2011 Lichfield Festival Guide

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Welcome

From the Festival Director

From our Principal Partner From a Festival FounderWhen I left the BBC to become Dean of Lichfield in 1980 I longed to bring to the city some of the world-class artistic culture that London offered. My particular wish was to start a music festival and it was when I met Gordon Clark, concert-master extraordinaire at Abbotsholme School that I knew

we could together realise the dream. Then, as now, finding financial backing was a huge challenge but many a wonderful friendship was made and many a skilled, willing helper discovered that way too.

At 83 I am still excited when I see the latest festival brochure arrive full of new talent and fresh ideas and I marvel at the variety of events offered today. What a testament it is to the energy, generosity and vision of all those who have followed us.

The Very Reverend John Lang Former Dean of Lichfield

For 30 years The Lichfield Festival has delighted audiences with an international programme celebrating the vision of our founders, John Lang and Gordon Clark, to enrich the life of the city with art of the highest quality.

This year we present a more diverse programme than ever

and our focus is on fun. We remain committed to commissioning new work, to supporting rising talent, and to education and creative development in the widest possible sense, not only in schools but with community groups and individuals of all ages. Most of all we remain committed to a programme with artistic integrity and excellence at its heart.

Amongst our birthday treats is a sculpture by the wonderful artist Maggi Hambling, a recording of Radio 4’s Just a Minute, a new outdoor cinema, a birthday party in the Cathedral Close and 30 fibreglass pigs all around the city. The film producer Lord Puttnam will join us for the inaugural Lichfield Lecture and we also welcome Michael Morpurgo and Sir Willard White. The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has written a

On behalf of all the Festival team, welcome to the 30th Lichfield Festival.

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We are pleased to be continuing our partnership with The Lichfield Festival, especially in this special 30th anniversary year. This will be the eighth consecutive year we have supported the Festival, and we are proud to have developed and sustained a long-term partnership,

enabling arts and culture within our region.

2011 is an anniversary year for BMW Plant Hams Hall too – we are celebrating 10 successful years of engine production. Employing around 800 people, we are producing engines for both the BMW and MINI brands, and last year was a record year of production for us.

We are delighted, once again, to be your Principal Partner.

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poem for the city and this will form the text for The Lichfield Banner, a large piece of public art designed by local people working with the artist Stephen Raw.

We open our programme with a live Choral Evensong broadcast on Radio 3 from Lichfield Cathedral, the beautiful building in which our festival began. Over the following ten days our main stage here will host three orchestras, a jazz orchestra and an exceptional line-up of chamber groups and international soloists, including James Rhodes, Joanna MacGregor and Jacqui Dankworth. Across the city our Garrick programme includes Ballet Black, Salsa Celtica, Gwilym Simcock and the truly wonderful Zic Zazou. If you’re looking for something a little more zany then try the Garrick Studio where comedy, mime and general mayhem are the order of the day.

Our 30th programme includes more free and low-cost events than ever before and gives you the chance to explore your own creativity too. So on behalf of all the festival team I invite you, your family and friends to help us celebrate our birthday in style. I look forward to seeing you in July.

Fiona Stuart Festival Director

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Trusts & Foundations

The Bernarr Rainbow TrustThe Coutts Charitable TrustThe Edward & Dorothy Cadbury TrustThe J S F Polllitzer Charitable TrustLichfield Conduit Lands Charitable TrustThe Owen Family TrustThe Strasser FoundationThe W A Cadbury Charitable TrustThe W E D Charitable TrustThe Workman Trust

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Funders

Lichfield City Council

Lichfield Festival gratefully acknowledges the generous support of many other anonymous donors.

Sponsors and supporters

Support the FestivalFor information about Corporate Sponsorship or the Lichfield Festival Association, contact the Development Manager on 01543 306272 or email [email protected] or [email protected]. You can download a sponsorship pack and/or a Lichfield Festival Association leaflet from our website – www.lichfieldfestival.org

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Benefactors

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The BMW engine plant at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire produces four-cylinder petrol engines for both BMW and MINI. More than two million engines have been built at Hams Hall since the plant was launched in 2001. Located in a region famous for its engineering heritage, the state-of-the-art factory employs 800 people from across the West Midlands.

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The Lichfield Pig Parade7-16 July | Various locations

Can you spot them all? 30 large pigs, decorated by members of the local community, will be appearing in locations across Lichfield during the Festival. Pick up your copy of the Pig Parade Trail Map from the Festival Office or download it from www.lichfieldfestival.org.

Pig on the LooseFind Trevor, the Festival Pig. He will appear in a new location every day. Be the first to spot him and report back to the Festival Team to win 2 tickets to a festival event. Report your sightings to [email protected].

Pig AuctionSunday 17 July | 1pm | Cathedral Close

Here is your chance to take home a piece of Festival history. The Festival Pigs are all to be sent to auction and need new homes. Charles Hanson from Derbyshire-based Hansons Auctioneers and BBC TV’s Bargain Hunt will be the man with the gavel. Please be prepared to take your Pig home on the day.

Pig Tales7, 8, 12 July | 9:30am, 10:30am Erasmus Darwin House Gardens | 60mins £3 | 2– 6 years

Farmer Bill is very forgetful! He forgot to close the gate of the pigsty and now all of his pigs have escaped. He has to find them before they cause too much damage – Can you help? Join in the search for Farmer Bill’s Pigs and discover the designs, patterns and colours of the Lichfield Pig Parade. School bookings welcome. Places limited. To book contact [email protected] or call 01543 306270.

Grisly Tales from TumblewaterMonday 11 July | 11am | Lichfield Garrick | 60mins Schools performance | £5 adult, £3 child To book contact [email protected] or call 01543 306270

Tumblewater is a town where the rain never stops and where the evil landord holds the people in an iron grip. Young Daniel Dorey has a challenge on his hands. Dickens meets Shock Headed Peter in this show for ages 9+.

OrbitalWednesday 13 July | 1.30pm | Cathedral Close and City locations | Free

NASA 2011: As the Space Shuttle returns from its final mission, scientists are surprised to find it carries an unearthly cargo.

Lichfield 2011: Nothing is as it seems. A group of creatures from another planet arrive to explore the earth, bringing with them music and movement through which to explore the city’s architecture, streets and parks. Join them as they discover a brand new world in this unique promenade production.

This performance has been devised and performed by local Primary and Secondary School students.

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Lichfield Festival Young Poet Laureate CompetitionSubmit your entries now for a chance to become Lichfield Festival Poet Laureate 2011. This year young writers aged 16 and under are asked to write a poem entitled A Window on the City. The entries will be judged by current Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the winner announced during the Festival. Download entry details from www.lichfieldfestival.org

Junior Journalists7, 8, 12 July | 12:30pm, 2pm Erasmus Darwin House Gardens | 60mins £3 | 7–12 years | To book contact 01543 306270

Join a news team, gather your evidence, write your reports and record your news bulletin, but don’t miss your deadline! Budding young journalists are invited to create their own news topics of the day through creative writing, role play and media skills. Ideal for schools. Places limited.

Learn to CrochetThursday 7 July | 5pm – 7pm Lichfield Guildhall | 120mins £5 | 10 years + | Booking reference 7A

Join knitwear designer Amy Twigger-Holroyd and learm the basics of knitting and crocheting. Amy is Artist in Residence at BMW Plant Hams Hall this year.

Sing the Great American SongbookFriday 8 July | 5pm – 7pm Lichfield Guildhall | 120mins £5 | Booking reference 8D

Get the weekend started with a sing-along to some of the world’s greatest songwriters and lyricists. No experience of singing necessary. These workshops are always popular so please book in advance.

Scotty’s Circus WorkshopSaturday 9 July | 10am – 4pm Lichfield Festival Market, Cathedral Close | Free

Learn to juggle, walk on stilts and throw Diablo at this drop-in workshop.

Little Explorers: Jungle Sing and PlayMonday 11 July | 10am & 11:30am Lichfield Guildhall | 60mins £5 | 0–3 years | Booking reference 11A & 11C

Little Explorers are invited to join our jungle search through songs, stories and games. Discover the animals who live in the jungle, put together our Giant Jigsaw Puzzle and have your face painted like your favourite jungle character.

The Giant Jungle Jigsaw has been designed and created by art students at South Staffordshire University to commemorate the works of Rudyard Kipling.

Song-writing Workshop Monday 11 July | 5pm | Lichfield Guildhall | 120mins £5 | Booking reference 11E

Songwriter Mark Vallance takes you through the techniques of composition and lyric-writing. Join us to turn that melody you always make up in your head into a chart-topping hit.

Dancing in the Streets WorkshopWednesday 13 July | 5pm | Lichfield Guildhall | 120mins £5 | Booking reference 13D

Street Dance artist Emma Pash looks at choreographing routines inspired by the world around us. This follows the Orbital performance by local students in the afternoon (See Page 6).

Play in a Day WorkshopSaturday 16 July | 2pm | Lichfield Guildhall | 210mins £5 | 8 –14 years | Booking reference 16A

Can you create a play in just a few hours, then perform it to an audience? Experienced actors and complete beginners are invited to take up the challenge, creating pieces of theatre from well-known stories. Places limited.

Lichfield Festival Chorus – See pg 15Now in its fourth year, the Festival Chorus is developing a fine reputation as a community choir. Tenors and Basses are especially sought. Contact [email protected] or call 01543 306270 for details.

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Visual Arts

Thursday 7 – Sunday 17 July Lichfield Cathedral Chapter House

Alison McGillAlison McGill looks to the landscape for inspiration for her paintings. The scope of her interest in this subject stems from observations of her surrounding Scottish landscape, but she also looks to aerial photography and geological images to take a different perspective of the land. While she enjoys looking to the more conventional landscape for initial inspiration, her work is not strictly topographical and so allows the viewer to see their own landscape within her work. The ambiguity of the natural world is portrayed in her paintings as she abstracts certain elements and allows her medium of oil paint and paraffin wax to lead her – creating tactile surfaces and unexpected effects and textures.

Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1998, Alison has worked in Wasps Studios in Edinburgh and has work in private and public collections throughout the UK and as far afield as the USA and Australia.

The selection of work she will be exhibiting in Lichfield depicts land and seascapes throughout the seasons.

Thursday 7 – Sunday 17 July Lichfield Cathedral North Choir Aisle

Jack LloydJack Lloyd is a landscape photographer based in the north west of England. He has been taking photographs for over ten years and for the past five of those he has been creating Photo-Graphic Collages. He regularly displays and exhibits his unique work at his gallery in Manchester.

Jack explains: “Although I digitally manipulate my photos I keep true to the subject and only use the contents of the photos I have taken to create the collages rather than introducing any personal ‘illustration’. The shapes, patterns, textures, tones and writings are all captured within the area that each collage is portraying to create a picture that I and hopefully others will find pleasing.”

For this collection Jack will be taking his inspiration from Lichfield.Commissioned by The Lichfield Festival

The Lichfield Festival is delighted to have on loan Wave Tunnel by the contemporary artist Maggi Hambling CBE.

The artist’s obsession with the sea manifests itself in painting, sculpture and print making. One of her iconic and most controversial works is Scallop (2003), the sculpture on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, dedicated to Benjamin Britten.

“The North Sea, often like a raging beast, eats away and is changing our coast forever. Terrifying, beautiful, rapacious, embracing, never still, always hungry, always seducing, always there.

“As a child, I would walk a short way into the sea, stand still and talk to it, ten-to-a-dozen. Now I listen and identify with the shingle, as the sea, like time, forces inevitable erosion.

“People and animals emerge from the subconscious as I work and are there to be discovered. The power,


energy and action of this ‘raging beast’ is still my subject.”

Wave Tunnel is one of a collection of works in bronze begun in 2009, developing Hambling’s celebrated series of North Sea paintings dating from 2002. The grandeur of the Cathedral and the intimacy of the Vestibule resonate in this work, providing a source of contemplation and confrontation with the mystery and power of this sculpture.

As part of this exhibition, we will be showing the short film, Scallop, in which Maggi Hambling talks about her creative process and the inspiration behind her monument to Benjamin Britten and his music. Director Adam Low. Filmed and Produced by Martin Rosenbaum.

Maggi Hambling’s new book, The Aldeburgh Scallop, will also be on sale during the Festival.

Thursday 7 – Sunday 17 JulyLichfield Cathedral Vestibule

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Visual Arts

Thursday 7 – Sunday 17 July Lichfield Cathedral

Peter WalkerPeter Walker is engaged in the development of public artwork around the country. His work is widely collected both nationally and internationally. He has produced a number of significant public artworks around the UK and in 2010 produced the first new public sculpture in Lichfield for over 50 years; the Formation of Poetry can be seen permanently on Greenhill Mews. He is currently working on two further statues for the area including a statue of Erasmus Darwin which it is hoped will be unveiled in 2012.

This exhibition represents part of a collection of artworks, which are to be shown in Munich, Germany later in the year. The works shown are developed in Corten Steel and Bronze.

Peter Walker is chairman of the Foundation for the Arts in Lichfield and District, to help bring new investment in the arts to the area and to help develop it into a leading national arts destination. Woodhouse Community Farm, Fisherwick

Maria Mallendar The NestMaria Mallendar’s architectural sculpture The Nest is the winner of the Art Den 2010, jointly commissioned by Tesco and The Lichfield Festival. Maria based her work on research into the origins of Lichfield and the meaning of its name. It is a work in progress that will grow and develop.

Monday 11 – Sunday 17 July Lichfield Cathedral South Transept

Amy Twigger-Holroyd The Knitted EngineLocal schoolchildren and staff from BMW Hams Hall are joining artist-in-residence Amy Twigger-Holroyd to create this collaborative piece exploring the hidden similarities between engineering and knitting. Traditional knitting and crochet techniques are used to construct a replica BMW engine – presented as a three-dimensional exploded diagram – in a clash of creative cultures.


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The Lichfield BannerCreated by over 300 members of the local community, the Lichfield Banner is the culmination of a project with renowned artist Stephen Raw, who exhibited his work at Lichfield Festival 2010. The giant art work draws on text from Carol Ann Duffy’s new poem for Lichfield which will be heard for the first time at a special evening of poetry and music in Lichfield Cathedral – see Page 28

The idea of “language made visible” lies at the heart of much of Stephen Raw’s work.

He writes: “Poetry on the page remains visually conservative and serious. But these conventions that

beguile poets do not interest me. Where typography stops, I begin. The question, continually addressed through my visual experiments, is what does happen to visible language when those typographic norms are dethroned or circumvented. Even when those strictures are only loosened, possibilities are there to be released. Reactions from readers to my attempts to add rather than detract from the original intention of the poet are of critical interest.”

Posters of The Lichfield Banner will be on sale at the Festival Office from 7 July onwards.

Stephen practices an art which is as old as the hills and yet makes seem brand new… it slows down language so that we can dwell on it, but also accelerates its passage into our heads and imaginations“ Sir Andrew Motion”

Stephen Raw and the people of Lichfield

For the 30th Lichfield Festival, Stephen has also created a limited edition print using text from Carol Ann Duffy’s special Lichfield poem. This will be on sale during the Festival and on display in Lichfield Cathedral.


Psycho (15)Wednesday 13 July | 9.30pm Chapters Garden | 110mins £6 | Booking reference | 13H

dir. Alfred Hitchcock (US 1960) Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

A true masterpiece from the master of suspense: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. See also The Tippett Quartet Page 28.

The Social Network (12a)Thursday 14 July | 9.30pm | Chapters Garden 120mins | £6 | Booking reference 14F

dir. David Fincher (US 2010) Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

On an autumn night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but success brings both personal and legal complications…

Brief Encounter (PG)Friday 15 July | 9.30pm | Chapters Garden 85mins | £6 | Booking reference 15G

dir. David Lean (UK, 1945) Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway

At a café at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although she is already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday at the small café, although they know that their love is impossible. See also Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Page 35.

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Casablanca (U)Friday 8 July | 9.30pm | Chapters Garden 102mins | £6 | Booking reference 8H

dir. Michael Curtiz (US 1942) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

One of the all-time classics, set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications…

The King’s Speech (12a)Saturday 9 July | 9.30pm | Chapters Garden 118mins | £6 | Booking reference 9I

dir. Tom Hooper (UK 2011) Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter

The smash-hit Oscar-laden story of the man who became King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

Chariots of Fire (U)Monday 11 July | 9.30pm | Chapters Garden 130mins | £6 Booking reference 11l

dir. Hugh Hudson (UK 1981) Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell

The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. See also The Lichfield Lecture Page 24.

Guide to certifications: U – Suitable for all; PG – Parental Guidance; 12a – Suitable for 12 years and over; 15 – Suitable for 15 years and over; 18 – Suitable for 18 years and over. For full details of classifications visit www.bbfc.co.uk

Limited seating available. Please bring rugs or chairs and come dressed for the weather (no umbrellas).

Films are back at the Lichfield Festival, and as a special 30th birthday treat, we are taking them outside! The beautiful setting of the garden at Chapters restaurant, backing onto Minster Pool, will play host to Lichfield’s first ever outdoor cinema.

By the darkening light on balmy summer evenings, settle down with a hot chocolate laced with rum, hot dogs, fish and chips and other snacks available from the restaurant itself, all served in true ‘cinema style’. Then enjoy six of the best films in Hollywood history, as chosen by the people of Lichfield in our film vote, from cinema’s golden age to the present day.

Film deal See 3 films and get the 4th one free.


For City Children, a charity that has enabled 70,000 children to visit the charity’s three farms over the last 35 years. In addition, Michael was the Children’s Laureate from 2003-2005, an award that he originally set up with Ted Hughes.

He says: “For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.”

Recently, he has received widespread acclaim and praise for his novel War Horse, which was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre and went on to be a critically celebrated, smash-hit production in the West End.

The Festival Big Read is held in partnership with Lichfield Library

From the beginning of July 200 copies of Michael Morpurgo’s An Elephant In The Garden will be available at the Festival Office and distributed around the city, free for you to pick up and read. Then, after the Festival is over, you can come to hear the author share his thoughts and answer questions at a special event on Saturday 23 July in the beautiful surroundings of Lichfield Cathedral.

Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK’s best-loved authors, whose legions of fans span all ages and backgrounds. Since he started writing over 30 years ago, he has published 120 books and sold 2.5 million copies in the UK alone. He has won countless awards and was recently awarded an OBE for services to Literature.

Michael and his wife Clare were both awarded MBEs in 1999 in recognition of their work in founding Farms

7.30pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 60mins £7 | Booking reference 23A

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An Elephant In The GardenMichael Morpurgo

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Wednesday 6 July

Festival Evensong

3.45pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 75mins | Free

Lloyd View me Lord, a work of thine Tomkins Third Service Stanford For Lo, I Raise Up Paul Spicer Fanfares for Chad

This special Festival Evensong will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and what better way to open our 30th programme than with a celebratory service in the beautiful building in which our Festival began. There are musical connections with both the Cathedral and the Festival: Richard Lloyd is a former chorister, and Paul Spicer is a former Festival Director.

There has been a choir at Lichfield Cathedral for many centuries whose primary role is to sing the daily round of services. The Choristers are educated at the

Lichfield Cathedral ChoirBen and Cathy Lamb directors of music Martyn Rawles organist

Cathedral School. The Gentlemen embrace a wide range of professions. In addition to their Cathedral duties, the Choir undertakes outside engagements, which have included concerts with Sir Simon Rattle and the CBSO, and a televised concert of Christmas music with Dame Kiri te Kanawa.

