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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 27th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 27th November 2017
Dear Friends,
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SURREY PERFORMING ARTS LIBRARY: Please scroll down to the yellow area for an update from Barbara Eifler of Making Music. |
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church features our friends the Atéa Wind Quintet, with a couple of friendly substitutions.
Anna Hashimoto will be leading the quintet with her clarinet. Phillip Haworth will be on oboe, while flautist Katy Ovens will be moonlighting from Cavendish Winds. Also deputising will be Anna Douglass on horn, with regular Ashley Myall, bassoon.
Atéa's programme opens with a Humoreske by Zemlinsky. Next we'll hear three melodious movements by Bozza with the title 'Three night music pieces'. The first of Poulenc's Novelettes follows, leading into the final work, Taffanel's Quintet in G minor.
Atéa's playing always brings a joyous feel to our concerts. What a great way to end a season where we have enjoyed so many varied talents.
Anna Hashimoto will be leading the quintet with her clarinet. Phillip Haworth will be on oboe, while flautist Katy Ovens will be moonlighting from Cavendish Winds. Also deputising will be Anna Douglass on horn, with regular Ashley Myall, bassoon.
Atéa's programme opens with a Humoreske by Zemlinsky. Next we'll hear three melodious movements by Bozza with the title 'Three night music pieces'. The first of Poulenc's Novelettes follows, leading into the final work, Taffanel's Quintet in G minor.
Atéa's playing always brings a joyous feel to our concerts. What a great way to end a season where we have enjoyed so many varied talents.
Atéa - the regular line-up
You can read about the quintet and listen to recordings of the music that they will perform at Thursday's concert, on this concert webpage. Two of the recordings were made by Atéa themselves.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
LMC has level acess throughout so please take full advantage of the easy wheelchair access (including the loos).
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee to chat together and - if they are not rushing off to other gigs - with the musicians too.
We will be back with an extra mid-afternoon piano concert at 3pm on Thursday March 1st. That follows our AGM which is at 2pm the same afternoon. Unusually that day the teas will be ready before the meeting and again before the concert.
If you would like us to keep in touch through the winter and make sure you receive a copy of our Spring/Summer programme please your request to musiconthursdays@gmail.com - if you include your address we will be able to make sure you receive a paper copy of the programme.
Through the winter weeks our newsletter becomes 'occasional' so let's take a look at what else is on offer around the area this week, and into December.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
LMC has level acess throughout so please take full advantage of the easy wheelchair access (including the loos).
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee to chat together and - if they are not rushing off to other gigs - with the musicians too.
We will be back with an extra mid-afternoon piano concert at 3pm on Thursday March 1st. That follows our AGM which is at 2pm the same afternoon. Unusually that day the teas will be ready before the meeting and again before the concert.
If you would like us to keep in touch through the winter and make sure you receive a copy of our Spring/Summer programme please your request to musiconthursdays@gmail.com - if you include your address we will be able to make sure you receive a paper copy of the programme.
Through the winter weeks our newsletter becomes 'occasional' so let's take a look at what else is on offer around the area this week, and into December.
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Wednesday 29th November 7.30pm ♦ Cranleigh: Arts Centre, 1 High Street, GU6 8AS NOCTURNE ♥ Richard Saxel, piano ♥ nocturnes by different composers, as recorded on Richard's recent CD of nocturnes by 16 composers Tickets: £16 (in aid of Cranleigh Arts Centre) Thursday 30th Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Season Finale Atéa Wind Quintet Katy Ovens, flute ♦ Phillip Haworth, oboe ♦ Anna Hashimoto, clarinet ♦ Anna Douglass, horn ♦ Ashley Myall, bassoon music by Zemlinsky ♦ Bozza ♦ Poulenc ♦ Taffanel Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 30th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road His (Head)Master's Voice: Richard Hillier, baritone (& retiring Head of School) James O'Donnell, organ • Thomas Carroll, cello • Nigel Hutchison, piano • Svitlana Kosenko, piano • Akiko Ono, violin Tickets: £17.50 click dateline DECEMBER 2017 Friday 1st December 7.30pm - Free ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, then later, Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road) Michaelmas Concert Christmas concert in the School Chapel followed by talents from across the School: Swing Band, Jazz Band, String Groups, Quartets, Sinfonia Tickets: free Saturday 2nd December 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Martin Hall, piano ♦ Robert Huxford, baritone Saturday 2nd December **6.50pm - FRC ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Roy Stratford gives a pre-concert talk on Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, with illustrations by Ensemble Mirage Tickets: suggested donation £3 (not bookable) Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road The Grange Christmas Concert Tickets: £15 click dateline (Grange clients £9) Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Effingham: St Teresa's School, RH5 6ST Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Chloê Hanslip, violin ♦ Kenneth Woods, conductor Rosssini: Overture - The Thieving Magpie ♥ Beethoven Violin Concerto ♥ Beethoven Symphony No 6 Pastoral Tickets: £19.50 (21 & under £5), • 2 adult+2 child £40 Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Hammer, Haslemere: 3 Counties Church, Linchmere Road, GU27 3QW Concert in aid of Hope for Justice Ishani Bhoola, violin ♦ Ben Cooley, singer Tickets: £15 office @ 3countieschurch.org or OI4Z8 653OIl Saturday 2nd December 8pm ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Ensemble Mirage • clarinet • 2 violins • viola • cello • piano Finzi, arr C Alexander: Five Bagatelles • Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No 2 in Eb minor Op 26 • Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Tunes Op 34 • Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time Tickets: £20 Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN English Arts Chorale & Orchestra Savitri Grier, violin ♦ Greg Tassell, tenor ♦ Benjamin Goldscheider, horn ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending ♦ Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings ♦ Lauridsen: Lux aeterna ♦ Finzi: 'In terra pax' Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings ♦ Leslie Olive: Magnificat Tickets: £22, £17, £12, children/students £6, disabled 2@half price Sunday 3rd December 7.30pm ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ HALLELUJAH ♦ Horsley Choral Society Handel's The Messiah, Part 1 - plus Christmas Music & Carols for All Tickets: £12 (u18 £6) Tuesday 5th December 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bonnet • Parry • Rutter • Bach • Howells • Jongen • Ireland • Dupré Tuesday 5th December **2pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Christmas Showcase Concert with Richard Hillier, baritone RVW: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis & Fantasia on Christmas Carols Tickets: £20 click dateline Tuesday 5th December 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Christmas Showcase Concert with Richard Hillier, baritone RVW: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis & Fantasia on Christmas Carols Tickets: £20 click dateline Friday 8th December 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Woking: St John's Church, Church Road, GU21 7QN Arisa Fukita & Will Dutton, violins ♦ t b c, viola ♦ Sebastian Kolin, cello Schubert: Quartettsatz D703 ♦ Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Serioso ♦ Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11 Saturday 9th December **6.30pm ♦ Cranleigh: Village Hall, Village Way, GU6 8AF Surrey Hills Family Christmas Concert ♦ Surrey Hills Choirs Tickets: £12 (16 & under £3) Saturday 9th December 7.30pm ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral Guildford Choral ♦ Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio ♦ Britten: St Nicolas Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Saturday 9th December 7.30pm ♦ Oxshott: St Andrew's Church, Oakshade Road, KT22 0LE Oxshott Choral Society - Christmas Concert Val Beynon, conductor Bob Chilcott: Gloria, with Brass Quintet ♥ Carols & Christmas songs for choir and audience Tickets: £14 / child £7 (01 932)/863=082 Saturday 9th December 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Arisa Fukita & Will Dutton, violins ♦ t b c, viola ♦ Sebastian Kolin, cello Schubert: Quartettsatz D703 ♦ Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Serioso ♦ Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11 Sunday 10th December **4.30pm ♦ Balcombe: St Mary's Church, RH17 6PX Once as I Remember • Christmas words and music English Arts Chorale • Leslie Olive, conductor Tickets: £12 Sunday 10th December 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Arisa Fukita & Will Dutton, violins ♦ t b c, viola ♦ Sebastian Kolin, cello Schubert: Quartettsatz D703 ♦ Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Serioso ♦ Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11 Sunday 10th December *8pm ♦ Guildford: St Nicolas Church, Bury Street, GU2 4AW Christmas Candlelit Concert ♦ Surrey Hills Adult Choirs Tickets: £12 (16 & under £5) Monday 11th December 7.30pm (??) ♦ Warnham: St Margaret's Church, RH12 3QW Capel Choral Society ♦ Christmas Concert Tickets: £12.50 click dateline Saturday 16th December **4pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST on-site parking Leatherhead Choral Society ♦ Christmas Concert Tickets: click dateline Saturday 16th December **4.30pm ♦ Bletchingley: St Mary's Church, RH1 4PD Once as I Remember • Christmas words and music English Arts Chorale • Leslie Olive, conductor Tickets: £14 nave, £10 side aisles |
Yes, that list does look decidedly Christmassy, doesn't it! To make sure your own society's or ensemble's events are included in the 2018 musicinsurrey diary please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: musiconthursdays@gmail.com.
It will be lovely to see you at Thursday's final concert of the year. There's a rumour of 'cake' afterwards ! And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of those local events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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It will be lovely to see you at Thursday's final concert of the year. There's a rumour of 'cake' afterwards ! And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of those local events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Dear All,
Representations from user groups and members of the public intent on trying to preserve as much as possible of the service currently provided by the Surrey Performing Arts Library have had a small measure of success.
The Communities Select Committee (CSC) of Surrey County Council (SCC) has agreed that Option 3 (closure of the service) should be removed from the future options for SPAL. It has also agreed to a three month delay before taking any substantive decisions about SPAL to enable proper consideration of an alternative long-term sustainable future for SPAL outside SCC (Option 2).More than 2,000 people signed a petition in support of SPAL (due to be presented to the SCC Cabinet meeting on 28 November) and over 1,600 people responded to the consultation launched by SCC in September.
