Events - Autumn in Malvern Festival.


		Festival Events - 2014 The full events for this year's Festival are listed below. In addition there will be many other weekend and weekday activities listed on the exhibitions page. Events 10th September - 14th September 2014 Events 15th September - 21st September 2014 Events 22nd September - 28th September 2014 Events 29th September - 5th October 2014 Events 6th October - 12th October 2014 Events 13th October - 19th October 2014 Events 20st October - 26th October 2014 Events 10th - 14th September 2014 THE UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER ARENA Hylton Road, Worcester, WR2 5JN Wednesday 10th September 7.30pm BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES Rory Macdonald - Conductor & Jamie Walton - Cello VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Overture The Wasps ELGAR Cello Concerto ELGAR Elegy DVORAK Symphony No.8 in G major The concert will be recorded for transmission on BBC Radio 3. Tickets £28, £24, £19, and £15 available from TICKETLINE or from the University of Worcester Arena reception 0844 888 9991. Presented by the University of Worcester in association with the 25th Autumn in Malvern Festival. Supported by Arts Council England. ____________________ THE ELGAR STATUE Belle Vue Terrace, Great Malvern Town Centre Sunday 14th September 10.30am IMAGES OF MALVERN A Sunday Morning Walk Discover much about Malvern from Peter Smith a native of the town and Artistic Director of the festival. Ticket £6, A relaxed walk of 5 miles with some rough ground and steep gradients. Ends approximately 1pm at location WR14 2AA. The festival cannot be held responsible for accident, injury or loss. Events 15th - 21st September 2014 GREAT MALVERN PRIORY Church Street, Great Malvern, WR14 2AY Sunday 21st September 3pm COMMEMORATION I ALDWYN VOICES Son String Quartet First prize in the Royal College of Music String Quartet Competition THE PATH TO PEACE Siegfried Sassoon & Malvern Bernadette Kearney - Narrator Choral Music by William Byrd, John Blitheman, Thomas Tomkins, Hubert Parry, Edward Elgar, John Ireland and William Walton. String Quartet - Edward Elgar - Opus 83 Ticket £10 unreserved (Nave only). Supported by Malvern Civic Society and AJB & JH Malvern. Events 22nd - 28th September 2014 GREAT MALVERN PRIORY Church Street, Great Malvern, WR14 2AY Saturday 27th September 2.30pm KATHERINE WELLS COLOURED LIGHT An illustrated talk - A Journey through the stained and painted glass of Great Malvern Priory from the 15th to 21st century. FREE ENTRY. Retiring collection for The Friends of Malvern Priory. Supported by Great Malvern Priory. A Tour of the Stained Glass at Great Malvern Priory signed by Katherine Wells available for purchase. Events 29th September - 5th October 2014 PRIORY GATEHOUSE Abbey Road, Great Malvern, WR14 3ES Saturday 4th October 9.30am-5pm ARTS & CRAFTS STREET MARKET High quality original work by jewellers, ceramicists, woodworkers, painters, glass makers and photographers. WORCESTERSHIRE UKULELE BAND 12 Noon till 1pm In association with Boffy Arts Events and Malvern Hills District Council. ____________________ SOUTH WORCESTERSHIRE COLLEGE Albert Road North, Great Malvern, WR14 2YH Saturday 4th October 10am-12noon THE BIG DRAW FREE professional tuition at this popular annual event. Part of the national project to promote drawing as a tool for creativity and cultural engagement. Supported by Malvern Hills District Council and South Worcestershire College. ____________________ THE ELGAR BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM Crown East Lane, Lower Broadheath, WR12 6RH Saturday 4th October 2.30pm DR DONALD HUNTOBE COMPOSERS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE Including Hubert Parry, Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells and Ivor Gurney, composer, poet and soldier. Former Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral, Dr Hunt presents an illuminating talk together with musical examples. Ticket £6 includes Tea & Biscuits. Elgar Birthplace Museum is 3 miles north of Worcester. In association with the Elgar Society, West Midlands. ____________________ THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE Orchard Road, Great Malvern, WR14 3DA Sunday 5th October 3pm COMMEMORATION II DR JEAN MOORCROFT WILSON SIEGFRIED SASSOON REVISITED Dr Moorcroft Wilson focuses on her re-shaped landmark biography of Sassoon into a single volume. Previously cherished content made way for new material in a rare opportunity to update the text. Signed copies