Congregation needs to be seated by 3.45pm for the live broadcast at 4 pm. The programme can be heard again on Sunday 10 July at 4 pm.

Lichfield Cathedral Services throughout the Festival Choral Evensong is sung each evening at 5.30pm and at 3.30pm Sundays. For full details of all the music you can hear at each service, go to www.lichfield-cathedral.org, click on Worship & Music, then on Music Lists.

7.30pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 120mins £35, £29, £24, £17, £10 | Booking reference 7B

Vaughan Williams The Wasps Overture Delius Summer Night on the River Elgar In The South Walton Belshazzar’s Feast

Birthdays and feasts are perfect partners, so we celebrate the 30th birthday of an English arts festival with one of the most popular and inspiring of English choral works.

Few works of music can match Belshazzar’s Feast, first performed 80 years ago, for vocal excitement and instrumental thrills - it possesses an almost physical power. In the first half we are treated to a trio of 20th Century English classics.

Sir Willard White sold out the Cathedral on his first visit to the Lichfield Festival in 2005. In the company of festival favourites the CBSO, conductor of the moment John Wilson, and with our own Lichfield Festival Chorus, this should be an evening to remember for the next 30 years.

Sir Willard White bass-baritoneJohn Wilson conductor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

30th Birthday Opening Concert

Willard White has so much presence he can eclipse an entire symphony orchestra and chorus with a mere twitch of an eyebrow”“

Thursday 7 July

8pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins | £10 | Booking reference 7C

Playwright Christopher Marlowe was the bad boy of the English Renaissance – street fighting man, atheist, mocker and spy. His mysterious murder in 1593 removed him abruptly from the London theatre scene leaving it wide open to rivals including Shakespeare. But did Kit Marlowe really die? Or did he escape an increasingly dangerous London to enjoy a more hedonistic lifestyle abroad? In Dark Angel, Marlowe tells the full story as only he can.Commissioned by The Lichfield Festival

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Friday 8 July

Endellion String Quartet

Peter King cathedral organ

3pm | St Michael’s Church | 120mins £15 | Booking reference 8C

Mozart String Quartet K387 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 Rosamunde Mendelssohn String Quartet Op44/3

Andrew Watkinson, Ralph de Souza violins Garfield Jackson viola David Waterman cello

The Endellion String Quartet played a Mozart quartet at the first Lichfield Festival, so it is fitting that they should return in our 30th birthday year to play another. With the addition of quartets by Schubert and Mendelssohn this is a celebration of core chamber music repertoire.

Supported by Peter & Mary Parsons

12noon | Lichfield Cathedral 60mins | £10 | Booking reference 8B

A former assistant organist at Lichfield Cathedral and a former student of Dame Gillian Weir, Peter King was appointed Director of Music at Bath Abbey in 1986. He was Assistant Chorus Director to the CBSO during all of Sir Simon Rattle’s reign as Musical Director and he still plays the organ with the orchestra.

Peter has recently recorded a 3 CD set of Liszt’s organ music and includes three Liszt pieces here – appropriate in this bicentenary year of the composer’s birth – together with works by Mendelssohn and Schumann.Supported by The Organ Donors

Ballet Black8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 100mins £15, £13 | Booking reference 8F

Celebrating their tenth year, Cassa Pancho’s award-winning company of black and Asian ballet dancers has gathered huge success and a substantial following over recent years. Presenting entirely new work from a range of dynamic choreographers, the company has worked with everyone from Richard Alston, Martin Lawrance, Liam Scarlett, Christopher Hampson, to Will Tuckett and many more.

For their debut at the Lichfield Festival, they will present a mixed bill of highlights from the past decade including the Company’s first narrative ballet, Orpheus created by Will Tuckett.Supported by Pauline Round

For unflagging energy and unstoppable spirit, Ballet Black is phenomenal “ Independent On Sunday

Author Talk:Peter Atkins: On Being10.30am | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 8A

Peter Atkins is the shining exception to the rule that scientists make poor writers. A Fellow at Oxford and a leading chemist, he

has won admiration for his precise, lucid, and yet rigorous explanations of science. Now he turns to the greatest – and most controversial – questions of human existence. Can the scientific method tell us anything of value about birth, death, the origin of reality – and its end?

Morning Coffee Deal: 11.30am – Coffee and a Danish for £2.50 in the ground floor lounge.Sponsored by The George Hotel



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Sundown Jazz: Tim Amann Xtet

Late Night Series: Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan & Ian Blake

9.30pm | George IV | 90mins | Free

Pianist and composer Tim Amann takes some precious time out from the Walsall Jazz Orchestra and Andy Hamilton’s Blue Notes to lead his own quintet, which has a new CD just released.

10pm | Cathedral Lady Chapel | 60mins £10 | Booking Reference 8I

A rare British appearance by multi-instrumentalist and musical explorer Andrew Cronshaw, joined by Tigran Aleksanyan, Armenian master of his country’s exquisitely soft-toned reed instrument, the duduk. For this Lichfield concert they’re joined by Cronshaw’s long-time musical co-conspirator and fellow multi-instrumentalist Ian Blake.

Their dramatic, spacious music is strongly rooted in the traditional music of the British Isles, Finland, Northern Iberia, Armenia and more.

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Hear the passionate melodies, wild harmonies and richly textured arrangements of these inspiring vocalists and you will know this is something new from Cuba – the most original vocal sound to come out of the country in a long time.

The Creole Choir’s Cuban name, Desandann, means literally ‘descendents.’ With the songs on their new album Tande-La, they tell the stories of their Haitian ancestors who were brought to Cuba to work in near slave conditions in the sugar and coffee plantations. Irresistible melodies are driven by richly textured harmonies and shifting Caribbean rhythms. Their mesmerising sound, jubilant dancing and deep spirit made them a big hit in this country at the Edinburgh Festival and London Jazz Festival. Now they are back.

Their debut album Tande-La is out now on Real World Records.

Nobody’s Perfect Productions presents:Dark Angel by Phil Preece8pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins £10 | Booking Reference 8G

Playwright Christopher Marlowe was the bad boy of the English Renaissance – street fighting man, atheist, mocker and spy. His mysterious murder in 1593 removed him abruptly from the London theatre scene leaving it wide open to rivals including Shakespeare. But did Kit Marlowe really die? In Dark Angel Marlowe tells the full story.

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Saturday 9 July

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Author Talk:Robert Hutchinson: Young Henry11am | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 9A

The popular historian shares with his listeners and readers a compelling vision of the splendours and tragedies of the royal court, presided over by the magnificent and ruthless monarch, Henry VIII.

Morning Coffee Deal: 10.15am – Coffee and a Danish for £2.50 in the ground floor lounge.

Young Artist Concert: Mariann Rumy12noon | St Chad’s Church | 60mins £10 | Booking reference 9B

Handel Passacaglia Godefroid Etude de concert Op.193 Bartók An Evening in the Village Mathias Improvisations Op.10 J. S. Bach Allemande/Bourrée, Lute Suite BWV 996 Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin Saint-Saëns Fantasie pour Harpe Op.95

After studying for five years at Hungary’s prestigious Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, this young harpist continued her musical education at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama under the tuition of Pippa Tunnell. A former recipient of Hungary’s Rohmann Henrik Harp Award, she has played as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral harpist in and around Hungary and Scotland.

10am – 4pm | Cathedral Close, Dam Street & Minster Walk | Free

In a celebration of the region’s creativity, arts and crafts people will be demonstrating their artistic skills, selling handmade goods, performing on one of our performance stages, running creative activities for visitors, and offering information on how they might get involved in arts activities.

MDCC Theatre Company presentsKing Lear2pm | Stowe House Gardens | 180mins £8 (£10 on the gate) | Booking Reference 9C

Old world patriarchs fall, as a new order of ruthless ambition rises in Shakespeare’s greatest and most complex play, King Lear. MDCC Theatre Company offers this “end of the world” tragedy as a contrast to its 50th anniversary companion As You Like It.Stowe House Gardens are used by kind permission of the Institute of Leadership and Management (no seating is provided so bring rugs and chairs).

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Author Talk:Josceline Dimbleby: Orchards In The Oasis

Author Talk:Roger Crowley: City of Fortune

2pm | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 9D

From Syria to Morocco, from North America to Burma and Laos, travel, food and memories of both are intimately interlinked for the celebrated food writer. Orchards In The Oasis is Josceline Dimbleby’s absorbing account of her lifelong love affair with food and flavourings.

Josceline has written 24 books and was food columnist for The Sunday Telegraph for over 15 years.

Afternoon Tea Deal: 3pm – Tea and homemade cake for £2.50 in the downstairs lounge.Sponsored by The George Hotel

3.45pm | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 9E

A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean; an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusades, sea battles, trade, plague and colonial adventure. Roger

Crowley read English at Cambridge and his book Empires of the Sea was chosen as the ‘Sunday Times History Book of the Year’ in 2008. “This is narrative history at its most gripping” Sunday Telegraph.

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7.30pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 120mins £25, £21, £17, £13, £10 | Booking Reference 9F

Bach & Shostakovich Five Preludes and Fugues: Bach C major BWV846, Shostakovich C major, Bach C minor BWV846, Shostakovich E flat major, Shostakovich D flat major Chopin Five Mazurkas: Op.6 No.1 in F sharp minor, Op.17 No.2 in E minor, Op.59 No.2 in A flat major, Op.30 No.3 in D flat major, Op.50 No.3 in C sharp minor Barber Excursions Op 20. Piazzolla arr MacGregor Six Tangos

Joanna MacGregor’s first Lichfield Festival solo recital is a wonderfully wide-ranging programme of glorious piano music spanning over three centuries.

One of the most innovative musicians in the world, committed to expressing musical connections across increasingly diverse and original concert programmes, Joanna has been the artistic director of the Bath International Music Festival since 2006, and takes up the post of Head of Keyboard at the Royal Academy of Music later this year.

