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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th July 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th July 2018
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Dear Friends,
This week's 12.30 lunchtime concert is on Wednesday, on the modern pipe organ at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Our guest organist is David Oldfield who returns for a fourth visit to Leatherhead. For this Wednesday's concert he has a programme of Dubois, Buxtehude, Telemann, Mendelssohn, and JS Bach. David has held several organist and director of music posts around the Surrey area, and also directs the cathedral stand-in choir Stag Montem Chorem. You will find David Oldfield's full programme on the webpage linked below, along with sample recordings of the music itself: click the link below the photo for more details. ► |
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Last summer we had a very well-received oboe concert, so it seemed a good idea to plan another this year.
The performers have been brought together by Philip Haworth, oboe of the familiar and now highly successful Atéa Wind Quintet.
Philip has invited colleague Rachel Broadbent, so between the two of them the oboe, oboe d'amore and the cor anglais are well covered. The duo are joined by pianist Connie Luk.
There will be some beautiful pieces of music in this concert, so first please put Thursday July 26th in your diary!
With Philip and Rachel on tour over recent weeks, the final programme information is still coming in, and will build on the webpage linked below:
The performers have been brought together by Philip Haworth, oboe of the familiar and now highly successful Atéa Wind Quintet.
Philip has invited colleague Rachel Broadbent, so between the two of them the oboe, oboe d'amore and the cor anglais are well covered. The duo are joined by pianist Connie Luk.
There will be some beautiful pieces of music in this concert, so first please put Thursday July 26th in your diary!
With Philip and Rachel on tour over recent weeks, the final programme information is still coming in, and will build on the webpage linked below:
Music elsewhere . . .
summer is here, and sadly this section is looking a bit thin this week
Sunday 22nd July ♦ 7.30pm
The Bratislava Hot Serenaders
17-piece vintage orchestra with
music of the 1920's and 1930's
Tickets: £21 inc commission (click dateline)
Guildford: Electric Theatre
musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events
Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts continue week by week through to November, so I look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 concert very soon.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
PS: The panel below shows what we have in store for you this August. There will be six lunchtime concerts at LMC and the Chapels of St John's School
The Bratislava Hot Serenaders
17-piece vintage orchestra with
music of the 1920's and 1930's
Tickets: £21 inc commission (click dateline)
Guildford: Electric Theatre
musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events
Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts continue week by week through to November, so I look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 concert very soon.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
PS: The panel below shows what we have in store for you this August. There will be six lunchtime concerts at LMC and the Chapels of St John's School
The PS:
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Leatherhead's Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs
Christ Church has level access throughout, including toilets - we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert. Christ Church also has its own ample car park at KT22 8SW PARKING for LMC: We recommend using the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey - about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon. After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 9th July 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 9th July 2018
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Flute & Piano Concert
This week's 12.30 Thursday lunchtime concert, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, features flautist Camilla Marchant, with her piano accompanist Thomas Ang - both graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. Their programme covers the late 18th century to the first half of the 20th century with music by Mozart, Gaubert, Dutilleux, Sibelius, and Büsser. You will find recordings of the works Camilla and Thomas will perform for us at the foot of the concert webage - click the link below the photo for more details. |
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Our lunchtime concert next week is on the Wednesday, on the modern pipe organ at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
This month's guest organist is David Oldfield who returns for a fourth visit to Leatherhead. David has held several organist and director of music posts around the Surrey area, and also directs the cathedral stand-in choir Stag Montem Chorem. You will find David Oldfield's full programme on the webpage linked here, along with sample recordings of the music itself ► |
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Leatherhead's Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter,
with a retiring collection to cover costs
LMC has level access throughout, including toilets, - we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts
PARKING for LMC:
We recommend the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey car park - about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC. The Church is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon.
After our lunchtime concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too
with a retiring collection to cover costs
LMC has level access throughout, including toilets, - we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts
PARKING for LMC:
We recommend the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey car park - about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC. The Church is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon.
After our lunchtime concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too
Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts continue all the way through to November, so I look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 concert very soon.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd July 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd July 2018
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Dear Friend, Debussy Centenary Piano Concert This week's 12.30 Thursday lunchtime concert, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, brings a feast of Debussy piano works. It is 100 years since the composer died in Paris, in 1918, just before the end of the 1st World War. Emilie Capulet is a very experienced concert pianist, and holds the post of Head of Classical Performance at the London College of Music (a faculty of the University of West London). Emilie also lectures and demonstrates on musical tours and cruises, and has a number of recordings and books published. You will find samples of the works Emilie has chosen to perform for us at the foot of her concert webage - click the link below her photo for more details. |
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Our lunchtime concert next week features flautist Camilla Marchant, with piano accompanist Thomas Ang. Camilla & Thomas are graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. They have prepared an entertaining programme of music by composers including Sibelius and Mozart. You will find the full programme, and more about these two young musicians, on the webpage linked below, along with sample recordings of the music itself: |
Leatherhead's Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter,
with a retiring collection to cover costs
LMC has level access throughout, including toilets, - we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts
PARKING for LMC:
We recommend the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey car park - about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC. The Church is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon.
After our lunchtime concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too
with a retiring collection to cover costs
LMC has level access throughout, including toilets, - we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts
PARKING for LMC:
We recommend the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey car park - about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC. The Church is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon.
After our lunchtime concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
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PS: Have you got some time off in August?
Take a look at the 6 lunchtime concerts we have lined up for you at LMC and at St John's School. click logo for details |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 25th June 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 25th June 2018
Music elsewhere . . .
