenings of music will be held at Fountains Abbey and in the gardens of Studley Royal on Friday 13th July and Saturday 14th July in aid of the Fountains Abbey Appeal. The English Northern Philharmonia and The Northern Sinfonia will be giving concerts at the Abbey, and smaller groups will provide programmes of music in the gardens of Studley Royal. Both evenings will culminate with a grand fireworks display in the grounds of the Abbey, which will be floodlit. For further details contact: The Appeal Director, Fountains Abbey Appeal, Fountains Hall, Fountains, Ripon, N. Yorkshire. Tel: Sawley (076 586) 337.

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Outstanding recordings by EMI artists appearing at this year's Festival include: Riccardo Muti PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA TCHAIKOVSKY The Complete Symphonies HMV SLS1545303 (7 LP set) Latest release: DON PASQUALE Donizetti Mirella Freni, Sesto Bruscantini, Leo Nucci, Gösta Winbergh, Ambrosian Opera Chorus HMV SLS1434363 (2 LP set) TC SLS1434365 Digital Robert Cohen VIRTUOSO CELLO MUSIC Dvořák: Rondo in G minor Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise brillante (arr. Robert Cohen) Locatelli: Sonata in D Op.3 No.6 Popper: Ungarische Rhapsodie; Serenade Op.54; Polonaise de Concert Op. 14 with Geoffrey Parsons, piano HMV ASD2700171TC-ASD2700174 Peter Donohoe STRAVINSKY Three Movements from Petrushka PROKOFIEV Sonata No.6 in A RACHMANINOV Etude Tableau in E flat minor Op. 39 No.5 HMV ASD4321 TCC-ASD4321 Digital King's College Choir Cambridge Scheduled for release shortly: their latest recording, directed by Stephen Cleobury MUSIC OF 17th CENTURY ROME Music by Nanini, Allegri, Marenzio, Frescobaldi and Ugolini Among their many previous outstanding recordings on HMV: directed by Philip Ledger FAURE Requiem; Messe basse Arleen Augér, Benjamin Luxon, Paul Smy English Chamber Orchestra HMV ASD4234 TCC-ASD4234 Digital Now available: the new HMV Classical Record and Tape Catalogue. Ask for a copy at your record shop or write to Dept. SBP at the address below. EMI Records Ltd., 20 Manchester Square, London WIA IES. A THORN EMI company. GREAT NAMES ON HMV EMI HIS MASTERS VOICE Sig

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Ten Green Bottles York's most popular bistro (& beer garden!) open from 10.30am - last orders 11:30pm DAR Tel. 30304 Any bus journey within the city walls will cost you just 10p. Get on or off the bus at any stop, or travel right across the city, the fare is always the same. A great way to get around when sightseeing! where good food & wine won't break your budget YORK City Buses EXPLORE YORK BY BUS! 10p City Fare iT. LEONARD ARTS CENTRE THEATRE ROYAL, HIGH PETERCATE LENDAL BLAKE STRET NORT $1.44 CONEY MICKLE SATE STREET MINSTER STONEGATE SKENDERG DAVYSATE ~ RIVER MIN STER LIPLES IGATE DEANGA LOW PETERGATE 03 MARKET Aho COLLERGAT PARLAMENT ST HIGH OUSEGATE Ten Green Bottles 1 Peter Lane (off Market Street) TOUR4 of YORK:84 If you prefer to do your sightseeing in comfort try our guided coach tour of York. Complete with courier-driver the tour includes some of the city's most historic places. PAVEMENT Board the special coach at the stand outside the Royal York Hotel (adjacent to the Rail Station). It leaves daily, except Saturdays, at the following times: - ST. ANDREWGATE 50 1100.... 25 March to 26 October 1315.... 25 March to 26 October 1500.... 29 April to 26 October 1900.... 17 June to 31 August Fare: Adult £1.75 Child 85p Celebrating 50 years of service.

