Viva Lewes Issue #144 September 2018

MUSIC
Classical round-up
TO SUNDAY 2
Lapwing Music Festival. Intimate recitals at the
beautiful Coastguard Cottages, Cuckmere Haven.
Featuring Manu Delago on hang drums (Saturday),
mezzo soprano Lea Desandre (with Thomas
Dunford, Sunday), and Thomas Dunford on lute
(Sunday, see pg 65). lapwingfestival.com
SUNDAY 2, 3PM
Sunday Recitals: Andrew Wilson, organ. St
Michael’s, free (retiring collection in aid of church
organ fund)
FRIDAY 21 – SUNDAY 23
International Composers Festival. Performances
of some of the most exciting, melodic and appealing
orchestral music written today, including big
orchestral scores, film, computer gaming and TV
themes, dance, and chamber music. Performances
at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill and Opus Theatre,
Hastings. Full programme at composersfestival.com
SUNDAY 23, 4PM
Corelli Ensemble. Soprano Dame Felicity Lott
and tenor Paul Austin Kelly perform duets and
arias by Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, Richard
Strauss, Lehar and Gilbert & Sullivan, plus instrumental
music by Corelli and Mozart. St Pancras
Church, £12/10, corelliensemble.co.uk
Thomas Dunford at Lapwing Festival
Oliver Poole at International Composers Festival
THURSDAY 27, 1.10PM
St Anne’s Lunchtime Concert. Satie, Debussy,
Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton and Gershwin.
Featuring Johan de Cock on piano. Refreshments
available. St Anne’s, free
SATURDAY 29, 7.45PM
Memorial Concert for Jeremy Dale Roberts,
1934 – 2017. JS Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No.3,
Jeremy Dale Roberts, Suite for Flute and Strings
(Solo Flute, Anne Hodgson), Peta Crompton,
Elegy for 3, Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings in C
major, Op.48. Directed by Andrew Sherwood. All
Saints, £12
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