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The Young Victoria

UK cinema release Friday 6th March

                           

  

Key events in one of this year's most eagerly awaited films 'The Young Victoria'   were filmed at  Arundel Castle

Arundel Castle  open to public Saturday 4 April to Sunday 1 November 2009

Directed by the award-winning Jean-Marc Vallee and written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes

'The Young Victoria' features an all-star cast headed by Emily Blunt as Victoria and Rupert Friend as Prince Albert.

Co-produced by Martin Scorsese and Graham King: King said  ".. he chose Arundel Castle as one of the locations because it was “a wondrous place”..  

 

Three members of staff at ancient Arundel Castle, more used to describing the life and times of the stately ancestral home to thousands of visitors, found themselves caught up in Victorian high politics and royal intrigue at their workplace.  Head

gardener Gerry Kelsey and castle guides Roger Butterworth and Roddy Weaver abandoned their usual duties for a day to don period costume after successfully auditioning to join the cast during the making of 'The Young Victoria'.  

The movie, co-produced by Academy Award-winning Graham King and Martin Scorsese, tells the story of Queen Victoria’s early years and is due to go on general release in March.  King said he chose Arundel Castle as one of the locations because it was “a wondrous place”.  Key events in Victoria’s life, which historically took place at Windsor Castle, were actually filmed at Arundel acting as a stand in for the Royal residence.

Roger Butterworth; Roddy Weaver; and Gerry Kelsey in front of the fireplace in the Barons' Hall, Arundel Castle: New 2008 The Collector Earl's Garden: Poster for 'The Young Victoria'; Roger Butterworth; Roddy Weaver; Bryan McDonald - Arundel Castle's Head of Opening who co-ordinated the arrangements for the filming; and Gerry Kelsey photographed in the Barons' Hall, Arundel Castle

Gerry Kelsey, Arundel head gardener for 15 years and responsible for the upkeep of around 40 acres of gardens and grounds, found himself cast as a Beefeater. “I didn’t go in for it at first because I thought I’d be really busy in the gardens, but the opportunity came up and I couldn’t resist it,” he said.   But the role didn’t come without some artistic inconvenience. “I didn’t realise it would be such hard work, but I was on my feet standing to attention from eight until the early hours of the morning. It was agonising because my shoes were very tight and my feet were bleeding by the end of the day.”   But Gerry didn’t entirely abandon his day job during filming. He also got the chance to take actress Miranda Richardson, who plays the Duchess of Kent, on a conducted tour of the castle gardens.

Roddy Weaver, whose work as a castle guide over the last three years includes educational tours for schoolchildren, found himself dressed in a powdered wig, long red gown, knee breeches, white stockings and Victorian shoes for a royal dinner scene filmed in the Barons’ Hall.   “My role was to fill the guests’ glasses with diluted apple juice masquerading as white wine and I was on the set from 10.30am until 9.30pm,” he said. “It’s a five-minute scene but it actually took all day and 65 takes.  It was a real insight into the movie business.”

                                                                                   

Roger Butterworth, a part-time guide at Arundel for two years, got to join the dinner guests by taking the part of a diplomat, complete with splendid formal Victorian dress uniform.   He spent much of the day sitting at the royal table alongside actor Jim Broadbent, who plays William IV, Miranda Richardson and around 60 other extras.   “We had to be up there by 6am for costumes and hair,” he said. “Make-up was no problem, but the hair was. Initially they wanted to shave off my beard. I was a bit unhappy about this, so instead they shaved off part of it to make it look more 1830s. There was an army of hairdressers at work.”

 

It wasn’t the first time Queen Victoria, real or imaginery, had been to the Sussex castle.   Along with her husband Albert, she visited the ancestral home of the Dukes of Norfolk for three days in December 1846 after travelling from Osborne House, the couple’s home on the Isle of Wight.  Other Royal visitor's to Arundel Castle:

     

      HRH Queen Elizabeth II   July 1954                                                                         May  2008 HRH Charles, the Prince of Wales, Gerry Kelsey and The Duchess of Norfolk

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arundel castle - open to the public 4th April to November 2009

 
   
 
 
Celebrating the life of Dame Anita Roddick
 
CLICK TO PURCHASEAll proceeds from the sale of this DVD are going to the work of
I Am An Activist.

