Easter Festival 2010
37th St Endellion Easter Festival - Thursday 1st April – Sunday 11th April 2010
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We are delighted to present an extended Easter Festival in 2010 with a varied and
very attractive programme of choral, chamber, jazz, operatic and orchestral works.
The festival chorus will lead a performance of Brahms’ Requiem, and the festival
orchestra feature in Dvorak’s 8th Symphony on Friday 9th April. On 10th and 11th
April, the festival forces will be joined for the first time at Easter by opera singers
for two performances of Mascagni’s stunning one act opera Cavalleria Rusticana. Set
in rural Sicily on Easter Day, the colourful music includes the famous Easter Hymn,
the orchestral intermezzo and an inevitable tragic and bloody ending.
The Festival begins in Holy Week with a Gala Concert on Maundy Thursday 1st April
given in aid of the Golden Jubilee Appeal by The Endellion Quartet. Together with
the distinguished author and passionate Endellionite, Patrick Gale, they will perform
Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross interspersed with a new text, specially written
for the Quartet, by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.
On Good Friday, 2nd April, our festival Music Director James Burton will lead an
open rehearsal and performance of Part 2 of Handel’s Messiah. Culminating in the
Hallelujah Chorus, this special event will be open to all members of the public,
and allow them to join in and enjoy making music together with festival musicians
in the beautiful surroundings of St Endellion church.
With the chamber music programme including performances by Andrew Watkinson and his
Gallini Piano Trio, festival members will also present Mendelssohn’s Octet for strings.
There will be an unforgettable late night presentation of the Sacred Concerts by
jazz legend, composer and pianist Duke Ellington: with a jazz quintet as well as
a tap dancer to accompany, the festival chorus will be joined in this uplifting and
infectious performance by jazz singer Tina May as featured soloist.
We hope that for both our audience and the participants, the 2010 Easter Festival
will bring many musical highlights. We look forward to welcoming you all to another
fantastic Easter Festival at St Endellion.
