The Thirtieth Mozart Summer Festival

The 10th concert, in a series of 19, was held in the Harris Garden on the evening of Thursday 22 June.

"It is now thirty years since we launched the Mozart Summer Festival - thirty years from the very first concert held in the beautiful church of St Mary in Hambledon, Buckinghamshire to the opening of this year's Festival in the mellow splendour of Watermen's Hall in the City of London. 2006 is also the two hundred and fiftieth year since Mozart's birth, so there is much to celebrate. Our celebrations include concerts in many parts of the country, from the romantic Haldon Belvedere in Devon to Garrick's graceful temple dreaming by the Thames at Richmond, and from the elegance of eighteenth century Kingston Maurward in Dorset to the fields of Worcestershire which are the home to Croome church.

In these magnificent and historic settings Sweet Harmony in eighteenth-century costume and The Sylvan Players present many different programmes of music by Mozart and his contemporaries, providing a wonderfully rich and varied tapestry of music for the seven months of the summer.

Some picture of the event taken by Dr. Stephen Jury:

        

          

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