Mike Aaronson of the Waverley Singers talks about their Midsummer Nocturnes concert

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The Waverley Singers will continue their platinum jubilee celebrations with a concert at St Mary’s Church in Frensham on June 22 at 5pm. The main work in Midsummer Nocturnes will be the world première of Five Nocturnes, an intimate piece for choir, clarinet, cello and piano commissioned by the Waverley Singers from young composer-conductor Owain Park. This is thanks to a bequest from former choir member and Frensham farmer Josephine Baker, more commonly known as Jo Reader, who died in 2019.

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00:00I'm talking to Mike Aarons of the committee member of the Waverley Singers about their

00:06latest concert in their Platinum Jubilee year. Over to you Mike. Hi thank you very much Paul.

00:11Well it's an exciting year for us. We're 70 and we've got a terrific range of different events.

00:19We had a very good Elijah concert in March and we've got one coming up on the 22nd of June in

00:25St Mary's Church in Frensham which is rather special because we've commissioned a new work by

00:32one of Britain's most up-and-coming composers Owen Park and the work is called Five Nocturnes and the

00:40concert is called Midsummer Nocturnes and the great thing about this is that it's made possible by a

00:46generous legacy from our former secretary and long-standing choir member Joe Reader who lived

00:54in Frensham who actually farmed at Pierpont Farm in Frensham and Joe very kindly left us a legacy to

01:01sort of look after the future of the Waverley Singers and one way we decided to spend it is by

01:06commissioning this new work from Owen Park. It's a hauntingly beautiful work. It sets five different

01:12poems about night time to music. It's not very long and it's accompanied by a range of other works

01:22mainly for choir piano and cello. We've also got a clarinet guest clarinet so I think it's going to

01:31be a really really interesting concert. Sunday the 22nd of June here it is St Mary's Church in Frensham

01:38at five o'clock and there's complimentary bubbly and soft drinks afterwards.

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