This year's York Early Music Festival will be bigger and broader in range than ever.
Forty-four events will run between July 3 and 12 in a festival celebrating 500 years of music for strings, the York Mystery Plays '98 and the genius of youth.
The £150,000 festival will combine names familiar and new to York classical music enthusiasts, together with a series of events for young musicians and a pageant wagon production of the Mystery Plays.
As a prelude to the Plays on July 12, schoolchildren will participate in a Young Persons' Procession from Dean's Park to Parliament Street at 11am, performing songs and dances learned at workshops with the QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble.
The festival finale on July 12 will be Jane Oakshott's production of the Mystery Plays, mounted for the first time in 400 years with the Guilds of York, with whom the cycle of plays originated in the mid-14th century. Starting at midday, 11 plays will be staged at six city-centre stations on decorated pageant wagons.
Tickets will go on sale for Friends of the Festival on April 16 and to the general public a week later at Ticket World, Patrick Pool, York, tel 01904 644194. Telephone bookings can be made on 01937 584123, with reservations being held for four days, and anyone with a general inquiry should ring 01904 658338.
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