We have enjoyed a busy Spring and Summer with 15,000 visitors; and there is still lots of colour in the garden. Harvest is late due to catchy weather but the combine is busy cutting wheat today, and the kingfisher whizzed by yesterday.
The Friends invite you all to a lovely Concert in the Hall on Saturday 1st October, 6.30 for 7pm with refreshments in the interval . Tickets are £10 for Friends and £15 for others. Please telephone or email us to book. Angela Andrews lives nearby and has created the programme as follows :
A Romantic Evening of Song and Piano Works, October 1st 2011
Inspired by Nature and performed by Angela Andrews
and Jacqueline Bevan
Vocal
Amarilli – by Caccini
O del mio Dolce Ardor – Gluck
Wiegenlied – Mozart
Piano
Schlummerlied op. 124 no. 16 – Schumann
Waltz in A op. 39 no. 15 – Brahms
Vocal
Fruhlingsglaube – Schubert
Die Forelle – Schubert
Du bist wie eine Blume – Schumann
Der Nussbaum – Schumann
Die Lotosblume – Schumann
Interval (30 minutes)
Piano
4 Calling birds }
6 Geese a laying } from Partridge Pie – by Richard Rodney Bennett
7 Swans a singing }
Vocal
Bird song at eventide – Eric Coates
The Green hills of Somerset – Eric Coates
An die Nachtigall – Brahms
Piano
Butterfly – Grieg
Vocal
Anakreons Grab – Wolf
Der Gartner – Wolf
Nell – Faure The End
ANGELA ANDREWS – Soprano
Angela started singing as a child, performing the part of Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel at the age of eight. Formal training began at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she became an Associate after completing the performance course for singers. Professional engagements followed including work with Musica Antica & Nuova in The Purcell Rooms and for the B.B.C., Chamber Concerts at St Johns’s Smith Square, Oratorio & song recitals. Angela has also performed with various Opera Groups including Cameo Opera, Opera Viva & Chelsea Opera and sung concert opera performances & oratorio with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She has recently moved to Wiltshire and is returning to professional singing following a career break for family and business reasons.
JACQUELINE BEVAN – Accompanist
Jacqueline learned the piano ‘by ear’ at a very young age and was a church organist (where she learned to read music) and ballet school pianist (where she learned to improvise and keep time before beginning formal piano studies with Caroline Diffley at Kent Music School and later Denis Dance at The Guildhall School of Music. After gaining a 1st in Music at Bristol University, she lectured at post-16 Colleges including Richmond College, Strode College and Bath Spa University where she supervised students on teaching practice and lectured in composition & arrangement. For five years she ran Teacher Training courses for Access to Music, the UK’s leading provider of popular music courses. Always in demand as an accompanist, in 2005 Jacqueline decided to pursue a full time career as a pianist & piano teacher. She has a large private teaching practice and is piano tutor at The University of Bath, accompanist for the Mid-Somerset festival and a founder member of Musicians S. West (www.musicianssw.co.uk), whose aim is to promote & perform chamber concerts with innovative programmes across the S.W.
Please join us for a very special occasion.
Further dates for your diary : ( more details to follow)
Friends Wine Tasting with Great Western Wines 6.30pm 23rd Nov 2011
Christmas Fair with Tree in the Hall 2pm to 5pm 18th December 2011
Enjoy being part of the Great Chalfield community and know that your contribution will make a difference. 