She has performed in over 60 countries with many of the world’s leading orchestras and has premiered many landmark compositions.

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Saturday 9 July

Zic Zazou The tunes are ace, the techniques ingenious and often wonderfully

off-the-wall, and their skill as musicians alone is superhuman

Cirque de Legume

8pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins | £10 | Booking reference 9H

Enjoy an hour of pure mayhem as two idiots put on the greatest vegetable circus on Earth. Marvel at the Veget-animal! Gape at the Magical Carrot! Fantasise over the Onion Strip Tease! In these acts and more the award-winning “circus” shows us how beautiful life can be if we only stop to play with it.

Repeated on Sunday 10 July

Sundown Funk with Fat Digester9.30pm | George IV, Bore 90mins | Free entry

Dynamic, energetic, engaging and definitely not for the faint hearted, Nottingham-based Fat Digester fuse fun and social comment in a blend of jazz, funk and hip-hop. Presented by George IV.

“ Jacques Tati meets Tommy Cooper… at the greengrocers!” The Edinburgh Fringe Review

8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 80mins £16, £14 | Booking reference 9G

These musical labourers dress in overalls and put their noses to the grindstone in their new show Brocante Sonore, pounding out their crazy music to the rhythmical backdrop of a ticking clock.

Zic Zazou explore the potential of spray hoses, drills and bottles of vin rouge as musical instruments. Whistles, firebox cleaning tools, punches, nothing escapes their collective creative imagination. In the process they tease beauty out of the mundane and create a sense of the exotic and magical.

All the band members hail from Amiens, in Northern France, and they have played hundreds of gigs in France and around the globe.

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Sunday 10 July

Author Talk:Lucy Worsley: If Walls Could Talk

Author Talk:Giles Tremlett: Catherine of Aragon

2pm | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 10C

Lucy takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, covering the architectural history of each room, but also concentrating on what people actually did in these rooms. Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? All will be revealed.

Lucy is the Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, including Hampton Court and the Tower of London, as well as a leading young historian. She recently presented a four-part BBC series based on this book.

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3.30pm | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 10D

This major new biography is the first in more than four decades to be dedicated entirely and uniquely to the tenacious Catherine of Aragon. Drawing on fresh material from Spain, Giles Tremlett traces the dramatic events of her life as though through her own eyes and offers new insight into her turbulent world.

Giles Tremlett is the Guardian Madrid correspondent. He has lived in and written extensively about Spain for over 20 years and is the author of the bestselling book Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country’s Hidden Past. Catherine of Aragon was ‘Book of the Week’ on BBC Radio 4 upon original publication.


MDCC Theatre Company presentsAs You Like It

Teasel Theatre presentsGrisly Tales from Tumblewater 2pm | Stowe House Gardens | 180mins

£8 (£10 on the gate) | Booking Reference 10B

Full of all the comedy, confusion and cross-dressing you could want, MDCC presents this play to celebrate its 50th Anniversary of outdoor Shakespeare. Bring a picnic and some friends and enjoy one of the Bard’s best-loved and most accessible plays in

the beautiful setting of the Great British outdoors.Stowe House Gardens are used by kind permission of the Institute of Leadership and Management (no seating is provided so bring rugs and chairs).

2pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins £7 | Booking Reference 10A

Tumblewater is a town where the rain never stops and where the evil landlord, Caspian Prye, holds people in an iron grip. Enter Daniel Dorey, a young orphan determined to make a gentleman of himself. He soon finds himself on the run from the corrupt police force and learns that he has a destiny to fulfill in

Tumblewater that will change his life, and the town, forever. He also discovers new friends with a passion for story-telling that thrills and terrifies in equal measure. Dickens meets Shock Headed Peter in this show recommended for all ages from 9+Supported by The Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton





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Cirque de Legume8pm | Garrick Studio £10 | Booking reference 10G

Enjoy an hour of pure mayhem as two idiots put on the greatest vegetable circus on Earth. Marvel at the Veget-animal! Gape at the Magical Carrot! Fantasise over the Onion Strip Tease! In these acts and more the award-winning “circus” shows us how beautiful life can be if we only stop to play with it.

8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 80mins | £16, £14 | Booking reference10F

Where we look for house or garden tools, Zic Zazou shop for musical instruments. They tease beauty out of the mundane and create a sense of the exotic and magical.

All the band members hail from Amiens, in Northern France, and they have played hundreds of gigs in France and around the globe.

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Endellion String Quartet with Wendy Cope6.30pm | Cathedral Lady Chapel | 110mins £18 | Booking Reference 10E

Haydn String Quartet Op.33/3 “The Bird” Panufnik The Audience (with poetry by Wendy Cope) Dvorák String Quartet Op.105

Andrew Watkinson, Ralph de Souza violins Garfield Jackson viola David Waterman cello Wendy Cope poet

Two favourite quartets from the Endellions’ repertoire bookend a special piece commissioned by the quartet in their 30th anniversary year. Roxana Panufnik’s music and Wendy Cope’s poetry paint witty pictures of us, the concert audience.

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Monday 11 July

Young Artist Concert: Alexandra Dariescu

The Lichfield Lecture: Lord Puttnam

1pm | Cathedral Lady Chapel | 60mins £10 | Booking Reference 11D

Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op.31 No.3 Liszt Ballade No.2 in B minor Liszt/Wagner Liebestod Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in G, Op.22

Alexandra Dariescu is an outstanding pianist, hugely popular with audiences.

She has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the City of London, Bath and Ribble Valley Festivals.

Born in Romania, Alexandra graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music where she won all the major prizes, including the Chopin Prize.

7pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 90mins £12 unreserved | Booking Reference11F

The power of oratory has played a role in Lichfield’s past from the sermons given down the centuries in its Cathedral to the utterances of its famous sons David Garrick, Samuel Johnson and Erasmus Darwin. In the first of what will become an annual event in the British arts calendar, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate speaks on an arts-related topic of his choosing.

David Puttnam spent 30 years as an independent film producer, his many award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express and Bugsy Malone.

He retired from film production in 1998 and now focuses on his work in education and the environment. He is Chancellor of the Open University and was founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

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Author Talk:Tracy Borman Elizabeth’s Women11.30am | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 11B

Subtitled The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen, this book explores all of the most important women in Elizabeth’s life: from her bewitching mother, Anne Boleyn, to her dangerously obsessive sister, Mary Tudor, and from the rivals to her throne such as Mary, Queen of Scots and the sisters of Lady Jane Grey. It is through

their eyes that the real Elizabeth, stripped of her carefully cultivated image, is revealed.Sponsored by The George Hotel

to the House of Lords in 1997.

After the lecture, Lord Puttnam will be in conversation with Sue Beardsmore and there will be an opportunity for questions.


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Outdoor cinema Tonight’s film is Chariots Of Fire. See Page 12


Crooked Fiddle Band Late Night Series: Brass Jaw8pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins

£10 | Booking Reference 11H

These Australian chainsaw-folk vigilantes deliver high-energy future-folk. Intertwining folk traditions with modern evolutions, the Sydney-based acoustic four-piece (double-bass, violin,

drums and guitar/bouzouki) spurs dance floors into pre-apocalyptic hoedowns. In 2010 they toured the UK and Ireland, delivering 28 shows that included Shambala Festival, Trowbridge Village Pump Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Brian Eno selected the band for his Luminous Festival at the Sydney Opera House.

www.crookedfiddleband.com

10pm | Cathedral Lady Chapel | 80mins £10 | Booking reference 11J

Working without a traditional rhythm section, Brass Jaw creates a performance that is unique in sound and direction, revealing a group that is able to adapt to almost any performance environment. Brass Jaw’s concerts are characterised by the band’s trademark momentum, drive and charisma, in a set that strongly embraces the jazz tradition whilst reaching out

into the unknown. Brass Jaw released its latest CD, Branded, at the end of 2010.

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8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 120mins £16, £14 | Booking reference 11G

As part of their 25th anniversary celebrations, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding reprise their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks. They could hardly turn down this opportunity to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rained-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner.

Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at the lives and works of the Bronte sisters – well, two of them actually, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, Maggie and Sue move effortlessly from frock to frock coat.

Withering Looks won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award and the Critics Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.

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Cancel all other engagements for the glorious LipService”“ The Independent

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Tuesday 12 July

Young Artist Concert: Morgan Szymanski 12noon | Cathedral Lady Chapel | 60mins £10 | Booking reference12B

Described by Classical Guitar magazine as “a player destined for future glories” and selected as “one to watch” by Gramophone magazine, Morgan Szymanski is already causing a stir.

Born in Mexico City, he has been playing guitar since he was six, has studied in Mexico, at Edinburgh Music School and

at the Royal College of Music where he was the first guitarist to be offered a junior fellowship.

For today’s programme he has chosen music from Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Italy as well as The Unicorn In the Garden, written specially for him by a Lichfield Festival favourite, Alec Roth.

7.30pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 120mins £25, £21, £17, £13, £10 | Booking reference12C

Christopher Monks Musical Director Anna Tolputt DirectorKit Hesketh Harvey Text

It is Venice 1638 and the people are hungry for entertainment. Opera is in its infancy but its creator, Monteverdi, is approaching old age with fury and trepidation, his hankering for a prosperous retirement thwarted by dogmatic clergy, the inquisition, an overactive imagination, a prodigal son and his own crippling writer’s block.

In this highly entertaining tale of Monteverdi’s final years of life, intertwined with the most remarkable music from his three operas, Monteverdi’s Flying Circus delves into the psyche of this all-too-human yet extraordinary composer as he confronts his demons to create some of the most divine music ever written.

