Welcome to Wooburn Festival 2008
the 42nd Wooburn Festival

News:

The 42nd Wooburn Festival runs from 17th September 2008 to 19th October 2008
in and around Wooburn and High Wycombe.

Starting This year the Box Office will be operated by The Wycombe Swan Ticket Office. It is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday.
The telephone number is 01494 512 000.
Postal bookings should be sent to:
Wooburn Festival Box Office,
Wycombe Swan,
St. Mary Street,
High Wycombe,
HP11 2XE

On Wednesdays, 17th September, 1st and 15th October we have lunchtime concerts by the brilliant young Russian pianist Nikolai Ponomarev, flute and violin duo Julia Bentley and Victoria Webb with Michael MacMillan piano and violinists Alexandra and Charlotte Reid with Elizabeth Burgess piano, while on Thursdays, 25th September and 9th October our poetry group "A Time for Verse" are giving poetry readings on the subjects of "Thereby hangs a tale "and "Ton up ".

Hit me with a Hot Note!
On Saturday 27th September Terry Lightfoot"s Jazzmen with Melinda Lightfoot feature the music of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Duke Ellington and many more.

On:
Saturday 20th September Force Eight Winds play the Mozart's "Gran Partita" at St. Paul's Church.
Friday 26th September The Complete Singer present "Hell hath no fury", Baroque & Classical Solo Cantatas by Handel, Purcell and Haydn at St. Paul's Church.
Friday, 3rd October The Heath String Quartet are performing at St. Paul's Church.
Friday, 10th October Amy Dickson and Catherine Milledge give a saxophone and piano recital at St. Paul's Church.

The Visual Arts Exhibition runs from Saturday 4th to Saturday 11th October and will be opened by and feature the works of Alex Sadlo, plus wood and lino cut studies by Hannah Firmin, illustrator of the No. 1 Lady Detective series of books by Alexander McCall Smith.

On Saturday, 11th October Booster Cushion Theatre are performing
Little Red Riding Hood and Friends

Sunday, 12th October. Folk superstar Julie Felix comes to the Wooburn Festival as part of her Highway of Diamonds Tour.

On Monday 13 October Quentin Falk introduces his selection for the film at this years festival: Blithe Spirit, the David lean production of Noel Coward's romantic comedy.
On Wednesday, 24th September Ben Wilson is saying that "History is not Bunk" while on 15th October Quentin Falk is giving a talk on his "Life as a Film Critic". We have poetry readings at lunchtimes on 25th September and 9th October.

On Sunday, 19th October The City of London Sinfonia play a programme of music by Mozart, Jenkins and Beethoven.

The soloist is:

         Nicholas Betts (trumpet)

The programme is:
         Mozart                                     Symphony No. 31: Paris
         Jenkins                                    Trumpet Concerto
         Beethoven                                Overture: Fidelio
         Beethoven                                Symphony No. 1

On Saturday, 11th October The Wooburn Singers are giving a choral concert in the church at Marlow.

The programme is:
Three Shakespeare Songs Vaughan Williams
Devotion Armstrong Gibbs
Bluebird Stanford
Silence and Music Vaughan Williams
Dream Tryst Holst
Four Last Songs Vaughan Williams
to poems by Ursula Vaughan Williams

Interval

Five Mystical Songs Vaughan Williams
Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis Ravel
from 'Three Songs'
Music's Sweet Voice Bruch
from 'Sieben Gesange'
Music when soft voices die Wood
There rolls the deep Parry
Mass in G Minor Vaughan Williams

Throughout the Festival the Wycombe Museum are presenting their exhibition
From Graves to Garden Parties
The Wooburn Festival receives funding from:
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