On 23 October 2007, thousands of thinkers, artists, activists, and other heroic saboteurs of the status quo gathered to celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Dame Anita Roddick.
Watch and listen to figures from Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Reprieve, The Body Shop, as well as family and close friends, as they laugh and cry and ultimately take to the streets to launch a new movement in activism inspired by the one and only Anita Roddick.

Selected Quotes From Some of the Speakers at I AM AN ACTIVIST
 
"[Anita was] the human equivalent of a flag, a claxon, a torch, a flare, an alarm clock. ... Uncompromising, inspiring and visionary, an active world citizen, but still funny, sexy, and overflowing."
Alan Rickman, actor and activist
 
"Beethoven said, 'If it comes from the heart, it goes to the heart.' That quote speaks volumes about my mum. I believe it is the reason my mum touched so many people. Whether you agreed with her or not, or whether you liked her or not, the one thing that is really non-negotiable, the one thing that is not up for discussion, is that all she did as a parent or as an activist, it really all did come from the heart."
Justine Roddick
 
My mother treated life like each day was her last, and this gave her the permission for incredible bravery. ... Tonight I am personally pledging that I Am An Activist, and within that, I also will have a lot of fun, and I also will be silly. I will not be polite and I will never, ever, ask for permission.
Sam Roddick
 
"Many have the resources Anita had, but few have the moral fortitude to use those resources to achieve the only truly important goal of social and environmental sustainability."
Herman Wallace, member of the Angola 3 Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola
 
"She was, in my opinion, one of the world's greatest communicators."
Adrian Bellamy, Chairman of The Body Shop

 

 
 
 
   
 
 

Remembrance Sunday

The Sunday nearest to the 11th November is designated to the anniversary when hostilities in the First World War ended (1918). 

The eleventh hour - on the eleventh day - of the eleventh month.

The Soldier
Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.   There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

 

Rupert Brooke Society: www.rupertbrooke.com


Horace
Odes

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
propitious timidove tergo

How sweet and fitting it is to die for your native land:
Death pursues the man who flees,
Spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs
Of battle-shy youths.


Dulce Et Decorum Est
 Wilfrid Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And floundering like a man in fire or lime
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfrid Owen Association  www.1914-18.co.uk

 

 
   
 
 
 
 
 
Remembrance Poppy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/remembrance/flash/

Poppies have been associated with sleep and death - the eternal ‘sleep’ since pre Greco-Roman myths ascribed the scarlet colour with the promise of resurrection after death.

Wartime Remembrance adopted the Poppy following the World War 1 campaign - specifically those fought across the County of Flanders: the campaign battles of ‘Ypres’ - ‘Passcendale’ - and ‘the Somme‘. Collectively known as ‘Flander’s Field’.

These Battles are commemorated in the ‘Mons Star’ medal.

The poppy thrives in disturbed ground; the ’Corn Poppy’ was officially adopted: made by veterans until 1998, the ‘Earl Haig Remembrance Poppy’ Sold on behalf of the ‘British Legion Charity’ is flat with a green leaf.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flander’s field.

Take up our quarrel with the foe,
To you from falling hands we throw.
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flander’s fields.

John McCrae 1915 (d:1918)

 
 
 
 
   
 
 

A Public Memorial Service will be held for  Dame Anita Roddick in Westminster Central Hall, London on Tuesday 23rd October 2007

“..I will miss her every day.   At 6.30pm on Monday 10th September someone reached into my heart and turned out all the lights.   In an instant that funny, vibrant woman who was my wife, lover and closest friend was gone...   Gordon Roddick

 
 
 
 

“..As Anita loved to say: “the job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.  So we ask only that you take your spark, go out and do something.  Engage.  Learn.  Be fiercely kind.  Have a child’s sense of wonderment.  Tell someone you love them.  Write a letter to the Editor.  Demand a better media.  Contact your representatives in government.  Talk about sex shamelessly.  Eat pasta.  Give change to a homeless person.  Buy organic.  Donate to - or volunteer for ‘Greenpeace’, ‘Amnesty International’, ‘Reprieve’, ‘Coalition to Free the Angola Three’, - or the cause that most connects with your heart and soul..”  - Gordon Roddick  October 2007

