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Festival RoundupWell it's finished for this year and it feels as though it will take a few months to recover ! -
These are just a few of the abiding images of this years festival, delve further in and there are LOTS MORE! Click on these!Dereham Mini Club/Morris Minor Club Flower Festival General Photographs Holy Communion in the Cathedral Ruins North Elmham Art Group Exhibition Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue Display Stalls (Bric-a-Brac, Tombola, Craft etc)
Elmham Festival Friday
For all those of you who think tjat the Festival starts tomorrow - for a lot pf people it is today !!
Putting these exhibits together is a time consumung affair which most people don't really appreciate.
So when you look, spare a thought for all of the people who have given their free time (wherever it was) to help make the Festival enjoyable for you
SaturdayGalleries of all of the photographs of the flowers are now attached to the poems (apart from a couple I missed photographing (my apologies for that), ther are also images (courtesy of Ian McIntosh) in the Photo Gallery section
Concert ReportThe 31st Festival Concert by the Elmham Festival Chorus and Orchestra took place in St. Mary's church on the29th August as part of the Bloomin' Poetry Festival. About 40 people , took part, some were instrumentalists and the rest were the chorus. These people are gathered together by Stephen Pocklington who is now in his fourth decade of delighting us with these wonderful musical concerts. These musicians come from all over the county and indeed the country, just for this evening's entertainment. There is hardly a moment for rehearsal as they don't meet until 11 am.on the day but you would never know that when you listen to the beautiful music filling our lovely old church.
The concert began with music by Haydn with Geraldine Consoli singing the Soprano aria - beautiful to hear - no mean feat in such a lofty church.The second piece by Handel was a concerto for flute and strings played hauntingly by Steven King - wonderful. There then followed Serenade from the Wand of Youth suite by Elgar and the first half of the programme was rounded off by the Halleluia Chorus again by Handel , which had us humming along whilst the Chorus raised the rafters with their wonderful singing.
The second part of the concert began with Albert Ketelbey's Remembrance, hauntingly played by the string section followed by the Funeral Music for Queen Mary by Purcell, which was also played at his own funeral a year later. The Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream ended with the traditional Wedding March by Mendelsson. The concert ended with two Spirituals which had been arranged by Stephen Pocklington and the finale was Handel's Worthy is the Lamb.
This all happened in our little part of Norfolk, in our Parish church, complete with fantastic flowers and lovely people - if you weren't there you missed a real treat. Click Festival Concert for pictures
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