With balloons and banners and in glad rags and dancing shoes, Samling Academy invites you to a party. Celebrating the 30th birthday of Samling Institute’s work inspiring musical excellence in young people, this semi-staged concert will introduce you to a cast of time-travelling revellers, the gate crashers and hangers-on in this fizzing evening of words and music.

With special guests

Former Academy Singers:
Camilla Harris soprano
Zoë Jackson soprano

and Samling Artists
Ted Black tenor
Sid Ramchander piano and music director
Miranda Wright director

Desirée Kongerød choreographer and movement director

Book for Saturday 11 July
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Programme

Bird Songs at Eventide, Eric Coates
Go, lovely rose, Roger Quilter
Die Lotosblume Myrthen op.25, Robert Schumann
Libiamo ne’ lieti calici (Brindisi) La traviata, Guiseppe Verdi
Bacchus is a power divine, Henry Purcell
Drinking, German trad
Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt Der blaue Engel, Friedrich Hollaender
Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß Giuditta, Franz Lehar
Quanto più fiera tempesta freme Rodelinda, G.F. Handel
Lonely Women The Chocolate Soldier Oscar Straus
Quando m’en vo La bohème Giacomo Puccini
My heart is like a singing bird, Bob Chilcott
Old Sir Faulk Three Façade settings William Walton
Der Abschiedsbrief, Kurt Weill
Danza, danza fanciulla gentile, Francesco Durante
St Mark’s Square Three songs of Venice, Michael Head
Me voglio fà ‘na casa Canzone napoletana, Gaetano Donizetti
Finale The Gondoliers, Gilbert and Sullivan
Clair de Lune op. 46 no.2, Gabriel Fauré
Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém (Song to the Moon) Rusalka Antonín Dvořák
Pierette, Air de ballet Op. 41, Cecile Chaminade
Poor little Pierrette and I could be happy with you The Boyfriend, Sandy Wilson
I went to a marvellous party, Noël Coward