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st The HELMSLEY FESTIVAL 1984 SATURDAY JULY 28th to SUNDAY AUGUST 5th "A model of what a small Festival ought to be" (Musical Times) OPERAS, ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS, CHAMBER MUSIC, RECITALS, THEATRE, CHORAL MUSIC, WIND & BRASS MUSIC, MASTER CLASSES, LIVE OWLS & A ZITHER TWENTY EXCITING EVENTS IN ELEVEN DIFFERENT VENUES Telephone Ampleforth 539 now for a brochure, or write to The Box Office, Windmill Farm, High Street, Ampleforth, North Yorkshire s Café Tea Rooms Established 1919 York's most famous café, overlooking St. Helen's Square LATE BREAKFAST MORNING COFFEE & PASTRIES GRILLS, SAVOURIES SANDWICHES & SALADS AFTERNOON & HIGH TEAS WINE MINERALS ICES Bettys Open 9.00am-5.30pm Monday - Saturday TAYLORS STONEGATE YORK Charming Tea Rooms and Coffee Shop close to the Minster serving light meals and refreshments, including Yorkshire Specialities and a choice of thirty exotic teas and coffees Open 9.00 am-5.30pm 033 Monday-Saturday 46 Stonegate, York

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Exclusively on Decca Kyung WhaChung BEETHOVEN VPO/Kondrashin SXDL 7508 (LP) KSXDC 7508 (MC). Digital MENDELSSOHN & TCHAIKOVSKY OSM/Dutoit SXDL 7558 (LP) KSXDC 7558 (MC) Digital WALTON & STRAVINSKY LSO/Previn SXL 6493 (LP) KSXC 6493 (MC) BRUCH NO. 1 & SCOTTISH FANTASIA RPO/Kempe SXL 6573 ILP KSXC 6573 (MC) PROKOFIEV NOS. 1 & 2 LSO/Previn SXL 6773 (LP) KSXC 6773 (MC) ELGAR LPO/Solti SXL 6842 (LPI KSXC 6842 (MC) BARTOK NO.2 LPO/Solti SXL 6802 LP KSXC 6802 MC) A recording of Bartok's 1st Violin Concerto with Kyung Wha Chung will be released on Decca in 1984 DECCA 15, Saint George Street, London WIR 9DE. In Concerto 3

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York Festival & Mystery Plays 2nd July 1984 8th June ■ Chairman: Councillor Keith S. Wood Vice-Chairmen: Councillor Marjorie Bwye, Councillor Sue Galloway Festival Board: Cllr. Mrs. Auckland, Cllr. M. L. Bartram, Cllr. Mrs. Binner, Cllr. J. P. Birch, Mrs. Dales, Cllr. G. H. Dean, The Dean of York, C. Dodsworth, K. Evans, Cllr. C. W. Fairclough, R. A. Fox, Cllr. S. F. Galloway, Cllr. A. E. Havering, R. W. Jewel, Cllr. Mrs. Long, A. W. Moody, W. V. Moore, D. D. Nicolson, A. R. Pickering, J. Potts, Professor Saul, Cllr. D. E. Thornton. 10 Festival Director: Richard Gregson-Williams Festival Administrator: Delma Tomlin Secretary to the Director: Jane Hubbard Assistant to the Administrator: Sarah Derbyshire Press Officer: Rachel Semlyen Box Office Manager: Neil Hunter Front of House Managers, Minster: Max Drucquer, Gladys McCarter Concerts Stage Manager: Julian Scott Festival Assistant: Claire Wilson Arts Council Assessor: Richard Lawrence Tape recordings may not be made during performances. The taking of photographs before, during or after performances is strictly forbidden. 'Please note that for events in York Minster, no public conveniences are available inside the Minster. The nearest facilities are at Bootham Bar. York Festival & Mystery Plays would like to express their gratitude to the Dean & Chapter of York Minster for their ready co-operation. Thanks are also due to the sponsors of Festival events, to the College of Ripon & York St. John, the University of York, the British Music Society of York and the National Trust for their several promotions, Polar Motor Co. Ltd., Gladstone Tyre & Battery Co. Ltd., Theatre Royal, Debenhams Ltd., Greens, Sutcliffe Silks Ltd., TSB Group, Spectrum, Kall Kwik, Newitt & Co. Ltd., Snooker Centre, Banks Music, Archives Department, Youth Community Project and to the other bodies and individuals who have made contributions to the Festival. A member of the British Arts Festivals Association. Preside HRH T Vice-P The M Her M 16th 11-00 GUILI OF GREAT

