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First Clifton Montpelier Powis Festival 2007

The 2007 festival is over but you can review the events from it here.
Planning is already well underway for 2008!

Click here to download the complete PDF of the 2007 festival

The Brighton Chamber Choir
15 July 2007 at 8:00 PM

The Brighton Chamber Choir formed in 1995, exists to ‘promote, improve, develop and maintain public education . . . of . . . choral music’. Their programme includes: Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir with violins & trombones, Schumann's Requiem for Mignon, Mendelssohn’s I waited for the Lord & Psalm 43, Elgar’s The Snow and As Torrents in Summer and Parry’s I was glad.

Venue: St. Michael's Church, St. Michael's Place
Price: £10 (£8) Click here to book online or pay on the door.

Piano Recital
16 July 2007 at 12:30 PM

Bach, Brahms and Beethoven: piano recital by 19 year old James Thirsk including French Suite no. 5 by JS Bach, Romanze op. 118 by Brahms, and Beethoven’s Sonata in F op. 10 no. 2.

Venue: St. Michael's Church, St. Michael's Place
Price: £5 (£3) Click here to book online or pay on the door.

A Recital of Edvard Grieg
16 July 2007 at 7:30 PM

Edvard Grieg – his life in words and music. Celebrating the life of Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), this concert marks the centenary of his death with a programme of readings intermingled with piano music: notably a selection of his famous Lyric Pieces with extracts from Peer Gynt with local resident Ambrose Page (piano) and Patricia Hope (narrator).

Venue: St. Nicholas' Church, Dyke Road
Price: £7 (£5) Click here to book online or pay on the door.

Designing the seaside in Brighton and Hove
17 July 2007 at 7:30 PM

Fred Gray, Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Sussex, and author of Designing the Seaside. Architecture, Nature and Society, (Reaktion Books, 2006), will be in conversation with Debby Shorley, Librarian at the University of Sussex, about how he became interested in the English seaside, and his special relationship with Brighton.

Venue: St. Michael's Church, St. Michael's Place
Price: £7 (£5) Click here to book online or pay on the door.

Afternoon Recital
18 July 2007 at 12:30 PM

Local resident Amanda de Montford sings favourite arias from the soprano repertoire including Cesar Franck’s Panis Angelicus, Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus and Laudate Dominum; and Dido's Lament (Purcell); accompanied by Luke Nakajima (Piano).

Venue: St. Nicholas' Church, Dyke Road
Price: £5 (£3) Click here to book online or pay on the door.