Aled's June appearances

xbons · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:33 am Post subject: Aled's June appearances

So - Aled starts rehearsals for Chity Chitty Bang Bang this month, so will be pretty busy. But there are 2 concerts in there..... lucky those who are going! Very Happy

Sunday 1st
* Good Morning Sunday: BBC radio 2 7.00.- 9.00 Aled chats to China Forbes, vocalist with Pink Martini, while Catholic duo Boyce and Stanley play live.
* Aled Jones: Radio Wales. 10.00 – 11.00 Aled is in conversation with John Craven.
* The Choir: BBC radio 3 6.30 – 8.00Aled is joined in Paris by the director of Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet, to celebrate the 350th anniversary of one of France's great choral composers, Michel-Richard de Lalande. Featuring a complete performance of Lalande's Te Deum, and music from his contemporaries Lully, Charpentier and Desmarest.
Friday 5th: 7.30: Aled is appearing in concert at Chelmsford Cathedral. The concert will start at 7.30pm.
Ticket prices - £30, £24, £15, £10, available from the Civic Theatre Box Office tel: 01245 606505 Online: www.chelmsford.gov.uk/theatres by post or in person: Civic Theatre Box Office, Fairfield Road Chelmsford, CM1 1JG. £60 including post-concert champagne reception with Aled Jones
available from the Cathedral Office - tel: 01245 294498

Sunday 8th
* Good Morning Sunday: BBC radio 2 7.00.- 9.00 Aled welcomes American singer-songwriter Tift Merritt and the Rev Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance and a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
* Aled Jones: Radio Wales. 10.00 – 11.00 Aled is in conversation with actress Imelda Staunton
* Songs of Praise BBC1 4:05 - 4:40 - Religious thoughts and music. The Lark Ascending has recently been voted the most popular piece of classical music of all time. Aled tells the story of its composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who also wrote memorable tunes for classic hymns such as Come Down, O Love Divine and For All the Saints. John Rutter and Brian Kay help explore the influence of the English countryside and British folk on Williams's work.
* The Choir: BBC radio 3 6.30 – 8.00 Aled is joined by the Monteverdi Choir's founder John Eliot Gardiner, and three members Gareth Keene, Julia Doyle and Lawrence Wallington to talk about the ensemble's work - past and present. The Monteverdi is one of the UK's leading choirs and since their creation in 1964 by Gardiner for a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers, their name has been regarded as synonymous with ambitious and innovative programming.
Friday 13th: Dawn Patrol - radio 2 6.0. - 7.30: Aled sits in for Sarah Kennedy

Sunday 15th
* Good Morning Sunday: BBC radio 2 7.00.- 9.00 Aled welcomes broadcaster Clare Catford, who talks about her journey overcoming depression, while Yasmin Hai chats about her family's assimilation into British society after life in Pakistan. Plus musician Charles Timberlake joins Aled in the studio.
* Aled Jones: Radio Wales. 10.00 – 11.00 Aled is in conversation with Australian chef John Torode.
* Songs of Praise: BBC1 5.55pm - 6.30:Religious thoughts and music. Aled revisits East Manchester to tell the story of the newly refurbished Gorton Monastery - a masterpiece of Catholic architecture which was almost lost forever. Aled meets the people who have rebuilt it as a resource for the whole community and joins them to sing hymns including Angel Voices Ever
Singing, Hail Redeemer, King Devine and a special version of Be Still
for the Presence of the Lord.
* The Choir: BBC radio 3 6.30 – 8.00 An Ode to Music: Aled looks at choral responses to the ancient poetic idea of the ode. With Purcell's Birthday Ode for Queen Mary of 1691, plus music by Holst, Britten, Kodaly and Ned Rorem.

Sunday 22nd
* Good Morning Sunday: BBC radio 2 7.00.- 9.00 Aled has been speaking to former Beirut hostage John McCarthy, the Revd Stephen Brown reviews the latest film releases and Dr Savi Arora discusses the faith and ethics news of the week
* Aled Jones: Radio Wales. 10.00 – 11.00 Aled is in conversation with the author Philip Pullman
* The Choir: BBC radio 3 6.30 – 8.00 Aled presents a concert given in Bath Abbey by the Great Voices of Bulgaria, in front of a capacity audience at the Bath International Festival of Music earlier this month.
The Great Voices of Bulgaria, founded in 1971 by the father of the choir's current conductor, have become well known for their arresting style of singing and have helped to make Bulgaria's vibrant folk tradition world famous. Here, they perform the distinctive and often plangent traditional folksongs for which they are known. Unusually, however, they also include religious songs from the Orthodox Church, and conductor Ilya Mihaylov explains to Aled that although modern Bulgarian churches typically use classically trained voices in their services, the folk voices and style may be more authentic. He argues that when this music was originally written, the only voices available to sing it would have been traditional folk choirs.
Wednesday 25th Grassington Festival Aled, accompanied by the fabulous London Community Gospel Choir, in a collaboration which is being specially created for Grassington.

Sunday 29th
* Good Morning Sunday: BBC radio 2 7.00.- 9.00 Aled says Good Morning Sunday to Italian rock singer Zucchero, following his performance at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert on 27 June in London's Hyde Park.
Also on this week's programme, Rabbi Pete Tobias talks about some of the issues of the week from a faith perspective.
* Aled Jones: Radio Wales. 10.00 – 11.00 Another chance to hear Aled sharing music and conversation with the late Humphrey Lyttleton.
* The Choir: BBC radio 3 6.30 – 8.00 Aled conducts an exclusive interview with the choral world's current hot propety, Nevadan-born Eric Whitacre, who turned from teenage hellraiser to choir-lover literally overnight and is now one of the most successful choral composers around.

Keep checking back - Aled's appearances will be updated throughout the month as usual

xantha · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:50 am Post subject:

Anther busy month for Aled then! Smile

xbons · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

Is it ever anything different, xantha?! Laughing

I saw Aled last night at Friday Night is Music Night; he is all over the place at the minute, doing bits for the summer highlights programmes of Songs of Praise - he was in Bangor and Chester this past week, and flew back from York Thursday night. This week, off to Winchester, and I can't remember where else!

Chitty rehearsals start on June 7th (I think) but are fortunately in London until moving to Cardiff on June 27th.

Incidentally the guests on Good Morning Sunday tomorrow include China Forbes of Pink Martini tomorrow, a very interesting group from the USA Very Happy