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Saturday 23rd June ♦ 3pm ► Classical Cafe presents:
Diana North, soprano • Giovanni Tagliarini, tenor • Catherine Crockford Tickets: £10 (£5 students) click dateline ♦ Guildford: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, GU1 4SZ Saturday 23rd June 2018 ♦ 7.30pm ► Surrey Mozart Players • Parry Karp, cello • Kenneth Woods, conductor Wagner: Meistersingers Prelude • Walton: Cello Concerto • Dvorak: Symphony No 8 Tickets: £19 (child £9.50) click dateline ♦ Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street Tuesday 26th June ♦ 7.30pm ► English National Opea soloists Gala Performance Claire Pendleton, soprano ♦ Karen Foster, mezzo ♦ Adam Sullivan, tenor ♦ Paul Sheehan, baritone Simon Haynes, piano Tickets: click dateline ♦ Cranleigh: Arts Centre, 1 High Street, GU6 8AS Thursday 28th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ► Music on Thursdays at LMC Abingdon Wind Quintet: Epsie Thompson, flute • Imogen Davies, oboe Samuel Gillespie, clarinet • Sarah Hoyle, bassoon • Maude Wolstenholme, horn music by Ibert • Gilbert Vinter • Darius Milhaud • Jim Parker Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY Saturday 30th June ♦ 7.30pm ► Epsom Choral Society • The Regent Sinfonia Lisa Swayne, soprano • Edmund Saddington, baritone • Julian Collings, Musical Director Jonathan Willcocks premiere: O Joyful Soul • Duruflé: Requiem • Vierne: Messe Solennelle Tickets: £15 (u18/student £7.50) ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, KT17 4PX Saturday 30th June ♦ 7.30pm ► Summer Serenade: 8 Hands on 2 Pianos • Piano & Organ duets • 4 Hands on 2 Pianos Sarah Holmes • Matthew Burgess • Simon Gregory • Jonathan Holmes Tickets: £8 (u16s £1) (£7 from eventbrite) ♦ Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead or to Thursday's evening concert at Ranmore. Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager |
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Leatherhead's Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs
Christ Church has level access throughout, including toilets - we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert. Christ Church also has its own ample car park at KT22 8SW PARKING for LMC: We recommend using the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey - about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon. After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 18th June 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 18th June 2018
Dear Friend,
We have two concerts this week:
We have two concerts this week:
- Wednesday 20th June, 12.30 lunchtime, organist Timothy Guntrip, at Christ Church
- Thursday evening 21st June, 7.30pm, Roos String Quartet, at St Barnabas Church, Ranmore
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Wednesday lunchtime's 12.30 organ concert, at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, brings us a new organist, Timothy Guntrip.
Timothy lived in Malta for a while, and is currently Assistant Director of Music at Holy Cross Church, Uckfield. He knows our organ well as he is part of the team that tunes it ! His programme moves through the 17th century and leaps forward to the later 19th century and the 20th. The full programme can be seen on the webpage linked below, along with sample recordings of the music itself: |
Then on Thursday there is the first ever Music on Thursday Evening concert:
Music on Thursday Evening
at St Barnabas Ranmore
21st June at 7.30pm
The Roos String Quartet
Music on Thursday Evening
at St Barnabas Ranmore
21st June at 7.30pm
The Roos String Quartet
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This is a special evening concert indeed. 21st June is Make Music Day.
We are bringing together the two charities that support the Surrey Performing Arts Library - the Friends (FoSPAL) and the team pressing Surrey County Council for a safer long-term future for the Library - NewSPAL.
The newly-formed Roos String Quartet comprises violinist sisters Tatjana and Juliette Roos and cellist Frankie Carr. These three attended the Yehudi Menuhin School together. They are joined by a familiar face at Music on Thursdays and MAIASTRA concerts, viola player Ting-Ru Lai, who they met while studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
The quartet have put together a wonderfully balanced evening of music by Mozart, Bartok and Beethoven, followed by a Norwegian folk arrangement.
The aim of this free-to-enter concert is to raise funds to enable NewSPAL to take their plans for the Performing Arts Library further and thus show SCC that they are the 'safe pair of hands' the Library now needs.
As usual for an LCAS concert, there will be Gift Aid envelopes in the programmes, and collection baskets on the way out.
Pre-registration is essential for this concert as places are limited.
If you would like to listen to the music before you come along to St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link ▼ - or go directly to the booking page to reserve your place ▼
We are bringing together the two charities that support the Surrey Performing Arts Library - the Friends (FoSPAL) and the team pressing Surrey County Council for a safer long-term future for the Library - NewSPAL.
The newly-formed Roos String Quartet comprises violinist sisters Tatjana and Juliette Roos and cellist Frankie Carr. These three attended the Yehudi Menuhin School together. They are joined by a familiar face at Music on Thursdays and MAIASTRA concerts, viola player Ting-Ru Lai, who they met while studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
The quartet have put together a wonderfully balanced evening of music by Mozart, Bartok and Beethoven, followed by a Norwegian folk arrangement.
The aim of this free-to-enter concert is to raise funds to enable NewSPAL to take their plans for the Performing Arts Library further and thus show SCC that they are the 'safe pair of hands' the Library now needs.
As usual for an LCAS concert, there will be Gift Aid envelopes in the programmes, and collection baskets on the way out.
Pre-registration is essential for this concert as places are limited.
If you would like to listen to the music before you come along to St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link ▼ - or go directly to the booking page to reserve your place ▼
Music elsewhere . . .
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Saturday 23rd June ♦ 3pm ► Classical Cafe presents:
Diana North, soprano • Giovanni Tagliarini, tenor • Catherine Crockford Tickets: £10 (£5 students) click dateline ♦ Guildford: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, GU1 4SZ Saturday 23rd June 2018 ♦ 7.30pm ► Surrey Mozart Players • Parry Karp, cello • Kenneth Woods, conductor Wagner: Meistersingers Prelude • Walton: Cello Concerto • Dvorak: Symphony No 8 Tickets: £19 (child £9.50) click dateline ♦ Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street Tuesday 26th June ♦ 7.30pm ► English National Opea soloists Gala Performance Claire Pendleton, soprano ♦ Karen Foster, mezzo ♦ Adam Sullivan, tenor ♦ Paul Sheehan, baritone Simon Haynes, piano Tickets: click dateline ♦ Cranleigh: Arts Centre, 1 High Street, GU6 8AS Thursday 28th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ► Music on Thursdays at LMC Abingdon Wind Quintet: Epsie Thompson, flute • Imogen Davies, oboe Samuel Gillespie, clarinet • Sarah Hoyle, bassoon • Maude Wolstenholme, horn music by Ibert • Gilbert Vinter • Darius Milhaud • Jim Parker Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY Saturday 30th June ♦ 7.30pm ► Epsom Choral Society • The Regent Sinfonia Lisa Swayne, soprano • Edmund Saddington, baritone • Julian Collings, Musical Director Jonathan Willcocks premiere: O Joyful Soul • Duruflé: Requiem • Vierne: Messe Solennelle Tickets: £15 (u18/student £7.50) ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, KT17 4PX Saturday 30th June ♦ 7.30pm ► Summer Serenade: 8 Hands on 2 Pianos • Piano & Organ duets • 4 Hands on 2 Pianos Sarah Holmes • Matthew Burgess • Simon Gregory • Jonathan Holmes Tickets: £8 (u16s £1) (£7 from eventbrite) ♦ Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead or to Thursday's evening concert at Ranmore. Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 11th June 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 11th June 2018
Dear Friend,
Yes, we have three concerts over the coming fortnight:
Yes, we have three concerts over the coming fortnight:
- this Thursday 14th June, 12.30 lunchtime, Alice Bishop, soprano, and pianist Simon Marlow at LMC
- next Wednesday 20th June, 12.30 lunchtime, organist Timothy Guntrip, at Christ Church
- next Thursday evening 21st June, 7.30pm, Roos String Quartet, at St Barnabas Church, Ranmore
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This week's Thursday lunchtime concert, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, features singer Alice Bishop with her accompanist Simon Marlow in songs from far and wide.
