Fishguard Music Festival

School Concert Hall
Tuesday 23 July, 1985 at 8 p.m

The Menagerie

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
and their guest Timothy West

present…

Part I
1. Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig
Britten: The Wasp
Sir John Lubbock: The Flapping of a Fly’s Wing
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee

2. Edward Thomas: Adlestrop
Rameau: The Call of the Birds
Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
Tchaikovsky: The Canary

3. From…
Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part III
Debussy: The Little Shepherd
Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleigh: Her Reply
Mendelssohn: The Shepherd’s Song

4. Don Marquis: The Old Trooper
James Thurber: The Little Girl and the Wolf
Geoffrey Twigg: The Chicken
V. F. Stevens: Sam’s Parrot
Geoffrey Twigg: The Duck

5. Patricia Beer: Fish Pond in Lisbon
Daniel Chua: Fish in Water
Saint-Saens: The Swan
Thomas Gray: Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
‘Fats’Waller/ Lewis Carroll: Alligator Crawl / The Crocodile

Interval

Part II

1. from…
Poulenc: The Story of Barbar, the little elephant

2. Anon: I saw a Jolly Hunter
Sydney Smith: On Hunting
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun (from Le Coq D’or)
Sir Charles Sedley: On a Cock at Rochester

3. Francis Pott: Zanzare Fanfare (Mosquito Fanfare)

4. Debussy: For the Dance of Rattlesnakes
D. H. Lawrence: Snake

5. Roald Dahl: The Three Little Pigs
Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

6. from…
Izaak Walton: The Compleat Angler
Saint-Saens: The Nightingale
Sherwin: A Nightingale Sang