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SUMMARY:F. Mendelssohn - Elijah
DESCRIPTION:Performers\nMayfield Festival Choir\nConductor: Jeremy Summerly
 \nOrchestra: Ripieno Players\nSoloists: Clare Tunney (Soprano)\, Frances G
 regory (Alto)\, Richard Pinkstone (Tenor)\, Paul Grant (Bass)\, Grace Step
 hens-Spada (Youth)\n\nDescription\nMendelssohn’s great oratorio Elijah w
 as first performed in Birmingham Town Hall in 1846. In homage to that\, Ma
 yfield Festival Choir is joined by the Birmingham-based orchestra\, the Ri
 pieno Players. After the première of Elijah\, the art critic of The Times
  wrote that ‘never was there a more complete triumph—never a more thor
 ough and speedy recognition of a great work of art’. Eight months after 
 the Birmingham performance\, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert attended a p
 erformance in London\, and in February 1848 the work was finally performed
  in Mendelssohn’s native Germany\, in a German translation rather than i
 n the original English. But by then\, Mendelssohn had been dead for three 
 months\, cut down at the age of 38 after a series of strokes due to overwo
 rk and nervous exhaustion.\n\nAt Mayfield Elijah will be heard in its orig
 inal English\, sung by three young soloists from the Royal Academy of Musi
 c. They are joined by the ebullient Tenor\, Richard Pinkstone\, who return
 s to Mayfield for the third time in the last year. Elijah has remained pop
 ular in England since its first performance\, and while it clearly owes a 
 lot to Mendelssohn’s German predecessors\, Bach and Handel\, no other pi
 ece by Mendelssohn has the dramatic flair and breadth of expression of Eli
 jah. In Mendelssohn’s own words: ‘Ever since I began to compose\, I ha
 ve remained true to my starting principle—not to write a page because of
  what the public or a pretty girl wanted\, but to write what I thought was
  best’. And Elijah is very definitely Mendelssohn at his best.\n\nTicket
 s\n\nTicket cost £24 (centre)\, £20 (centre rear) and £10 (sides) (half
  price for under 18s)\, available from 22 March 2019: a/ online at http://
 www.mayfieldfestivalchoir.org\; b/ in person from Lambert &amp\; Foster\, 
 High Street\, Mayfield\; c/ by phone from 0333 666 3366 (This is a general
  booking line operated for us by TicketSource. Please be sure to say that 
 you are booking tickets for Mayfield Festival Choir – Elijah. A postage 
 fee of £1.50 will be applied to each order.)\n\nWould you like to sing wi
 th us? We would love to hear from anyone who has experience of choral musi
 c and is keen to be part of a friendly but ambitious choir. Contact the me
 mbership secretary through the website http://www.mayfieldfestivalchoir.or
 g/join-the-choir
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