Let’s Do It! Songs by Coward, Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, Porter, Swift and Weill

Saturday 21 June, 3.00pm

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Lets Do It

Clare McCaldin, mezzo soprano
Paul Sheehan, bass-baritone
Stephen Dickinson, piano

Clare McCaldin and Paul Sheehan have a unique chemistry which brings the most familiar songs alive with their irrepressible energy. With pianist Stephen Dickinson they have delighted recent Thaxted audiences with their programmes of Stephen Sondheim and Cole Porter songs. They return with a rich selection of works from composers from the golden age of mid-twentieth-century popular song, when Noël Coward was popular in the US and a part of this creative circle. Expect numbers such as: Mad about the Boy, Puttin’ on the Ritz, I Got Rhythm, Speak Low, If Love were All.

‘Clare McCaldin shows how she is able to shape and control her voice to draw so much from each song, following the subtle nuances of each text to deliver the most remarkable performances.’ The Classical Reviewer

Why not enjoy a full day starting with performances by community choirs at 10.00am? Our evening performance by the Doric String Quartet at 7.30pm is followed by Morris and country dancing outside the Church, with the famous Abbots Bromley Horn Dance at approximately 10.15, making it a perfect summer’s day in Thaxted.

Venue: Thaxted United Reformed Church
Tickets: £25 unreserved seating. Age 30 and under: £10; age 18 and under: £5.

“[The Tippett Quartet] concert as part of the 2023 Thaxted Festival revealed a group of musicians of profound interpretative depth, and capable of traversing a wide range of repertoire.”
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer
“A positively life-enhancing performance of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love in English with reduced ensemble by Wild Arts…”
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer
“The performance was a joy … and the quartet brought out its sense of both structural and linear perfection.” Holst’s Phantasy Quartet Op 36 performed by the Tippett Quartet.
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer
“The Tippett Quartet and Emma Abbate have performed Schumann’s Piano Quintet together many times. On this occasion they combined flawless execution with instinctive – and utterly engaging – musicianship.”
Claire Seymour, in Seen and Heard International.
“…this was a wonderfully enjoyable and engaging performance that really punched above its weight. The audience in Thaxted clearly loved it and were fully engaged, whilst this experienced reviewer was carried away as well.”
Wild Art’s production of The Elixir of Love, reviewed by Robert Hugill in Planet Hugill
“2 terrific concerts I heard with London Mozart Players.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer
“I think Gustav is smiling down to see how his memory and that of his best friend and colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams are honoured by the expertly played pieces they both composed.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer
“It's always the variety and quality which keeps me coming back.”
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