 
 
 
   
 
 

The ‘Downland Art Society’ Autumn Exhibition
St. Nicholas Hall, Arundel Monday 22nd to Sunday 28th October

An ‘Art Society’ was conceived by local artists at the end of the Second World War when the skies were still full of fighter aircraft out of the front line airfields of ‘RAF Ford‘, ‘Tangmere’ and ‘West Hampnett‘. Meeting at the studio of Maurice Randall, an established professional artist, in 1944 their prime purpose in organising the first exhibition of local artist’s works was to raise funds to purchase an ambulance for the Barnham area community.

There was growing optimism at the end of 1944 that the War had been taken back to Germany and on the 8th May VE ‘Victory in Europe’ was celebrated. Seven months later the group of 12 local artists met and the ‘Downland Art Society’ was formally established.

Sixty-two years on the ‘Downland Art Society’ is holding its Autumn Exhibition at the St. Nichols Hall, Mill Road - beneath the Battlements of Arundel Castle
from Monday 22nd October to Sunday 28th October 10.00 to 17.00hrs

Admission is free and the original works by the local members may be purchased on the day. The exhibition provides an opportunity for artists to display their recent works and for the public to meet the artists, view the latest works and purchase original art directly.

Details of how to join the ‘Downland Art Society’ will be available at the Exhibition or contact John Bradbury on 01903-771123 www.downland.org


 
   
 
 

Henry Arundel, 19 driving for ‘Fortec Motorsport’ has been nominated for the prestigious 2007 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. The other four nominees are Duncan Tappy, Dean Smith, Callum MacLeod and Stefan Wilson.

The winner will be announced at the 2007 Autosport Awards Ceremony 2nd December at the Grosvenor House, London.

The UK’s passion for Formula 1 has been rekindled in 2007 by Lewis Hamilton’s astonishing run of Grand Prix successes driving his first season for Team McLaren.

Closer to home Arundel has its own rising star driver - Henry Arundel, eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk - driving for ‘Fortec Motorsport’ in the Formula BMW UK Championship.

Finishing the 2006 Season as ‘Rookie Driver of the Year’ Henry Arundel is currently second - ten points behind his Fortec team mate Marcus Ericsson - going into the 9th and 10th Rounds at Oulton Park in Cheshire on the 23rd and 24th June.

Formula BMW UK Championship

Created by BMW Motorsport in 2001 ‘Formula BMW’ is a junior racing formula for single seater cars. Formula BMW has expanded to encompass four championships on three continents.

To be eligible drivers must be 15 years old, not hold an International racing licence higher than grade ‘C’ and not have competed in any international racing series other than karting.

Competitors benefit from BMW Motorsport’s education and coaching programme based at two centres at the ‘Circuit de Valencia’ in Spain and the ‘Sakhir International Circuit’ in Bahrain. BMW provides five annual scholarships (UK£35,000) for the five leading young drivers in each championship

The best drivers from each championship are also invited to the Formula BMW World Final The winner is awarded a Formula One test with BMW - Sauber.

 
 
   
 


 

Snake River Press

Snake River Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2006 by Peter Bridgewater, which creates beautiful and collectable cultural guidebooks about Sussex.

The books explore with care and integrity the art, culture, heritage, history, landscape and notable personalities of the county, constructing a unique record of life in Sussex.

Snake River Press publications are beautifully produced, very much in the ‘Arts and Crafts’ tradition. Says Peter, “I apply exceptionally high production values at every stage of the manufacturing process, from the choice of typeface to the stylish bindings and market ribbons.

Peter Bridgewater plans to keep the Snake River Press local, creating enchanting titles of integrity, on Sussex-based subjects.