The decisions to remove Option 3 (closure) and explore Option 2 (takeover by an independent body) were taken at the CSC meeting on 7 November and there was a large attendance by supporters of SPAL in the public gallery.
Thanks to all of you who have given your support to SPAL. There is no doubt that, but for the intervention of user groups, supporters and organisations such as Making Music, the Friends of Surrey Performing Arts Library (FOSPAL) and the International Association of Music Librarians (IAML(UK)), Surrey County Council would have proceeded with their Option 1 (dispersal of the collection to other Surrey libraries with no dedicated staff and no dedicated acquisitions and renewals budget).
In the consultation, two thirds of respondents said they agreed or strongly agreed with Option 2 (exploration of a takeover of SPAL by an independent body). Making Music and FOSPAL strongly believe that this option is worth pursuing - even though the timescale for developing such an alternative is ridiculously short (SCC are still adamant that a "cost neutral" solution for SPAL must be found before 1 April 2018). At least the councillors on the CSC agreed that that option should be properly explored.
Since then there have been two meetings between the Library Services management team and Making Music, FOSPAL and IAML(UK) to prioritise what work needs to be done to explore the feasibility of Option 2 (and by whom). At the second of those meetings (on 23 November) much better historic and current financial and other information about SPAL was produced than was contained in the report to the CSC.
From this information, we expect that a "model budget" of what an independent SPAL might look like (in terms of how much it would cost to run it and how the necessary income might be generated to do so) will be produced in early December. Making Music and FOSPAL are urging that this should be the centre-piece for discussion at a public meeting to be held with user groups and others as soon as possible.
In the meantime, in consultation with IAML(UK), FOSPAL and Making Music have been working on how an independent and expanded SPAL might be set up and managed - taking into account what has worked in other parts of the country.
In the short-term, SCC are considering increasing charges to reduce the budget short-fall at SPAL; they are investigating adopting a much more efficient IT package designed specifically for performing arts materials by Nottinghamshire Performing Arts Library; and they are investigating how to reform the Inter Library Loan (ILL) system which currently costs (rather than rewards) net lenders (such as SPAL).
Whatever the outcome of this work, it seems (unfortunately) unlikely that SPAL will be able to continue to be based indefinitely at Denbies. The cost of operating at Denbies is high and, in trying to look at ways to keep the costs of SPAL to user groups as low as reasonably possible, an independent organisation taking over SPAL would be bound to look for an alternative (cheaper) venue.
A further update will be issued in mid-December when the parameters of what Option 2 might involve are clearer.
In the meantime, we are told that the Libraries Service management team are also working in parallel on Option 1 although we have been given no more details about that.
This news update is being sent to FOSPAL members and to Making Music members - so apologies if you are receiving it twice. Please disseminate it more widely to those with an interest in the future of this vital service.
Barbara Eifler | Executive Director
barbara@makingmusic.org.uk | 020 7939 6047
Making Music
020 7939 6030 ♦ 8 Holyrood Street London, SE1 2EL ♦ makingmusic.org.uk
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Representations from user groups and members of the public intent on trying to preserve as much as possible of the service currently provided by the Surrey Performing Arts Library have had a small measure of success.
The Communities Select Committee (CSC) of Surrey County Council (SCC) has agreed that Option 3 (closure of the service) should be removed from the future options for SPAL. It has also agreed to a three month delay before taking any substantive decisions about SPAL to enable proper consideration of an alternative long-term sustainable future for SPAL outside SCC (Option 2).More than 2,000 people signed a petition in support of SPAL (due to be presented to the SCC Cabinet meeting on 28 November) and over 1,600 people responded to the consultation launched by SCC in September.
The decisions to remove Option 3 (closure) and explore Option 2 (takeover by an independent body) were taken at the CSC meeting on 7 November and there was a large attendance by supporters of SPAL in the public gallery.
Thanks to all of you who have given your support to SPAL. There is no doubt that, but for the intervention of user groups, supporters and organisations such as Making Music, the Friends of Surrey Performing Arts Library (FOSPAL) and the International Association of Music Librarians (IAML(UK)), Surrey County Council would have proceeded with their Option 1 (dispersal of the collection to other Surrey libraries with no dedicated staff and no dedicated acquisitions and renewals budget).
In the consultation, two thirds of respondents said they agreed or strongly agreed with Option 2 (exploration of a takeover of SPAL by an independent body). Making Music and FOSPAL strongly believe that this option is worth pursuing - even though the timescale for developing such an alternative is ridiculously short (SCC are still adamant that a "cost neutral" solution for SPAL must be found before 1 April 2018). At least the councillors on the CSC agreed that that option should be properly explored.
Since then there have been two meetings between the Library Services management team and Making Music, FOSPAL and IAML(UK) to prioritise what work needs to be done to explore the feasibility of Option 2 (and by whom). At the second of those meetings (on 23 November) much better historic and current financial and other information about SPAL was produced than was contained in the report to the CSC.
From this information, we expect that a "model budget" of what an independent SPAL might look like (in terms of how much it would cost to run it and how the necessary income might be generated to do so) will be produced in early December. Making Music and FOSPAL are urging that this should be the centre-piece for discussion at a public meeting to be held with user groups and others as soon as possible.
In the meantime, in consultation with IAML(UK), FOSPAL and Making Music have been working on how an independent and expanded SPAL might be set up and managed - taking into account what has worked in other parts of the country.
In the short-term, SCC are considering increasing charges to reduce the budget short-fall at SPAL; they are investigating adopting a much more efficient IT package designed specifically for performing arts materials by Nottinghamshire Performing Arts Library; and they are investigating how to reform the Inter Library Loan (ILL) system which currently costs (rather than rewards) net lenders (such as SPAL).
Whatever the outcome of this work, it seems (unfortunately) unlikely that SPAL will be able to continue to be based indefinitely at Denbies. The cost of operating at Denbies is high and, in trying to look at ways to keep the costs of SPAL to user groups as low as reasonably possible, an independent organisation taking over SPAL would be bound to look for an alternative (cheaper) venue.
A further update will be issued in mid-December when the parameters of what Option 2 might involve are clearer.
In the meantime, we are told that the Libraries Service management team are also working in parallel on Option 1 although we have been given no more details about that.
This news update is being sent to FOSPAL members and to Making Music members - so apologies if you are receiving it twice. Please disseminate it more widely to those with an interest in the future of this vital service.
Barbara Eifler | Executive Director
barbara@makingmusic.org.uk | 020 7939 6047
Making Music
020 7939 6030 ♦ 8 Holyrood Street London, SE1 2EL ♦ makingmusic.org.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 20th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 20th November 2017
Dear Friends,
We have just two more lunchtime concerts this year before our winter break. So let's look at this Thursday's concert first:
Harpist Gwenllian Llŷr came to us for the first time in August 2016 when she was studying at the Royal Academy of Music - having already graduated from the Royal Welsh. The harp is such a lovely gentle instrument, and Gwenllian showed us then that she is a superb performer.
In Thursday's 12.30 concert Gwenllian will perform music by a number of composers who were - or are - themselves harpists, and she will include some of her own compositions as well. You can hear samples of the music by going to the foot of the concert webpage and clicking on the videos and links there.
The sad coincidence of losing our dear friend Gaenor a few weeks ago seemed to almost require that our harp concert be dedicated to that lovely lady harpist, who had herself been a Bard of Gorsedd, given her chair at a National Eisteddfod many years ago.
Let's not be sad. No black ties, please. We shall enjoy this concert like any other, like all those concerts Gaenor herself attended over the last five years or so.
Come and hear excellent harp-playing by an extremely talented musician with a growing international reputation. And you can ask her about her honeymoon too - but please, wait until after the concert for that.
Full details of Gwenllian's harp concert at 12.30 on Thursday 23rd November are on this concert webpage.
Harpist Gwenllian Llŷr came to us for the first time in August 2016 when she was studying at the Royal Academy of Music - having already graduated from the Royal Welsh. The harp is such a lovely gentle instrument, and Gwenllian showed us then that she is a superb performer.
In Thursday's 12.30 concert Gwenllian will perform music by a number of composers who were - or are - themselves harpists, and she will include some of her own compositions as well. You can hear samples of the music by going to the foot of the concert webpage and clicking on the videos and links there.
The sad coincidence of losing our dear friend Gaenor a few weeks ago seemed to almost require that our harp concert be dedicated to that lovely lady harpist, who had herself been a Bard of Gorsedd, given her chair at a National Eisteddfod many years ago.
Let's not be sad. No black ties, please. We shall enjoy this concert like any other, like all those concerts Gaenor herself attended over the last five years or so.
Come and hear excellent harp-playing by an extremely talented musician with a growing international reputation. And you can ask her about her honeymoon too - but please, wait until after the concert for that.
Full details of Gwenllian's harp concert at 12.30 on Thursday 23rd November are on this concert webpage.
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And then we really do come to our final concert of the year.
Our guests on Thursday 30th November will be the wonderfully lively Atéa Wind Quintet.
This year they bring us music by Alexander Zemlinsky, Eugène Bozza, Francis Poulenc, and a favourite of theirs, Paul Taffanel.
You can listen to samples of the music Atéa will be performing and discover a little about the quintet on this concert webpage. Their concert will be a really good finish to a brilliant year of concerts.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, and are funded by your contribution in the basket as you leave. Let's be honest here, paper still beats plastic in these collections, and plastic beats metals.