Purcell opens the concert, followed by Haydn and Grieg, and then more English songs, two German songs from Hugo Wolf (although one of those is a translation from Spanish), and we finish in positively Spanish mode. If you would like to listen to the music before you come along you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on the link below: |
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Wednesdays at Christ Church - 20th June, 12.30 lunchtime
▼ Coming next week ▼
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Next week's Wednesday lunchtime organ concert, at Christ Church, brings a new organist, Timothy Guntrip. Timothy lived in Malta for a while, and is currently Assistant Director of Music at Holy Cross Church, Uckfield. He knows our organ well as he is part of the team that tunes it!
Timothy's programme moves through the 17th century and leaps forward to the later 19th century and the 20th. The full programme can be seen on the linked webpage, along with sample recordings of the music itself: |
▼ also Coming next week ▼
Music on Thursday Evening - 21st June, 7.30pm
at St Barnabas Ranmore
This is a special evening concert indeed. 21st June is Make Music Day.
We are bringing together the two charities that support the Surrey Performing Arts Library - the Friends (FoSPAL) and the team pressing Surrey County Council for a safer long-term future for the Library - NewSPAL.
The newly-formed Roos String Quartet comprises violinist sisters Tatjana and Juliette Roos and cellist Frankie Carr. These three attended the Yehudi Menuhin School together. They are joined by a familiar face at Music on Thursdays concerts, viola player Ting-Ru Lai, who they met while studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
The quartet have put together a wonderfully balanced evening of music by Mozart, Bartok and Beethoven, followed by a Norwegian folk arrangement.
The aim of this free-to-enter concert is to raise funds for NewSPAL to take their plans for the Performing Arts Library further and thus show SCC that they are the 'safe pair of hands' the Library now needs. So, as usual for an LCAS concert, there will be Gift Aid envelopes in the programmes, and collection baskets on the way out.
Pre-registration is essential for this concert as places are limited.
If you would like to listen to the music before you come along to St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link:
We are bringing together the two charities that support the Surrey Performing Arts Library - the Friends (FoSPAL) and the team pressing Surrey County Council for a safer long-term future for the Library - NewSPAL.
The newly-formed Roos String Quartet comprises violinist sisters Tatjana and Juliette Roos and cellist Frankie Carr. These three attended the Yehudi Menuhin School together. They are joined by a familiar face at Music on Thursdays concerts, viola player Ting-Ru Lai, who they met while studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
The quartet have put together a wonderfully balanced evening of music by Mozart, Bartok and Beethoven, followed by a Norwegian folk arrangement.
The aim of this free-to-enter concert is to raise funds for NewSPAL to take their plans for the Performing Arts Library further and thus show SCC that they are the 'safe pair of hands' the Library now needs. So, as usual for an LCAS concert, there will be Gift Aid envelopes in the programmes, and collection baskets on the way out.
Pre-registration is essential for this concert as places are limited.
If you would like to listen to the music before you come along to St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link:
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If you would like to listen to the music before you come along to St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link:
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OR pre-register your place for the concet at Ranmore
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With such an interesting programme of events, I am sure you could spend all of next weekend at the Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival in Wimbledon. The Festival runs from Thursday 14th June to Sunday 17th.
Concerts next Saturday evening include:
and on Sunday afternoon, Sound the Trumpets! from Vivaldi, Mozart, & Opera to Film when trumpeters Crispian Steele-Perkins, Kate Moore, (principal trumpet, BBC Concert Orchestra) and Simon Sturgeon-Clegg, with Ian Le Grice, organ, perform at Our Lady & St Peter's Catholic Church, Leatherhead. musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead or to next week's evening concert at Ranmore. Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager |
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Leatherhead's Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs
Christ Church has level access throughout, including toilets - we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert. Christ Church also has its own ample car park at KT22 8SW PARKING for LMC: We recommend using the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey - about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon. After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too At St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, drinks will be available during the short concert interval. After the Ranmore concert LCAS will hold a collection in support of NewSPAL (Charity No 1176729) |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 4th June 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 4th June 2018
Dear Friend,
There will be an extra newsletter this week with news of a date for your diary - an evening concert on Thursday 21st June, which is International Make Music Day.
There will be an extra newsletter this week with news of a date for your diary - an evening concert on Thursday 21st June, which is International Make Music Day.
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This week's Thursday lunchtime concert, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, features current students of the Royal Academy of Music Strings Department - violinist Djumash Poulsen and viola player Virginia Oyola Rebaza.
Their programme comprises solos for each instrument, finishing with a Mozart duet. In the solo section you will hear music by JS Bach, Wilhelm Ernst and Fritz Kreisler. Our webpage for this 12.30 concert on Thursday 7th June, including sample video performances of the music, is on the link below: |
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
▼ Coming next week ▼
Although we start off in England, Alice Bishop's programme for next week is best described as 'European'.
Purcell opens the concert, soon followed by Haydn and Grieg, and then more English songs, two German songs from Hugo Wolf (although one of those is a translation from Spanish), and we finish in positively Spanish mode.
If you would like to listen to the music before you come along you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link:
Purcell opens the concert, soon followed by Haydn and Grieg, and then more English songs, two German songs from Hugo Wolf (although one of those is a translation from Spanish), and we finish in positively Spanish mode.
If you would like to listen to the music before you come along you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link:
And elsewhere . . .
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Tomorrow, Tuesday 5th June, Philip Scriven, Organist-in-Residence at Cranleigh School, continues his regular lunchtime recital series in the School's Chapel.