           



   
 

Arundel Festival 2007

Natasha Marsh - soprano
www.natashamarsh.com

Arundel Castle Friday 24th August 2007
www.arundelfestival.co.uk  www.ticketmaster.co.uk

 

What the press says:

‘Fedora’ - Holland Park Opera 2006
“Natasha Marsh, a glittering Olga” (The Times)
“..a dazzling Olga shows promise of a lustrous career” (The Observer)

‘Carmen’ - Royal Albert Hall 2005
“..the real star of the show was Natasha Marsh’s Micaela. She conveyed both the vulnerability and Spirit of a role that can amount to little more than just one show-stopping aria. She provided the best singing of the afternoon with that - not just in terms
of technique but because the emotion of the aria really came from somewhere.” (The Independent)

‘La Boheme‘ Opera Holland Park 2004
“Natasha Marsh makes a splendid ‘Musetta‘, as Coquettish and secure vocally as she is physically (Metro)

‘Idomeneo’ - Opera North 2003
“Natasha Marsh makes her Opera North debut as ‘Ilia’ .. it is a strong debut, her part carried with clear confidence and fitting grace” (The Yorkshire Post)

The Turn of the Screw’
- Grange Park Opera 2002

“Natasha Marsh confirms her star potential ..a Felicity Lott In the making” (The Sunday Times) “Natasha Marsh breathed enough night-sweat into the phrase ‘he could see how well I do his bidding’ to steam up the theatre. Hers is a wonderful performance of gradual unhinging, sung and phrased with levels of suggestion rarely heard.” (The Times)

‘Fortunio’ Grange Park Opera 2001
“The cast is first rate with Jacqueline winningly taken by the soprano Natsha Marsh, imposing of voice and figure, who convincingly twists every man around her little finger” (The Guardian)
“Natasha Marsh” looks as lovely as she sounds and brings a bright, burnished soprano and serious professionalism to her performance” (Opera Now)
“The ravishing Natasha Marsh, the outstanding Grange Park Star this year.” (The Evening Standard)

Natasha was brought up in an intensely creative household where music was rarely off the agenda; she grew up listening to anything from ‘Steeleye Span’ to ’Bach’ and ’Mozart’ via ’Shirley Bassey’ and ’Whitney Houston’ and, from an early age, decided she’d follow in ’Julie Andrews’ sainted footsteps into musical theatre. An early and passionate devotee of music on stage and screen, Natasha sang in dozens of school productions, spent four years with the ’National Youth Music Theatre’ and at 17, started taking singing lessons with her (still current) music teacher. At 21 she graduated with a First in music and Drama from Birmingham University and won a coveted scholarship to the ‘Royal College of Music Opera School’.

“I knew my voice had potential” remembers Natasha, “but I hadn’t really considered opera at that stage so I was very honoured to get a place at the Opera School and to be able to maximise the opportunity of developing my voice and seeing where it would lead me. Then as soon as I started studying the art of singing and performing opera, singing in different languages and learning the process of developing a role, that was it, I was hooked!”

Natasha subsequently made her critically acclaimed debut with ‘Grange Park Opera’ singing Jacqueline in ‘Fortunio’ by Andre Messager; she returned to sing the roles of Governess in Britten’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and ‘Donna Elvira’ in ‘Don Giovanni’. She won the ‘MOCSA - Young Singer of the Year Award1999’ and has since created the title role in Michael Berkeley‘s new opera ‘Jane Eyre’ with great success for ‘Music Theatre Wales’.

Roles with a number of opera companies include ‘Musetta’ in ‘Opera Holland Park’s production of ‘La Boheme’, ‘Michaela’ (Carmen) at the Royal Albert Hall - “Natasha provided the best singing of the afternoon, not just in terms of technique but because the emotion of the aria really came from somewhere. She alone seemed to be acting and behaving through her character” (The Independent) and First Lady in the ‘Magic Flute’ with ‘Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Opera North offered Natasha the opportunity to debut the role of Ilia in Tim Albery’s production of ‘Idomeneo’ and the following year she sang ‘Pamina’ (Die Zauberflote) for ‘Opera Zuid’. This summer she performed as ‘Olga’ in Umberto Giordano’s ‘Fedora’ at ‘Opera Holland Park’.

“There’s no beauty and power in opera”, Natasha says. “I love every minute of it - from the first day of rehearsals you’re exploring details of the character, developing the role in your voice, getting to know your character. And the costumes are so important - I find shoes are vital to the character, the way you wear them and therefore the way you walk in them. It’s easier to portray a role once I’ve got the shoes on; I get so involved in the role, the build-up to opening night is often a rollercoaster ride and it’s important to pace myself so I’m not exhausted for the premiere!”