At the end of the year the charity that runs these concerts - LCAS - aims to give the Churches a donation equivalent to the sort of amount they could have received if they had rented their buildings to us for each concert day.
After our concerts we have tea and coffee ready, creating a moment for chat together and, if they are not rushing on to other engagements, with the musicians too.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come along. Aim to arrive by 12 midday and you might even be able to park on site (blue badge only).
PARKING: it's the one thing LMC lacks. So we recommend the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street car park. Frustratingly, the closest one, behind the Parish Church Hall, tends to be full by mid-morning. Allow about 5-8 minutes to walk from the car park to the Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. There's a map on our homepage.
Next let's take a look at what other societies and venues within reach of East Surrey have on offer over the coming week or two. These are taken from our diary website musicinsurrey.co.uk, a service we offer to other music organisations in the area:
Our guests on Thursday 30th November will be the wonderfully lively Atéa Wind Quintet.
This year they bring us music by Alexander Zemlinsky, Eugène Bozza, Francis Poulenc, and a favourite of theirs, Paul Taffanel.
You can listen to samples of the music Atéa will be performing and discover a little about the quintet on this concert webpage. Their concert will be a really good finish to a brilliant year of concerts.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, and are funded by your contribution in the basket as you leave. Let's be honest here, paper still beats plastic in these collections, and plastic beats metals.
At the end of the year the charity that runs these concerts - LCAS - aims to give the Churches a donation equivalent to the sort of amount they could have received if they had rented their buildings to us for each concert day.
After our concerts we have tea and coffee ready, creating a moment for chat together and, if they are not rushing on to other engagements, with the musicians too.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come along. Aim to arrive by 12 midday and you might even be able to park on site (blue badge only).
PARKING: it's the one thing LMC lacks. So we recommend the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street car park. Frustratingly, the closest one, behind the Parish Church Hall, tends to be full by mid-morning. Allow about 5-8 minutes to walk from the car park to the Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. There's a map on our homepage.
Next let's take a look at what other societies and venues within reach of East Surrey have on offer over the coming week or two. These are taken from our diary website musicinsurrey.co.uk, a service we offer to other music organisations in the area:
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Tuesday 21st November 7.30pm ♦ International Organ Series ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 Anne Page, organ - plays JS Bach's final experimental work Der Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) BWV 1080 on the magnificent 7866 pipe organ Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Wednesday 22nd November **7pm - Free ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Rd (car park in Garlands Rd) Tracy Kennington, piano Tickets: not required Wednesday 22nd November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Parish Church Hall, Church Road, KT22 8BD The Golden Age of Song ♦ Jerome Kern & Irving Berlin slides and videos presented by Pip Burley [see also 31 Jan 2018: Cole Porter & Gershwin] Tickets: £15 from info AT jackiehampton DOT com tel: O♦I3-7237_664O Thursday 23rd Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Gwenllian Llŷr, harp music by Marcel Tournier • Sue Rothstein • Wilhelm Posse • Debussy • Pearl Chertok • Gwenllian Llŷr Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 23rd November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Saturday 25th November 2017 ♦ Guildford: St Nicolas Church, GU2 4AB Chantry Singers Roy Rashbrook, conductor Handel: Ode on St Cecilia's Day ♦ Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art Tickets: £14 (16 & under £2) Saturday 25th November 7.30pm ♦ Concert & Curry Series ♦ Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Waverley Ensemble ♦ Ishani Bhoola, director Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 1 D minor Concerto performance by winner of Haslemere String Competition 2017 CPE Bach: String Symphony ♦ Vivaldi: Winter from Four Seasons ♦ soloist Ishani Bhoola Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline Sunday 26th November **7.00pm ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Rd, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Rd) St John's Choral Society ♦ Mole Valley Baroque Haydn: The Creation (by candlelight) Nicholas Smith, director ♦ Anna Cavaliero, Gabriel ♦ Ruairi Bowen, Uriel ♦ Michael Craddock, Raphael Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions) Wednesday 29th November 7.30pm ♦ Cranleigh: Arts Centre, 1 High Street, GU6 8AS NOCTURNE ♥ Richard Saxel, piano nocturnes by different composers, as recorded on Richard's recent CD of nocturnes by 16 composers Tickets: £16 (in aid of Cranleigh Arts Centre) Thursday 30th Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Atéa Wind Quintet Katy Ovens, flute ♦ Phillip Haworth, oboe ♦ Anna Hashimoto, clarinet ♦ Anna Douglass, horn ♦ Ashley Myall, bassoon music by Zemlinsky ♦ Bozza ♦ Poulenc ♦ Taffanel Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 30th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road His (Head)Master's Voice: Richard Hillier, baritone (& retiring Head of School) James O'Donnell, organ • Thomas Carroll, cello • Nigel Hutchison, piano • Svitlana Kosenko, piano • Akiko Ono, violin Tickets: £17.50 click dateline DECEMBER 2017 Friday 1st December 7.30pm - Free ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, then later, Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road) Michaelmas Concert Christmas concert in the School Chapel followed by talents from across the School: Swing Band, Jazz Band, String Groups, Quartets, Sinfonia Tickets: free Saturday 2nd December 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Martin Hall, piano ♦ Robert Huxford, baritone Saturday 2nd December **6.50pm - FRC ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Roy Stratford gives a pre-concert talk on Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, with illustrations by Ensemble Mirage Tickets: suggested donation £3 (not bookable) Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road The Grange Christmas Concert Tickets: £15 click dateline (Grange clients £9) Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Effingham: St Teresa's School, RH5 6ST Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Chloê Hanslip, violin ♦ Kenneth Woods, conductor Rosssini: Overture - The Thieving Magpie ♦ Beethoven Violin Concerto ♦ Beethoven Symphony No 6 Pastoral Tickets: £19.50 (21 & under £5), • 2 adult+2 child £40 Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Hammer, Haslemere: 3 Counties Church, Linchmere Road, GU27 3QW Concert in aid of Hope for Justice Ishani Bhoola, violin ♦ Ben Cooley, singer Tickets: £15 office @ 3countieschurch.org or OI4Z8 653OIl Saturday 2nd December 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Ensemble Mirage • clarinet • 2 violins • viola • cello • piano Finzi, arr C Alexander: Five Bagatelles • Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No 2 in Eb minor Op 26 Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Tunes Op 34 • Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time Tickets: £20 Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN English Arts Chorale & Orchestra Savitri Grier, violin ♦ Greg Tassell, tenor ♦ Benjamin Goldscheider, horn ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending ♦ Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings ♦ Lauridsen: Lux aeterna ♦ Finzi: 'In terra pax' Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings ♦ Leslie Olive: Magnificat Tickets: £22, £17, £12, children/students £6, disabled 2@half price Sunday 3rd December 7.30pm ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ HALLELUJAH ♦ Horsley Choral Society Handel's The Messiah, Part 1 - 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To make sure your society's events are included in the 2018 musicinsurrey diary please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: musiconthursdays@gmail.com.
Just two Leatherhead lunchtime concerts left for this year. Do come along and enjoy fine performance over the lunch hour. And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Just two Leatherhead lunchtime concerts left for this year. Do come along and enjoy fine performance over the lunch hour. And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 12th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 12th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Last Thursday's excellent piano recital was the last of this year's concerts with the London College of Music. Looking back over the year we can see that the College brought us new talents and fresh input to our programme. We will soon begin to plan for 2018 and hopefully many more students will be able to come to Leatherhead to perform for the lunchtime audience.
This week our concert is on Wednesday, when we have the last of the year's organ recitals in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
Guest organist this month is Ed Sutton. Ed played here a year ago and he has quite a background in organ scholarship and university posts. His programme for Wednesday's concert comprises solely music by Emglish composers of the 18th century. You can expect Cornet Voluntaries by Henry Heron, William Walond, and Anon ! Other composers to feature include William Croft, John Stanley, and Thomas Arne.
It isn't easy to track down recordings of this music, so take a look at the concert webpage here and see how successful I was ! I have also added a little note for each composer giving an idea of the posts held. One of them has an unexpected local connection.
This week our concert is on Wednesday, when we have the last of the year's organ recitals in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
Guest organist this month is Ed Sutton. Ed played here a year ago and he has quite a background in organ scholarship and university posts. His programme for Wednesday's concert comprises solely music by Emglish composers of the 18th century. You can expect Cornet Voluntaries by Henry Heron, William Walond, and Anon ! Other composers to feature include William Croft, John Stanley, and Thomas Arne.
It isn't easy to track down recordings of this music, so take a look at the concert webpage here and see how successful I was ! I have also added a little note for each composer giving an idea of the posts held. One of them has an unexpected local connection.
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That splendid picture reminds us that next week's Music on Thursdays concert will be given by Welsh harpist Gwenllian Llŷr, fresh from her extensive honeymoon.
Her programme for November 23rd includes some works Gwenllian has composed herself, as well as the works of Marcel Tournier, Sue Rothstein, Wilhelm Posse, Debussy and Pearl Chertok - several of them harpists themselves.
You can find full details of the concert, recordings of the music to be performed (including two recordings of Gwenllian herself), but the honeymoon you will have to ask her about after the concert. Everything else is on this concert webpage.
That just leaves us with one more concert this year, MoT on November 30th. Atéa Wind Quintet were to be a little depleted, due to other commitments for a couple of the players. However, two musicians well-known to our audience, through the Royal Academy of Music connection, have stepped in to cover the gaps. Full information is ready on the concert webpage.
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Both churches have level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to join us for these concerts.
After the concerts we linger over tea and coffee and there is usually the chance to chat with the musicians too.
PARKING: While Christ Church has oodles of on-site parking, LMC can only cope with the artistes and a few blue badge holders (and it's best to arrive close to 12 midday for those spaces). We recommend using the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car park. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road.