At 5pm on Thursday the Godfrey Searle Choir are singing Evensong at St Mark's Reigate. The setting is Jackson in G, with the anthem Beatus Quorum via by Stanford. On Friday 8th June you will find a pupil showcase at the Menuhin Hall, and at Dorking Halls the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a programme of Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Dvorak. Check the diary too if you want to see what is happening in the Marryat Festival in Wimbledon. Their interesting programme of events runs from Thursday 14th June to Sunday 17th. musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead. Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager PS: Watch out for that extra email too. |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 28th May 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 28th May 2018
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Dear Friend,
This week's Thursday lunchtime concert, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, features two musicians we have known for quite a while. Flautist Emma Halnan and harpist Heather Wrighton are both Royal Academy of Music graduates, although we have not yet heard them perform together before. So we are delighted to welcome them as The Aurora Duo. Thursday's programme includes Ryers Down, a piece written especially for Emma Halnan, by Sir Karl Jenkins, when she won the Sir Karl Jenkins/Arts Club Classical Music Award in 2016. You will find our webpage for this 12.30 concert on Thursday 31st May, including sample video performances of the music, on the link below. |
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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When two Royal Academy of Music soloists were asking for the same date the idea arose to let them perform a mix of solo items and a duet.
That is how next week's concert brings together violinist Djumash Poulsen with viola player Virginia Oyola Rebaza. You will hear JS Bach, Wilhelm Ernst, Fritz Kreisler and Mozart at this 7th June concert in LMC. If you would like to listen to the music before you come along you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link: |
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And elsewhere . . .
Next Saturday, June 2nd, Constance Leung will give the 12 noon piano concert in St Martin's Church, Dorking, and the same evening, Evelyn Glennie will be at the Menuhin Hall with marimba & vibraphone.
Tuesday 5th June, Philip Scriven, Organist-in-Residence at Cranleigh School, continues his regular lunchtime recital series in the School's Chapel.
On Friday 8th June you will find a pupil showcase at the Menuhin Hall, and at Dorking Halls the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a programme of Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Dvorak.
musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
Tuesday 5th June, Philip Scriven, Organist-in-Residence at Cranleigh School, continues his regular lunchtime recital series in the School's Chapel.
On Friday 8th June you will find a pupil showcase at the Menuhin Hall, and at Dorking Halls the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a programme of Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Dvorak.
musicinsurrey.co.uk has links to more about these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 21st May 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 21st May 2018
Dear Friend,
This Thursday, at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, we welcome four horn players from the Royal Academy of Music. Their ensemble is called Capital Horns.
We have never before had the opportunity to hear 4 horn players in concert, so this will be a rather special event in our concert series. As well as coming along yourself, please forward this email to any brass players you know. I am sure they will be pleased to hear about this rare event.
The Capital Horns programme includes works by composers from the 19th, 20th, and even the present century.
If you would like to hear the music before you come along, or you are going to be stuck in your office / workshop / armchair at 12.30 this Thursday 24th May, you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link:
This Thursday, at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, we welcome four horn players from the Royal Academy of Music. Their ensemble is called Capital Horns.
We have never before had the opportunity to hear 4 horn players in concert, so this will be a rather special event in our concert series. As well as coming along yourself, please forward this email to any brass players you know. I am sure they will be pleased to hear about this rare event.
The Capital Horns programme includes works by composers from the 19th, 20th, and even the present century.
If you would like to hear the music before you come along, or you are going to be stuck in your office / workshop / armchair at 12.30 this Thursday 24th May, you will find sample video performances, and full concert details, on this link:
Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Next week our Thursday lunchtime concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church will be given by two musicians we have known for several years. Although flautist Emma Halnan and harpist Heather Wrighton are both Royal Academy of Music graduates, we have not heard them perform together before.
So we are delighted to welcome them as The Aurora Duo. The programme includes Ryers Down, a piece written especially for Emma Halnan, by Sir Karl Jenkins. As ever, we have a webpage for this 12.30 concert on Thursday 31st May, including sample video performances. Find out more on the link ► ► ►. |
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And elsewhere . . .
Tomorow morning (Tuesday 22nd) at 10.30am Peter Medhurst is giving another of his excellently-researched lectures: The Musical World of Gainsborough and Zoffany.
Also in the Menuhin Hall, the Castalian String Quartet have a concert on Thursday evening.
This Saturday, 26th, there's a Waverley Ensemble concert with optional curry night, in Haslemere; Tim Owen's evening of piano and vocals in St Andrew's Church, Cobham; and in St Mary's Ewell, Emanuel School Organist, Simon Gregory, has a concert featuring music by composers whose names start with a B!
The following Saturday, June 2nd, Constance Leung will give the 12 noon piano concert in St Martin's Church, Dorking, and that evening, Evelyn Glennie will be at the Menuhin Hall with marimba & vibraphone.
musicinsurrey has links to more about these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the next couple of weeks. And I particularly look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 13th May 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 13th May 2018
Dear Friend,
Singing group Crotchets and Quavers drew an audience of 64 last Thursday, including parents of each of the 5 members. There was a lovely group photo for them all after the concert as we all chatted and drank our teas and coffees.
Singing group Crotchets and Quavers drew an audience of 64 last Thursday, including parents of each of the 5 members. There was a lovely group photo for them all after the concert as we all chatted and drank our teas and coffees.
In this Wednesday's organ concert at Christ Church Epsom Road, our guest organist is the Church's own Director of Music, Anthony Cairns (who also manages the organ concert series).
Anthony's concert opens with a piece by Bill Ives, and then the main work of the concert is a Chorale Partita by JS Bach - a hymn tune followed by a series of variations on it. He rounds off the concert with works by Louis Vierne and Charles Stanford.
You will find more about this organ concert, and video performances of these pieces of music on this concert webpage.
Anthony's concert opens with a piece by Bill Ives, and then the main work of the concert is a Chorale Partita by JS Bach - a hymn tune followed by a series of variations on it. He rounds off the concert with works by Louis Vierne and Charles Stanford.
You will find more about this organ concert, and video performances of these pieces of music on this concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Josh Bartram ♦ Timothy Doyle ♦ Elliott Howley ♦ Stephen Payne
Next week we return to our regular Thursday lunchtime venue at Leatherhead Methodist Church.
From the Royal Academy of Music come Capital Horns - 4 French horn players.
We have never before had the opportunity to hear 4 horn players in concert, so this will be a rather special event for in our concert series, and special too for any brass players you may know. Please pass this email along if you think of someone who would enjoy this concert.
