Organ Recital — Jonathan Hellyer Jones of Cambridge, U.K.

News from Richard Elliott:

Jonathan Hellyer Jones of Cambridge, U.K., will be giving a free 45-minute recital at 12:00 noon on Friday, December 11th (tomorrow!) at St. Ambrose Catholic Church, 1975 South 2300 East in Salt Lake City.

Jonathan Hellyer Jones is Fellow, Director of Music, Precentor and College Organist at Magdalene College, Cambridge, England. He was a chorister and undergraduate at St John’s College and for 25 years directed The Cambridge Baroque Camerata, a group of professional musicians performing baroque music on period instruments. He has performed on radio and TV and has made several CDs.  He is in Utah with his wife, Jane Hawking, who is lecturing at Sundance this weekend on her autobiography, “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen,” which was the basis for the 2014 movie, “The Theory of Everything.”

Mr. Jones’s program will include the following:

Trumpet Tune and Air – Henry Purcell
Prelude and Fugue in c (BWV 546) – J. S. Bach
A voluntary for my Ladye Nevell – William Byrd
Toy: made at Poole Court – Thomas Tomkins
Rejoice in the Lord always – Anon 17th C (Redford?)
Puer natus in Bethlehem and In dulci jubilo – Dietrich Buxtehude
Psalm Prelude Set No 1 – Herbert Howells
Dans une douce joie, Op 28 – Marcel Dupré
Valse lente – Oskar Merikanto
The Rose Garden – Edward Macdowell
6th Versetto per il Gloria – Vincenzo Petrali

Questions may be directed to St. Ambrose Catholic Church at 801-485-5610.