Events Diary: Past Events

2.00pm: Annual General Meeting of the Lennox Berkeley Society

Quatre pièces

Toccata (op. 33 part 3)

AGM of the LBS, chaired by the president, Petroc Trelawny, followed by concert given by the guitarist Emmanuel Sowicz and pianist Yuko Sano: two Berkeley works - the Quatre pièces for guitar written for Segovia in Paris in about 1927, and the Toccata for piano of 1925 - together with works by Poulenc, Roussel, Dandrieu arr. Godowsky and Manuel Ponce. Admission free - on application to the Hon Secretary, Rupert Robertson, at rupert@lennoxberkeley.org.uk

Razumovsky Academy, Kensal Green, London, NW10 5ET

1.00pm: Lunchtime Concert

The soprano April Fredrick [sic] and the pianist Eric McElroy give a rare performance of Berkeley’s song, Counting the Beats, at a lunchtime concert in the Huntingdon Hall in Worcester on Friday 30 May, as part of the Elgar Festival. The song sets words by Robert Graves, on the theme of mortality, the fleeting nature of time and the fear of impending doom. Berkeley wrote the music for the 1963 Festival of Poetry organised by the Poetry Book Society. The programme also includes McElroy’s own song cycle of war poems by Graves, A Dead Man’s Embers. The concert has been designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Berkeley’s friend and wartime colleague in the BBC, Sir Arthur Bliss.