If you would like to hear the music before you come along, or you are going to be stuck in the office / workshop / armchair at 12.30 on Thursday 24th May, you will find sample video performances on the link below.
From the Royal Academy of Music come Capital Horns - 4 French horn players.
We have never before had the opportunity to hear 4 horn players in concert, so this will be a rather special event for in our concert series, and special too for any brass players you may know. Please pass this email along if you think of someone who would enjoy this concert.
If you would like to hear the music before you come along, or you are going to be stuck in the office / workshop / armchair at 12.30 on Thursday 24th May, you will find sample video performances on the link below.
And elsewhere . . .
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This evening MAIASTRA have a 7.30 string quartet concert in St Andrew's Church, Cobham (Mozart, Glass & Mendelssohn).
Looking at the coming week, pianist Mengyang Pan has a concert at Cranleigh Arts Centre on Wednesday evening, and Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra will be playing in Dorking Halls next Saturday evening. The Castalian String Quartet are performing in the Menuhin Hall on Thursday 24th, and on Saturday 26th there's a Waverley Ensemble concert with optional curry night, in Haslemere, and Tim Owen's evening of piano and vocals in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. click here for musicinsurrey's links to these events |
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or two.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 7th May 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 7th May 2018
Asagi Nakata, last week's lunchtime concert performer, proved a lovely person, and a phenomenal piano talent. If you ever see this young lady's name make sure you book to hear her playing.
In this Thursday's concert we shall hear our first ever singing group, and our very first guests from the University of Chichester's Music Department.
SSATB ensemble Crotchets and Quavers are bringing us a light classical feast from Mozart (Ave Verum), through Verdi, Puccini and Stainer, to Lloyd Webber, and Carol Bayer Sager.
I still don't have a photo of the group so I offer another illustration of the ensemble's name - some crotchets and quavers. Please click on them for the full concert information and video performances of the music:
In this Thursday's concert we shall hear our first ever singing group, and our very first guests from the University of Chichester's Music Department.
SSATB ensemble Crotchets and Quavers are bringing us a light classical feast from Mozart (Ave Verum), through Verdi, Puccini and Stainer, to Lloyd Webber, and Carol Bayer Sager.
I still don't have a photo of the group so I offer another illustration of the ensemble's name - some crotchets and quavers. Please click on them for the full concert information and video performances of the music:
Wednesdays at Christ Church
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On the 3rd Thursday each month LMC hosts Messy Church - a wonderful thing, but not so compatible with our concert schedule.
Instead, we head to Christ Church, Epsom Road, for an organ concert on the day before. This month's invited organist is Director of Music at Christ Church, Anthony Cairns.
Anthony has chosen works by just four composers: Grayston Ives, JS Bach, Louis Vierne, and CV Stanford.
If you would like to hear the music before you come along, or you are going to be stuck in the office / workshop / armchair at 12.30 on Wednesday 16th May, you will find sample video performances on the link below, together with notes on Anthony's choices:
Anthony has chosen works by just four composers: Grayston Ives, JS Bach, Louis Vierne, and CV Stanford.
If you would like to hear the music before you come along, or you are going to be stuck in the office / workshop / armchair at 12.30 on Wednesday 16th May, you will find sample video performances on the link below, together with notes on Anthony's choices:
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I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or two.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
This Saturday in the heart of Guildford:
A Classical Afternoon with Carmenco
Emily Andrews, Francisco Correa & David Massey
Electric Theatre, Guildford, 3pm Saturday 12th May
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 29th April 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 29th April 2018
In this Thursday's concert we shall hear the playing of Royal Academy of Music pianist Asagi Nakata. Asagi has chosen Liszt's Réminiscences des Puritains - which he based on themes from Bellini's opera I Puritani.
That will be followed by Schumann's Carnaval. Subtitled Little Scenes on Four Notes this suite of short pieces reflects a pre-Lent Carnival, in particular a masked ball and the characters there.
It is almost two years since Asagi Nakata originally planned to play for us in Leatherhead. That time she had to return to Japan for a piano competition. Two years on, we shall hear her perform, still at the Royal Academy of Music, but now as a Masters student.
You will find video performances of Thursday's piano works at the foot of the concert webpage - along with full details of the concert and Asagi's biography.
That will be followed by Schumann's Carnaval. Subtitled Little Scenes on Four Notes this suite of short pieces reflects a pre-Lent Carnival, in particular a masked ball and the characters there.
It is almost two years since Asagi Nakata originally planned to play for us in Leatherhead. That time she had to return to Japan for a piano competition. Two years on, we shall hear her perform, still at the Royal Academy of Music, but now as a Masters student.
You will find video performances of Thursday's piano works at the foot of the concert webpage - along with full details of the concert and Asagi's biography.
Music on Thursdays at LMC
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No, we have not branched out into Music Theory. It's just that next week's performers, from the University of Chichester, are called Crotchets and Quavers - and I don't have a photo of them!
SSATB quintet Crotchets and Quavers are bringing us what they describe as a light classical programme. Click the button below to see what they have in store for us in this first collaboration with the University of Chichester. It is also the first time Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts have included a group of singers. |
And elsewhere:
Banstead Arts Festival continues tomorrow - Monday 30th at 7pm - when the Organ & Keyboard Club are host to Chiho Sunamoto, possibly the only female musician to have achieved Yamaha's top grades in voice, piano, and organ. For a while an international demonstrator for Yamaha, she now lives in the UK.
Tuesday lunchtime, 1st May, there is a violin and piano concert, and the following Tuesday, 8th May, it will be clarinet and piano.
There's a potential sell-out on Saturday 12th with The Oxford Clerks, before that Sunday's evensong brings the festival fortnight to its graceful close. More info on this link.
There are several concerts at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall, and more at Cranleigh School Chapel, and St Martin's Dorking (both organ concerts as it happens), all followed by a busy weekend of events AFTER the feast of St Spring-Bank. As ever, the musicinsurrey diary is well worth a look:
click here for musicinsurrey's links to these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or so. As for the holiday weekend's weather, your guess is as good as mine.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
Tuesday lunchtime, 1st May, there is a violin and piano concert, and the following Tuesday, 8th May, it will be clarinet and piano.
There's a potential sell-out on Saturday 12th with The Oxford Clerks, before that Sunday's evensong brings the festival fortnight to its graceful close. More info on this link.
