BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF NORTHERN IRELAND 1960-1961 MEMBERS' NIGHT under the auspices of THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST * SERENADE by THE MCCREADY SINGERS DEREK BELL - Oboes HAVELOCK NELSON Piano * SIR WILLIAM WHITLA HALL Queen's University, Belfast TUESDAY, 11th OCTOBER, 1960 at 7.45 p.m.

Tu es Petrus CHOIR Palestrina Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam, et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam : Et tibi dabo claves regni caelorum. Haec dies William Byrd Haec dies quam fecit Dominus. Exultemus et laetemur in ea. Alleluia. Oboe D'Amore Sonata in A Major What is our life? Andante Allessandro Besozzi Allegro (1702-1775) Larghetto Allegretto CHOIR Orlando Gibbons What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tiring houses be, Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss. Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we playing to our latest rest, Only we die in earnest, that's no jest. Though Amaryllis dance Oboe William Byrd Though Amaryllis dance in green, like Fairy Queen, And sing full clear Corinna can, with smiling cheer: Yet since their eyes make heart so sore, Hey ho, chill love no more. Love ye who list, I force him not, sith God it wot, The more I wail, the less my sighs and tears prevail : What shall I do but say therefore, Hey ho, chill love no more. *chill is an early English form of "I will". Sonata Andantino Allegretto Molto allegro Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Balulalow CHOIR O my dear heart, young Jesus sweet, Prepart Thy cradle in my spreit, And I sall rock Thee in my heart, And never mair from Thee depart. But I sall praise Thee evermore, With sangis sweet unto Thy gloir; The knees of my heart sall I bow, And sing that richt Balulalow. The Devil a Monk would be A wolf, by conscience pangs distressed, From sin in cloister sought to rest; He liked monastic life right well, To change he was quite willing. Gerald Cockshott Paul Hindemith He bit the sheep and swine to death, and said The parson's dog had done the killing. See the Gipsies See the gipsies dancing high, See the gipsies dancing low, arr. Zoltán Kodály See the gipsies stamp their feet, duba! Clap their hands to every beat, leba! In the firelight whirling round, duba! To the zither's jangling sound, leba! Round the fire gipsies sway, Listen to their strumming: Rida, rida, bom, bom, bom, Happy songs, laughter gay: Summer days are coming. Carillon Gloria in excelsis Deo! Et in terra pax. Antony Hopkins Herod the King ordered that all the little children should be slain. And his Guard went out and slew them. Noé, Noé. But Jesus was saved that He might save us, Wherefore we sing Gloria in excelsis Deo! Cor Anglais Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte Ravel (1875-1937) CHOIR Neue Liebestlieder Walzer Johannes Brahms

First Recital- CLAUDIO ARRAU 21st October, 1960 Sonata in E flat Op. 27 No. 1 Fantasy in C major Op. 17 Beethoven Schumann Gaspard de la Nuit Sketch to a Scene of Shakespeare Ravel Smetana Concert Study No. 2 Liszt Transcendental Study No. 10 Liszt