Author Talk:Peter Snow To War With Wellington

Monteverdi’s Flying CircusArmonico Consort

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10.30am | George Hotel | 60mins £7 | Booking Reference 12A

Peter Snow needs little introduction, from his days showing us the election Swingometer, and his long stint on BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight. His latest book takes his readers From The Peninsula To Waterloo with an accurate account of the lives that the

Duke and his men led, based on painstaking research through the diaries and journals of the times.

Andrew Robert nominated it as a Book Of The Year in The Sunday Telegraph: “A superb account of what it must have been like serving under Britain’s greatest – but also most exacting – soldier.”

Morning Coffee Deal: 11.30am – coffee and a Danish for £2.50 in the downstairs lounge.

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Crooked Fiddle Band8pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins | £10 | Booking reference 12E

These Australian chainsaw-folk vigilantes deliver high-energy future-folk. Intertwining folk traditions with modern evolutions, the Sydney-based acoustic four-piece (double-bass, violin, drums and guitar/bouzouki) spurs dance floors

into pre-apocalyptic hoedowns. In 2010 they toured the UK and Ireland, delivering 28 shows that included Shambala Festival, Trowbridge Village Pump Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. Brian Eno selected the band for his Luminous Festival at the Sydney Opera House.

The band recorded their third studio album in Chicago with Steve Albini who has gained notoriety for his work with Nirvana, The Pixies and Gogol Bordello. www.crookedfiddleband.com

Sundown Jazz: Charlotte Glasson Band9.30pm | George IV, St Bore 90mins | Free entry

Charlotte plays saxophone, flute, violin, pennywhistles and the saw! Her band won Best Newcomer award at the 2009 Marlborough Jazz Festival and has released three CDs. The set list is mainly original and inspired by Latin, ska, gypsy jazz and African music.

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Penguin Cafe8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 110mins £16, £14 | Booking reference 12D

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was the brainchild of classical guitarist, composer and all-round English eccentric Simon Jeffes. Over 24 years until Jeffes’ death in 1997, it recorded eight albums, toured extensively and made music which has ended up in mobile phone adverts, on film soundtracks and as ballet music.

In 2009 Jeffes’ son, Arthur, formed a new band to play his father’s music and extend the life of the Penguin Cafe concept. It is music of indefinable charm, as influenced by the 20th century minimalism of Philip Glass as by gentle folk tunes and sea shanties of past centuries.

Music For A Found Harmonium and Telephone And Rubber Band are just two tunes that reflect their titles more literally than you might imagine.

One critic wrote of this new Penguin Cafe band: “The music moves beyond tribute in its fusion of a peculiar sense of Englishness with magpie plundering of mostly rhythmic detail from other musical cultures, be they South American, West African, Celtic or Americana.”

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” The music of one of Britain’s most jauntily eccentric bands is back on stage“

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Wednesday 13 July

7pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 90mins | £15 | Booking Reference 13E

An evening of poetry from the Poet Laureate and the National Poet of Wales, interspersed with musical interludes, will culminate with the first reading of Carol Ann Duffy’s specially commissioned poem for Lichfield and the unveiling of The Lichfield Banner – see Page 11.

Carol Ann Duffy A Poem For The CityWith Gillian Clarke & John Sampson

Morning Talk: Two Centuries Of Sound Recording

The Tippett Quartet

10am | Lichfield Garrick | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 13A

Tony Wass, a former BBC senior sound supervisor with 33 years of experience in the recording and broadcast industry, looks at – and listens to – how the capturing of sound has developed over the last 200 years.

Presented in association with the Lichfield Science & Engineering Society

3pm | Swinfen Hall Hotel | 110mins | £15 | Booking Reference 13C

Rózsa String Quartet No.2 Op.38 Herrmann Echoes for string quartet Piazzolla Four For Tango Herrmann Psycho Suite for String Quartet Korngold String Quartet No.3 Op.34

This innovative programme from the adventurous young British quartet highlights the work of American-born film composer Bernard Herrmann, together with linked composers. Rózsa, like Herrmann, was closely associated with Alfred Hitchcock and MGM Studios. Piazzolla was also a fan of Herrmann’s music, paying homage in Four For Tango by imitating the violin effects from the famous shower scene in Psycho (screening at our Outdoor cinema tonight), while Korngold is typical of the film composers who used the Viennese post-romantic musical language.

Special pre-concert lunch 2-courses £16 or 3 courses £22. Full afternoon tea after the concert £13.95. Pre-booking essential, please ring Swinfen Hall Hotel on 01543 481494Young Artist Concert:

Bartholomew LaFollette

12noon | St Chad’s Church 60mins | £10 Booking Reference 13B

Bach Cello Suites No.1 in G, BWV1007 & No.5 in C minor, BWV1011

Bartholomew LaFollette plays two of Bach’s most loved masterpieces.

LaFollette studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating in 2008, where he is currently a Fellow. This season Bartholomew gives the premiere of George Lloyd’s Concerto and records his debut disc.

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The Boy With Tape On His Face8pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins £10 | Booking Reference 13G

Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking – drama with no acting. This show speaks for itself. Combine the childlike absurdity of Vic Reeves with the deft,

physical intonation of Hugh Laurie and the genius of Charlie Chaplin and you have Sam Wills: The Boy with Tape on His Face.

This completely original one-man show from New Zealand is attracting attention across the globe and was a big hit at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Salsa Celtica’s synthesis of Scottish and Irish traditional music with all the Latin American elements of salsa has taken them all over the world. In the last 15 years the group has been a hit equally at major Celtic, jazz, world music and salsa festivals. Their albums have topped the New York and L.A. salsa charts and European world music charts.

8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 110mins £16, £14 | Booking Reference 13F

Salsa Celtica

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James Rhodes piano9.30pm | Cathedral Lady Chapel | 80mins | £15 | Booking Reference 13I

Chopin arr Balakirev Romanza from Piano Concerto No.1 Beethoven Sonata No.21 in C Op.53 Waldstein Bach arr Busoni Chaconne from Partita in D minor

James Rhodes is a classical pianist with a rock-star attitude. He makes it his mission to seek out new audiences for classical music through his choice of venues and performance style. In 2009 he was the first-ever classical soloist to perform at the Roundhouse in Camden and since then has performed in many non-traditional classical music houses In March 2010, he became the first classical pianist to be signed to the predominantly rock-music label Warner Bros. His first album with Warner, Bullets and Lullabies, was released in December 2010 and went straight to No 1 on iTunes’ classical download chart.

Their line-up combines some of Ireland and Scotland’s most exciting traditional musicians together with a stellar group of world, jazz and salsa musicians from the U.K. and Latin America.

”Stunning marriage of musical styles“ The Scotsman

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Just A Minute7.30pm | Garrick Theatre | 120mins Entry is free. For information about tickets please see the Festival website from mid-May.

Four celebrity guests will speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation in this special Festival recording of two shows of the evergreen radio panel game. And you could be in the audience! Regular panelists include Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Sue Perkins and Gyles Brandreth.

Note: Entry is from 7.15pm but why not come for a drink in The Green Room from 6.30pm?

Thursday 14 July

Nicholas Parsons chairman

Young Artist Concert: James Baillieu1pm | Cathedral Lady Chapel | 60mins £10 | Booking Reference 14B

Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat, Hob.XVI.52 Schumann Abegg Variations, Op.1 Liszt Paganini Etudes Nos. 2 and 4 Schumann/Liszt Widmung and Fruhlingsnacht Gottschalk Grand Scherzo and Tournament Galop

Described by the Daily Telegraph as “in a class of his own”, pianist James Baillieu has chosen a typically exuberant programme of Romantic piano works.

James Baillieu is winner of the Wigmore Hall, Das Lied (in both 2009 & 2011), Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber Song Competitions. Born in South Africa, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, a scholar for the Samling Foundation and a YCAT Artist.

Author Talk:Annelise Freisenbruch: The First Ladies of Rome10.30am | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 14A

The author Robert Harris says: “What a great idea for a book this is - what a record of filial loathing, sexual scheming, parental neglect, suicide, fratricide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, incest and abuse... The result is a book both scholarly and racy... a book to be commended: one that restores to life some of the

toughest, most colourful, and most bizarre women who ever existed.”

Annelise Freisenbruch has a PhD in Classics from Newnham College, Cambridge. The First Ladies of Rome is her first book.Sponsored by The George Hotel


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Sundown Jazz: Sara Colman Band

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Sara sings Stealers Wheel, Joni Mitchell, Duke Ellington and her own compositions with equal panache, and she leads a band of fine supportive players.

Natalie Clein7.30pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 120mins £25, £21, £17, £13, £10 | Booking Reference14C

Holst St. Paul’s Suite Mozart Adagio for strings K.411 Haydn Cello Concerto in C Tchaikovsky Elegy in G Mozart Serenade in C minor K.406

A cello concerto from “the father of classical music” is the centrepiece of this concert of well-loved works.

Natalie Clein is one of the UK’s favourite cellists and also enjoys an established international career. She performs regularly with top orchestras, gives recitals in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and is an avid chamber music performer. Her exceptional musicality has earned her a number of prestigious prizes including BBC Young Musician Of The Year and a Classical Brit Award.The EUCO are always popular with Lichfield Festival audiences, and they will also be working with young musicians in Lichfield from 12-14 July.

European Union Chamber OrchestraHans-Peter Hofmann director

Intimate Theatre: The Turn Of The Screw7.45pm | The George Hotel 120mins | £8.50 Booking Reference 14D

The spooky Henry James novella adapted for the stage by Ken Whitmore, and performed by these favourites of Lichfield’s drama fraternity.

8pm | Garrick Studio | 60mins | £10 | Booking reference 14E

Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking – drama with no acting. This show speaks for itself. Combine the childlike absurdity of Vic Reeves with the deft, physical intonation of Hugh Laurie and the genius of Charlie Chaplin and you have Sam Wills: The Boy with Tape on His Face.

This completely original one-man show from New Zealand is attracting attention across the globe and was a big hit at the Edinburgh Fringe.