There are several concerts at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall, and more at Cranleigh School Chapel, and St Martin's Dorking (both organ concerts as it happens), all followed by a busy weekend of events AFTER the feast of St Spring-Bank. As ever, the musicinsurrey diary is well worth a look:
click here for musicinsurrey's links to these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or so. As for the holiday weekend's weather, your guess is as good as mine.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 23rd April 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 23rd April 2018
Dear Friend,
Our next three Thursday lunchtime concerts will be performed by students from each of the music conservatoires with which Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts works - this week flautists from the London College of Music, next week a pianist from the Royal Academy of Music, and after that, the University of Chichester's vocal ensemble Crotchets & Quavers.
Our next three Thursday lunchtime concerts will be performed by students from each of the music conservatoires with which Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts works - this week flautists from the London College of Music, next week a pianist from the Royal Academy of Music, and after that, the University of Chichester's vocal ensemble Crotchets & Quavers.
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This Thursday we welcome three flautists from the London College of Music - Caera D'Arcy, Anna Hofmann, and Lara Currie - with their piano accompanist Timothy Adesina.
Their adventurous programme brings us music by Katherine Hoover, Francis Poulenc, Amanda Jane Fox, Gary Schocker, Jacques Ibert, and Tilmann Dehnhard - a mix of living and historic composers that includes some who were/are themselves flute players. Incidentally... flutists? Or flautists? I thought 'flutist' was an appalling Americanism. I now understand it was a British English term originally. Let's not argue over it! Instead come and enjoy this opportunity to hear three flutes, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, this Thursday at 12.30 lunchtime. Full details on this linked webpage. You will find video performances of some of Thursday's music at the foot of the concert webpage. |
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Banstead Arts Festival begins on Saturday with a young musician's showcase that evening. On Monday 30th the Organ & Keyboard Club are host to Chiho Sunamoto, possibly the only female musician to have achieved Yamaha's top grades in voice, piano, and organ. For a while an international demonstrator for Yamaha, she now lives in the UK.
Tuesday lunchtime, 1st May, there is a violin and piano concert, and the following Tuesday, 8th May, it will be clarinet and piano.
There's a potential sell-out on Saturday 12th with The Oxford Clerks, before that Sunday's evensong brings the festival fortnight to its graceful close. More info on this link.
With concerts at the Royal Festival Hall (organ), St Andrew's Cobham, Yehudi Menuhin Hall, and Cranleigh School Chapel, the musicinsurrey diary is well worth a look:
click here for musicinsurrey's links to these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or so.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
Tuesday lunchtime, 1st May, there is a violin and piano concert, and the following Tuesday, 8th May, it will be clarinet and piano.
There's a potential sell-out on Saturday 12th with The Oxford Clerks, before that Sunday's evensong brings the festival fortnight to its graceful close. More info on this link.
With concerts at the Royal Festival Hall (organ), St Andrew's Cobham, Yehudi Menuhin Hall, and Cranleigh School Chapel, the musicinsurrey diary is well worth a look:
click here for musicinsurrey's links to these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or so.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th April 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th April 2018
Dear Friend,
After last Thursday's piano concert we held the Charity's AGM. Apart from the usual reports we had a special motion enabling us to appoint an Honorary President and Honorary Vice-Presidents.
I am pleased to announce that members agreed to appoint as our first Honorary President, John Burrows-Watson.
John was the first person Graham Davies spoke to when we were setting up LCAS and were looking for Trustees. Having been a School Bursar previously John did not hesitate to accept and was most encouraging as we jumped through all the hoops that appear at that early stage in a charity's life.
JBW has spent a lifetime in music, with Truro Cathedral under his belt as well as the Monteverdi Choir. Many know him as one of the original Lay Clerks of Guildford Cathedral, joining in the very first week of the cathedral's life, and still singing in the voluntary choir after his retirement. He also plays horn and I believe he has directed a number of G&S productions too, over the years. With a new Hon President on board we had better see what's coming this week.
After last Thursday's piano concert we held the Charity's AGM. Apart from the usual reports we had a special motion enabling us to appoint an Honorary President and Honorary Vice-Presidents.
I am pleased to announce that members agreed to appoint as our first Honorary President, John Burrows-Watson.
John was the first person Graham Davies spoke to when we were setting up LCAS and were looking for Trustees. Having been a School Bursar previously John did not hesitate to accept and was most encouraging as we jumped through all the hoops that appear at that early stage in a charity's life.
JBW has spent a lifetime in music, with Truro Cathedral under his belt as well as the Monteverdi Choir. Many know him as one of the original Lay Clerks of Guildford Cathedral, joining in the very first week of the cathedral's life, and still singing in the voluntary choir after his retirement. He also plays horn and I believe he has directed a number of G&S productions too, over the years. With a new Hon President on board we had better see what's coming this week.
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On Wednesday we welcome back Charlwood organist John Sharples for our 12.30 organ concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road. John played at Lambeth Palace for some 15 years and is still a deputy at Arundel Cathedral. His programme of Bach, Bridge, John Stanley, Brahms, and Mendelssohn is bound to please his listeners.
This week: Wednesdays at Christ Church
Our concert at 12.30 lunchtime on Wednesday 18th April, will be in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead (KT22 8ST). John Sharples is organist and Director of Music at St Nicolas Church, Charlwood. He has played regularly at Lambeth Palace, Second Church of Christ the Scientist, London, and he deputises at Arundel Cathedral. ◄ Here's a sample of John Stanley's Voluntary in D, from his Opus 6. You will find John's concert programme and video performances of the works on this linked webpage |
Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Next week we welcome four students of the
London College of Music. Our concert at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 26th April, will take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church, Church Road (KT22 8AY). The LCM Flute Trio comprises Caera D'Arcy, Anna Hofmann, & Lara Currie. The man without a flute is their piano accompanist, Timothy Adesina. You will find the Trio's interesting concert programme on this linked webpage together with the usual video samples of some of the music they will perform. |
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I'm not sure whether you will be able to get into Peter Medhurst's Mozart in Vienna session on Monday morning. His presentations are so well researched and constructed that if you have the slightest interest in the subject, it could be worth a try!
On Tuesday evening the lovely pianist Yi-Shing Cheng will be at Cranleigh Arts Centre with her Trio Opal, playing music by Schumann, Rachmaninov and Ravel.
