Budleigh & Brewster United

You may have noticed that there’s been a long silence from me. That’s not just because the garden’s been calling out for help. I’ve been drawn across the Atlantic.

Not literally I have to say.

But to discover at http://www.brewstercapecod.org/ the statement that Budleigh has a sister-town in the USA was so intriguing that I’ve spent a bit of time investigating. The result is http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/ a new site where I will be putting all the Budleigh news for the benefit of our US as well as our UK readers.

So I think that Exmouth Roadies will be taking a break for the time being. Do make Budleighbrewsterunited your new favourite, and I’d welcome your comments and contributions to the new site, from both sides of the pond.

Artist Charlie Morrissey Lights Up the Coast!

Celebrating UNESCO World Dance Day at Budleigh Salterton
Wednesday 29 April 2009, 8 PM - SUNDOWN
Here Now is a movement performance and projection event under the cliffs on the beach, celebrating local heritage, world heritage and UNESCO World Dance Day.

"Sadly I won't be able to make this as I've booked for the Peter Donohoe concert but I hope it goes well and the weather stays fine."

World Dance Day at Budleigh

Budleigh’s beach will be the setting for a spectacular event staged by internationally-renowned dancer Charlie Morrissey on 29 April.

Here Now is a site-specific night-time performance event which takes place on the beach under the cliffs west of Steamer Steps at 8.30 pm.

The piece, created by Charlie Morrissey, is a mix between live performance and projection onto the cliffs, and looks at the relationship between humans and their environment – at our place in the landscape. It is part of Deep Time - a trilogy of events taking place along the Jurassic Coast in 2008-09.

“The performance is something that anyone can take part in – the more, the merrier!” says Julie Penfold, Director of PVA MediaLab which has commissioned the event as part of the Jurassic Coast Arts Programme.

“All you need to do to be a part of the performance is to turn up at 5.00 pm on the day. You, along with lots of others, will be taught a very simple sequence of movements on the beach and then, as darkness falls everyone will perform the piece to music with the sea in the background. Once the live performance is finished, there will be a film projected onto the cliffs.

The piece will be very simple and fun to do – you don’t need to have any performance experience – just come along and take part.”

Charlie Morrissey is a director, performer, teacher/workshop leader and researcher. He trained in dance and choreography at Dartington College of Arts and has been working in the UK and many other countries around the world for nearly 20 years. He creates large and small-scale site-specific and theatre and gallery based performance work in diverse contexts.

If you’d like to take part, please email admin@pva.org.uk For further information please see: http://www.jurassiccoast.com/ and www.pva.org.uk/UV08.htm

Photo credit: PVA MediaLab

Piano Recital by Peter Donohoe at St Peter's, Budleigh

Programme includes works by

Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Liszt and Chopin
Sponsored by Rensburg Sheppards Investment Management

Sonata Op.27 No 1 in E flat Beethoven
Piano Sonata in F major K322 Mozart
Vier Klavierstuck Op.119 Brahms
Années de Pèlerinage Première Année Nos 4-9 Liszt
Grand Valse Brilliante in E flat major Op. 18 Chopin
Nocturne in E flat major Op.2 No 2 Chopin
Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor Chopin

St Peter’s Music is delighted to have secured this recital by world renowned pianist Peter Donohoe. Well known as a concerto player as well as a recitalist, he is playing a lovely varied programme. If you never come to another concert this season, this is the one to come to!

Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester in 1953. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Derek Wyndham and then in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod. Since his unprecedented success as joint winner of the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he has developed a distinguished career in Europe, the USA, the Far East and Australasia. He is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility and commanding technique. In 2006 he was invited by the Netherlands to be Ambassador for Music in the Middle East.
During the 2008/9 season Peter Donohoe’s performances include the Dresden Staatskapelle with Myung-Whun Chung, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel and Gurzenich Orchestra with Ludovic Morlot. He will also perform with the Czech Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and play both Brahms Concertos with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Last season Peter Donohoe’s engagements included the City of Birmingham Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras and an extensive tour to South America. He was also resident artist in a major Messiaen Festival in the Spanish city of Cuenca, which celebrated the centenary of the composer’s birth.