“ Sublime physical lunacy – fight for a ticket” Time Out

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Outdoor cinema Tonight’s film is The Social Network. See Page 12

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Friday 15 July

New Zealand String Quartet

Scottish National Jazz OrchestraJacqui Dankworth vocals Makoto Ozone piano Tommy Smith directorGershwin Rhapsody In Blue

7.30pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 120mins £25, £21, £17, £13, £10 | Booking Reference 15C

The world-class Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, directed by internationally acclaimed saxophonist Tommy Smith, performs a concert of contrasts.

They open with their amazing interpretation of Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue. Recently performed to resounding critical acclaim and sell-out concerts at the London, Gateshead, Brecon and Edinburgh Jazz Festivals, it features Japan’s virtuoso pianist, Makoto Ozone.

3pm | St Michael’s Church | 110mins | £15 Booking reference 15B

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Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman violin Gillian Ansell viola Rolf Gjelsten cello

With its dynamic performing style, eloquent communication and beautiful sound the New Zealand String Quartet has forged a major career in the busy international chamber music field, earning the acclaim of critics and the delighted response of audiences. The Quartet has particularly distinguished itself through

imaginative programming, insightful interpretations of the string quartet repertoire including cycles of composers’ music from Mozart to Berg, and the development of an international audience for important new works from New Zealand composers, one of whom, Jack Body, features in their Lichfield programme alongside two chamber music evergreens.Sponsored by

After the interval Jacqui Dankworth, “one of the classiest acts in British jazz” (Guardian), brings her sublime flair and superb vocal technique to jazz favourites with new arrangements by Tommy Smith.

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Author Talk:Simon Scarrow: The Legion10.30am | George Hotel | 60mins £5 | Booking Reference 15A

Simon Scarrow is one the leading writers of popular history adventure novels. The Legion is the latest in his Roman historical fiction series,

featuring the exploits of Roman army heroes Macro and Cato. The series has become a huge Sunday Times bestseller.

Morning Coffee Deal: 11.30am – Coffee and a Danish for £2.50 in the ground floor loungeSponsored by The George Hotel



Bollywood Brass Band

Sundown Ska: Ska’d For Life9.30pm | George IV, Bore St 90mins | Free

Led by saxophonist Dan Nicholls, and adding the infectious sounds of ska to some of the world’s greatest songs.

Late Night Series: Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir by candlelight10pm | Lichfield Cathedral Lady Chapel | 60mins £10 | Booking reference 15H

Victoria Officium Defunctorum

The 400th anniversary of the death of Tomas Luis de Victoria provides the perfect excuse for the Chamber Choir to sing his six-part Requiem. Performed at this time on a summer’s evening and by candlelight, it is sure to be a magical experience.

The Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir (director Martyn Rawles) was established in 1980 to sing services during the Cathedral Choir’s holidays. Its activities soon expanded and now include a regular concert programme, weddings and services throughout the Midlands and guest appearances at other cathedrals.

8pm | Garrick Studio | 45mins £5 | Booking Reference 15F

Old legends never die. They simply become immortal. Join Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian era’s greatest detective, and his trusted friend and partner in crime-fighting, Dr Watson, as they recount their lives and adventures in this warm and witty show. The game is afoot once again!

Repeated on Saturday 16 July

Don’t Go Into The Cellar:The Supernatural Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Intimate Theatre: The Turn Of The Screw7.45pm | The George Hotel 120mins | £8.50 | Booking Reference 15D

The spooky Henry James novella adapted for the stage by Ken Whitmore, and performed by these favourites of Lichfield’s drama fraternity.

8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 120mins | £15, £13 | Booking reference 15E

Funky drummers and a hot six-piece horn section play massive hits from Indian films, driven by the huge beat of the dhol drum, and accompanied by video projections of dance sequences from the original Bollywood films. Songlines magazine sums up their appeal: “As popular as chicken tikka masala – Punjabi flavours and locally available ingredients mixed with Anglo-Saxon ingenuity.”

The Bollywood Brass Band proved a great hit on their first visit to the Lichfield Festival – in our 30th year we just had to have them back.

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Saturday 16 July

13th Lichfield Festival Dash

Fringe Saturday

MDCC Theatre Company presentsAs You Like It

11am– 4pm | Three Spires Shopping Centre and beyond | Free

The culmination of a week of free events in our new fringe programme. For the full fringe line-up see the Festival website: www.lichfieldfestival.orgSponsored by

10am | Lichfield Cathedral Close | 150mins | Free

A number of support races for all ages and abilities leads up to the main event when a field of invited athletes race against the 12noon chimes in Chariots Of Fire style. All proceeds go to St Giles Hospice. Info: Kevin Wilson 07971 100973

Chariots Of Fire will be screened in the Festival Outdoor Cinema on Monday 11 July – See P12

2pm | Stowe House Gardens | 180mins £8 (£10 on the gate) | Booking Reference 16B

Full of all the comedy, confusion and cross-dressing you could want, MDCC presents As You Like It to celebrate their 50th Anniversary of outdoor Shakespeare. Bring a picnic and some friends and enjoy one of the Bard’s best-loved and most accessible

plays in the beautiful setting of the Great British outdoors.Stowe House Gardens are used by kind permission of the Institute of Leadership and Management (no seating is provided so bring rugs and chairs).


The Festival Firework Finale10.15pm | Beacon Park | Free entry

Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraKirill Karabits conductor Boris Giltburg piano

7.30pm | Lichfield Cathedral | 120mins £35, £29, £24, £17, £10 | Booking reference 16C

Khachaturian Suite from Gayane Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra returns to Lichfield with its young Ukrainian conductor and a star soloist, both of whom are swiftly rising stars in the classical firmament.

Their programme is filled with glittering excitement, from the Khachaturian suite which contains his famous Sabre Dance to Mussorgsky’s grand art gallery in music.

Rachmaninov’s luxuriously romantic second piano concerto is the work which sealed his fame. Its popularity has been fostered by its use in films like Brief Encounter and it regularly tops an annual poll of Britain’s best-loved classical music. (Outdoor Cinema screening on Friday 15 July - See Page 12)

”An orchestra at the top of its game“ The Daily Telegraph

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Gwilym Simcock Trio8pm | Lichfield Garrick | 110mins £16, £14 | Booking reference 16D

Gwilym Simcock piano Yuri Goloubev bass James Maddren drums

A BBC Radio 3 Jazz Award winner and the first-ever BBC Radio 3 New Generations Jazz Artist, Gwilym Simcock has made a huge impact on the jazz world in a short space of time. He first appeared at the Lichfield Festival in 2004 playing in Bill Bruford’s Earthworks and in the jazz/classical Acoustic Triangle. He returned in our 25th year as artist in residence, and our 30th birthday year is also his.

This trio, with fellow Royal Academician James Maddren on drums and the virtuoso Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev, recorded the album Blues Vignette in 2009 and has developed an enviable reputation for the emotional depth of its music as well as its technical brilliance. www.gwilymsimcock.com

Sundown Jazz: The Dixie Ticklers

8pm | Garrick Studio | 45mins £5 | Booking reference 16E

Old legends never die. They simply become immortal. Join Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian era’s greatest detective, and his trusted friend and partner in crime-fighting, Dr Watson, as they recount their lives and adventures in this warm and witty show. The game is afoot once again!

9.30pm | George IV, Bore St | 90mins | Free

If jazz is a story, then these young Londoners are revisiting the first chapter – when Louis Armstrong was in New Orleans and Jelly Roll Morton was giving his diamond smile from the bandstand.

Dom James’ Dixie Ticklers have made that old-time music the height of fashion once more.

www.dixieticklers.co.uk

Saturday 16 July

Don’t Go Into The Cellar presentsThe Supernatural Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Sunday 17 July

MDCC Theatre Company presentsKing Lear

Lichfield Festival Service

2pm | Stowe House Gardens | 180mins £8 (£10 on the gate) | Booking Reference 17A

Old world patriarchs fall, as a new order of ruthless ambition rises in Shakespeare’s greatest and most complex play, King Lear. MDCC Theatre Company offers this “end of the world” tragedy as a contrast to its 50th anniversary companion As You Like It.

Stowe House Gardens are used by kind permission of the Institute of Leadership and Management (no seating is provided so bring rugs and chairs).

10.30am | Lichfield Cathedral | Free

The Sunday morning service is an inspiring start to the final day of the Festival. The sermon will be given by The Revd Joanna Jepson, Chaplain at the London College of Fashion, and described by the Daily Mail as “Britain’s most glamorous vicar”. Music will include Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C and Vivaldi’s Nulla in Mundo.

Sundown Folk: Meberob9.30pm | George IV, Bore St | 90mins | Free

Meberob writes personal songs of drunken nights out, failed conquests and modern day life as we know it. His lyrics have been described as modern day, urban poetry.

Festival 30th Birthday Party

12.30pm | Cathedral Close | 180mins | Free

Come and join the party as we celebrate our 30th birthday with feel-good, retro-jazz entertainment from The Dixie Ticklers and, of course, a hog roast.

At 1pm there will be the final Festival Pig Parade and a Charity Auction of the Festival Pigs.

The auctioneer will be Charles Hanson, of Derbyshire-based Hanson Auctioneers and the BBC TV programme Bargain Hunt.


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All rooms are ensuite with a power shower and bath.

Our rooms can accommodate double, twins or families to suit those away on business or leisure

Wi-fi access is available throughout the hotel.

Located off the A38 between Lichfield and Burton upon Trent just outside Fradley Village, next to the Fradley Arms pub and restaurant and Wacky Warehouse children’s play area.