Now it's time to take a look at what other local societies and venues are offering this month. Here's a list taken from our musicinsurrey diary website:
Her programme for November 23rd includes some works Gwenllian has composed herself, as well as the works of Marcel Tournier, Sue Rothstein, Wilhelm Posse, Debussy and Pearl Chertok - several of them harpists themselves.
You can find full details of the concert, recordings of the music to be performed (including two recordings of Gwenllian herself), but the honeymoon you will have to ask her about after the concert. Everything else is on this concert webpage.
That just leaves us with one more concert this year, MoT on November 30th. Atéa Wind Quintet were to be a little depleted, due to other commitments for a couple of the players. However, two musicians well-known to our audience, through the Royal Academy of Music connection, have stepped in to cover the gaps. Full information is ready on the concert webpage.
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Both churches have level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to join us for these concerts.
After the concerts we linger over tea and coffee and there is usually the chance to chat with the musicians too.
PARKING: While Christ Church has oodles of on-site parking, LMC can only cope with the artistes and a few blue badge holders (and it's best to arrive close to 12 midday for those spaces). We recommend using the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car park. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road.
Now it's time to take a look at what other local societies and venues are offering this month. Here's a list taken from our musicinsurrey diary website:
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Wednesday 15th Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: Ed Sutton Church Organist & recitalist • music by 18th century English composers Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Wednesday 15th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Emma Johnson, clarinet ♦ John Lenehan, piano Brahms: Sonata in E flat Op 120 No 2 ♦ Rossini: Introduction, Theme & Variations ♦ Beethoven: Trio in Bb major Op 11 ♦ Thompson: White Horses and Spin ♦ Bernstein: Riffs Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Friday 17th November 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Ruth Rogers & Olivia Jarvis, violins ♦ Ruth Nelson, viola ♦ Bethan Lloyd, cello Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2 The Joke ♦ Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major Friday 17th November 7.30pm ♦ The Secret Life of Lutheran Chorales Agnethe Christensen & Leah Stuttard • voice, Bray harp, Nordic lyre, bells exploring Medieval origins of the chorales and later development in Scandinavian folk music Tickets: pre £11.35, on the door £14 (limited capacity) Kingston: Lovekyn Chapel, facing Kingston Grammar School, 70 London Road, KT2 6PY Saturday 18th November **7pm ♦ Bramley Music Concert Series ♦ Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD Home Grown - concert by Alan Newcombe & local musicians: Emma Blanco, violin • Annelies Scott, cello • Margaret Roberts, piano • Robert O’Connell, bass-baritone Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL Ripieno Choir ♦ Monteverdi String Band ♦ English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 Alexandra Stevenson soprano ♦ Lucy Cronin soprano ♦ Andrew King tenor Nicholas Hurndall Smith tenor ♦ Paul Young tenor ♦ Thomas Humphreys bass ♦ Edmund Danon bass Linda Sayce theorbo Tickets: £18 until 5th November, £20 thereafter (£5 under-18s) Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road) Leatherhead Choral Society Tickets: £14 (u16s free) Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola ♦ John Lenehan, piano music by Handel, Vaughan Williams, Brahms, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov Tickets: £20 click dateline Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present: Eblana String Trio music by Beethoven, Moeran, Mozart Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, KT17 4PX Epsom Choral Society with Nonsuch School Chamber Choir and professional soloists Julian Collings, musical director ♦ Marion Lea, piano ♦ Charles Andrews, organ Orff: Carmina Burana ♦ Rutter: Mass of the Children ♦ Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs Tickets: £15, students/u18 £7.50 Saturday 18th November 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Ruth Rogers & Olivia Jarvis**, violins ♦ Ruth Nelson, viola ♦ Bethan Lloyd, cello Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2 The Joke ♦ Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major **Olivia Jarvis performed in a Leatherhead lunchtime concert in July 2014, while a student at the Royal Academy of Music Tuesday 21st November 7.30pm ♦ International Organ Series ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 Anne Page, organ plays JS Bach's final experimental work Der Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) BWV 1080 on the magnificent 7866 pipe organ Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Wednesday 22nd November **7pm - Free ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) Tracy Kennington, piano Tickets: not required Wednesday 22nd November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Parish Church Hall, Church Road, KT22 8BD The Golden Age of Song - Jerome Kern & Irving Berlin slides and videos presented by Pip Burley see also 31 Jan 2018: Cole Porter & Gershwin Tickets: £15 from info AT jackiehampton DOT com tel: O♦I3-7237_664O Thursday 23rd Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Gwenllian Llŷr, harp music by Marcel Tournier • Sue Rothstein • Wilhelm Posse • Debussy • Pearl Chertok • Gwenllian Llŷr concert dedicated to the memory of Gaenor Jones Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 23rd November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Saturday 25th November 2017 ♦ Guildford: St Nicolas Church, GU2 4AB Chantry Singers ♦ Roy Rashbrook, conductor Handel: Ode on St Cecilia's Day ♦ Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art Tickets: £14 (16 & under £2) Saturday 25th November 7.30pm ♦ Concert & Curry Series ♦ Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Waverley Ensemble ♦ Ishani Bhoola, director Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 1 D minor ♦ Concerto performance by winner of Haslemere String Competition 2017 CPE Bach: String Symphony ♦ Vivaldi: Winter from Four Seasons • soloist Ishani Bhoola Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline Sunday 26th November **7.00pm ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road) St John's Choral Society ♦ Mole Valley Baroque Haydn: The Creation (by candlelight) Nicholas Smith, director ♦ Anna Cavaliero, Gabriel ♦ Ruairi Bowen, Uriel ♦ Michael Craddock, Raphael Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions) Thursday 30th Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Atéa Wind Quintet Katy Ovens, flute ♦ Phillip Haworth, oboe ♦ Anna Hashimoto, clarinet ♦ Anna Douglass, horn ♦ Ashley Myall, bassoon music by Zemlinsky ♦ Bozza ♦ Poulenc ♦ Taffanel Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 30th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road His (Head)Master's Voice: Richard Hillier, baritone (& retiring Head of School) James O'Donnell, organ • Thomas Carroll, cello • Nigel Hutchison, piano • Svitlana Kosenko, piano • Akiko Ono, violin Tickets: £17.50 click dateline |
To make sure your society's events are included in the 2018 musicinsurrey diary please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: musiconthursdays@gmail.com.
As ever, it will be lovely to see you at a lunchtime concert, and I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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As ever, it will be lovely to see you at a lunchtime concert, and I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 7th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 7th November 2017
Dear Friends,
BREAKING NEWS: Surrey Performing Arts Library at Denbies (SPAL)
At this morning's (7 Nov) meeting of Surrey County Council's Communities Select Committee it was agreed to set up a working group to explore Option 2 - keeping SPAL's music and drama collections together, but probably under a separate entity, such as a charitable trust.
Speakers at the meeting included Barbara Eifler, Executive Director of Making Music (representing 167 music socs in Surrey, and many more across London and the South-East - including ourselves), Kathryn Adamson, Librarian of the Royal Academy of Music, and the Chairman of FOSPAL - Friends of SPAL, Mark Welling.
These three will join the working group along with library management representatives and possibly some volunteers. They will report to the Committee's next meeting in February.
Option 3 - complete closure of the library and its service - is no longer being considered. Option 1, splitting the collections and housing music in a different place from drama may still be costed but the meeting was in pretty broad agreement that this was not a desirable option.
With apologies for the delay in sending out this week's newsletter, here it finally is:
At this morning's (7 Nov) meeting of Surrey County Council's Communities Select Committee it was agreed to set up a working group to explore Option 2 - keeping SPAL's music and drama collections together, but probably under a separate entity, such as a charitable trust.
Speakers at the meeting included Barbara Eifler, Executive Director of Making Music (representing 167 music socs in Surrey, and many more across London and the South-East - including ourselves), Kathryn Adamson, Librarian of the Royal Academy of Music, and the Chairman of FOSPAL - Friends of SPAL, Mark Welling.
These three will join the working group along with library management representatives and possibly some volunteers. They will report to the Committee's next meeting in February.
Option 3 - complete closure of the library and its service - is no longer being considered. Option 1, splitting the collections and housing music in a different place from drama may still be costed but the meeting was in pretty broad agreement that this was not a desirable option.
With apologies for the delay in sending out this week's newsletter, here it finally is:
How was your weekend ? I spent Saturday listening to six Early and Baroque ensembles in the Brighton Early Music Festival. I hope that will lead to us booking a few of them for concerts next summer.
Back here in Leatherhead we are ready for our second LCM LIVE concert. This Thursday we hear from two piano students of the London College of Music, each presenting their own part of the concert. Haley Myles is to play music by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin, and Elia Stavrou has also chosen a Chopin item, along with Gershwin.
You will find full details of Thursday's 12.30 piano concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church, on this concert webpage, as well as recordings of the music Haley and Elia will be performing.
Back here in Leatherhead we are ready for our second LCM LIVE concert. This Thursday we hear from two piano students of the London College of Music, each presenting their own part of the concert. Haley Myles is to play music by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin, and Elia Stavrou has also chosen a Chopin item, along with Gershwin.
You will find full details of Thursday's 12.30 piano concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church, on this concert webpage, as well as recordings of the music Haley and Elia will be performing.
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Next week we turn to the organ at Christ Church for our 12.30 lunchtime concert, on Wednesday 15th November. The organist (helping to bring the average age down) will be Ed Sutton. Ed played for us last November too. This year he has selected works by English composers of the 18th century. You will fiund full details of Ed's concert on this concert webpage. It wasn't easy finding matching recordings of these works, so see how well I did, and I hope you will enjoy the items I did manage to track down.
