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PLG VISION�
� To
provide a prominent platform for outstanding young musicians
� To
organise notable and imaginative musical occasions
� To celebrate the lives and work of great musicians
During the
period 2001-2006, leading to the Park Lane Group�s 50th Anniversary
Year in 2006, activities will be concentrated in the areas detailed below.
���������������������������������������
��� The Young Artists
New Year Series in the Purcell Room
��� The Monday Platform
Concerts, Purcell Room
��� Young Artists Autumn
Weekend, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
��� Appearances in major
festivals
��� Master Classes by
great and distinguished international artists including� Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
��� The PLG Annual Young
Composers� Symposium in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer
��� Appearances in the
PLG�s new festival series The Composer in Person
��� New regular series
in Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff and Belfast
��� A European Young
Artists Platform with a high-profile exchange scheme
THE YOUNG
ARTISTS NEW YEAR SERIES
For 45
years, the Park Lane Group has provided and continues to provide a prominent
platform for outstanding young musicians at the start of their careers.� Each year, some 30 new young artists are
presented in the Purcell Room on the South Bank.�� Many than appear in concerts and festivals around Britain and in
other PLG events.� During the PLG�s
existence, approximately 1300 young musicians have taken part in the Series.
The PLG�s adventurous
programming and the well-known high quality of its Young Artists (chosen
through exacting auditions held also in the Purcell Room) means that the
Group�s performances are heard by discerning audiences, which include concert
promoters and festival organisers.�
Many music
critics from the national newspapers and magazines are present, and this has
resulted in the PLG platform being supported by a wealth of perceptive press
reviews.
The
concerts are recorded and for the last three years a large proportion of the
programmes have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Without the
PLG Young Artists New Year Series, such a comprehensive London debut is often
out of reach for even the most talented young artists.
The list of young artists given
these first opportunities is huge, so it is possible here to name only a few:
Thomas Ades ���������������������� Sir
Thomas Allen ����������������� David Atherton
Andrew Ball ������������������������ Noelle
Barker����������������������� Paul Barritt
Dame Josephine Barstow�� Emily
Beynon������������������������ David
Campbell
Imogen Cooper�������������������� Coull
String Quartet������������ Philippa Davies
Emperor String Quartet������ Stephanie
Gonley���������������� Clio Gould�
Rachel Gough����������������������� Katharine
Gowers��������������� Alan Hacker����������������
John Harle���������������������������� Richard
Hosford������������������� Tim Hugh��
Steven Isserlis��������������������� Dame
Gwyneth Jones��������� Mary King�
Stephen Kovacevich������������ Sarah
Leonard��������������������� Elizabeth
Layton��������
Julian Lloyd Webber������������ Jane
Manning����������������������� John McCabe�����
Medici String Quartet���������� Madeleine
Mitchell��������������� Nash Ensemble�����������
David Owen Norris�������������� John
Ogdon�������������������������� Antony Pay��������
Anthony Rolfe Johnson������� Michael
Thompson��������������� Sarah Walker����
John Wallace������������������������ Paul
Watkins������������������������ Moray
Welsh���������������
David Wilson-Johnson �������� Catherine
Wyn-Rogers
It is the
success of these and other fine artists which has establish the Park Lane Group
as a leading platform for highly gifted young performers.
As a direct
result, generations of Britain�s young talent have benefited from nearly 1000
performances in events initiated by the PLG: Young Artists, Anniversary
Concerts, Chamber Music, Master Classes, Park Lane Opera, the Composer in
Person, British String Quartets and International Prizewinners.
Master Classes have been given by the great singers Hughes Cuenod
and Hans Hotter, the latter recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.� Future classes will be given by Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau and others.
Young Artists� auditions are held during
February-April each year. �Please see
the entry below for fuller information.
AUDITIONS FOR
THE PLG NEW YEAR SERIES 2003
will be held in February, March and early April 2002 in the
Purcell Room.��
Age limit 29
years at the time of audition.
