2020 MASJ LUNCHTIME CONCERTS
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RECORDED LUNCHTIME CONCERTS
Normally held at St John’s Church, Station Road, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JY Summer 2020 series As a church, St John’s Boxmoor has a long established music tradition, with a choir of high standard. Since the closure of the ‘Pavilion’ in Hemel Hempstead, the church has become a popular venue for several local choirs including The Aeolian Singers and The Dacorum Community Choir. Other choirs and orchestras from the Dacorum area also use our wonderful facilities. LUNCHTIME CONCERTS offers a wide variety of ‘musical fare’ and we do hope that you will support as many of these events as you possibly can to continue the music tradition at St Johns. Newly recorded concerts will be made available each Friday at 12:30 pm. Access is through the links provided in the programme list below:
Other musicians, who were to have performed live for us in the Spring/Summer series, include:
We hope that they will be able to make recordings for our next series in the Autumn (if we are not able to hold live concerts by then). Check this website for further information. Access to the recordings is free but we hope that listeners will be inspired to make a donation. The suggested minimum donation is £3 per concert. You can do this by visiting our "JustGiving" page – just click the link below: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/MaSJ-Recorded-Concerts Net proceeds from all of the Friday lunchtime concerts and recordings will be used to support the charitable aims of Music at St John’s: promoting music in the church and the local community, including provision of bursaries for local young musicians. (see www.masj.org.uk for details) If not already on our mailing list, please give us your email address so that we can keep you informed – email it to us on masj@stjohnsboxmoor.org.uk
For more information contact: Paul Davies on: 07802 442908 or email: masj@stjohnsboxmoor.org.uk |
Friday 7th August 2020
Keith Beniston - Organ
A recital of Light Classical Music
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This concert is the seventh and last to be recorded in the present series.
The next series of Music at St John’s Friday Lunchtime Concerts will commence on 18th September 2020.
Title |
Composer |
Trumpet Voluntary |
Jeremiah Clarke (1674 – 1707) |
The Last Spring Op. 33 No.2 |
Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907) |
Sarabande (from Holberg Suite) Op. 40 No.2 |
Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907) |
Chanson de Matin Op. 15 No. 2 |
Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934) |
Andante Cantabile |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) arr. WS Lloyd Webber (1914 to 1982) |
Nocturne (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Op.21 |
Mendelssohn (1809 to 1847) |
Elizabethan Serenade |
Ronal Binge (1910 – 1979). arr. WS Lloyd Webber |
Extemporisation on “Hyfrydol” |
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“Smoke gets in your eyes” |
Jerome Kern (1885 – 1945) |
Alla Danza (from The Water Music Suite No 1) |
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) |
The performer
Keith Beniston - Organ
Keith Beniston has been Director of Music at St John’s since 2018. His career has embraced school and college teaching, examining, adjudicating, conducting and playing the organ. For over twenty years he was Director of Music at Central Hall Westminster, and he was for eight years Chief Examiner in Music at Trinity College London. Keith remains as an examiner for ABRSM.
All but one of today’s musically accessible pieces are transcriptions or music not originally written for organ. The exception is the extemporisation on “Hyfrydol”.
The aerial view of St John’s Church was filmed using a drone by Oliver Webby.
Keith Beniston - Organ
Keith Beniston has been Director of Music at St John’s since 2018. His career has embraced school and college teaching, examining, adjudicating, conducting and playing the organ. For over twenty years he was Director of Music at Central Hall Westminster, and he was for eight years Chief Examiner in Music at Trinity College London. Keith remains as an examiner for ABRSM.
All but one of today’s musically accessible pieces are transcriptions or music not originally written for organ. The exception is the extemporisation on “Hyfrydol”.
The aerial view of St John’s Church was filmed using a drone by Oliver Webby.
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LUNCHTIME CONCERTS at St John's - Admission by donation (suggested minimum £3). Net proceeds from these Friday lunchtime concerts will be used to support the charitable aims of Music at St John’s: promoting music in the church and the local community, including provision of bursaries for local young musicians. Please ensure that mobile phones are silenced during the concert. The induction loop (setting “T”) will be used for programme and announcements. Applause is welcomed.
Lunches are available in the church hall after the concert (suggested minimum donation £2).
Please obtain lunch tickets before the concert starts, so that the correct number of plates can be prepared, and hand in tickets when collecting your lunch.
Lunches are available in the church hall after the concert (suggested minimum donation £2).
Please obtain lunch tickets before the concert starts, so that the correct number of plates can be prepared, and hand in tickets when collecting your lunch.