There is plenty of choice next weekend too, including William Whitehead at the magnificent Royal Festival Hall organ, Bramley's Rising Stars concert with pianist Varvara Tarasova, Alexei Grynyuk (piano) at Dorking Halls, an evening of classical opera in Weybridge, and Sunday's Founder's Day Concert at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
click here for musicinsurrey's links to these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or so.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
On Tuesday evening the lovely pianist Yi-Shing Cheng will be at Cranleigh Arts Centre with her Trio Opal, playing music by Schumann, Rachmaninov and Ravel.
There is plenty of choice next weekend too, including William Whitehead at the magnificent Royal Festival Hall organ, Bramley's Rising Stars concert with pianist Varvara Tarasova, Alexei Grynyuk (piano) at Dorking Halls, an evening of classical opera in Weybridge, and Sunday's Founder's Day Concert at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
click here for musicinsurrey's links to these events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or so.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
The PS:
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Leatherhead's Wednesdays at Christ Church Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs
Christ Church has level access throughout, including toilets. We positively encourage wheelchair users to come & enjoy a concert Christ Church has its own enormous car park on Epsom Road at KT22 8SW After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society • Regd Charity 1166764 PARKING for LMC: We recommend using the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking at LMC for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon. |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd April 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd April 2018
Dear Friend,
There was a request for the foldie season leaflets last week, so there will be some ready on Thursday and we'll get them out to the local libraries too.
On Thursday we welcome back pianist Oliver Till for our 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Oliver was due to play on March 1st, which you may recall was somewhat 'In the bleak mid-winter'. He will be playing the programme planned for that day - a Bach Partita, and following that, the Holberg Suite by Grieg.
You will find video performances of these works at the foot of the concert webpage.
There was a request for the foldie season leaflets last week, so there will be some ready on Thursday and we'll get them out to the local libraries too.
On Thursday we welcome back pianist Oliver Till for our 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Oliver was due to play on March 1st, which you may recall was somewhat 'In the bleak mid-winter'. He will be playing the programme planned for that day - a Bach Partita, and following that, the Holberg Suite by Grieg.
You will find video performances of these works at the foot of the concert webpage.
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◄ Click on the image to hear the final movement of Grieg's Holberg Suite There are complete performances of this and the Bach Partita on the concert webpage |
Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Next week is organ week
Our concert at 12.30 lunchtime on Wednesday 18th April, will be in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead (KT22 8ST). John Sharples is organist and Director of Music at St Nicolas Church, Charlwood. He has played regularly at Lambeth Palace, Second Church of Christ the Scientist, London, and he deputises at Arundel Cathedral. You will find John's concert programme on this linked webpage |
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings this week we have the Leith Hill Musical Festval at Dorking Halls. I hope you will be supporting your favourite choir.
If that isn't your thing you might enjoy Saturday evening's 'from Henry VIII to Henry Mancini' at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth, or in the opposite direction, there is a Baroque evening with the Waverley Ensemble at Haslemere. If you book quickly you may be able to join their curry evening at 5pm.
Click here for links to these and more events
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming week or so.
Peter Steadman, LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd April 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd April 2018
First here is the printable UPDATED season leaflet to the end of August 2018
- yours to print and keep!
and next comes your newsletter . . .
Dear Friend,
Welcome to this week's newsletter which you will also find online here along with a printable copy of the concert calendar from now to the end of August - and no gaps this time.
This Thursday we welcome cellists Jacqueline Phillips and Nicola Tait for our 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Jacqueline has been here several times over the 7 years of these concerts and often introduces us to excellent musicians like Nicola.
The cello's range covers more than a bass singer, a tenor, an alto and a soprano! Hearing two cellos together makes for a beautiful blend of musical sounds.
For our lunchtime concert Jacqueline & Nicola are to play music by Handel, Leoncavallo, Bizet, Offenbach, and for some fun at the end of the programme, a couple of teaching pieces by Ros Stephen. There are snippets of these works in videos at the foot of the concert webpage.
Welcome to this week's newsletter which you will also find online here along with a printable copy of the concert calendar from now to the end of August - and no gaps this time.
This Thursday we welcome cellists Jacqueline Phillips and Nicola Tait for our 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Jacqueline has been here several times over the 7 years of these concerts and often introduces us to excellent musicians like Nicola.
The cello's range covers more than a bass singer, a tenor, an alto and a soprano! Hearing two cellos together makes for a beautiful blend of musical sounds.
For our lunchtime concert Jacqueline & Nicola are to play music by Handel, Leoncavallo, Bizet, Offenbach, and for some fun at the end of the programme, a couple of teaching pieces by Ros Stephen. There are snippets of these works in videos at the foot of the concert webpage.
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Next week, at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 12th April, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, we can enjoy the piano concert we should have heard on March 1st.
Oliver Till will be at LMC performing Bach's Partita No 2, and Grieg's Holberg Suite. click for concert details Afterwards we will have our similarly delayed AGM at 2pm in the Lower Hall at LMC (leaving time for tea between concert & meeting). |
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On Friday evening there's a choice between the Mayor of Elmbridge's Charity Concert at the International School in Cobham, and an evening of classical favourites at Tadworth. Saturday 12 noon there's the monthly free concert in St Martin's Dorking, and on Monday evening The King's Men will sing favourites old and new at Westcott Church. Click here for links |
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices over the coming fortnight.
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
Peter Steadman
LCAS Concert Manager
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 26th March 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 26th March 2018
Dear Friend,
Sixty of us enjoyed last week's Music on Thursdays concert and we are looking forward to this week and indeed every lunchtime concert up to the end of November.
It was good to see people taking advantage of us saying wheelchair users are positively encouraged to come along. Two came to the organ concert, and another last Thursday.
We also had four members of Leatherhead Art Club sketching away discretely on Thursday. (This is a privlege only open to LAC members.)
This Thursday we welcome for our 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church students from the Royal Academy of Music. Though born in Japan, viola player Daichi Yoshimura was brought up in England. His accompanist will be fellow RAM student Henry Cash.
Below you will find links to two video performances of the works in Daichi and Henry's concert - part of a concerto by Carl Stamitz, and the main work of the concert, Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano. The videos appear on the concert webpage too, along with biographies for the two young musicians.
We hope this will whet your appetite to hear the music played live. But if you are stuck in the office, or are caring for someone at home, you could make these videos your very own lunchtime concert.
Sixty of us enjoyed last week's Music on Thursdays concert and we are looking forward to this week and indeed every lunchtime concert up to the end of November.