of the book available for purchase. Ticket £7 unreserved Sponsored by The Friends of the Dymock Poets. Events 6th - 12th October 2014 ST. LEONARD’S CHURCH The Beauchamp Almshouses, Malvern Link, WR13 5AX Saturday 11th October 11am COLIN BROWNLEE A CENTURY OF RECORDED ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC An illustrated talk on the big screen using rare recordings and archive photographs. The talk investigates a much neglected part of our choral heritage from the first recording in 1902. Ticket £7 unreserved Sponsored by Jean & Philip Upton. The Beauchamp Almshouses - located just outside Malvern to the left of the A449, just before the Newland roundabout, when approaching from Worcester. ____________________ THE COURTYARD Belle Vue Terrace, Great Malvern, WR14 4PZ Saturday 11th October 10am-4pm FESTIVAL OPEN DAY Courtyard Caf&eacut; with live music and interesting shops RICH GOBLE, Guitar 11am-12.30pm An original mix of popular song and music APPLEYARD TRADITIONAL DANCERS 2.30pm A lively and colourful display by the highly regarded lady dancers of Appleyard. 01684 563577 www.robsonward.co.uk ____________________ THE COACH HOUSE THEATRE Grange Road, Great Malvern, WR14 3HA Sunday 12th October 3pm COMMEMORATION III LINDA HART ONCE THEY LIVED IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE THE DYMOCK POETS IN 1914 An illustrated talk on the six poets and their friends who lived around Dymock at the beginning of The Great War. Linda is Founder of the Friends of the Dymock Poets and author of A Dymock Poets Anthology. Ticket £7 reserved seats. Sponsored by The English Speaking Union. Location - The Coach House Theatre is on left of Malvern Theatres, Grange Road. On the left of the Car Park by The Grange, WR14 3HA. Events 13th - 19th October 2014 THE GREAT HALL - MALVERN COLLEGE College Road, Great Malvern, WR14 3DF Friday 17th October 7.30pm COMMEMORATION IV POETS OF THE MALVERN HILLS COUNTRY Reflections and memories of The Great War in poetry, prose and music performed by: CAROL ANNE DUFFY - POET LAUREATE PETER SUTTON - READER BARTOSZ WOROCH - VIOLIN & SAM ARMSTRONG - PIANO Including the Violin Sonata of Edward Elgar composed in 1918. "Worock & Armstrong produce strong poetic performances of great lyrical fluency" - Strad Magazine. Ticket £10 unreserved. Sponsored by Malvern Town Council and Arts Council England. Part of a Poetry Education Project, Creative Mind with The Chase School Malvern. ____________________ THE GREAT HALL - MALVERN COLLEGE College Road, Great Malvern, WR14 3DF Saturday 18th October 7.30pm FINE ARTS BRASS ENSEMBLE "dazzling and sublime performances" - Gramophone. One of the top orchestral brass quintets in the world. Roxanna Panufnik FAFF( Festival commission) Bach - Prelude & Fugue Glinka - Ruslan & Ludmilla Stravinsky - Pulcinella Suite Prokofiev - Troika Bernstein - Overture Candide de Falla - Love the Magician Suite Nyman - Masque Arias Lenton/Roberts - Tin Pan Alley Suite Festival 25th Anniversary commission. Tickets £18 front section £12 rear all unreserved. Includes interval glass of wine / juice. Sponsored by The Elmley Foundation, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Birmingham. Roxanna Panufnik Commission sponsored by the Prokofiev Family and Arts Council England. Events 20th - 26th October 2014 COLWALL VILLAGE HALL Mill Lane, Colwall, WR13 6EQ Saturday 25th October 11am ROSIE BROADLEY on LAURA KNIGHT'S LOST PORTRAITS TREASURED, DESTROYED, SHIPWRECKED Rosie Broadley, curator of the 2013 National Portrait Gallery exhibition Laura Knight's Portraits, will share stories of 'lost' works collected during her research and consider why some portraits have slipped from public view. Ticket £7 unreserved. In association with The Dame Laura Knight Society. Location - From Malvern follow B4218 over the hills, go through Colwall Village, turn right before railway bridge into Mill Lane. The hall is 50 yards on the right. ____________________ MALVERN THEATRES CINEMA Grange Road, Great Malvern, WR14 3HB Sunday 26th October 2pm COMMEMORATION V BEHIND THE LINES A World War One Anthology. What they thought at home and what they knew at the front. GABRIEL WOOLF & LINDA HART Read from poetry and prose written by men and women, young and old, combatants and observers. Hear their story in their own words. Ticket £10 unreserved. Sponsored by Mrs Jill Hopkins. Please note the clocks go back an hour in the early hours of Sunday 26th October. The unusual starting time of the event is 2pm.

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