Still to come are Gwenllian Llyr's harp concert on November 23rd, which we are dedicating to the memory of our dear friend Gaenor Jones. And just beginning to take shape is the programme for our season finale with members of Atéa Wind Quintet on November 30th. Definitely a work in progress that one !
All of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts, in Leatherhead Methodist Church and in Christ Church United Reformed (on Epsom Road) are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
After the concert we linger a while to chat, often with the artistes too, over tea and coffee (and we might manage cake on the 30th).
Both churches have level access throughout (including the loos) so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert at this more accessible time of day.
Parking: Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. LMC, however, only has space for a few blue card holders (best arrive close to 12 midday for this). So we recommend parking in the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car park.
There is generally a great deal of music-making within easy reach of Leatherhead. Here are some events we have been told about that are taking place over the next week or two:
Still to come are Gwenllian Llyr's harp concert on November 23rd, which we are dedicating to the memory of our dear friend Gaenor Jones. And just beginning to take shape is the programme for our season finale with members of Atéa Wind Quintet on November 30th. Definitely a work in progress that one !
All of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts, in Leatherhead Methodist Church and in Christ Church United Reformed (on Epsom Road) are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
After the concert we linger a while to chat, often with the artistes too, over tea and coffee (and we might manage cake on the 30th).
Both churches have level access throughout (including the loos) so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert at this more accessible time of day.
Parking: Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. LMC, however, only has space for a few blue card holders (best arrive close to 12 midday for this). So we recommend parking in the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car park.
There is generally a great deal of music-making within easy reach of Leatherhead. Here are some events we have been told about that are taking place over the next week or two:
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Tuesday 7th November 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bridge • Peeters • Ireland • Bach • Pärt • Parry • Duruflé Tuesday 7th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Wednesday 8th November All day - Oxford Organ Outreach Day - LMH & Royal College of Organists - Linked Article here Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall (also Somerville and Keble) Thursday 9 November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ LCM Live ! - Music on Thursdays at LMC with the London College of Music Haley Myles, piano, plays music by Ginastera ♦ Liszt ♦ Chopin Elia Stavrou, piano, plays music by Chopin ♦ Gershwin Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 10th November **7.00pm ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Rd, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Rd) Vocal Ensemble: Tenebrae ♦ Nigel Short, director Tickets: £15 (£12 concessions) Sunday 12th November **5pm ♦ Ashford (Mdx): St Hilda’s Church, Stanwell Road, TW15 3QL Egham Choral Remembrance Concert John Rutter: Requiem • Bryd: Ave Verum Corpus • James Macmillan: A New Song Tickets: £10 (£5 under 12s) £6 members of The Royal British Legion Wednesday 15th Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: Ed Sutton - Church Organist and recitalist music by 18th century English composers Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Wednesday 15th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Emma Johnson, clarinet ♦ John Lenehan, piano Brahms: Sonata in E flat Op 120 No 2 ♦ Rossini: Introduction, Theme & Variations ♦ Beethoven: Trio in Bb major Op 11 Thompson: White Horses and Spin ♦ Bernstein: Riffs Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Friday 17th November 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Ruth Rogers & Olivia Jarvis, violins ♦ Ruth Nelson, viola ♦ Bethan Lloyd, cello Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2 The Joke ♦ Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major Friday 17th November 7.30pm ♦ The Secret Life of Lutheran Chorales Agnethe Christensen & Leah Stuttard ♦ voice, Bray harp, Nordic lyre, bells exploring Medieval origins of the chorales and later development in Scandinavian folk music Tickets: pre £11.35, on the door £14 (limited capacity) Kingston: Lovekyn Chapel, facing Kingston Grammar School, 70 London Road, KT2 6PY Saturday 18th November **7pm ♦ Bramley Music Concert Series ♦ Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD Home Grown - concert by Alan Newcombe & local musicians: Emma Blanco, violin • Annelies Scott, cello • Margaret Roberts, piano • Robert O’Connell, bass-baritone Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL Ripieno Choir • Monteverdi String Band ♦ English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 Alexandra Stevenson soprano ♦ Lucy Cronin soprano ♦ Andrew King tenor ♦ Nicholas Hurndall Smith tenor ♦ Paul Young tenor Thomas Humphreys bass ♦ Edmund Danon bass Linda Sayce theorbo Tickets: £18 until 5th November, £20 thereafter (£5 under-18s) Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Rd, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Rd) Leatherhead Choral Society Northern Lights Tickets: £14 (u16s free) Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola ♦ John Lenehan, piano music by Handel, Vaughan Williams, Brahms, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov Tickets: £20 click dateline Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present: Eblana String Trio music by Beethoven, Moeran, Mozart Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Saturday 18th November 7.30pm ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, KT17 4PX Epsom Choral Society with Nonsuch School Chamber Choir and professional soloists Julian Collings, musical director ♦ Marion Lea, piano ♦ Charles Andrews, organ Orff: Carmina Burana ♦ Rutter: Mass of the Children ♦ Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs Tickets: £15, students/u18 £7.50 Saturday 18th November 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Ruth Rogers & Olivia Jarvis, violins ♦ Ruth Nelson, viola ♦ Bethan Lloyd, cello Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2 The Joke ♦ Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major Tuesday 21st November 7.30pm ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 International Organ Series: Anne Page, organ plays JS Bach's final experimental work Der Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) BWV 1080 on the magnificent 7866 pipe organ Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Wednesday 22nd November **7pm - Free ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Rd (car park in Garlands Rd) Tracy Kennington, piano Tickets: not required Wednesday 22nd November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Parish Church Hall, Church Road, KT22 8BD The Golden Age of Song: Jerome Kern & Irving Berlin slides and videos presented by Pip Burley and on 31 Jan 2018: Cole Porter & Gershwin Tickets: £15 from info AT jackiehampton DOT com tel: O♦I3-7237_664O Thursday 23rd Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Gwenllian Llŷr, harp music by Marcel Tournier • Sue Rothstein • Wilhelm Posse • Debussy • Pearl Chertok • Gwenllian Llŷr Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 23rd November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline |
You have a lot to choose from in that list ! I hope you enjoy your own selection of these delights, and I look forward to seeing you at one of the remaining lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead, this month.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 31st October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 31st October 2017
Dear Friends,
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Let's begin with some positive news.
Mole Valley District Council have passed a motion in support of making efforts to save the Performing Arts Library. You can read more details here. Although it is on Mole Valley's patch, like all libraries, PerfArts / SPAL is the responsibility of Surrey County Council. SCC are meeting next Tuesday 7th November to discuss the Library's future. |
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LCM LIVE ♦ London College of Music with Music on Thursdays
This Thursday's 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church is the first of two LCM LIVE concerts in this year's Arts Alive Festival, brought to us by students of the London College of Music.
On Thursday we shall hear soprano solos and duets sung by Elizabeth Pow and Veronika Rettich, with their accompanist (and LCM repetiteur) Emanuele Moillica.
The Marriage of Figaro, Lakmé, Tosca, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Threepenny Opera - items from each of these appear in Thursday's concert.
We rarely have the opportunity to hear two voices together. This is going to be an exceptional concert. You will find full details of the artistes and their programme, together with video performances of the work they will perform, on this linked webpage.
On Thursday we shall hear soprano solos and duets sung by Elizabeth Pow and Veronika Rettich, with their accompanist (and LCM repetiteur) Emanuele Moillica.
The Marriage of Figaro, Lakmé, Tosca, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Threepenny Opera - items from each of these appear in Thursday's concert.
We rarely have the opportunity to hear two voices together. This is going to be an exceptional concert. You will find full details of the artistes and their programme, together with video performances of the work they will perform, on this linked webpage.
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Next week's LCM LIVE concert, at 12.30 on Thursday 9th November, the College brings us two pianists. First, Haley Myles will present a short programme of music by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin. Haley will be followed by Elia Stavrou with music by Chopin and Gershwin.
Again, full details of these performers and their programme are ready on this concert webpage.
The College's Head of Classical Performance, Emilie Capulet, has agreed to give us a piano concert in July 2018.
Our concerts remain free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout, but we ask you please to park in the town's Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car parks. You might be lucky with the Church Road car park behind the Parish Hall, but it tends to fill during the morning.
After the concert we linger over a cup of tea or coffee and chat together, and if they can stay a while, with the musicians too. It can be interesting to hear about their journey to this point in their musical careers and about their plans for the future.
Still to come this month, as we draw towards the end of our 2017 season, are Ed Sutton's organ concert of works by 18th century English composers, a visit from lovely Welsh harpist Gwenllian Llŷr (gwen-thlee-an thleer), and our Season Finale with Atéa Wind Quintet (whose webpage I plan to set up next week).
59 of us enjoyed a wonderful string quartet playing last Thursday. I'm sure there is room for 59 more so do come along and add a bit of culture to your lunch hour ! Plus, if you missed the Kirkman Quartet's performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No 10 Harp, there's another opportunity to hear it at the Atrium Quartet's concert on Saturday evening in Holy Trinity Claygate.
If you really can't make lunchtimes, then why not take a look at these further local offerings. I'm still picking out Wednesday evening's Vivaldi in Venice as a highlight. I was lucky enough to be invited when Peter Medhurst gave his presentation in Leatherhead and I found it fascinating.