Natasha’s festival appearances include the ‘Birmingham Early Music Festival’ and the ‘London Handel Festival’ where she performed as ‘Flavia’ in ‘Silla’ - recorded by Hyperion. She has performed at the ‘Beaumarais Festival’ and at the ‘Teatro Calderon’ in Spain. Her oratorio work includes Tippett’s ‘A Child of our Time’ under David Hill, the ‘Messiah’ at the ‘Arlosen Festival’, Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and ‘Silete Venti’ with the ‘London Handel Festival Orchestra’ at Windsor Castle. Natasha has performed the Mozart ‘Requiem’ and ‘Exsultate Jubilate’ with Harry Christophers and ‘The Sixteen’ in Spain along with making her Proms debut as ‘Israelite Woman’ in Handel’s ‘Samson’ She also performs regularly at Raymond Gubbay’s classical evenings.

Natasha’s debut album “Amour” <link here> has topped the classical album charts.
Performing with tenor Alfie Boe at Arundel Castle Festival, Friday 24th August 2007

www.natashamarsh.com    www.arundelfestival.co.uk    www.ticketmaster.co.uk


Alfie Boe - tenor
www.alfie-boe.com

Arundel Castle Friday 24th August 2007
www.arundelfestival.co.uk  www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Alfie’s journey began in Blackpool. His mother, of Irish descent and father, of Norwegian descent, loved family life and Alfie was the 9th child for the Boe household.

“On Sundays we’d sit around the dinner table with my father playing his favourite tenor Richard Tauber. Al these wonderful 1930’s records would drift throughout the house. As a kid I would just sit there itching for my cue to leave the table. I had no idea how much those Sunday afternoons would play such a big part in determining my path. When I was eleven I listened to ‘La Boheme’ highlights album but I didn’t connect to it at all. Then, when I was 19 I was given the CD of the whole opera and it was like ‘Wow!’ all those wonderful memories came flooding back - something kick started inside of me..”

It was at this time Alfie was doing his apprenticeship at the TVR car factory in Blackpool. He was overheard singing by a customer who pushed him in the direction of the D’Oyly Carte touring opera company. He passed his audition and Alfie’s incredible journey had begun.

After travelling the length and breadth of the country with his sights firmly fixed on opera, he decided to return to college. He moved to London and studied at The Royal College of Music, The National Opera Studio and The Royal Opera House programme Villar Young Artists. Luckily, Alfie isn’t shy of hard work. His days were spent studying and at night he found a string of jobs to fund himself through colleg;

“One of my favourite jobs was doing security at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. I used to be a drummer in a rock band and being able to see all the bands AND get paid for it was great.”

It was whilst Alfie was at the ROH Young Artists Programme that he got his first breakthrough. Baz Luhrmann, who had spent two years looking for the lead for his controversial production of Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’, approached Alfie for the role. Lurmann expands, “We came to London to hear a young tenor called Alfie Boe who turned out to be absolutely extraordinary. I couldn’t believe the luck we had..” La Boheme played on Broadway, New York for 9 months and then went on tour across the States. The critics and audiences alike embraced the show with open arms.

Alfie went on to win a Tony Award for his performance on Broadway which today sits next to his John McCormack Young Voice Award and Lyric Tenor of the World Audience Award.

Alfie has performed in some of our most cherished venues including The Royal Opera House and at Glyndebourne. In 2006, another dream came true when he performed at the Royal Albert Hall for classic FM. The Company had created a development label for fledgling artists and Alfie was their first signing. His debut album. Which was simply entitled ’ALFIE BOE’, went straight to No2 in the classical chart and sat there for several months.

The release was successful and in November 2006 Alfie Boe signed to the prestigious EMI Classics label. As he said at the time,

“Its been an amazing twelve months working with Classic FM and now I am extremely excited to be signing with EMI Classics. For me. EMI is the spiritual home of classical music with a history of some of the finest classical artists and recordings anywhere in the world. To sign to a record company with this rich heritage is both unbelievably exciting and very humbling..”