Peter Donohoe has recently performed with all the major London Orchestras, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Swedish Radio, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Vienna Symphony and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras. He was an annual visitor to the BBC Proms for seventeen years and has appeared at many other festivals including six consecutive visits to the Edinburgh Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron in France, and at the Ruhr and Schleswig Holstein Festivals in Germany. In the United States, his appearances have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. Peter Donohoe has worked with many of the worlds’ greatest conductors including Simon Rattle, Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Jarvi, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Andrew Davis and Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Peter Donohoe is a keen chamber musician and performs frequently with the pianist Martin Roscoe. They have given performances in London and at the Edinburgh Festival and have recorded discs of Gershwin and Rachmaninov. Other musical partners have included the Maggini Quartet, with whom he has made recordings of several great British chamber works.

In 2001 Naxos released a disc of music by Finzi, the first of a major series of recordings which aims to raise the public's awareness of British piano repertoire through concert performance and recordings. Discs of music by Rawsthorne, Bliss, Darnton, Rowley, Ferguson, Gerhard, Alwyn, Pitfield and Harty have now also been released to great critical acclaim.

Peter Donohoe has made many fine recordings on EMI Records and has won awards for them including the Grand Prix International du Disque Liszt for Lizst’s Sonata in B minor and the Gramophone Concerto award for the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 2. His recordings of Messiaen with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble for Chandos Records and Litolff for Hyperion have also received widespread acclaim.

Peter Donohoe maintains a strong artistic link with the area in which he now lives with his wife Elaine and daughter Jessica. His close association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra dates back to 1974. He is vice-president of the Birmingham Conservatoire and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates of Music from the Open University and the Universities of Birmingham, Central England, Warwick, East Anglia and Leicester.

Photo credit: Susie Ahlburg

Tickets are £15

From:
The Lawn Bakery, The Lawn, Budleigh Salterton
Lesleys, Stationers, High Street, Budleigh Slterton
Eagle House, The Strand, Exmouth
Tourist Information Centre, Ham Lane, Sidmouth

By telephone:
Ring 01395 442275 and request the tickets. You will be asked to forward a cheque made payable to St Peter's Music and a return S.A.E.

At the door on the night.
These are subject to availability.

Concessions: Full time students pay half the advertised price.

For more information about St Peter's Music concerts please see the website at http://www.stpetersmusic.org.uk/

Property for sale: Halse Hill House

Estate agents Fulfords are marketing this five-bedroomed detached residence just off West Hill. Halse Hill House sits centrally within generous gardens, which enjoy a high degree of privacy, being well screened by numerous established trees and shrubs.

Designed by the respected Hatchard Smith Architects and of 1920s construction the house, described by the agents as a lovely family home, has rendered elevations under a Rosemary tiled clay roof with distinctive Oriel style bay windows to the Southern elevation. The external appearance is further enhanced with brick quoins around the latticed uPVC double glazed windows.

The principal rooms both on the ground and first floors are south facing, thereby taking full advantage of a wonderful aspect over the gardens, which are a real delight and comprise a number of secluded, landscaped areas in addition to an enclosed vegetable plot.

The accommodation briefly comprises of a fine dual aspect sitting room with an attractive fireplace, French doors opening onto the rear garden terrace and access to a cosy snug and separate study. There is also a South facing dining room and an up to date integrated kitchen/breakfast room comprehensively fitted with storage units and appliances.

From the kitchen/breakfast room there is access to a useful studio/office, ideal for those working from home. The first floor provides a master bedroom with dressing room and en-suite bathroom, 4 further bedrooms and a family bathroom. Halse Hill House still retains many original features including panelled doors, architraves and even some servant and bell call buttons. The property additionally benefits from a gas central heating system with individual thermostats and fitted wardrobes to all bedrooms.

