After an exceptionally challenging day, I found myself at a beautiful concert at St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico. The Sherborne Girls Madrigal Society gave an amazing concert conducted by John Jenkins. I got invited by Helen who I knew was musical and has a beautiful voice and plays on the flute, but I had no idea, that she used to be a member of the Madrigal Society. In fact I didn’t even know she went to Sherborne and what Serborne was about (http://www.sherborne.com/content.asp). That was before the internet age and not long after the madrigal Society was founded. But I remember she went to a Hymn singing challenge a few weeks ago in Dorset and I quite liked the sound of her old school.
The programme included John Taverner’s The Lord’s Player, Alberto Ginastera’s Three Folk Dances played on the piano by the exceptionally talented Yume Fujita and many other brilliant songs by Purcell, Beethoven and Schutz.
And it just casually turned out after the concert that Helen’s good friend a lovely old lady called Elizabeth was taught by Vaughan William’s brother in her old school up north. Well, I was thought music by Marta Sebestyen’s mum back in Hungary. Marta sang in the movie The English Patient the beautiful song: Szerelem, Szerelem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5FvpgiRqB0&feature=related). What a small world!
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