As you enter Alfie’s home town of Fleetwood there is a crest hanging over the Town Hall. Emblazoned with a red rose for Lancashire and an anchor symbolising Fleetwood’s seaside status, underneath there is just one word: ‘Onward’. Nothing could be more appropriate than for 33 year old Alfie Boe to entitle his new album:

“..Obviously there are sentimental reasons for using the title as Fleetwood is my home town, but it’s a word that perfectly describes my approach to life. It suggests movement, moving to the next stage, always striving to do your best,” explains Alfie with a smile.

‘Onward’ offers a rousing collection of uplifting songs: “When we started talking about my album I wanted to create a musical experience that the listener would be inspired by. I feel the arias we’ve chosen are all anthems in their own right and reflect a true spirit..”

‘ONWARD’ by Alfie Boe EMI Classics label

‘Onward’ offers a rousing collection of uplifting songs.

“When we started talking about my album I wanted to create a musical experience that the listener would be inspired by. I feel the arias we’ve chosen are all anthems in their own right and reflect a true spirit..”

The album was recorded with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in the renowned Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

“The whole creative process has been amazing. Being able to perform works by John Rutter and Karl Jenkins, two of Britain’s finest composers, is an honour in itself, but to have them writing arrangements for ‘Onward’ is just beyond my wildest dreams. Their styles are so different but what they produce is equally magical..”

The incomparable Howard Goodall, who recently won an award for his fascinating Channel 4 documentary ‘Howard Goodall’s 20th Century Greats’ and more recently appointed as ‘ambassador’ for singing in England, has also put a special arrangement together for Alfie’s recording of ‘The Lord is my Shepherd’.

“Balulalow’ is a song I am so pleased to be performing. I first heard it in Westminster Cathedral at Christmas time about 7 years ago. It’s a short piece but I thought it was absolutely beautiful, it made my Christmas and I hoped one day that I’d have the opportunity to perform it - this album was the perfect place for me to do so. One of the biggest and most dramatic pieces on the album is from Stabat Mater, Rossini’s “Cujus Animam”.I first performed
This when I was a student in Dijon and I’m delighted to be able to finally record it..”

In less than one year Alfie Boe has released two successful albums, his eponymous album for Classic FM, which has led to a much coveted Classical Brit nomination for ‘Best Album’ - and his current album ‘Onward’ for EMI Classics.

Alfie Boe recently performed at Clarence House for HRH Prince Charles where he graciously accepted the post of Ambassador for HRH Arts & Kids Foundation. He was also invited to take the stage with Lesley Garrett and Sir Willard White at the Royal Albert Hall.
Arundel Festival Opening Concert Friday 24th August

www.arundelfestival.co.uk


   
 
East Beach Café

Beach Life will never be quite the same in Littlehampton.

Jane Wood and Sophie Murray’s inspired new building - designed by architect Thomas Heatherwick - has focussed world attention towards LA’s East Beach Café. The concept of the mother and daughter team began three years ago with the plan to serve great food, every day, all year round in a purpose built building so diners can have a spectacular view southwards of the beach and sea.

Jane and Sophie engaged the Thomas Heatherwick Studio to create a building that would be become a popluar local café with generous views of the beach and a cosy atmosphere whatever the weather.

Thomas says: “The seaside at Littlehampton has a raw beauty. It isn’t fiddly or fuzzy, or about dolphins and anchors, and our building has been designed to fit into this context. Our challenge is to build a functional and durable structure where you can feel comfortable eating ice cream - or drinking Dom Perignon.”

The kiosk that Jane and Sophie replaced was able only to operate in fine weather. When the kiosk was closed East Beach was largely bereft of amenities. Plans had been approved for a 80 seat restaurant building that was 30 metres long and 5.5 meters tall which would have had a significant impact on views from the Regency South Terrace Conservation Area.

Jane and Sophie’s building is less high and takes a long undulating form like a piece of weatherworn driftwood in consideration of the location dominated by Littlehampton’s famous open horizon across the Channel.

