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Summer fun 1b: Think I cracked how to do Barnaby Rudge in What the Dickens! St Marylebone Fest Had been obsessing on the raven rather than one of Dickens’ most sympathetic characters. Such freedom and (tenor) joy! And cor anglais suits the raven! Gavin Roberts

Summer fun 1c: I know how it ends! Drafted final movt of What the Dickens for St Marylebone Fest Gavin Roberts The stunning passage in David Copperfield as the Micawbers set sail for Oz. Amazing author but troubled man - there’s a melancholy that close contact with him inspires

Prof. Frank McDonough Dickens lived next door to St Marylebone Parish Church for many years! Our St Marylebone Fest will be celebrating his life & works with a walking tour & a performance of a new piece composed & devised by Martin Bussey based on the Devonshire Terrace Charles Dickens mural stmarylebonefestival.com/events

The penultimate evening of St Marylebone Fest will be dedicated to Vaughan Williams! On 21st July we welcome back The Joyful Company of Singers to stage a unique collab with partners EFDSS, based at Cecil Sharp House & Vaughan Williams Memorial Library 🎟️: bit.ly/3O2JY5v

Following the tour there will be an afternoon performance, The story of the Florence Nightingale & opera singer Jenny Lind Find out more about these two Nightingales & their surprising connections to Marylebone, & to each other in word & music Tickets: bit.ly/3QfQPtP

This performance takes you on a journey that tells the rich stories of these countries through #music, #dance & #poetry! You can also get tickets for the pre-concert canapes & cocktails but tickets are limited! Make sure you don’t miss out! Tickets here: stmarylebonefestival.com/events-1/a-sou…

Updated martinbussey.co.uk with a direct link to my performance of Mr Dombey Sits from What The Dickens! Read more about the whole show there. All systems are go for July 20 St Marylebone Fest with Gavin Roberts 🎵 Rosamund Shelley 🎭 Alex Knox and the choir St Marylebone Parish Church

Thanks to Composers Edition for write-ups on Dickens St Marylebone Fest July 20 Dickens Museum Christina Rossetti in Music 🎵 Rosamund Shelley 🎭 Alex Knox Gavin Roberts & two songs from Shropshire Lass at New Elizabethan Award competition with Holly Teague & Michael Matthews July 14 Royal Academy of Music

Two weeks to go! Get your tickets for St Marylebone Fest & join us for a week of music, theatre, workshops & more From conversation & music by composers associated with the neighbouring Royal Academy of Music to our South American Soirée - & everything in between! stmarylebonefestival.com/events

18.07 - 7.30pm St Marylebone Fest Looking forward to performing with Joanna MacGregor (piano) & Adrian Brendel (cello). Tickets bit.ly/3yLgKCU See you there, Ad ❤️🎶

What the Dickens! premieres St Marylebone Fest on July 20 at 7.30 featuring 6 of the characters Dickens created in the 1840s when living nearby. 1st comes a view of St Marylebone Parish Church in Dombey & Son: The strange, uncomfortable smell, and cadaverous light. Still true? Buy a ticket & see!

Our friends St Marylebone Fest have planned a busy series of community events at St Marylebone Parish Church over on the other side of Regent’s Park, starting in a week’s time. Check them out! stmarylebonefestival.com/events

First up in What the Dickens! St Marylebone Fest comes Barnaby Rudge, @tomkellytenor with Gavin Roberts piano. One of Dickens’ most sensitive figures, Barnaby describes himself as ‘silly’. His soulmate the raven, ‘harbinger of death’ is represented by the cor anglais of Clare Hoskins

The St Marylebone Fest returns next week, celebrating the stories of our local community through a variety of performances. We’re proud to work with our friends St Marylebone Parish Church including throughout winter in getting vital supplies to local families. stmarylebonefestival.com

Come and hear my new song 'The Ballad of the Moon, Moon' for the fab Andrew Watts + Gavin Roberts next Monday St Marylebone Fest 🌛🌛 stmarylebonefestival.com/events-1/conte… Composers Edition Grimethorpe Colliery Band Andrew Ward Colin Riley @RVW_Trust Sun Keting Elliott Park Morgan Hayes Royal Academy of Music

Excellent rehearsal today for What the Dickens! Here: 🎵 Rosamund Shelley 🎭 Alex Knox channelling their inner Micawbers with Gavin Roberts superintending while I think how lucky I am to have such fine performers on the project! July 20 St Marylebone Fest scores coming to Composers Edition

2nd in What the Dickens! July 20 St Marylebone Fest : Scrooge. Not Alistair Sim but better! The resonant bass of Andrew Copeman. His singing last year partly prompted the work. Bah! Humbug is backed by the carolling of St Marylebone Parish Church choir. Is the door knocker really Marley’s Ghost?

This Monday, 1.10pm - join us in the relatively cool St Marylebone Church ☀️😎 New music from me, Geoff King, @josephhoward_, Philip Cashian for the amazing Andrew Watts and Gavin Roberts at St Marylebone Fest stmarylebonefestival.com/events-1/conte…

This performance tells the story of these two ‘Nightingales’ and their sometimes surprising connections to St Marylebone, and to each other in word and music. stmarylebonefestival.com/events-1/the-t… #florencenightingale #jennylind #stmarylebonefestival

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the fabulous Come and Sing with John Rutter We were absolutely delighted to see so many of you there! Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon's Contemporary Composer Conversations, buy tickets here: stmarylebonefestival.com/events-1/conte… St Marylebone Fest