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Dales R.A. Far V. Moore, 0. ry Ca Lad wik New York Festival & Mystery Plays President: HRH The Duchess of Kent Vice-President: The Marquis of Normanby, CBE, Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant 16th JUNE, 1984 11-00 a.m. GUILDHALL SUBSIDISED BY THE Arts Council OF GREAT BRITAIN Financially assisted by the English Tourist Board English Tourist Board in co-operation with the Yorkshire & Humberside Tourist Board NIGEL KENNEDY - Violin PETER PETTINGER - Piano This concert is arranged in association with the British Music Society of York. The York Festival & Mystery Plays gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the Council of the City of York, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the English Tourist Board and the Yorkshire & Humberside Tourist Board.

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York Festival 8 Progr Programme vista Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor Op. 82 Sonata in C major for unaccompanied violin BWV 1005 INTERVAL TE- Elgar Bach Sonata No. 9 for Violin and Piano in A major Op. 47 (Kreutzer) Beethoven There will be an interval of approximately 15 minutes. A bell will be rung five minutes before the performance is due to recommence. Nigel K Decemb tinguish entered study pił by Men and at th study at assistanc several Delay in BBC Tele in Nigel K

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Bach eethoven rung five York Festival Nigel Kennedy was born in Brighton in December 1956 into a family of dis- tinguished cellists. At the age of seven he entered the Yehudi Menuhin School to study piano on the first scholarship given by Menuhin's father, switching to violin, and at the age of 16 went to New York to study at the Juilliard School with the assistance of various scholarships. For several years, Kennedy continued occa- sional studies in America with Dorothy DeLay in New York City and Aspen. BBC Television showed their confidence in Nigel Kennedy's future when they chose him as the subject of a five-year documen- tary on the development of a soloist, which culminated in his Festival Hall debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Riccardo Muti in 1977. He has now played with all the major British orchestras-including performances in London of the Elgar Concerto in May 1981 with the Royal Philharmonic, of Tchaikov- sky at the 1982 Proms, and of the Walton Concerto at the ISM Centenary Gala Concert in October 1982 with the Hallé Orchestra and Loughran which received particularly impressive critical attention. In February 1981 he toured in Australia and Hong Kong with the Hallé. In June 1983 Kennedy appeared at the Hallé and City of Birmingham Orchestra Proms and in 1983-84 he has concerts with the Philharmonic, Hallé, Royal Philharmonic and Scottish National Orchestras. In May 1984 he featured as soloist on the Monte Carlo Orchestra's UK tour. Nigel Kennedy is also a popular recitalist, appearing at the Wigmore Hall and QEH in chamber music regularly. In September 1981, he was invited to the Benson & Hedges Music Festival in Aldeburgh and in 1982 and 1983, to the Malvern Festival. In summer 1983 he participated in the International Chamber Music Festival in Lockenhaus in Austria. On November 11 last year, Ken- nedy gave his first solo recital in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Nigel Kennedy performed at the Gstaad Festival in the summer of 1980 and in November 1980 debuted with the Berlin Philharmonic. In America, he has ap- peared with the St. Louis Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony and given two recitals in Chicago. In February 1982 he made a British Council-supported tour to India and Turkey; in August travelled to Denmark and Norway and played the Elgar Concerto at the Stresa and Lucerne Festivals with the Philharmonia and Ashkenazy. In October 1983 Kennedy gave a highly successful debut recital at the Berlin Festival. A major tour to Australia is planned for 1985.