���
Full details and
application form from:
Park Lane Group, Langham
House, 308 Regent Street
London W1B
3AT
Tel: 020 7255
1025 Fax: 020 7255 1890
CHAMBER
MUSIC� �����
����������� Gallery Concerts (linked with major art
exhibitions in and out of London)
����������� String Quartets Plus (programmes
including major quintets)
����������� Music and Architecture (inspired by
outstanding buildings in and out of
����������� London)
����������� A new String Quartet Series in Central
London each August (when it is nearly impossible to hear high quality chamber
music in the capital)
(go back)
��� The PLG�s new education plans are under development and will give
our brightest young artists further essential stepping stones to success
ANNIVERSARIES� and MEMORIALS
The Park Lane Group�s anniversary and
memorial celebrations are acclaimed and have become a tradition.� The first occasion was in 1962, Dame Edith
Sitwell�s 75th Birthday Concert in the Royal Festival Hall.� Festivities are planned as far ahead as
2006.
��� �Dame Joan Sutherland 75th (2001)
��� �Jon Vickers 75th
(2001)
��� �Miles Davis 75th
(2001)
��� �Sir William Walton 100th
(2002)
��� �Stan Tracey 75th
(2002)
��� �Dame Cleo Laine and John
Dankworth 75th (2002)
��� �Sir Lennox Berkeley 100th
(2003)
��� �Priaulx Rainier 100th
(2003)
��� �Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
70th (2006)
Anniversaries
Celebrated
200th
The Band of the Life
Guards� 1995
Hector Berlioz� 2003
100th
Fred Astaire� 1999
Sir Lennox
Berkeley� 2003
Hector Berlioz� 1969
Lord Berners� 1983
Eubie Blake� 1983
Frank Bridge� 1979
TS Eliot� 1988
Sidonie Goossens (in
her presence) 2000
Charles Ives� 1974
Charles
Koechlin� 1967
Carl Nielsen� 1965
Priaulx Rainier� 2003
Albert Roussel� 1969
Adolphe Sax� 1994
Jean Sibelius� 1965
Sir William
Walton� 2002
95th
Dame Ninette de
Valois� 1993
85th
Larry Adler� 1999
Sir Michael
Tippett� 1989� PLG President 1983-1998
80th
Alban Berg� 1965
75th
Sir Lennox
Berkeley� 1978
Dame Cleo Laine and
John Dankworth� 2002
Dietrich
Discher-Dieskau� 2000
Dame Elizabeth
Maconchy� 1982
Priaulx Rainier� 1978
Dame Joan
Sutherland� 2001
Jon Vickers� 2001
Sir William
Walton� 1977� PLG President 1970-1983
70th
Sir Richard Rodney
Bennett� 2006
Elisabeth
Lutyens� 1976
Stan Tracey� 1996
65th
Sir Malcolm
Arnold� 1976
60th
Peter Dickinson� 1994
Alan Hacker� 1998
John Ogdon� 1997
50th
Constant
Lambert� 2001
John Ogdon� 1987
Giles Swayne� 1996
MEMORIALS
Sir Lennox
Berkeley� 1989
Lord Menuhin� 1999
Sir Andrezj
Panufnik� 1991
The PLG also conceives and organises unusual and pioneering
large-scale events:
��� Gallery Concerts
��� Westminster Organ Festival
��� Concerts in Park Lane Hotels
��� Opera Films in the Queen Elizabeth Hall
��� Berlioz Bicentennial in the Courtyard of Somerset House
Some Celebrated
Occassions
��� A concert with sixteen Steinway grand pianos in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, conductor Sir Colin Davis, to celebrate the PLG�s 25th
Anniversary in 1981;
��� Two all-day
Summer Organ Festival, the first in the Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of
Organists and Royal College of Arts; the second in Westminster Abbey, Central
Hall Westminster and St Margaret�s Westminster;
��� Wagner�s complete Ring Cycle (the Bayreuth Festival 1991/92
Barenboim/ Kupfer production on video) shown on the Queen Elizabeth Hall giant
14 x 33 ft screen, during the Easter weekend 1995;
��� Two pilot tours (Paris Electronic Music Studio 1969/London
Sinfonietta 1972to demonstrate the value of a UK national contemporary music
network.� The annual scheme has
continued ever since as the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network;
��� An all-day Sing with Royal Opera! at the Barbican, the whole
audience rehearsing and performing with the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra
directed by Terry Edwards;
��� Charles Ives� 100th Birthday Concert in Grosvenor Square
with the Band of the Life Guards and the Alexandra Choir, broadcast live by BBC
Radio 3;
��� A performance of the Complete Mozart String Quartets in one day at
the Everyman Cinema, Hampstead performed by seventeen ensembles;
��� London Planetarium concerts for children and adults;
��� The first-ever Illustrated Introduction to a new opera production
in the Royal pera House: Schoenberg�s Moses and Aaron with Sir Georg Solti and
Sir Peter Hall in 1965.