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Where to eat and drink

Lichfield Festival recommendsThe Lichfield Festival is pleased to use Chandlers Restaurant for its official hospitality. Located in the Grade II listed Corn Exchange, this lively eatery offers continental and modern British dishes and is twice winner of Staffordshire and Michelin Good Food Awards. For more information see www.chandlersrestaurant.co.uk

The George Hotel, Bird St, is offering special Festival meals, morning coffee and afternoon tea deals for Festival-goers. www.thegeorgelichfield.co.uk

The Food Room, Minster Pool Walk, offers lunchtime snacks and sandwiches to eat in or take away

Lichfield has a large number of restaurants – from country pubs, to city centre Thai, Italian, Indian, and fusion cuisine restaurants. You can find further information on local restaurants at www.visitlichfield.co.uk.

Main venuesLichfield Cathedral – 12th-century Gothic building offering seating for 900 for main concerts and an intimate 150-seat Presbytery for intimate events, plus exhibition space. www.lichfield-cathedral.org

Lichfield Garrick Theatre – Modern theatre with 480-seat main theatre and 140-seat studio, plus bar and snack bar. www.lichfieldgarrick.com

St Michael’s Church on Greenhill – Gothic church on a hill providing a characterful chamber music setting. www.lichfieldchurches.org

St Chad’s Church, Lichfield – Home of St Chad’s well, a pilgrimage site, and also an intimate space for chamber music. www.saintchads.org.uk

Let us know what you think

We take pride in presenting a high quality programme, and in dealing with our patrons in an efficient and courteous manner. If you feel we fall short of your expectations in any aspect of the Festival, or if you particularly appreciated an event, please let us know. Write to: Fiona Stuart, Festival Director, Festival Office, 7 The Close, Lichfield WS13 7LD or email [email protected]

Details are correct at time of publication. Lichfield Festival reserves the right to change or cancel the advertised programme. Every attempt has been made to credit photographers. Brochure designed by Yellow: www.yellow-design.co.uk. Printed by Central Colour, Nottingham. Printed on paper supplied by GF Smith. Lichfield Festival Ltd Registered in England No.1592012 Charity No. 512201

During the Festival you will find Worth Brothers Wine Marquee on the Cathedral lawns where you can enjoy a pre-concert and interval drink. www.worthbrothers.co.uk

The Green Room at the Lichfield Garrick is conveniently placed for a quick snack between Festival events, and the ideal place for a late-night drink and chat. The Green Room is open until 11pm. www.lichfieldgarrick.com

Chapters, the Cathedral restaurant and coffee shop, offers a full range of meals and refreshments. At night Chapters Garden is transformed into our outdoor cinema.


Where to stay

The Lichfield Festival is supported by six excellent hotels, which provide accommodation for Festival artists:

Swinfen Hall Hotel – During festival week why not stay at this beautifully-restored 18th-century manor house or dine at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Situated 2 miles south of Lichfield, set in 100 acres of parkland with beautiful gardens and a wild deer park. 01543 481494 www.swinfenhallhotel.co.uk

Fairlawns Hotel & Spa – Independent & Individual - hotel, restaurant & spa in landscaped grounds just 8 miles from central Lichfield. Special rates for Festival visitors and guests. 01922 455122 www.fairlawns.co.uk

Premier Inn – At Premier Inn you will find ‘everything you need for a good night’s sleep’. Located off the A38 between Lichfield and Burton on Trent just outside Fradley Village. 01283 791750 www.premierinn.com

Cathedral Lodge – A welcoming and comfortable family run hotel located a short walk from the Cathedral and City Centre. 01543 414 500 www.cathedrallodgehotel.com

Innkeeper’s Lodge – Innkeeper’s Lodge Lichfield is a quaint bed and breakfast hotel, not far from the M42 and the M6 toll and just a short walk from the City centre. It is hosted by The Hedgehog, part of the Vintage Inns family, which is perfect for a leisurely lunch or an evening meal during your stay. 01543 415 789 www.vintageinn.co.uk/thehedgehoglichfield

The George Hotel – A charming 18th-century former coaching inn situated in the heart of Lichfield, just a 5-minute walk from Lichfield Cathedral and the Garrick Theatre. 01543 414822 www.thegeorgelichfield.co.uk

The Lichfield Literary Dinner is a highlight of the cultural and social calendar, and you can book your tickets now – but you won’t know who the guest speaker is going to be!

The literary dinner will be held in the elegant Garrick Room at The George Hotel in Bird Street on Friday 7 October. Tickets are £36 for a three-course meal, complimentary drink on arrival and the chance to hear our mystery guest speaker. There are limited places so only the bold will avoid disappointment.

Book in person at 7 The Close, Lichfield; by phone on 01543 306270; or by email to [email protected]

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Diary at a glance

Wednesday 6 July3.45pm BBC Radio 3: Live Choral Evensong Cathedral Free 14

Thursday 7 July9.30am Pig Tales 1 Darwin House Gardens Aspire 6 10.30am Pig Tales 2 Darwin House Gardens Aspire 612.30pm Junior Journalists Darwin House Gardens Aspire 72.00pm Junior Journalists Darwin House Gardens Aspire 75.00pm Get Creative 1: Learn to Crochet Guildhall 7A 77.30pm CBSO/Sir Willard White Cathedral 7B 158.00pm Dark Angel Garrick Studio 7C 15

Friday 8 July9.30am Pig Tales 3 Darwin House Gardens Aspire 610.30am Author Talk: Peter Atkins George Hotel 8A 1610.30am Pig Tales 4 Darwin House Gardens Aspire 612noon Peter King Cathedral 8B 1612.30pm Junior Journalists Darwin House Gardens Aspire 72.00pm Junior Journalists Darwin House Gardens Aspire 73.00pm Endellion String Quartet St Michael’s Church 8C 165.00pm Get Creative 2: Sing The Songbook Guildhall 8D 77.30pm The Creole Choir of Cuba Cathedral 8E 178.00pm Ballet Black Lichfield Garrick 8F 168.00pm Dark Angel Garrick Studio 8G 179.30pm Film: Casablanca U Outdoor Cinema 8H 129.30pm Sundown Jazz: Tim Amann George IV Free 1710.00pm Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan & Ian Blake Lady Chapel 8I 17

Saturday 9 July10.00am Lichfield Festival Market The Close Free 1811.00am Author Talk: Robert Hutchinson George Hotel 9A 1812noon Young Artist Concert: Mariann Rumy St Chad’s Church 9B 182.00pm MDCC: King Lear Stowe House Gardens 9C 182.00pm Author Talk: Josceline Dimbleby George Hotel 9D 193.45pm Author Talk: Roger Crowley George Hotel 9E 197.30pm Joanna MacGregor Cathedral 9F 198.00pm Zic Zazou Lichfield Garrick 9G 218.00pm Cirque de Legume Garrick Studio 9H 219.30pm Sundown Funk: Fat Digester George IV Free 219.30pm Film: The King’s Speech 12A Outdoor Cinema 9I 12

Sunday 10 July12.00pm Pig Tales 5 Erasmus House Gardens Aspire 62.00pm Grisly Tales from Tumblewater Garrick Studio 10A 222.00pm MDCC: As You like It Stowe House Gardens 10B 222.00pm Author Talk: Lucy Worsley George Hotel 10C 223.30pm Author Talk: Giles Tremlett George Hotel 10D 226.30pm The Endellion String Quartet/Wendy Cope Lady Chapel 10E 238.00pm Zic Zazou Lichfield Garrick 10F 238.00pm Cirque de Legume Garrick Studio 10G 239.30pm Sundown Folk: Tom Woodman Band George IV Free 23

Monday 11 July10.00am Little Explorers: Jungle Sing and Play Guildhall 11A 711.00am Grisly Tales From Tumblewater Lichfield Garrick Aspire 611.30am Author Talk: Tracy Borman George Hotel 11B 2411.30am Little Explorers: Jungle Sing and Play Guildhall 11C 71.00pm Young Artist Concert: Alexandra Dariescu Lady Chapel 11D 245.00pm Get Creative 3: Songwriting Guildhall 11E 77.00pm The Lichfield Lecture: Lord Puttnam Cathedral 11F 248.00pm LipService: Withering Looks Lichfield Garrick 11G 258.00pm The Crooked Fiddle Band Garrick Studio 11H 259.30pm Film: Chariots of Fire U Outdoor Cinema 11I 1210.00pm Brass Jaw Lady Chapel 11J 25

Tuesday 12 July9.30am Pig Tales Erasmus House Gardens Aspire 6

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10.30am Pig Tales Erasmus House Gardens Aspire 610.30am Author Talk: Peter Snow George Hotel 12A 2612noon Young Artist Concert: Morgan Szymanski Lady Chapel 12B 2612.30pm Junior Journalists Erasmus House Gardens Aspire 72.00pm Junior Journalists Erasmus House Gardens Aspire 77.30pm Monteverdi’s Flying Circus Cathedral 12C 268.00pm Penguin Cafe Lichfield Garrick 12D 278.00pm The Crooked Fiddle Band Garrick Studio 12E 279.30pm Sundown Jazz: Charlotte Glasson Band George IV Free 27

Wednesday 13 July10.00am Morning Talk: Tony Wass Lichfield Garrick 13A 2812noon Young Artist Concert: La Follette St Chad’s Church 13B 281.30pm Orbital Market Square Aspire 63.00pm 3pm Series: Tippett Quartet Swinfen Hall Hotel 13C 285.00pm Get Creative 4: Dancing Guildhall 13D 7 7.00pm Carol Ann Duffy: A Poem For The City Cathedral 13E 288.00pm Salsa Celtica Lichfield Garrick 13F 298.00pm The Boy with Tape on His Face Garrick Studio 13G 299.30pm Film: Psycho 15 Outdoor Cinema 13H 129.30pm Sundown Jazz: Dewhurst/McMillan George IV Free 299.30pm Late Night: James Rhodes Lady Chapel 13I 29