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York Festival Nigel Kennedy's interests go beyond classical music into Indian music and jazz: he has given concerts with Stephane Grap- pelli and played at the Chichester and Cork Festivals with American jazz musicians. His previous group, Zigane, was heard around London and at the Edin- burgh Fringe and his new ensemble, Crossover, appeared in concert at the Fair- field Hall, Croydon and St. David's Hall, Cardiff last April and will be appearing later in the York Festival. He is also an ardent cricket fan and supporter of Aston Villa. Nigel Kennedy plays a Stradivari violin loaned to him through J. & A. Beare Ltd. at the express wish of its former owner, the late Dorothy Jeffreys of Trebetherick, Cornwall. Peter Pettinger was born in Peter- borough, Cambridgeshire in 1945. From an early age he was a keen pianist and whilst his sights were always focussed on the classical repertoire, he also became much intrigued by the music of Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan and Miles Davis. His classical training took place at the Royal Academy of Music from 1962 to 1968, studying with pianist Vivian Langrish and composer Hugh Wood. He has since travelled extensively including three tours of Japan and countless appearances in the USA. In 1972 he was a founder member of the International Musicians Seminar music course for string players held in England each year and during this time he record- ed the Bartok Violin and Piano Sonatas for Telefunken-Decca with its artistic direc- tor Sandor Vegh. He is a firm believer in 'variety being the spice of music'. This involves him in jazz concerts and composing and arranging for television. Allegro Roman Allegro Sir Edv Jeaving beloved confide chestral The D works central dience charact there an expressi Worcest Elgar's World intensel horror a London husband countrys by frien garden w near Fitt US MON nursing sketches creative

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are Ltd OWDE 45. From nist and became les Davis ce at the 1962 to Vivian Wood He including England Conates fr York Festival Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor Op. 82 Allegro Romance: Andante Allegro non troppo Sir Edward Elgar died fifty years ago, leaving a legacy of masterpieces for his beloved Britain. Powerfully partiotic and confident symphonies and large-scale or- chestral works, great choral works such as "The Dream of Gerontius' and martial works of Pomp and Circumstance with central melodies which have sent au- diences away humming, all have characterised Elgar. Yet in each of these there are oases of serenity and deeply felt expression, owing much to Elgar's own delight in Nature, particularly in his Worcestershire home. Elgar's world was shattered by the First World War, during which he suffered intensely through the knowledge of the horror and waste of life. Then living in London, Lady Elgar realised that her husband must be taken back to the countryside. It was she who found and rented 'Brinkwells', a cottage surrounded by friendly woods, with a studio in the garden where Elgar could work, situated near Fittleworth in Sussex. Shortly before this move Elgar had been admitted to a nursing home where he had made sketches of some chamber works: at 'Brinkwells' he felt able to compose again and this period led to four important works belonging to the autumn of his creative life: the String Quartet, Piano Quintet, this Violín and Piano Sonata and the great Cello Concerto. In 1917 the 60-year-old Elgar, refreshed by the woods and English countryside, began work on the Sonata, helped by W. H. Reed, the Leader of The London Sym- phony Orchestra, who had been an in- valuable technical aid in the composition of the Violin Concerto seven years earlier. you toj De Elgar (1857-1934) In October 1918 Reed and Elgar were able to perform the Sonata in the music room of Severn House, Elgar's London home in Hampstead, and it was Reed, this time with Landon Ronald at the piano, who gave the first public performance of the work in the Aeolian Hall in March 1919. While the material of the opening move- ment is essentially calm Elgar achieves an atmosphere of unease by opening the work in A minor and placing the second subject in B flat major, only homing in on the true key of E minor towards the end of the movement. To the listener these keys are of no importance, but the mood of the music is established by this typical Elgarian departure from the academic rules. Close to 'Brinkwells' was a group of dead trees, which W. H. Reed said had been "Apparently struck by lightning, had very gnarled and twisting branches stretching out in an eerie manner" and were locally supposed to be a group of Spanish monks who had been performing an ungodly rite and were metamorphosed in perpetual punishment. Elgar's imagination was caught by this legend and the character of the central Romance was influenced by the trees, as well as the com- poser's long fascination with Spanish music. Confidence and enjoyment in music mak- ing inhabit the finale, which recalls the Romance just before the coda, a section inserted by Elgar after the work had been finished as a personal tribute to his dear friend Marie Joshua who died shortly after the Sonata's original completion. The work is also dedicated to her.

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York Festival Sonata in C major for unaccompanied violin BWV 1005 Adagio Fuga-Alla Breve Largo Allegro assai Although we think of Bach as a great organist and keyboard player he also learned the violin when a child, so well, in fact, that he played in the orchestra of the Duke of Weimar's brother after leav- ing the Lüneberg Gymnasium. Never- theless, his chamber and orchestral works invariably date from Bach's appointment as Court Musician to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. He was 32 and has spent nine years mainly composing Church music, but was now also expected to pro- duce secular works to please his new master, himself an excellent keyboard player who was also familiar with the violin and viola de gamba. However, the collection of six works, comprising three sonatas and three partitas for unaccom- panied violin, were most probably written for the Prince's principal violinist Joseph Speiss. Bach wrote his music for immediate per- formance with little or no thought for posterity and it is fascinating to realise that the earliest known manuscript of these Bach (1685-1750) great works, in the handwriting of Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena, was found in a job of old papers en route to a grocer's shop in St. Petersburg, where they would have been used as wrapping paper! All the sonatas follow the da chiesa four- movement pattern of slow-fast-slow-fast in which the second movement is invariably fugal in character. For the C major Sonata Bach provides his most elaborate and astonishingly creative fugue for a solo string instrument. Indeed, when the move- ment seems about to end Bach inverts his subject and starts another fugue calling for interpretive and technically brilliant play- ing of the highest order. The largo is cast in the Italian manner pro- viding a beautifully shaped preparation for the exciting finale, a brilliant perpetuum mobile of a movement which superbly rounds off a work in which each move- ment is a perfect contrast to the others, yet contributes to a beautifully shaped four-movement structure. Sonata ( In comm the nint violin an sonality in mind French p name ha Sonata Bridgeto na. Brida who was panache provide h suit his sol as a sona style-alm There wa work and to finish th in time for cert proba

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Bach of Bach's as found mute to a mere they g paper! sa four- w-fast in variably or Sonata rate and or a solo the move inverts his calling for lliant play manner pro paration for perpetuum superb each move the others ally shaped York Festival Sonata No. 9 for Violin and Piano in A major Op. 47 (Kreutzer) Adagio sostenuto-presto Andante con variazioni Finale (Presto) In common with many other works this, the ninth of Beethoven's ten sonatas for violin and piano, was written with the per- sonality and ability of a particular violinist in mind. However, the violinist was not the French player Rodolphe Kreutzer, whose name has become immortalised by the sonata, but the mulatto violinist George Bridgetower who was on a visit to Vien- na. Bridgetower was an extrovert player who was renowned for his brilliance and panache, and Beethoven was anxious to provide him with a sonata which would suit his solo qualities, describing the work as "a sonata written in a very concertante style-almost a concerto". There was very little time to write the work and Beethoven only just managed to finish the first and second movements in time for the first performance, at a con- cert probably held in Vienna on 24 May 1803. A year earlier he had discarded the finale he wrote for his sixth Violin and Piano Sonata Op. 31 No. 1, replacing it with an allegretto set of variations. Now he took that finale and put it at the end of his new sonata. Bridgetower is said to have been given virtually no time to learn the sonata, playing virtually from sight, although with the advantage of Beethoven at the keyboard to give him support. Nevertheless, the performance seems to have been a brilliant success. Beethoven (1770-1827) Unfortunately Beethoven's increasing deafness made him especially difficult in the following years and by the time Simrock published the sonata in Bonn in April 1805 Beethoven had quarrelled with Bridgetower. He therefore dedicated the sonata to the French violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, who thought so little of it that he never performed the sonata in public! Rich double-stopping adds dignity and power to the solemn introduction which is swept aside for the main presto in which the two players exchange strongly rhythmic accounts of the main staccato theme. There are two other ideas, the first a thoughtful chorale-like melody and the second a return to the energy of the main theme, played by the piano with the violin playing pizzicato interjections, on which the development is mainly based. An elegant theme and four variations comprise the central movement, in which the charm and ornamental qualities of the violin are beautifully exploited. Finally, the movement from the earlier sonata. Not right at that time, but ex- cellently suited as an extrovert tarantella, filled with virtuosic humour and drama, to end a sonata tailor-made for two virtuoso performers. Programme notes Denby Richards 1984.

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THE NINETEENTH Harrogate International Festival MATETU Festival Director: Clive Wilson 31 July - 15 August 1984 to -W Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/ Neville Marriner BBC Northern Singers. Jennifer Bate Stefan Bednarczyk. Boris Belkin Bochman String Quartet . Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Rudolf Barshai David Campbell Robin Canter Cherub Company Clerkes of Oxenford. Carlo Curley Georgie Fame The Fires inwoning of London John Fletcher. The Gesualdo Consort Harehills Youth Dance Theatre. Kasatka Cossacks Florian Kitt. Ton Koopman Vladimir Krainev Cleo Laine & John Dankworth Quintet Locke Brass Consort National Jane Manning Moscow Virtuosi Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Palm Court Theatre Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra/ Paavo Berglund Ivo Pogorelich Ann Rachlin. Michael Roll Jukka Savijoki Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Järvi Vladimir Spivakov. Raphael Timothy West International Young Wallfisch Musicians York Early Music Choir Children's events. Full Programme available from William Dodds, Festival Office, Royal Baths, Harrogate HG1 2RR 0423 62303

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One of York's Great Houses NOW AN OUTSTANDING NEW RESTAURANT his distinguished Queen Anne house on the restored and furnished by the people who have been successful with Bodysgallen Hall Hotel in North Wales. Its bedrooms look out over 26 acres of private parkland. The restaurants, located in some of the finest rooms in the house, specialise in the very best of British food, with many dishes associated with great country houses of the past. The hotel's public rooms also offer excellent facilities for private entertaining, small functions or business meetings. MIDDLETHORPE FFFF G ASIER H BISHOPTHORPE ROAD, YORK, N. YORKS YO2 1QP. TEL: (0904) 641241/2/3/4 TELEX: 617163 AN HISTORIC HOUSE HOTEL A --------- You

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noqo A NEW LOOK AT THE DINOSAURS snoted nisl vom The Yorkshire Museum, York 4th April to 28th October 1984. Monday to Saturday 10.00 to 5.00 Sunday 1.00 to 5.00 Open until 6.00 throughout the Festival

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1766 CHRISTIE'S IN YORKSHIRE act Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.: The Valley of the Washburn, Ottley Chevin in the Distance. Sold at Christie's for £91,800 In about 1815-18 Turner began a series of watercolour views of Farnley and the neighbourhood, that remain his most personal expression of friendship with Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall. The watercolour illustrated above was sent for sale to Christie's by W. R. Fawkes in 1937 when it fetched 470 gns. It was also included in the York Festival Turner Exhibition held at the Art Gallery in 1980. Our representative in Yorkshire can offer convenient local access to Christie's whole range of services for buyers and sellers as well as their professional advisers. Please contact Sir Nicholas Brooksbank, Bt. at the address below: 46 Bootham, York, YO3 7BZ. Tel: (0904) 30911

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be magic GIVESHO GENEROUSLY... "Like a tremendous number of people I lead a very busy and hectic life but I feel very strongly that one should not be too busy to give time, thought and money to help this excellent cause.. the Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign" Paul Daniels £1,000,000 a year on Cancer Research In the current three-year period we have committed ourselves to spend £3.6 million on cancer research in Yorkshire Universities. With your generous help more and more cancer sufferers can be cured. Please give NOW YORKSHIRE CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN Reg. Charity No. 2258839 II DIV The one and only ALL YORKSHIRE charity supporting Cancer Research. To: Mr. J. Adams, Hon. Treasurer, Lloyds Bank plc., 2 Pavement, York. NAME ADDRESS I enclose Postal Order/ Cheque for £.... I wish to covenant my gift Please send me details of Cancer Research in Yorkshire bankers orders, covenant form, etc. Please tick appropriate square. YF Cheques should be made payable to "Yorkshire Cancer Research" F OF

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FEATURED IN GOOD FOOD GUIDES JY D ST. WILLIAM'S RESTAURANT Just behind the Minster, you'll find some of the best tasting food in York. We specialise in soups, quiches and salads, as well as cakes and scones. All homemade from the freshest ingredients and served within the fascinating surroundings of this fine medieval building. Perfect for light lunches or pre-theatre suppers from around £2.00. Licensed. Open every day. Festival Opening Times Tea 2-5pm Coffee 10-12pm Lunch 12-2pm Supper 6-9pm Rooms available for private party hire. For information please telephone: Nigel Hildred, Manager, St. William's Restaurant, 3 College Street, York. Telephone (0904) 34830 The Rose Room Restaurant Fine food in a delightful setting overlooking the York Minster. Impeccable Cuisine. Extensive Menu. The Royal York Hotel R -offer for your pleasure- R Bess's COFFEE SHOP Quick service in pleasant surroundings for coffees, light snacks and full meals. Excellent menu to choose from. RAILWAY MANIA BAR Whether for an evening out or a quick drink you'll enjoy it here. The unusual decor reflects the name. Great Atmosphere And, of course, first class hotel accommodation always available. THE ROYAL YORK HOTEL, by the station Station Road, York. Tel: (0904) 53681