VENUES �
The
founding seasons 1956-1960 were given in Park Lane House, 45 Park Lane, London
W1, provided for the PLG free of charge�
by Mr G P Catchpole.
Noelle
Barker, Susan Bradshaw, Alan Hacker, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Courtney Kenny, John
Ogdon and Johanna Peters were among the young musicians who made their first
London appearances on the PLG platform during this early period.� The success of these seasons made it
imperative to continue.
Since then,
the Park Lane Group has presented its performances in many venues, as
below.�� Currently, most PLG events are
held in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, the Linbury
Studio Theatre in the Royal Opera House and in a number of festivals.
LONDON�
American Embassy Lecture Theatre
Banqueting House, Whitehall
Barbican Hall
Bloomsbury Theatre
Camden Festival
Central Hall, Westminster
Fishmongers� Hall
Hampstead and Highgate Festival
Hayward Gallery
Purcell Room
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Raphael Cartoon Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Festival Hall
St Bartholomew-the-Great
St John�s, Smith Square
St Margaret�s, Westminster
South Bank Centre, Rhythm Sticks Festival
Westminster Abbey
Wigmore Hall
OUTSIDE LONDON�
Birmingham University
Cheltenham International Festival
Durham University
Exeter Cathedral
Guildford Civic Hall
Huddersfield Festival
Lancaster University
Oxford, Holywell Music Room
Salisbury City Hall
Southampton University
Windsor Festival
York University
A major
aspect of PLG policy is its continuing programme of premieres and commissions
which now total well over 500.��
Featured Composers are a regular part of the New Year Series; among
these have been:
David Bedford������������ George Benjamin������� Richard Rodney Bennett
Benjamin
Britten�������� Diana Burrell��������������� Pilip Cashian
Michael Finnissy���������� Anthony Gilbert���������� Alexander Goehr
Iain
Hamilton�������������� Jonathan Harvey������� Elisabeth Lutyens
Colin
Matthews����������� Nicholas Maw�������������� John McCabe
Edward
McGuire��������� Thea �Musgrave��������� Paul
Patterson
Anthony
Payne����������� Edwin Roxburgh�������� Giles Swayne
Michael
Tippett����������� William Walton������������ Judith Weir
Philip
Wilby������������������ Hugh Wood
PLG YOUNG COMPOSERS NEW YEAR SYMPOSIUM 2002�
The PLG�s annual Young Composers� Symposium, held in the Foyer of
the Queen Elizabeth Hall, began in 1998 In close collaboration with the
Composition Departments of
City University������������������� Goldsmiths'
College���������������������
King's College London �� Guildhall
School of Music & Drama
Kingston University��������������������� London
College of Music at Thames University
Royal Academy of Music Royal
College of Music
Royal Holloway College�� Trinity
College of Music
University of Surrey Music Department.
The Symposium aims to benefit leading students at these establishments
by
��� providing an important
platform for the performance and recording of their works by fellow
���
��� students;
��� arranging discussions,
talks and instrumental demonstrations;
��� providing an open musical meeting
ground for the students from the varied musical�
��� �� establishments.
Park Lane Opera has mounted and presented productions of operas
by:
Berlioz���������������������� Beatrice and Benedict **
Bizet������������������������� Doctor Miracle **
Britten���������������������� The Rape of Lucretia *
Delius����������������������� Fennimore and Gerda
����������������������������������� Margot la Rouge ***
Haydn����������������������� La Fedelta Premiata ***
Lecocq��������������������� Doctor Miracle ***
Menotti��������������������� Maria Golovin ***
����������������������������������� The Old Maid and the Thief *
Mozart���������������������� Il Re Pastore
����������������������������������� La Finta Giardiniera ***
����������������������������������� La Finta Semplice ***
Musgrave���������������� The Abbot of Drimock ****/*
Offenbach��������������� The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein
Poulenc������������������� La Voix Humaine
����������������������������������� Les Mamelles de Tiresias **
Rimsky-Korsakov� Mozart and Salieri
Rossini��������������������� Tancredi *
Smetana������������������ The Secret ***
Stravinsky��������������� Mavra
Tchaikovsky����������� Iolanta ***
****����� Premiere
***������� 1st UK production
**�������� 1st London production
*���������� Concert performance
The producers, usually making their debuts in London, have included
Anthony Besch, Robert Carsen, Colin Graham, Gian-Carlo Menotti and Christopher
Renshaw.