Manufactured locally by Littlehampton Welding Co. - who had previously constructed Heatherwick’s acclaimed Paddington Bridge - the materials played a key part in developing the building concept. The exposed seaside location will subject the building to heavy weathering, with the high salt content of the air speeding the natural degradation of all materials. The mild steel shell that forms the outer skin will rust and gain character as it ages.

…and on the menu today..

Sophie Murray was a Food and features writer on the Sunday Times and she and her mother Jane became increasingly attracted by Littlehampton’s beach life potential.

“The food is simple seaside food, some English classics with a few of the best things from holidays abroad. These include fresh locally caught fish, potted shrimps, smoked mackerel, the ’East Beach Burger’, salt and pepper squid with chilli, apricot trifle and toasted banana bread with caramel sauce and ice cream. We are committed to sourcing fish from sustainable sources, and as much as possible of our produce is local..”

Open from 10am until 10pm weekdays the menu ranges from breakfast, through lunch to Dinner and suppertime. The best Beach Life just got a whole lot better!!

The interest Jane and Sophie’s project has generated locally, regionally, nationally - and internationally has been astonishing. Anita Roddick said on BBC tv that Jane and Sophie’s East Beach Café had achieved more in promoting Littlehampton to the World than any town councillor had.

In a short time the East Beach Café is destined to be on the list of ‘must visit food icons’ as a modern rite of passage joining the greats which include: ‘the Little Kitchen’, Mystic River, USA - the ‘Hot Pie Stall’, Thames at Battersea Bridge, - ‘Pepe’s Pizza Kro, Oslo, - ‘Tribeca Grill, New York, - ‘NY Steam Packet’, Rose Street, Edinburgh, - ‘Geales’, Nottinghill Gate, London - ‘Rick Stein’s F’n’Chips, Padstow, - ‘Joe Allens’, Covent Garden

EAST BEACH CAFE
Open 7 days a week
01903-731903
bookings@eastbeachcafe.com
www.eastbeachcafe.com

 
   
 
2007 Festival of Speed
‘Spark of Genius - Breaking Records, Pushing Boundaries’   

The 15th Goodwood Festival of Speed: Friday 22nd- Sunday 24th June.

Adopting as its theme for this year’s Festival of Speed - ‘Breaking Records - Pushing Boundaries’ Goodwood celebrates the genius of those engineers and glory of the individual competitors who risked all in their quest for victory at speed.

Motor racing competitors from the first ‘Brooklands Racing’, Formula 1 and World Rally Drivers - and those who have made land speed records will be honoured during the weekend by a display of rarely seen machines - as well as the individuals themselves.

This year also makes the Centenary of the world’s first purpose built race track at Brooklands and the inauguration of the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race. Many historic motors will drive the Goodwood Park Hillclimb. At the top the newly established Forest Rally Stage designed by rallying legend Hannu Mikkola will challenge machines.

During the weekend more than 40 supercars - some making their public debut - will drive the Goodwood Hill. In front of the Stable Block the Cartier ‘Style de Luxe’ competition will exhibit 50 of the world’s most beautiful automobiles.

Admission is by advance ticket purchase only.
www.goodwood.co.uk/motorsport
01243-755055


   
 



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©Photograph by Mike Leuty


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An Arundel Tomb

Side by side, their faces blurred,
The earl and countess lie in stone,
Their proper habits vaguely shown
As jointed armour, stiffened pleat,
And that faint hint of the absurd -
The little dogs under their feet.

Such plainness of the pre-baroque
Hardly involves the eye, until
It meets his left-hand gauntlet, still
Clasped empty in the other; and
One sees, with a sharp tender shock,
His hand withdrawn, holding her hand.

They would not think to lie so long.
Such faithfulness in effigy
Was just a detail friends would see:
A sculptor's sweet commissioned grace
Thrown off in helping to prolong
The Latin names around the base.

They would not guess how early in
Their supine stationary voyage
The air would change to soundless damage,
Turn the old tenantry away;
How soon succeeding eyes begin
To look, not read. Rigidly, they

Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths
Of time. Snow fell, undated. Light
Each summer thronged the glass. A bright
Litter of birdcalls strewed the same
Bone-riddled ground. And up the paths
The endless altered people came,

Washing at their identity.
Now, helpless in the hollow of
An unarmorial age, a trough
Of smoke in slow suspended skeins
Above their scrap of history,
Only an attitude remains:

Time has transfigured them into
Untruth. The stone fidelity
They hardly meant has come to be
Their final blazon, and to prove
Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.

 


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                       Arundel, West Sussex 

 

   
 

 


 
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Local Theatres

Alexandra Theatre - The Regis Centre

 

Belmont Street, Bognor Regis

box office: 01243-861010

www.alexandratheatre.co.uk

SAT NAV  PO21 1BL

 

The Capitol Theatre

North Street, Horsham

box office: 01403-750220

www.esro.thecapitolhorsham.com

SAT NAV  RH12 1RG

 
Chequer Mead Theatre

De La Warr Road, East Grinstead

box office: 01342-302000 

www.chequermead.org

SAT NAV  RH19 3BS

 

Brighton Dome Theatre

         

29 New Road, Brighton

box office:01273-709709

www.brightondome.org

SAT NAV  BN1 1UG

 

Oaklands Park, Chichester

box office01243-781312

www.cft.org.uk

SAT NAV  PO19 6AP

 
Connaught Theatre

Union Place, Worthing

box office

www.worthingtheatres.co.uk

SAT NAV  BN11 1LG

 

Glyndebourne, Lewes

box office 01273-815000

www.glyndebourne.com

SAT NAV  BN8 5UU

 

 

Millbrook, Guildford

box office 01483-440000

www.hawth.co.uk

SAT NAV  GU1 3UX

 
Komedia Brighton

Gardner Street, North Laine, Brighton

box office 01273-647100

www.komedia.co.uk

SAT NAV  BN1 1UN

 

Theatre Royal Brighton

New Road, Brighton

box office 01273-606650

www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyal/

SAT NAV  BN1 1UN

 

Windmill Entertainment Centre

Coastguard Road, Littlehampton

01903-722224

www.inspireleisure.co.uk

SAT NAV BN16 2NA

 

box office 01273-606650

www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk

SAT NAV  BN1 1UN

 

 

Cinemas

  

Chichester New Park Film Centre

current releases : film trailers

box office: 01243-786650

www.chichestercinema.org

SAT NAV  PO19 7XY

Cineworld Brighton

Marina Village, Brighton

current releases : film trailers

box office :  0871-200200

www.cineworld.co.uk

SAT NAV BN2 5UF

Cineworld Chichester

Chichester Gate, Terminus Road

current releases : film trailers

box office :  0871-200200

www.cineworld.co.uk

SAT NAV  PO19 8EL

Cineworld Crawley

Crawley Leisure Park

current releases : film trailers

box office:   0871-200200

www.cineworld.co.uk

SAT NAV RH10 8LR

 

Connaught Screen 2

formerly the Ritz

Union Place, Worthing

current releases : film trailers

box office:  01903-206206

www.worthingtheatres.co.uk

SAT NAV BN11 1LG

 

Dome Cinema

Marine Parade, Worthing

current releases : film trailers

box office: 01903-823112

www.worthingdome.com

www.domecinema.co.uk

SAT NAV   BN11 3PT

 

Duke of York Cinema

Preston Circus, Brighton

Shows the best of classic, cult, current, independent

and foreign language releases

current releases : film trailers

01273-818094

www.picturehouses.co.uk

SAT NAV BN1 4NA

 

Odeon Cinema, Brighton

Kingwest, West Street, Brighton

current releases : film trailers

01273-2244007

www.odeon.co.uk

SAT NAV BN1 2RE

 

Picturedrome,  Bognor Regis

Belmont Road, Bognor Regis

current releases : film trailers

01243-823138

www.picturedromecinema.co.uk

SAT NAV PO21 1BL

 

Vue Cinema, Gunwharf Quay

Portsmouth

current releases : film trailers

08702-406020

www.myvue.com/portsmouth

SAT NAV  PO1 3TA

 

Windmill Cinema,  Littlehampton

Coastguard Road, Littlehampton

current releases : film trailers

01903-722224

www.inspireleisure.co.uk

SAT NAV BN16 2NA

   
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