Outside there is ample parking and a double garage with a remotely operated up and over door. A gravelled driveway leading to the garage provides ample off-road parking and a turning area. At the side of the driveway there are established shrub beds, well stocked with a variety of plants and a wrought iron gate leading to the South facing rear garden. Halse Hill House stands in particularly large gardens and grounds, which have been designed very much with ease of maintenance in mind, having shaped lawns with many mature trees and shrubs for privacy and seclusion.

A terrace extends across the rear elevation of the property, being a real sun trap and overlooking the rear garden, which additionally features an ornamental pond complemented with many evergreen shrubs. The garden continues on the Eastern side of the house, where there is an enclosed vegetable garden with raised beds and a further lawned area with an archway cut into a large evergreen hedge providing access to a small orchard and a wrought iron gate leading to West Hill Lane connecting to the town centre. There are also three timber storage sheds and a timber framed greenhouse within the vegetable plot.

A guide price of £750K is suggested. For further information, see the Fulfords website at
http://www.fulfords.co.uk/

Blue Lights in Budleigh

Police officers and fire fighters are teaming up this weekend in Budleigh Salterton to help improve their levels of service to the local community.

Members of the Fire and Rescue and Police services will set up at two locations in the town with their respective vehicles between 10.00 am and 12 noon on Saturday April 11 2009. Both services will be speaking with local residents on ways they can help the community.

Police officers will be focussing on establishing a "top 3" list of actions for the new PACT (Partners and Communities Together) Panel to address. The Fire service will be offering the opportunity to obtain free smoke detectors supplied and fitted along with fire safety advice in the home for everyone.

Local beat manager PC David Lea said: "It’s great to work alongside the local Fire and Rescue Service. It is typical of what we are trying to achieve with PACT by having local networking of likeminded people working together to make the whole community of Budleigh even better. Once we have completed our survey we should know what concerns the people living here and we can then bring that to the PACT Panel for some action to be taken."

Steve Hunt, local Crew Manager at Budleigh Salterton Fire Station, said "We aim as a service to have working smoke detectors coupled with a Fire Safety Awareness in every home."

Both emergency services will have a prize Easter Egg donated by local businesses Spar, of Fore Street, and And Cards Too of the High Street. At the end of the initiative a random draw will take place from those who have helped with the PACT survey and the Fire Safety checks. There will be one prize giveaway egg from both of the emergency services.

Shoppers in the High Street on Easter Saturday should look out for the Blue Lights vehicles where a warm welcome awaits them and maybe a big Easter egg to boot.

Haydn in Exmouth

Haydn’s splendid St Cecilia Mass will be the centrepiece of the next concert given by Exmouth Choral Society.

The Society will be performing at Holy Trinity Church, Rolle Street, Exmouth on Saturday 25 April 2009 at 7.30 pm under their inspiring conductor Brian Northcott.


Soloists include Bethany Partridge (soprano), Harriet Gibson (contralto), Michael Gormley (tenor), Michael Vian Clarke (bass). The orchestra will be led by Gillian Crew.

J S Bach’s Suite No. 1 in C is also being performed.

Above: Franz Joseph Haydn 1732-1809

Haydn’s St Cecilia Mass, also known as the Cäcilienmesse or the Missa Cellensis, is the lengthiest and most ambitious of the composer’s Masses. The elaborate orchestration, using ceremonial trumpets and timpani, led many to believe that the Mass had been written at a later period in his life until the chance discovery in Romania of an autographed manuscript of the Kyrie dated 1766. The date of the first performance of the work, is however unknown.


Tickets in advance cost £9 (adult) £5 (young person) and £18. (family), obtainable from Premier (Rolle Street) and Cabin News (The Parade) in Exmouth, and The Lawn Bakery in Budleigh Salterton; or ring 01395 275188.

The cost at the door is £12 (adult), £8 (young person), £24 (family).

Above: Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth