PF2023 Brochure - Flipbook - Page 9
THURSDAY 22 AUGUST
Event 1
11am | Assembly Rooms, Presteigne LD8 2AD
NICHOLAS MURRAY | CAN POETRY CHANGE THE WORLD?
Author and poet Nicholas Murray looks at the potential of poetry and the arts generally
to transform society and our outlook on the world, challenging the famously pessimistic
conclusion of W H Auden that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’.
Tickets £8 ꞏ £5 young people (aged 8-25)
End time 12 noon
Event 2
3pm | St Michael’s Church, Discoed LD8 2NW
THE ENGLISH GUITAR
Paul Galbraith guitar
John Dowland Unquiet thoughts
Sally Beamish Unquiet
Lennox Berkeley Theme and Variations, Op 77
Michael Berkeley Morning Star (World premiere)
Lennox Berkeley Sonatina for guitar, Op 52 No 1
Benjamin Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op 70
Tickets £20 ∙ £1 young people (aged 8-25)
End time 4.10pm
Festival Bus departs Presteigne at 2.20pm (see booking information)
Event 3
7.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF
FAÇADE
Anton Lesser actor ꞏ Sarah Gabriel & Alexander Knox reciters
Presteigne Festival Ensemble ꞏ George Vass conductor
Julian Philips Melodys of Earth and Sky – suite for actor and chamber ensemble
(World premiere)
William Walton Façade – an entertainment
Julian Philips’ exquisite new work for actor and chamber ensemble entwines John Clare’s
poetry with reimagined renderings of the Northamptonshire ‘Melodys’ Clare collected
as a fiddle-player; whilst Façade, Walton’s break-through ‘entertainment’ from 1923,
setting the poetry of Edith Sitwell, is performed in a new edition authorised by the William
Walton Trust.
Tickets £26 Premium ∙ £18 Unreserved ∙ £1 young people (aged 8-25)
End time 9.15pm
Online booking presteignefestival.com
For telephone booking, call 01544 267800
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