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Welcome to the 7th Annual East Finchley Arts Festival ! It also a first since the Community Festival and ourselves are making a combined effort this year.
There is a distinct flavour of youth in our programme. We open with a concert given by the National Youth Jazz Orchestra 2. This talented group of players, some of the best young players in the country, are paying a third visit to the Festival so popular has been their programme in the past. The London Youth Music Centre Choir & Orchestra although only one year old has already won plaudits for its performances winning the Iris Macer Shield for the best junior choir in the North London Festival. The choir’s programme will contain folk songs as well as works by Mozart, Franck and Purcell. Part of the programme will be sung in Russian and a group of popular songs will include numbers by Burt Bacharach and George Shearing.
Local poet Fleur Adcock with an international reputation reads her poetry with two fellow poets Hugo Williams & Jane Kirwan on Tuesday evening and the well established Thamyse Quartet follow on Wednesday. A Quartet who met originally in the BBC Symphony Orchestra they are led by Regan Crowley who doubles as the wifeof the vicar of All Saints Church, Durham Road where all the concerts are to be given. A warm red brick late Victorian building it was reordered in the early nineties and its updating included access and facilities for the disabled. At the same time the organ was rebuilt and repositioned at the West end of the church and on Thursday evening the blind organist David Liddle will put the instrument through its paces in a programme ranging from Bach, fellow blind organist Alfred Hollins, Jongen and Mulet. David, who grew up in East Finchley and now has an international reputation will include one of his own works written especially with the organ of All Saints in mind.
Our youth theme continues with a concert given by the sixty strong Barnet Schools Wind Orchestra on Friday. It should be a stirring occasion since it includes Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March no 4. On the final Saturday local composer and Artistic Director of the Festival will direct his London Ripieno Society in a mixed programme of choral and instrumental music showcasing 4 young soloists at the beginning of their careers.
The final concert of the Festival is given by the redoubtable Finchley Children’s Music Group and includes a new work by Geoffrey Hanson entitled Songs of War & Peace, settings of poems by women poets of both world wars. They have a particularly apposite ring.
Hope to see you there!
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