Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, NW11 7AG
10:00am: "Eat Cake and Mingle"
10:30am: Concert begins. Ends by 11:30am
Tickets: Adults £10 at the door, discounts available online, children FREE
Thursday June 7th 2012
Jubilation!
Featuring: Torbjorn Hultmark (trumpet), Philippa Mo (violin), Miaomiao Yu (piano)
Hers is the face that has launched 21 ships, hers the hands that have given out 90,000 Christmas puddings and cared for more than 30 dogs (corgis and dorgis!) and 30 godchildren. Her wedding dress was woven by Chinese silkworms. She has brought up four of her own children, (with admittedly a little help). She is our Queen, who was aged 85 on Accession Day in 2012 and is the oldest monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee. Enjoy royal visits, new royal boroughs, big lunches, Thames pageants, fiery beacons, golden carriages and RAF flypasts and best of all, celebrate her reign with us as we perform some of the diamonds of British classical music also played at her coronation in 1952: the glorious musical representations of the English countryside – Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending (not to be confused with the famous occasion when my best friend's shoulder straps completely slipped in performance, ever after known as “The Lark descending”), Elgar's magnificent Nimrod, the delightful Greensleevesand more favourites.
Bring a friend, bring a flag, bring your voice and let's raise the roof to Queen Elizabeth II and all the people that make Britain Great!
Further concerts in 2012: Our Season ends in July, and we return for the Autumn Season in Septebmer 2012. Sign up to our mailing list to be notified when new concert dates published.
Hampstead Free Church was designed and built by Edwin Lutyens in 1911. When the Church opened, the Manchester Guardian noted that, "The latest experiment to be tried in the enterprising air of the Hampstead Garden Suburb is that of a Free Church which is really free to all denominations”. Today it is a family church with strong emphasis on including children as well as maintaining an excellent musical tradition and it is one of very few Free Churches where the Psalms are still chanted.
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