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BRITISH TELECOM WE GIVE YOU MORE THAN JUST A PHONE The Business Service From radiopagers to complete call connect systems. Equipment that's designed to save time and money - for both the small business and the larger organisation. Freefone 8992 for details. The Home Service Inphones for the home. In keeping with the latest styles and in touch with the latest developments. See them at the Phoneshop, Coney Street, York. The Information Service What? Who? Where? Why? Guidelines have the answer. From what to have for tea to where to go and what to see! See your phone book for details. TELECOM YORK British DISCLINE 000 ***** e RADIOLINE

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NE OH FOR Wine Bar &Bistro 23 Looking for somewhere to eat before you see the Mystery Plays? Look across the road at THOMAS'S Our Bistro is open at 5.30 p.m. with meals from £3.00 for a two course meal childrens menu 95p Also our Buffet is open at 12 noon till 2.30 p.m. and we serve afternoon teas. Museum Street, York.

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O Ⓒ Kites The restaurant proprietor plans and prepares a range of unusual and Traditional English dishes, using fresh herbs from her own herb garden. Licensed Restaurant Kites is high in the sky-but the prices aren't. Open for lunch from 12.00 and dinner from 6.30 p.m.-11.00 p.m., Monday-Saturday. GOOD YEAR 13 Grape Lane, York. Telephone: 641750 (Off Low Petergate) TYRED? EXHAUSTED? NEED THAT EXTRA SPARK TO GET YOU GOING? COMPUTER WHEEL ALIGNMENT Plus 'ON' or 'OFF CAR WHEEL BALANCING USING LATEST COMPUTERISED MACHINERY EXIDE PUT THE SPARK BACK INTO THE LIFE OF YOUR CAR WITH AN EXIDE BATTERY. The local name you know & trust GLADSTONE Tyres Batteries Exhausts . LAYERTHORPE YORK TELEPHONE 28479.

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BACK INTE 123 Rowntree Mackintosh wish the York Festival a magical three weeks Montags BLACK MAGIC ASSORTED PLAIN CHOCOLATES 4549 lb BLACK MAGIC From the makers of Black Magic in York Rowntree Mackintosh plc

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FESTIVAL Mailing List M If you wish your name to be included on the Festival mailing list for information about the next Festival, please complete this form and return it to: The York Festival Office 1 Museum Street YORK YO1 2DT Name. Address. BORTHWICK INSTITUTE *MS 3/3/3 (2) OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

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d a formula for success TAKE FORMULA SOUND - ADD - FORMULA LIGHTING & LEISURE SERVICES TOGETHER WE CAN PROVIDE... A comprehensive package of technical services for the leisure industry dedicated to high quality and an integrated approach which will complement your venue and excite your clients. SOUND From the company which accompanies the stars and whose installations have set new standards of technical excellence. Be it in recording studios, theatres, conference and leisure centres, clubs or discotheques. LIGHTING Extensive experience in all aspects of theatre lighting and special effects design which includes: Simulated firework displays utilising fibre optic technology. Animated signs and displays. Lighting for video production. Product launch. Discotheques etc. SPECIAL EVENT MANAGEMENT We can offer a complete package of production services including: Lighting and sound systems and operators. Special effects design and construction. Set design and construction. Seating and stages. Ancilliary site services. NEW VENUE Our experience in the design and consultancy field is available be it for a theatre, recording studio, conference and leisure centre, club or discotheque, or the best in touring sound and lighting systems. Our engineers will provide a package which balances your desires with your budget. MEMBERS OF: ABTT APRS AES ASCE PLASA Association of British Theatre Technicians Association of Professional Recording Studios (manufacturing members) Audio Engineering Society Association of Sound and Communication Engineers Professional Lighting and Sound Association Mix with the right people and join our client and user list. FORMULA LIGHTING AND LEISURE SERVICES LTD Stuart Road Ashton Road Bredbury Stockport Telex 667104 SEAFOR G "We are pleased to have been chosen to for the 1984 York Festival and provide complete production services Mystery Plays and wish the success." Festival Company every