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Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road
Bartholomew LaFollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky: Suite Italienne ♦ Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor, ♦ & Four Serious Songs, Op 121 ♦ Poulenc: Cello Sonata Tickets: £25 click dateline Wednesday 1st November 8pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road CLADFAS Lecture ♦ Vivaldi in Venice - fascinating illustrated lecture by musicologist Peter Medhurst Tickets: contact CLADFAS pcorben AT talktalk DOT net Thursday 2 November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ LCM Live ! Music on Thursdays at LMC with the London College of Music Opera Highlights, with sopranos Elizabeth Pow & Veronika Rettich Emanuele Mollica, piano courtesy of the London College of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 4th November 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW David Hughes, organist, Albury Church ♦ Karen Borrett, Organ Scholar, St Martin's Dorking Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral Guildford Choral ♦ Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Haydn: The Creation ♦ Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8STSurrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor Cimarosa: Overture, The Secret Marriage ♦ JS Bach: Air on the G string, from Suite No 3 JB Waṅhal: Concerto in F for 2 Bassoons (soloists: Neil Gilchrist & Gillian Barrett) Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Italian Tickets: £14 (u18 & students £9) Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Raynes Park: St Matthew's Church, Durham Road, SW20 0DE (5-8 minutes walk from the station) Fate & Romance: Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra ♦ Andrew Morley, conductor Benjamin Baker, violin ♦ Michael Petrov, cello Bennett: Murder on the Orient Express ♦ Brahms: Double Concerto for Cello & Violin ♦ Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 Tickets: £13 (£12) + Programme £2 Saturday 4th November 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Atrium Quartet Schubert: Quartet in A minor D804 Rosamunde • Shostakovich: Quartet No 8 in C minor Beethoven: String Quartet No 10 in Eb major Op 74 Harp Tickets: £20 Tuesday 7th November 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bridge • Peeters • Ireland • Bach • Pärt • Parry • Duruflé Tuesday 7th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert ♦ Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Wednesday 8th November All day - Oxford Organ Outreach Day - LMH & Royal College of Organists - Linked Article here Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall (also Somerville and Keble) Thursday 9 November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ LCM Live ! Music on Thursdays at LMC with the London College of Music Haley Myles, piano • music by Ginastera ♦ Liszt ♦ Chopin Elia Stavrou, piano • music by Chopin ♦ Gershwin both courtesy of the London College of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 10th November **7.00pm ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Rd, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Rd) Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP(car park in Garlands Road)Vocal Ensemble: Tenebrae ♦ Nigel Short, director Tickets: £15 (£12 concessions) Wednesday 15th Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom RoadWednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Guest organist: Ed Sutton • Church Organist and recitalist music by 18th century English composers Wednesday 15th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Emma Johnson, clarinet • John Lenehan, piano Brahms: Sonata in E flat Op 120 No 2 ♦ Rossini: Introduction, Theme & Variations ♦ Beethoven: Trio in Bb major Op 11 ♦ Thompson: White Horses and Spin ♦ Bernstein: Riffs Tickets: £17.50 click dateline |
I hope you enjoy your own music-making and -listening over these next couple of weeks.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 23rd October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 23rd October 2017
Dear Friends,
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It is almost exactly a year since we last heard a string quartet in these lunchtime concerts, and they too came from the Royal Academy of Music.
On Thursday, at 12.30 lunchtime in Leatherhead Methodist Church, we welcome the members of the Kirkman Quartet, led by Harriet Haynes, with fellow violinist Jack Greed, violist Kim Becker and cellist Yurie Lee. Formed last Autumn, the quartet has had remarkable success already. They come to us fresh from an appearance at Bristol's Colston Hall tomorrow (Tuesday 24th). Their concert for us has as its principal work Beethoven's String Quartet No 10 in Eb major 'Harp', followed by the short movement by Webern entitled Langsamer Satz. You can read more about the Kirkman Quartet and its members and hear recordings of the works they will be performing on this concert webpage. |
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London College of Music ♦ LCM Live
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In the second LCM Live event in Leatherhead, on November 9th, our concert comes from pianist Haley Myles.
Haley's programme comprises works by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin. You can read full information and listen to recordings of the music on Haley's concert webpage. |
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts all take place in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church. LMC has level access throughout so we positiely encourage wheelchair users to come along (and we won't hide you at the back unless you ask us to !)
The concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs, including musicians' fees, performing rights, heating, rent and marketing.
[P] - we recommend using the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. (There is a map on our homepage.)
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee, giving a chance to chat together, and often with the musicians too.
We know ours are not the only events in the area, so here is a diary extract from our other website - musicinsurrey.co.uk - covering the next couple of weeks:
The concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs, including musicians' fees, performing rights, heating, rent and marketing.
[P] - we recommend using the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. (There is a map on our homepage.)
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee, giving a chance to chat together, and often with the musicians too.
We know ours are not the only events in the area, so here is a diary extract from our other website - musicinsurrey.co.uk - covering the next couple of weeks:
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Saturday 21st October toSunday 29th October 10am to 4pm daily Leatherhead Art Club: Autumn Exhibition Tickets: not required, free entry ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Thursday 26 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Kirkman String Quartet • courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music Harriet Haynes, violin ♦ Jack Greed, violin ♦ Kim Becker, viola ♦ Yurie Lee, cello music by Beethoven & Webern Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 28th October 10am ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church All day rehearsal for this evening's: Come & Sing - Haydn's Nelson Mass Participant Tickets: £10, inc tea/coffee - stmartinscomeandsing@gmail.com Saturday 28th October **5.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Performance: Come & Sing (rehearsals from 10am): Haydn: Nelson Mass Audience Tickets: £5 Saturday 28th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Cobham Band presents Classic Brass: marches, overtures, solos, novelty pieces, both classical and modern Tickets: £15 click dateline Saturday 28th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU and Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Savitri Grier & Juliette Roos, violins ♦ Ting-Ru Lai, viola ♦ Matthijs Broersma, cello ♦ Yundu Wang, piano Fauré: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Op 89 • Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2 in A major Op 81 Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Bartholomew LaFollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky: Suite Italienne ♦ Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor, ♦ & Four Serious Songs, Op 121 Poulenc: Cello Sonata Tickets: £25 click dateline NOVEMBER Wednesday 1st November 8pm ♦ CLADFAS ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Vivaldi in Venice - fascinating illustrated lecture by musicologist Peter Medhurst Tickets: contact CLADFAS pcorben AT talktalk DOT net *** Highly Recommended - especially if you missed this talk at Leatherhead *** Peter St Thursday 2 November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC & The London College of Music Opera Highlights, solos and duets with sopranos Elizabeth Pow & Veronika Rettich Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 4th November 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW David Hughes, organist, Albury Church Karen Borrett, Organ Scholar, St Martin's Dorking Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Guildford Choral ♦ Guildofrd: The Cathedral Haydn: The Creation ♦ Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor Cimarosa: Overture, The Secret Marriage ♦ JS Bach: Air on the G string, from Suite No 3 JB Waṅhal: Concerto in F for 2 Bassoons (soloists: Neil Gilchrist & Gillian Barrett) Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Italian Tickets: £14 (u18 & students £9) Saturday 4th November 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Atrium Quartet Schubert: Quartet in A minor D804 Rosamunde • Shostakovich: Quartet No 8 in C minor Beethoven: String Quartet No 14 in C# minor Op 131 Tickets: £20 Tuesday 7th Nov 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bridge • Peeters • Ireland • Bach • Pärt • Parry • Duruflé Tuesday 7th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert ♦ Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Wednesday 8th November All day ♦ Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall (also Somerville and Keble) Organ Outreach Day - LMH & Royal College of Organists - Linked Article here Thursday 9th November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC & The London College of Music Haley Myles, piano ♦ music by Ginastera ♦ Liszt ♦ Chopin Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) |
Lots to choose from there then ! We hope you enjoy your personal selection of these concerts, and most of all we look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th October 2017
Dear Friends,
This Thursday - being the third Thursday of the month - LMC hosts Messy Church and Christ Church is home to a large U3A meeting. So it is that once a month our concert day moves to Wednesday, and we invite an organist to play the modern pipe organ at Christ Church.
Wednesday lunchtime at 12.30 our guest organist is Mark Brafield, a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists, and in his parallel legal career, a county court judge.
Mark's programme for us spans the centuries with one living composer, two 20th century ones (including Vaughan Williams), JS Bach, and the even earlier Sweelinck. You can see the programme on this concert webpage.
You will also find video performances of the music towards the foot of the page.
Wednesday lunchtime at 12.30 our guest organist is Mark Brafield, a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists, and in his parallel legal career, a county court judge.
Mark's programme for us spans the centuries with one living composer, two 20th century ones (including Vaughan Williams), JS Bach, and the even earlier Sweelinck. You can see the programme on this concert webpage.
You will also find video performances of the music towards the foot of the page.
Next week our lunchtime concert will be on Thursday, 26th October when we welcome the Kirkman String Quartet, four students of the Royal Academy of Music. The interesting thing to note from their photograph is that they are dressed for winter. That tells us this is not an ad hoc quartet but four musicians who have been working together for some time. At the Academy they are mentored by Levon Chilingirian. They are in for a busy week as next Tuesday the quartet have a concert at Bristol's Colston Hall.
The main work in next week's concert is Beethoven's String Quartet in E minor 'Harp', and they close with Webern's Slow Movement for Strings, Langsamer Satz.
Here's a rare chance to hear a Beethoven quartet, locally, and over the lunch hour.
You can read more about the Kirkman String Quartet and its members, as well as listening to performances of the music they will be playing, all on the concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout - making access easy for wheelchair users - and after each concert we linger and chat over tea and coffee.
Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
For LMC we advise using the town's Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road where you will find LMC.
Not everyone is available at lunchtime, so here is an extract from the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk covering music events for the next couple of weeks:
The main work in next week's concert is Beethoven's String Quartet in E minor 'Harp', and they close with Webern's Slow Movement for Strings, Langsamer Satz.
Here's a rare chance to hear a Beethoven quartet, locally, and over the lunch hour.
You can read more about the Kirkman String Quartet and its members, as well as listening to performances of the music they will be playing, all on the concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout - making access easy for wheelchair users - and after each concert we linger and chat over tea and coffee.
Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
For LMC we advise using the town's Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road where you will find LMC.
Not everyone is available at lunchtime, so here is an extract from the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk covering music events for the next couple of weeks:
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Tuesday 17th October 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Andrea Scarpa, organ (Italy) Wednesday 18th Oct 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: recitalist Mark Brafield Trustee, Royal College of Organists music by Sweelinck • Paul Sturman • JS Bach • Vaughan Williams • Christopher Steel Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Saturday 21st October toSunday 29th October 10am to 4pm daily Leatherhead Art Club: Autumn Exhibition ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Tickets: not required, free entry Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Concert & Curry Series ♦ Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Waverley Ensemble ♦ Ishani Bhoola, director JS Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor ♦ Brandenburg Concerto No 6 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ♦ Air on the G String ♦ Double Violin Concerto in D minor soloists Ishani Bhoola & Anna Dryer-Beers Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Watermill Jazz presents: PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA Tickets: £25 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: The Marylebone Trio music for woodwind by Elgar, Dvorak, Mozart Grieg, Chopin Tickets: £18 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present: Dinara Klinton, piano music by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN English Arts Chorale & Chamber Ensemble Annabel Thwaite, piano ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Elgar: Sea Pictures ♦ Paul Carr: Stabat Mater (première) Lauridsen: Nocturnes ♦ Samuel Barber: String Quartet Tickets: £20, £15, £12, children/students £6, disabled 2@half price Thursday 26 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Kirkman String Quartet Harriet Haynes, violin ♦ Jack Greed, violin ♦ Kim Becker, viola ♦ Yurie Lee, cello music by Beethoven & Webern courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 28th October 10am ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church All day rehearsal for this evening's Come & Sing - Haydn's Nelson Mass Participant Tickets: £10, inc tea/coffee - stmartinscomeandsing@gmail.com Saturday 28th October **5.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Come & Sing (rehearsals from 10am) Haydn: Nelson Mass Audience Tickets: £5 Saturday 28th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Cobham Band presents Classic Brass: marches, overtures, solos, novelty pieces, both classical and modern Tickets: £15 click dateline Saturday 28th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DUand Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJSunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJSavitri Grier & Juliette Roos, violins ♦ Ting-Ru Lai, viola Matthijs Broersma, cello ♦ Yundu Wang, piano Fauré: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Op 89 ♦ Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2 in A major Op 81 Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Bartholomew LaFollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky: Suite Italienne Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor ♦ & Four Serious Songs, Op 121 Poulenc: Cello Sonata Tickets: £25 click dateline NOVEMBER Wednesday 1st November 8pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road CLADFAS Vivaldi in Venice - fascinating illustrated lecture by musicologist Peter Medhurst Tickets: contact CLADFAS pcorben AT talktalk DOT net Recommended: I heard this talk at Leatherhead. 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Peter St Thursday 2 November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Opera Highlights, with sopranos Elizabeth Pow & Veronika Rettich courtesy of the London College of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 4th November 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW David Hughes, organist, Albury Church Karen Borrett, Organ Scholar, St Martin's Dorking Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral Guildford Choral ♦ Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Haydn: The Creation Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8STSurrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor Cimarosa: Overture, The Secret Marriage ♦ JS Bach: Air on the G string, from Suite No 3 JB Waṅhal: Concerto in F for 2 Bassoons (soloists: Neil Gilchrist & Gillian Barrett) Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Italian Tickets: £14 (u18 & students £9) Saturday 4th November 8pm ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Atrium Quartet Schubert: Quartet in A minor D804 Rosamunde • Shostakovich: Quartet No 8 in C minor Beethoven: String Quartet No 14 in C# minor Op 131 Tickets: £20 |
I hope you enjoy your pick of these events, and I especially look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert very soon !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 9th October 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 9th October 2017
Dear Friends,
For this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in the Music on Thursdays at LMC series we welcome two Royal Academy of Music Masters graduates, both classical guitarists.
We have been enjoying the playing of both Francisco Correa and David Massey as soloists and in duos with flautist Emily Andrews, since the first year of these concerts. Last Autumn they performed as a classical guitar duo for the very first time, and that took place
We have been enjoying the playing of both Francisco Correa and David Massey as soloists and in duos with flautist Emily Andrews, since the first year of these concerts. Last Autumn they performed as a classical guitar duo for the very first time, and that took place
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at LMC. They have had several more outings as a duo since then, and we are delighted to welcome them back this week.
Thursday's concert will include two pieces by Albéniz, a Fantasie in three movements by Fernando Sor, and they finish with two dances by Manuel de Falla. In between each has chosen a solo item. For David it's to be Pernambuco's Sons de Carrilhões, while Francisco has chosen Canción de cuna para seis by Lucas Saboya. You will find full details of Thursday's classical guitar concert on this concert webpage. |
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PARKING for LMC: We recommend the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks when attending concerts at LMC. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road, where you will find the Methodist Church.
Wednesdays at Christ Church - 18th October
Next week our concert is at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday, also at 12.30 lunchtime. Our guest organist this month is Mark Brafield (pictured), a very experienced concert recitalist who also plays for church services on occasion.
Mark's programme opens with 16th/17th century Sweelinck and includes works by JS Bach and Vaughan Williams, along with two more modern pieces by Paul Sturman and Christopher Steel.
Mark always performs a well-considered programme and earlier this year he gave a recital at St Bride's Fleet Street. He is a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists. He has always had a parallel career practising in law and is now a judge.
You will find full details of this organ concert on the concert webpage. We hope to show the organist's moves on screen during this concert.
PARKING: Christ Church has plenty of parking on site.
BOTH CHURCHES have level access throughout, incuding toilets. As we have chairs, rather than pews, it is very easy to accommodate wheelchairs.
AFTERWARDS we linger and chat over tea and coffee, and the musicians usually join us if they are not rushing on to other engagements.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, but we rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to pay the musicians, heat the churches, etc.
Let's take a look at some of the other music-making in the Surrey area over the coming fortnight:
Next week our concert is at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday, also at 12.30 lunchtime. Our guest organist this month is Mark Brafield (pictured), a very experienced concert recitalist who also plays for church services on occasion.
Mark's programme opens with 16th/17th century Sweelinck and includes works by JS Bach and Vaughan Williams, along with two more modern pieces by Paul Sturman and Christopher Steel.
Mark always performs a well-considered programme and earlier this year he gave a recital at St Bride's Fleet Street. He is a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists. He has always had a parallel career practising in law and is now a judge.
You will find full details of this organ concert on the concert webpage. We hope to show the organist's moves on screen during this concert.
PARKING: Christ Church has plenty of parking on site.
BOTH CHURCHES have level access throughout, incuding toilets. As we have chairs, rather than pews, it is very easy to accommodate wheelchairs.
AFTERWARDS we linger and chat over tea and coffee, and the musicians usually join us if they are not rushing on to other engagements.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, but we rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to pay the musicians, heat the churches, etc.
Let's take a look at some of the other music-making in the Surrey area over the coming fortnight:
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Tuesday 10th October 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bach • Jongen • Messiaen • Stanford • Ireland • Parry • Francis Jackson • David Johnson Thursday 12 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Classical Guitar Duo: Francisco Correa & David Massey music by Albéniz ♦ Pernambuco ♦ Sor ♦ Saboya ♦ de Falla Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 13th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline
Tuesday 17th October 12.45pm - FRC Andrea Scarpa, organ (Italy) Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Wednesday 18th Oct 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: recitalist Mark Brafield Trustee, Royal College of Organists music by Sweelinck • Paul Sturman • JS Bach • Vaughan Williams • Christopher Steel Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Saturday 21st October to Sunday 29th October 10am to 4pm daily Leatherhead Art Club: Autumn Exhibition Tickets: not required, free entry Leatherhead: Old Chapel, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Concert & Curry Series ♦ Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Waverley Ensemble Ishani Bhoola, director JS Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor ♦ Brandenburg Concerto No 6 ♦ Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ♦ Air on the G String Double Violin Concerto in D minor (soloists Ishani Bhoola & Anna Dryer-Beers) Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Watermill Jazz presents PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA Tickets: £25 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: The Marylebone Trio music for woodwind by Elgar, Dvorak, Mozart Grieg, Chopin Tickets: £18 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present: Dinara Klinton, piano • music by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN English Arts Chorale & Chamber Ensemble Annabel Thwaite, piano ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Elgar: Sea Pictures ♦ Paul Carr: Stabat Mater (première) ♦ Lauridsen: Nocturnes ♦ Samuel Barber: String Quartet Tickets: £20, £15, £12, children/students £6, disabled 2@half price Thursday 26 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Kirkman String Quartet: Harriet Haynes & Jack Greed, violins ♦ Kim Becker, viola ♦ Yurie Lee, cello courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 28th October 10am ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church All day rehearsal for this evening's Come & Sing - Haydn's Nelson Mass Participant Tickets: £10, inc tea/coffee - stmartinscomeandsing@gmail.com Saturday 28th October **5.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Come & Sing (rehearsals from 10am) Haydn: Nelson Mass Audience Tickets: £5 Saturday 28th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Cobham Band presents: Classic Brass: marches, overtures, solos, novelty pieces, both classical and modern Tickets: £15 click dateline Saturday 28th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU AND Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Savitri Grier & Juliette Roos, violins ♦ Ting-Ru Lai, viola ♦ Matthijs Broersma, cello ♦ Yundu Wang, piano Fauré: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Op 89 ♦ Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2 in A major Op 81 Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Bartholomew LaFollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky: Suite Italienne ♦ Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor, ♦ & Four Serious Songs, Op 121 ♦ Poulenc: Cello Sonata Tickets: £25 click dateline |
I hope to see you at a lunchtime concert very soon !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd October 2017
Dear Friends,
Jazz fans were delighted with last week's JAZZ on Thursday at LMC with the sweetly-voiced Alice Auer, while others enjoyed stepping to the side of their comfort zone for half an hour or so ! That young lady should go far. And you can listen to her original work on the newly launched EP by going over to Spotify and searching for Alice Auer and Close to You.
