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The
Fifth Annual May Music Festival
at St John's Church, Ranmoor, Sheffield
1st - 25th May 2008
“One of the finest churches in the area, with a wonderful acoustic and the best organ for miles around”
Thursday 1st May at
7.30 pm
Ascension Day Eucharist
sung by the the combined choirs of St John's with String Quartet
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Saturday
3rd May at 7.30 pm
The Combined Choirs of St John's perform
Vivaldi Gloria and
Haydn Missa Sancti Johannes de Deo (Little
Organ Mass)
Handel Organ Concerto Op 4 No 1
With orchestral accompaniment
Tickets
£8; Students £4
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Sunday 4th May at 7.45
pm
"The LUCHIP Piano
Trio"
(Leeds University Centre for Historically Informed
Performance)
DAVID MILSOM, violin
JONATHAN GOOING, piano
GEORGE KENNAWAY, 'cello
Niels Gade - Piano Trio op.42 in F major
Schumann - Piano Trio op.63 in D minor
Tickets £8; Students £4
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Saturday 10th May at 7.30 pm
Spring into Opera with Sheffield City
Opera
An evening of operatic choruses and
arias, operetta and songs from the musical theatre,
presented by the principals and chorus of the area's
foremost opera company.
Tickets £8; Concessions £6;
(Available from SCO
Ticket Secretary Laraine Turner, 0114
2694958. Send SAE with cheque payable to Sheffield City
Opera to 21 Orgreave Lane,
Sheffield S13 9NE.)
Click on this link to see the concert flyer and
more details of Sheffield City Opera: http://www.sheffieldcityopera.co.uk/
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Sunday 11th May at 7.45 pm
Organ Recital by the Organists of
St John's
Robert Webb; Derek Grover; Josh
Stephens; Jemima Stephenson play a wide range of of music for
organ
Tickets £8;
Students £4
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Saturday 17th May at 7.00 pm (nb time)
The University of Sheffield Singers' Society present
David Fanshaw's African Sanctus
and
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
with Westways School; Ranmoor
Children's Choir; The boys from St John's Ranmoor parish
Choir; The Tideswell Singers; The University Dance
Society and the internationally renowned percussion
ensemble, BackBeat
Percussion.
Tickets
£9; Students £5; Under 16 £2 |
Sunday 18th May at
7.45 pm
A concert of music by the
renowned English composer Herbert Howells.
Programme
includes: Songs from a Garland for De La Mare (sung by Peter
Taylor and Becky Hirst); 3rd Violin Sonata (David Milsom
violin);
Secular Part Songs; Pieces from Lamberts Clavichord and Howells'
Clavichord
Tickets: £8;
Students £4
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Saturday
24th May at 7.30 pm
The Yorkshire Wind Orchestra
Conductor - Keiron Anderson
The Yorkshire Wind Orchestra will be returning to St
Johns to present the Grand Finale Concert for the 5th
Annual Ranmoor May Music Festival. Come and hear a 50
strong orchestra perform a varied programme of fantastic
wind music in the magnificent surroundings of St Johns,
Ranmoor.
Concert programme:
Guy Woolfenden Gallimaufry; Percy
Grainger Children's March;
Martin Ellerby Dreamscapes; Adam Gorb Awayday;
Gareth Wood Japanese Slumber Song; Joseph
Horovitz Bacchus on Blue Ridge
Tickets
£8; Students £4
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