Berkeley Day

1:30pm-2:00pm

Lennox Berkeley Society AGM

TS Eliot Theatre

Introduction by Petroc Trelawny

2:15pm-3:00pm

Public Lecture

TS Eliot Theatre

Lady Selina Hastings, biographer of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and W Somerset Maugham, spoke about Lennox Berkeley and his Oxford contemporaries during the Brideshead years.

3:00pm-3:25pm

Tea

TS Eliot Theatre foyer

3:30pm-4:00pm

Organ Recital

Merton College Chapel

Lennox Berkeley Society member Iain Simcock (formerly organist of Westminster Cathedral and Director of L’Académie vocale de Paris) played Three Pieces for Organ by Berkeley; and Benjamin Nicholas, Reed Rubin Organist & Director of Music at Merton, played 'Improvisation' from Three Pieces for Organ by Berkeley's teacher, Nadia Boulanger.

4:00pm-5:10pm

Choral Evensong

Merton College Chapel

Music by Berkeley (Canticles: Chichester Service, and Anthem: The Lord is My Shepherd), Stravinsky (Introit: Ave Maria, and Motet: Pater noster) and Matthew Martin (Responses), with a short address by Tony Scotland, author of Lennox & Freda and Flèche: Brief Encounter with Stravinsky. The Organ Voluntary was the 'Finale' from L'oiseau de feu by Stravinsky.