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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
London Theatre and Concert Tour
March 10-25, 2006
Event Schedule
as of February 17, 2006
March 10: Friday
Depart Seattle at 6:30pm via British Airways flight
48.
Arrive London at 12 noon; Coach transfer to Strand Palace
Hotel and check in. No event scheduled.
Morning: 8:30-10:00am. Organizational Meeting and Lecture:
John Webster and Roderick Swanston (Music critic and historian, Imperial
College, London).
Afternoon. 3:00pm. Concert: Monica Huggett
violin, Matthew Halls harpsichord. Johann
Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for violin and harpsichord. (The
Bach Weekend offers a rare chance to hear one of the world's leading
Baroque violinists talk about and perform these works.) The Purcell
Room, Southbank Centre.
Morning: 9:00-10:20am. Lecture, John Webster.
Evening: 7:30pm. Play: As You Like
It, by William Shakespeare. Royal Shakespeare Company. Novello
Theatre.
March 14 Tuesday. Free Day
March 15 Wednesday.
Morning: 9:00-10:20am. Lecture, Roderick Swanston.
Evening: 7:30pm. Concert: Philharmonia Orchestra
and Chorus, Felix Mendelsohn, Elijah. Westminster
Cathedral (!).
Morning. 9:00-10:20am. Lecture: John Webster.
Evening: 7:30pm. Concert: Maurizio
Pollini, piano. Beethoven Sonata no.1 in F
minor, op 2, no 1; Schoenberg 3 Pieces for Piano, op
11; Schoenberg 6 Small Pieces for Piano, op 19; Beethoven
Sonata no.29 in B-flat major, 'Hammerklavier', op 106. Barbican Hall.
Morning: 9:00-10:20am. Lecture, John Webster.
Evening. 7:45pm. Play: Glorious, by Peter
Quilter, with Maureen Lipman. The Duchess Theatre.
March 18 Saturday. No Morning lecture.
Afternoon: 2:30pm. Play: Southwark
Fair, by Samuel Adamson, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring
Margaret Tyzack. National Theatre, Cottesloe.
March 19 Sunday. No Morning Lecture.
Morning: 11:30am. Concert: Wigmore Hall coffee
Concert: Faure Quartet: Mozart and Faure. (Program
to be announced.)
Evening: 7:30pm. Concert: Sibelius En Saga,
Mark-Anthony Turnage Your Rockaby; Nielsen
Symphony No. 4 “The Inextinguishable.” Joseph Swensen conducting
the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Martin Robertson saxophonist. Barbican
Hall.
Evening: TBA (Either
Monday or Tuesday will be this week’s Free Day; we are waiting
on show openings and reviews before booking, and we thus need to preserve
flexibility).
Evening: TBA (Either
Monday or Tuesday will be this week’s Free Day; we are waiting
on show openings and reviews before booking, and we thus need to preserve
flexibility).
Morning: 9:00-10:20am. Lecture, John Webster.
Evening: 7:30pm. Play: Embers,
a new play by Christopher Hampton (Les Liaisons Dangereuses,
Copenhagen), starring Jeremy Irons.
Morning. 9:00-10:20am. Lecture, John Webster.
Evening. 7:30pm: Concert: Peter Donohoe,
playing Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Dumka (Russian rustic
scene), Op.59 for piano; Dmitry Shostakovich Piano
Sonata No.2, Op.61 and Sonata No.1, Op.12; Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3 No.2, Prelude in F sharp minor, Op.23
No.1, Prelude in B flat, Op.23 No.2, Prelude in D minor, Op.23 No.3,
Prelude in D, Op.23 No.4, Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5. Queen Elizabeth
Hall, Southbank Centre.
Morning: 9:00-10:20am. Lecture, John Webster.
Evening. 7:30pm. Play: The Old Country,
by Alan Bennett, with Timothy West and Jean Marsh. Trafalgar Studio
1 Theatre.
Morning. Depart hotel by coach for Seattle
via British Airways flight 49.
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