Thursday 14 July10.30am Author Talk: Annelise Freisenbruch George Hotel 14A 301.00pm Young Artist Concert: James Baillieu Lady Chapel 14B 307.30pm Natalie Clein and EUCO Cathedral 14C 317.45pm Intimate Theatre: Turn of the Screw George Hotel 14D 317.30pm Just A Minute: BBC Radio 4 Recording Lichfield Garrick BBC 308.00pm The Boy with Tape on His Face Garrick Studio 14E 319.30pm Sundown Jazz: Sara Colman Band George IV Free 319.30pm Film: The Social Network 12A Outdoor Cinema 14F 12

Friday 15 July10.00am Pig Tales Erasmus House Gardens Aspire 610.30am Author Talk: Simon Scarrow George Hotel 15A 323.00pm 3pm Series: New Zealand String Quartet St Michael’s Church 15B 327.30pm Scottish National Jazz Orchestra Cathedral 15C 327.45pm Intimate Theatre: The Turn of the Screw George Hotel 15D 338.00pm Bollywood Brass Lichfield Garrick 15E 338.00pm The Supernatural Adventures… Garrick Studio 15F 339.30pm Sundown Ska: Ska’d For Life George IV Free 339.30pm Film: Brief Encounter PG Outdoor Cinema 15G 1210.00pm Late Night: Cathedral Chamber Choir Lady Chapel 15H 33

Saturday 16 July10.00am Festival Dash The Close Free 3411.00am Fringe Saturday Three Spires Shopping Centre Free 342.00pm Get Creative 5: Play in a Day Guildhall 16A 72.00pm MDCC: As You Like It Stowe House Gardens 16B 34 7.30pm Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Cathedral 16C 35 8.00pm Gwilym Simcock Trio Lichfield Garrick 16D 378.00pm The Supernatural Adventures… Garrick Studio 16E 379.30pm Sundown Jazz: The Dixie Ticklers George IV Free 379.30pm Festival Fireworks Beacon Park Free 35 Sunday 17 July10.30am Lichfield Festival Service Cathedral Free 3812.30pm 30th Festival Birthday Party The Close Free 38 1.00pm Pig Auction with Charles Hanson The Close Free 382.00pm MDCC: King Lear Stowe House Gardens 17A 389.30pm Sunday Folk: Meberob George IV Free 38 Saturday 23 July7.30pm The Big Read: Michael Morpurgo Cathedral 23A 13



Booking information

How & where to book In person: Festival Box Office, Lichfield Garrick, Castle Dyke, Lichfield WS13 6HR (opening hours Monday to Saturday 11am – 6pm) By post: Complete booking form overleaf and return to address above By phone: 01543 412121 (Monday to Saturday 11am– 6pm and until 9.30pm on a show night) Online (from 6 May): www.lichfieldfestival.org You can now select your seats online and print your own tickets at home. Internet bookings carry a £1 transaction fee.

When to bookPublic Booking: Opens at 11am on Friday 6 May

If not booking in person, your tickets will be sent to you for a £1.00 charge. All bookings are dealt with in order of receipt. Reserved tickets must be paid for within 5 working days. Reserves cannot be taken within one week of the event. Tickets to every event may be booked in advance in order to guarantee a seat. There are on-the-door sales at each venue, subject to availability.

Credit/debit cardsWe are pleased to accept all credit cards except AMEX bookings by telephone, in person or online. Please note: card transactions cannot be processed without a signature strip number.

ChequesCheques should be made payable to Lichfield District Council. Paying by cheque helps the Festival by keeping our credit card charges lower.

RefundsPlease check your tickets as soon as you receive them, as the Festival cannot refund money or exchange tickets except in the case of a cancelled performance.

Ticket Deals & ConcessionsThe discounts below apply only to events in Lichfield Cathedral, the Lichfield Garrick, and city churches. Please note that only one concession may apply per ticket and these discounts are not available online.

Endellion Deal: 1 ticket for Event 8C and 1 ticket for Event 10E for £30 MDCC Deal: 1 ticket for Event 9C or 17A and 1 ticket for Event 10B or 16B for £14 Author Deal: Book 4 Author Talks for £20 and get the 5th Talk Free Film Deal: Book 3 Films for £18 and get the 4th Film Free Young Artist Deal: Book 4 Young Artist concerts for £40 and get the 5th concert Free Garrick Studio Deal: Book 3 £10 Studio events and get the 4th event Free Cathedral Evening Deal: 1 ticket for Event 13E with 1 ticket for Event 13I for £25; 1 ticket for Event 11F with 1 ticket for Event 11J for £20; book 1 ticket for Event 15C and get £2 off 1 ticket for Event 15H

Group Booking 10% discount for groups of 10+ Students £5 on the door for any Festival Event (Subject to availability. Proof is required) Disabled Free ticket for companion or support worker to disabled patrons.

Access for the disabled is available at all Festival venues. For advice on all venues, please ring the Box Office. Disabled event-goers to the Cathedral should inform the Box Office when booking, so that access to the Cathedral Close is assured.

Seating informationAll Cathedral seating is reserved unless otherwise marked. The nave stage has been raised and where viewing is restricted high quality CCTV is provided (large screens at the west end of the north and south side aisles, plasma screens toward the rear of the nave and the choir presbytery). Event-goers who have particular seating requirements are recommended to contact the Box Office by telephone or in person.

TimingsAll timings given are approximate. An interval is included if event duration exceeds 80 mins.

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Join the team

Like what you’ve seen so far? Want to get to the heart of the art?

Well you can! The Festival would not be possible without the work of our fantastic team of volunteers. We are always looking for people to help across all areas of the Festival, from office assistance and box office cover to stewarding

Patron President Valery Gergiev Sir James Hawley KCVO

Vice-Presidents Sir Anthony & Lady Bamford, Lady Clarke The Honourable & Mrs Hugh Gibson Mrs George Inge-Innes-Lillingston Mrs Frances Lang, Mr & Mrs Bob Marchant

Directors of Lichfield Festival Limited Nicholas Sedgwick chairman, Rob Tyler financial director Sue Arnold, Sue Beardsmore, The Rt Revd David Bentley, The Very Revd Adrian Dorber, Pauline Round, Lesley Smith, Stephen Snoddy, Mike Wilcox

Administration Fiona Stuart director Peter Bacon festival manager Vicki Stanley & Katie Scott development manager Richard Bateman administrator Judy Grew accounts/administration Jennifer Smith learning & participation Pam Easto learning & participation assistant

Lichfield Festival Association Platinum Members Mr Philip Baldwin & Mr Phillip Arnold, Lady Hilda Clarke, Mr John Harvey, Mr Nigel O’Mara, Mrs Jane Steeley

Lichfield Festival Association Gold Members Mr & Mrs Colin P Ablitt, Mrs Sue Arnold, Mr Gerry Arthur, Rev Canon & Mrs Tony Barnard, Mr & Mrs John M Baron, Mrs Edna Birbeck, Mr F Beverley Booth, Mr David Burton, Mr & Mrs W T Colman, Mrs Gill T Cooper, Mr Philip W Elliott, Dr James I Ellis, Mrs Eileen Barbara Fletcher, Mr & Mrs M G Gilbert, Mr Stephen James Gill, Mr & Mrs John Graham, Mrs Hazel Hall & Mr M J Watton, Mr David R Herbert & Ms Julia Macur, Mrs Margaret How, Mrs Julie Hyde, Mr & Mrs Ken Jackson, Mr & Mrs Simon R James, Mr & Mrs Rodney S Kettel, Mr & Mrs A C Lindop, Mr & Mrs H W Lukeman, Mr & Mrs G Neil Mainwaring, Mr & Mrs Paddy Martin, Mr David R Mayes O.B.E., Mr Richard Metcalfe, Mr Richard Miller Yardley O.B.E & Mrs Ann-Carol Carrington, Mr & Mrs Donald Minor, Mr & Mrs Richard Newby, Miss J Lavinia Newell, Mr & Mrs R J E Newton, Mr & Mrs Peter J Robinson, Mr & Mrs E S Roper, Mrs Joan Round, Ms R Helen Rowett & Mr D Pelteret, Mr & Mrs J M S Salloway, Mr & Mrs N G Sedgwick, Mr & Mrs Peter J Sharpe, Dr & Mrs I H Stevenson, Mr A T N Teague, Miss D Careen Tetley, Mr & Mrs Richard J Tetley, Mrs K Brenda Towlson.

Many thanks to all of our LFA members for their support throughout the year and to all those who have already contributed to our 30th Birthday Campaign.

Volunteer for the Lichfield Festival 2011and production. In return, you can meet some of the world’s greatest artists, meet new friends, and have an all-round good time.

So, what are you waiting for? To volunteer for Lichfield Festival 2011 visit www.lichfieldfestival.org for an application form or email [email protected]

How to get here

KeyLichfield Cathedral

Lichfield Garrick

St Michael’s Church

St Chad’s Church

Beacon Park

Stowe House Gardens

Guildhall

George Hotel

Direction to Swinfen Hall Hotel

Chandlers Restaurant

George IV

Chapters Garden

Three Spires Shopping Centre

Long & short stay parking Up to 12 hours

Short stay parking Weekends only

Coach ParkTaxi RankOne way street

Please note. There is free parking for the disabled at every car park.

On-street parking for Disabled badge holders

Lichfield’s location near the very centre of England puts it within easy reach of nearly 80 per cent of the nation’s art-lovers. For international visitors our two nearby airports make us more convenient than London.

By road: The A38 and A5 connect near Lichfield and give direct access to the motorway network – M6 Toll, M42, M50, M40, M5/6 and M1.

National coach travel information: telephone 01543 308209.

By train: Direct rail services to Lichfield are operated by Central Trains and Virgin Trains, and via Birmingham by Silverlink and Chiltern Railways. For further rail travel information call 08457 484950 or have a look at: www.rail.co.uk and www.thetrainline.co.uk.

By air: Birmingham International Airport (30 minute drive) and East Midlands Airport (40 minute drive).


Documents

2011 Lichfield Festival Guide