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SMS Masterful performance on violin YEP 18/6/84 Nigel Kennedy: In concert. SATURDAY'S recital by Nigel Kennedy confirmed to a capacity Guildhall audience that, without reservation, this young musician. should be numbered among the very finest violinists of his gene- ration. His programme consisted of three diverse, complementary and masterful works; sonatas by Elgar and Beethoven and Bach's magnificent unaccomp- anied Sonata in C (Bwv.1005). In the Elgar Sonata, written during the final years of the First World War, Kennedy captured the music's most subtle underlying tensions. During the first movement, in particular, one felt that his interpretation was absolutely correct. His tone was warm but never over-indulgent, incorpor- ating a varied and well-consid- Music ered use of vibrato and dyn- amics. Perhaps he might consider investing in a few more portamenti, but playing of such quality is beyond such minor criticism. The curious central move- ment, which so often leaves the listener in some confusion, was wonderfully clear and access- ible. Here the playing had great poise and space, and the sec- tion leading back to the opening idea was especially beautiful. Ovation The Finale was a joyous release of tension. Only here did one feel the pianist (Peter Pettinger) emerge from his earlier, rather marked reticence and establish himself as an equal partner. Kennedy achieved the transi- tion from Elgar to Bach effort- lessly. His reading of the unaccompanied sonata was not simply a tour de force of supreme technical assurance, this was just the starting point from which he moulded a quite remarkable musical experience beyond even the most magnan- imous literary description. Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (Op47), one of the repertoire's most taxing works, produced a performance which again was musically imaginative yet stylistically apt. As was the case in the Elgar, one felt that the piano should have con- tributed more, especially at the opening of the celebrated variation movement (which felt a little too hasty and rather insensitively phrased). The Finale was fiery and bold, and the ovation richly deserved. John Cranmer.

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destioned by police today in connection with the murder of a woman at Oxted, Surrey. The body of Sarah Jenkins, aged 20, of Oxted was found under an M25 Motorway bridge yesterday by a woman passer-by. Police believe Sarah had been to a party and was on her way home when the incident occurred. Sarah switches a Sarah Kennedy, one of the presenters of BBC Television's doomed Sixty Minutes pro- host twice- gramme, is to weekly afternoon show on ITV. Sarah will be joining Thames Television next month and the programme, provisionally titled Daytime, will start going out from August 1. Birth call A law banning agencies "sell- ing" surrogate mothers will be among the main recommenda- tions of the Warnock Committee on artificial reproduction. Dame Josephine Barnes, a committee member, said the study, which goes to the Social Services Secre- distributor, O 4 Middle Croit, Wilberfoss. olms which saw some parts of North York- shire and Humberside drenched with heavy rain while others basked in brilliant sunshine. are a sign of the times. The sudden rise in tempera- ture could lead to anything from showers to severe down- pours at this time of year, the Evening Press weather corres- pondent, Mr William Baines said. In spite of the ferocity of the brief storms, only minor problems were reported by the North Eastern Electricity Board. About 500 consumers lost power for up to two hours in the York area, mainly at Haxby, Wigginton and Strensall region. Some consumers at Swinton, near Malton, were also affected briefly. In Hertfordshire, one of two brothers struck by lightning in a park at St Albans died today. Optimism by Problems Mr Boitoult, his wife Sandra. and sons Dennis and Mark have been in their £42,500 home for only nine months. Mr Boitoult said there had been a series of problems with the house. Today the builder, J and K Prestige Developments, of Doncaster, said any complaint would be investigated. Mr Boitoult said: "It seemed there was water in every room. I think the water must have got in between the inside and out- side walls. Mr Boitoult said his next step after calling in the builders would be to contact the Humber- side building inspectorate for advice. A spokesman for J and K married at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Huddersfield, on Saturday. "It was really great-1 enjoyed every minute," said Debbie, of Thief Lane, York. The bride gave her a silver bracelet, which Debbie says she will always treasure. "I was made really welcome. The best moment was when I was walking down the aisle. I FR