Box office for all tickets to the Festival can be found at http://ck200.live.

We are thrilled to announce the World Première of the new orchestration of Cyril Rootham’s ‘Andromeda’ (specially commissioned for the Charles Kingsley 200 Festival) will be performed on both evenings – Friday 14th June  and Saturday 15th June at 7.30pm   Lucinda Cox, a British soprano will be performing the part of Andromeda and David Jones a London-based baritone will perform, and possibly fly in his role as Perseus.

Lucinda Cox has worked internationally on a wide range of repertoire and is based in London, having completed undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, and postgraduate at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland.

David Jones is a London-based baritone working in opera, operetta, song and oratorio. In 2018 he devised, produced and performed Song Cycle 2018, cycling over 1000 miles through the UK on his Brompton folding bike, performing Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel in 18 concerts along the way. The project was featured in The Times and raised over £1000 for the work of the charity Live Music Now.

Dan Keen, a London based orchestrator,  arranged the edition of Cyril Rootham’s ‘Andromeda’ for a 12-piece ensemble and choir.

Visit http://ck200.live for festival and ticket information.

MassMotion is a sophisticated modelling tool used internationally by planners and architects to study people flows through a wide range of environments,

Charles  Kingsley Society is  supported by Oasys,  the  software  company that developed the product and who have  granted us a licence. Normally used on much larger projects, this  versatile  tool is helping us predict flow control and ticketing strategies for the ck200 festival 14-15 June next.

More information about MassMotion can be found here

Charles Kingsley 200 Festival Pageant – The History of Child Labour in Our Community    has been awarded a grant  by the Heritage lottery Fund.

The pageant is a joint project with  Charles Kingsley Society,  King’s College London, The Museum of English Rural Life  and Charles Kingsley Primary School, Eversley.

Details of the pageant will appear on the festival website ck200.live

 

 

The festival box office  where you can pre-book events for next year is now open

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Quintin Beer (conductor), Julia Stutfield (Cantata Dramatica), Dan Rootham (grandson of the composer) with David Lister (chairman) at the site of the  CK200 festival where the production of Andromeda will take place.

 

9th July,  Graham, Peter and I attended the decision day of the Cultural, Community and Activity Grants of Hampshire County Council – Peter had applied for funding in March this year. We were supported by Councillor David Simpson who also spoke on our behalf. The banners were used (photo attached) and helped us in our mission to get some funding from HCC. The decision on our application has been deferred and we have been invited to meet HCC and discuss further. However, the general view was that they are minded to help as much as funds permit.

The Committee  has  registered The Charles Kingsley Society as the formal name of the body that will run the  Charles Kingsley 200 Festival in 2019; and in addition other activities beyond the festival, so that there may be an enduring legacy, centred in Eversley, to celebrate his life and work.

From Anthony Bateman

Many thanks for the update.  We have added a link to your website and some basic introductory content on Visit Hampshire website in our Famous People section  https://www.visit-hampshire.co.uk/ideas-and-inspiration/famous-people

We’ll look to develop more content as your programme develops.  This can include specific events in our What’s On https://www.visit-hampshire.co.uk/whats-on  when you have dates pinned down and more content on a specific page.

Andrew Bateman
Tourism Manager
Economy, Transport and Environment
Hampshire County Council

Dr Jonathan Conlin BA Oxon MA PhD Cantab FRHistS FHA  has joined the committee to curate our planned series of Talks to be held during the festival.

Jon’s interest in Charles Kingsley led to his Hawarden workshop last July, where he gathered a   multinational group  academics  committed  to researching  the life of CK.

Jon is currently  a senior lecturer at Southampton University and a more detailed biography and list of published works can be found here.

Dr Conlin brings great insight and plenty of exciting ideas to our team and we are delighted that he has agreed to join the Charles Kingsley 200 project.

Peter Ormrod

(from David Lister)

Dear All,

For your information, below is a copy of the relevant part of an email I have received from Caroline Jones, who is the archivist at Wellington College. It increases my respect and admiration for CK’s breadth of knowledge. I hope the Rootham family are getting on with typing out the musical score  for Andromeda by Cyril Rootham. I have emailed her back and said we would indeed be interested in seeing printed documents from the Wellingtonian, and if it is opportune, and if she has the time, we could get Caroline personally involved

Caroline writes:

I regret that I am almost certain that we do not have a copy of the choral setting for ‘Andromeda’. I cannot be categorical as the archives are not fully catalogued, but I am fairly familiar with them and am not aware of any such item, nor any part of the collection where it is likely to be. There is, however, a reference to the poem in an article on verse forms published in the Wellingtonian magazine of July 1886, as follows:

You are correct that Charles Kingsley was a friend of the first headmaster of Wellington, Edward White Benson, and frequently visited him. His signature appears in the first Visitor’s Book, and indeed it was he who introduced the sport of cross-country running at Wellington, and our leading race has been known as ‘The Kingsley’ ever since. He was also a supporter of the College’s Natural Science Society, and the Wellingtonian contains several reports of his presence at meetings or his giving talks to the Society. Moreover, Kingsley supported the school by sending his son Maurice here as a pupil.

If you would like printed copies of some of these documents which mention Kingsley for your festival, do let me know and I will make copies for you.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Caroline Jones