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So we turn to this week and cellist Jacqueline Phillips. For her concert this Thursday, with the excellent accompanist Richard Black, Jacqueline has chosen to play works by Manuel de Falla and Shostakovich, with a solo item between - Variations on Paganini's Caprice No 24.
If you'd like to remind yourself of the music there are video links on the concert webpage, along with the two musicians' biographies and full programme information. To bring you up to date with Jacqueline's news, here's the final part of her current biography: Jacqueline is currently on trial as sub-principal cellist for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and in October she begins a concert hall tour with Marc Almond's Shadows & Reflections Tour, opening at London's Royal Festival Hall on the 3rd. Their concert with us is at 12.30 lunchtime, this Thursday 5th October, at Leatherhead Methodist Church. |
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Next week we welcome back two classical guitarists who have been friends since their Royal Academy of Music days. And yet, they only started playing as a duo a year ago. Now they are really enjoying the additional repertoire it opens up for them.
David Massey and Francisco Correa will be playing music by Albéniz, Pernambuco, Sor, Saboya, and Manuel de Falla. Each of the performers has included a solo item in the concert programme. |
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A chance to catch up with two young musicians who, like Jacqueline Phillips, have been friends of these concerts since they started, six years ago.
You will find full details of next week's double guitar concert, with links to video samples relevant to the concert, and the biographies of both players, on this concert webpage. That's on Thursday October 12th at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Afterwards we linger a while over tea and coffee, and there is usually a chance to chat with that day's musicians.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts.
PARKING: ever the tricky problem! We encourage you to use the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road, and the Methodist Church.
Here's what some other local groups and venues have to offer over the coming fortnight or so:
You will find full details of next week's double guitar concert, with links to video samples relevant to the concert, and the biographies of both players, on this concert webpage. That's on Thursday October 12th at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Afterwards we linger a while over tea and coffee, and there is usually a chance to chat with that day's musicians.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts.
PARKING: ever the tricky problem! We encourage you to use the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road, and the Methodist Church.
Here's what some other local groups and venues have to offer over the coming fortnight or so:
 Plenty of Arts Alive Events throughout Mole Valley this month
Tuesday 3rd October 7.30pm Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road ==
Ben Baker, violin ♦ Daniel Lebhardt, piano Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 9 Op 47 Ysäye: Sonata for solo vioin in A minor Richard Stauss: Sonata for violin and piano Op 18 Tickets: £25 click dateline Thursday 5th October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC Jacqueline Phillips, cello ♦ Richard Black, piano Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 7th October 12 noon - FRC Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW DCO Wind Quintet: section principals from the Dorking Chamber Orchestra Janina Byrne, flute • Kathy Bucknill, oboe Andrew Meredith, clarinet, Jo James, bassoon • Cathy Jenkins, horn music by: Mozart • Ligeti • Bizet Saturday 7th October 3pm West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY Come & Sing: Fauré Requiem Tickets: £10 (singers) contact directorofmusic@stmarysewell.com concert this evening at 7.30pm Saturday 7th October 7.30pm Dorking: St Paul's Church (near Dorking Hospital) Beare Green & Newdigate Choral Society Jamie Cordell, conductor Bob Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass • and many favourite items Tickets: click dateline Saturday 7th October 7.30pm West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY Fauré Requiem Tickets: £7 (children £1) Tuesday 10th October 12.45pm - FRC Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bach • Jongen • Messiaen • Stanford • Ireland • Parry • Francis Jackson • David Johnson Thursday 12 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC Classical Guitar Duo: Francisco Correa & David Massey music by Albéniz ♦ Pernambuco ♦ Sor ♦ Saboya ♦ de Falla Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 13th October 7.30pm Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Saturday 14th October **7pm An Evening of Opera, Songs and Poetry Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, mezzo-soprano Emilie Capulet, piano (Head of Classical Performance Studies, London College of Music) Graham Pountney, actor Tickets: £12 inc refreshments (u19 Free) Leatherhead: St Mary & St Nicholas Parish Church, Church Road, KT22 8BD Tuesday 17th October 12.45pm - FRC Andrea Scarpa, organ (Italy) Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Wednesday 18th Oct 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: recitalist Mark Brafield Trustee, Royal College of Organists music by Sweelinck • Paul Sturman • JS Bach • Vaughan Williams • Christopher Steel Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road |
I wonder which concerts you will choose from this varied selection. I hope you will be able to join us for a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead this month. And I wish you every enjoyment in your music-making and -listening.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Monday, 25th September 2017
Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
Close to You - launched Saturday 23rd September - available to buy after Thursday's concert - £5 each
On Saturday evening Alice Auer, her quartet, and quite a few of their friends, were at The Troubadour in Earl's Court for the launch of Alice's first EP - Close to You.
Thursday lunchtime they will be in Leatherhead for this year's JAZZ on Thursday concert at 12.30 lunchtime in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
On The Alice Auer Quartet's programme we'll hear Alice's original numbers from the EP, together with standards like On the Sunny Side of the Street, and modern jazz ballads from Stephen Day and Gregory Porter (who was on Saturday's Later... with Jools Holland Live 25 celebration programme from the Royal Albert Hall).
This will be the first time we have heard percussion in these lunchtime concerts, and our first electric instument - bass guitar.
So many firsts, in a concert that has come about through our relationship with the London College of Music (from which Alice Auer graduated last year). Full programme and biographic info, and video links to the jazz standards in Thursday's 12.30 concert are on this concert webpage.
A big thank you to LMC and their band who are loaning the Quartet a drum set to save moving one across London for this concert.
Thursday lunchtime they will be in Leatherhead for this year's JAZZ on Thursday concert at 12.30 lunchtime in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
On The Alice Auer Quartet's programme we'll hear Alice's original numbers from the EP, together with standards like On the Sunny Side of the Street, and modern jazz ballads from Stephen Day and Gregory Porter (who was on Saturday's Later... with Jools Holland Live 25 celebration programme from the Royal Albert Hall).
This will be the first time we have heard percussion in these lunchtime concerts, and our first electric instument - bass guitar.
So many firsts, in a concert that has come about through our relationship with the London College of Music (from which Alice Auer graduated last year). Full programme and biographic info, and video links to the jazz standards in Thursday's 12.30 concert are on this concert webpage.
A big thank you to LMC and their band who are loaning the Quartet a drum set to save moving one across London for this concert.
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Next week ? We will be in LMC again on Thursday 5th October for a cello and piano concert. Jacqueline Phillips has been with these concerts since the start - literally the start, she played for our launch event in the Swan Centre.
In 2015 Jacqueline met pianist Richard Black, an excellent accompanist indeed, after another pianist dropped out of a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead. Their performance went well. It went very well.
Their programme for next week has music by de Falla, the ever-popular solo cello arrangement of Paganini's Caprice (think South Bank Show), and a Shostakovich Cello Sonata. Full details, and video samples on this concert webpage.
These two concerts are participating in the 2017 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.(LInk to pdf file of the Arts Alive brochure)
Leatherhead's 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, - we hope wheelchair users will take full advantage of that fact !
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee which usually means there is time for a chat, often with the musicians too.
PARKING: The nearest car parks for Church Road are 1) behind the Parish Church Hall (usually full by mid-morning), 2) the Swan Centre multi-storey and 3) the Church Street/Waitrose car park. Those last two are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
At this point we usually take a look around the area to see what other concerts are on offer over the coming week or two. Here's the current list from musicinsurrey.co.uk:
In 2015 Jacqueline met pianist Richard Black, an excellent accompanist indeed, after another pianist dropped out of a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead. Their performance went well. It went very well.
Their programme for next week has music by de Falla, the ever-popular solo cello arrangement of Paganini's Caprice (think South Bank Show), and a Shostakovich Cello Sonata. Full details, and video samples on this concert webpage.
These two concerts are participating in the 2017 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.(LInk to pdf file of the Arts Alive brochure)
Leatherhead's 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, - we hope wheelchair users will take full advantage of that fact !
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee which usually means there is time for a chat, often with the musicians too.
PARKING: The nearest car parks for Church Road are 1) behind the Parish Church Hall (usually full by mid-morning), 2) the Swan Centre multi-storey and 3) the Church Street/Waitrose car park. Those last two are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
At this point we usually take a look around the area to see what other concerts are on offer over the coming week or two. Here's the current list from musicinsurrey.co.uk:
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Tuesday 26th September 7.45pm ♦ Chobham Festival ♦ Chobham: St Lawrence Church, GU24 8AA Schubert & Beethoven by Candlelight Katya Apekisheva, piano • Patrick Savage, violin • Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola • Julia Graham, cello • Stacey Watton, double bass Tickets: £20 / £15 Thursday 28th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ JAZZ on Thursday at LMC The Alice Auer Quartet: Alice Auer, vocals, Ben Wickins, piano, Dan Hemsley, bass, Joe-Neil Solan, drums Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert ♦ Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ National Youth Orchestra Fudraising Concert Members of NYO with the Schola Cantorum of St John's, including works by Beethoven • Mendelssohn • Schubert • Chopin Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road) Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ Chobham Festival Barbershop Entertainment: Royal Harmonics Tickets: £10 Woking: Recreation Hall, Gordon's School, Bagshot Road, West End, GU24 9PT |