THE FRIENDS
OF THE PARK LANE GROUP�
The Friends consist of people who have a strong interest in the
PLG�s work and who want these activities maintained and developed.�� There are many ways in which the Friends
can help and PLG seasons often have role in ensuring the future of the Group.
Individual and Joint Membership is available to all those who
enjoy concerts, exhibitions and lectures and who value the Park Lane Group and
all it seeks� to achieve;
Being a Friend of the PLG also brings good privileges:� 40% reduction on ticket prices to most of the
Group�s events, a variety of special offers, invitations to special Friends
events, plus many benefits including discounts on tickets, CDs and books;
The suggested minimum annual donation is �25 for one person and
�40 for Joint Friends.� Many supporters
pay by Direct Debit and so are listed as Annual Donors to the Group.� Many contribute larger amounts.
Concessions are available to senior citizens and students.
A donation form is available from the PLG (contact address :
Langham House, 308 Regent Street, London W1B 3AT, tel: 020 7255 1025, fax: 020
7255 1890;� or it can be downloaded from
the PLG email address: [email protected]
The form also details the extremely simple �Gift Aid� scheme:
giving by �Gift� Aid� is of great
benefit to the PLG as the taxable amount can be reclaimed at no extra cost to
the donor.�
For example, at a tax rate of 23%, �25 immediately becomes worth
�30.75.
Help in kind is also most welcome including volunteer service at
the PLG� Table at public performances.
Please add your own support to the PLG � the minimum donation is
modest and you will make a vital contribution to the future of PLG activities.
The vision of the Park Lane Group is clear enough.� The challenge is finding the money to make
these brilliant events happen.
The Park Lane Group has no capital and no reserves beyond its
Endowment Fund.� Even this is small, and
should be larger!
So the PLG must raise money for every one of its events.� It has often found these resources from
enlightened individual, and their help has been, in the real sense of the word,
a blessing.
But the Park Lane Group, with its charitable status, is looking to
the very widest sponsorship opportunities.
COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS���
�� The PLG has acquired a lot of prestige in
national and international circles.
����� A Company can share in that, by its
support, and even link its name with the
����� PLG in the title of important events.
�� �Sponsoring an event means abundant opportunities for featuring a
Company�s
����� �name, often in ways tailor-made for a Company�s needs and with
attractive
����� �opportunities for entertaining clients.
�����
�� �Sponsoring a new work from a talented composer brings all these
benefits,
����� �plus a direct link with modern creativity.
�����
�� �A
Company can profitably� host an
international musical occasion, with famous
����� �artists, sometimes at its own headquarters
�����
�� � or
it can play host to musical evenings where the players are the
����� �
internationally famous artists of the future.
�����
�� �In
the PLG�s programme books, a Company advertisement will put you
����� �alongside others who have an individual character and who want to
reach
����� �an
influential readership.
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT�
��� Every single donation
can help transform funding for a particular event.� If
��� made from taxable
income, it can be boosted by �Gift Aid�.�
We provide the
��� simple form.
�� At a 23% tax rate, �25
becomes �30.75.
�� At 40%, �250 becomes
�350.
�� �Donations to the PLG�s Endowment Fund also increase when made by
�Gift� Aid�.
�����
�� �Can
you think of others who would respond to the PLG�s ethos and ambitions?
�����
�� �Do
you know of Trust or Foundations, including those less well-known, to which the
PLG��
������ might apply?
�����
�� �Bequests in wills are invaluable.�
Do you know of people who might make such bequests?
�����
�� �Please tell us of individuals who might welcome receiving
information about
����� �
the PLG; also companies.
�����
�� �Do
you know of mailing-lists which agree to include PLG material?
�����
�� �Please consider yourself becoming a Friend of PLG.
�����
� Would you, or your
friends, host a musical evening with brilliant young artists
��� as a Benefit for the
PLG?
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS���
����� �Trusts and Foundations can provide direct funding for PLG
projects, and�
����� �
can also:
�� �Give special
endowment funds for brilliant young musicians
�� �Make
money available for commissions
����� �
�� �Add
to the PLG�s essential Endowment Fund
IF YOU WOULD
LIKE TO HELP, PLEASE CONTACT US AT
Park Lane Group
Langham House
308 Regent Street
London
W1B 3AT
tel: 020 7255 1025
fax: 020 7255 1890
email: [email protected]