It was good to see people taking advantage of us saying wheelchair users are positively encouraged to come along. Two came to the organ concert, and another last Thursday.
We also had four members of Leatherhead Art Club sketching away discretely on Thursday. (This is a privlege only open to LAC members.)
This Thursday we welcome for our 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church students from the Royal Academy of Music. Though born in Japan, viola player Daichi Yoshimura was brought up in England. His accompanist will be fellow RAM student Henry Cash.
Below you will find links to two video performances of the works in Daichi and Henry's concert - part of a concerto by Carl Stamitz, and the main work of the concert, Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano. The videos appear on the concert webpage too, along with biographies for the two young musicians.
We hope this will whet your appetite to hear the music played live. But if you are stuck in the office, or are caring for someone at home, you could make these videos your very own lunchtime concert.
In this week's concert we will hear:
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Théo Delianne, viola, and Vincent Balse, piano,
with the 1st movement (allegro) of the Viola Concerto by Carl Stamitz |
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Violist Karin Wolf
with pianist Yuko Ellinger perform Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano |
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After Easter at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 5th April in Leatherhead Methodist Church we hear the two cellos of Jacqueline Phillips and Nicola Tait in music by Handel ♦ Leoncavallo Bizet ♦ Offenbach ♦ Ros Stephen ♦ click for details |
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Leatherhead's Music on Thursdays Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs
LMC has level access throughout, including toilets, and we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert
PARKING: We recommend using the Swan Cente / Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking on-site for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon.
After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too
LMC has level access throughout, including toilets, and we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert
PARKING: We recommend using the Swan Cente / Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road (KT22 8AY). There is limited blue badge parking on-site for which it is best to arrive close to 12 noon.
After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together and often with the musicians too
I look forward to seeing you at Thursday's lunchtime viola concert, and I hope you enjoy your pick of the local music-making, and -listening this coming week.
Peter Steadman
Concert Manager, LCAS
Peter Steadman
Concert Manager, LCAS
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 19th March 2018
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 19th March 2018
Music on Thursdays 2018 Opening Concert
This Thursday, 22nd March, 12.30 lunchtime
Leatherhead Methodist Church
Dear Friend,
The 2018 Season of Music on Thursdays begins this Thursday with three Royal Academy of Music friends - familiar faces for the lunchtime concert audience too - Emily Andrews (flute), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) and pianist Daniel King Smith.
These three superb musicians will be with us this Thursday 22nd March, at 12.30 in Leatherhead Methodist Church, performing music by Rameau, Schumann, Telemann and Saint-Saëns.
Full concert details, players' biographies, and video samples of the music they will play are on this concert webpage.
Next week's Music on Thursdays at LMC concert will be performed by Royal Academy of Music students Daichi Yoshimura, viola, and Henry Cash, piano. They have chosen works by Carl Stamitz and Rebecca Clarke, and you will find more information and the video samples on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC is a 5-7 minute walk from Leatherhead's Sainsbury's/Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car parks. We hope you will linger over tea or coffee afterwards to chat a while - sometimes with the musicians too.
You will find music-making from lots more Surrey groups on our musicinsurrey website.
I look forward to seeing you at Thursday's lunchtime concert, and I hope you enjoy your own personal pick of local music-making, and -listening this coming week.
Peter Steadman
Concert Manager, LCAS
Music on Thursdays at LMC
2018 Season Opening Concert Emily Andrews flute Anna Hashimoto clarinet Daniel King Smith piano music by Rameau • Schumann • Telemann • Saint-Saëns 12.30 lunchtime Thursday 22nd March |
Music on Thursdays
at LMC Daichi Yoshimura, viola Henry Cash, piano music by Carl Stamitz & Rebecca Clarke 12.30 lunchtime Thursday 29th March |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 12th March 2018
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 12th March 2018
Dear Friends,
Monthly Organ Concerts begin this
Wednesday, 12.30 at Christ Church
Wednesday brings the first of our monthly organ concerts - Wednesdays at Christ Church. Our first guest organist of the year is Graham Thorpe. Graham is currently gaining organ playing and choir directing experience in London's major churches. His concert is at 12.30 lunchtime, this Wednesday, 14th March, at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead KT22 8AT.
Next week we come to the first Music on Thursdays chamber concert of the year when we bring together three Royal Academy of Music friends - and familiar faces for the lunchtime concert audience too - Emily Andrews (flute), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) and pianist Daniel King Smith. Those three phenomenal talents will be together for us on Thursday 22nd March, at 12.30 in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Meanwhile, you will find more Surrey music-making from many other groups on our musicinsurrey website.
I look forward to seeing you once again on Wednesday at Christ Church, and I hope you enjoy your personal pick of local music-making and -listening this coming week.
Peter Steadman
Concert Manager, LCAS
PS: Thank you for the encouraging remarks on this new format.
Next week we come to the first Music on Thursdays chamber concert of the year when we bring together three Royal Academy of Music friends - and familiar faces for the lunchtime concert audience too - Emily Andrews (flute), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) and pianist Daniel King Smith. Those three phenomenal talents will be together for us on Thursday 22nd March, at 12.30 in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Meanwhile, you will find more Surrey music-making from many other groups on our musicinsurrey website.
I look forward to seeing you once again on Wednesday at Christ Church, and I hope you enjoy your personal pick of local music-making and -listening this coming week.
Peter Steadman
Concert Manager, LCAS
PS: Thank you for the encouraging remarks on this new format.
Wednesdays at
Christ Church Guest organist: Graham Thorpe Pettman Organ Scholar, London Oratory, Brompton music by Ireland • Wesley • Purcell • Howells • Chuckerbutty • Bach 12.30 lunchtime Wednesday 14th March |
Music on Thursdays at LMC
2018 Season Opening Concert Emily Andrews flute Anna Hashimoto clarinet Daniel King Smith piano music by Rameau • Schumann • Telemann • Saint-Saëns 12.30 lunchtime Thursday 22nd March |
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Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs
Both Christ Church (UR) and Leatherhead Methodist Church have level access throughout, including toilets, and we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert (there are photos of the churches on our homepage)
After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together - and usually with the musicians too
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Both Christ Church (UR) and Leatherhead Methodist Church have level access throughout, including toilets, and we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert (there are photos of the churches on our homepage)
After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together - and usually with the musicians too
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 5th March 2018
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 5th March 2018
Dear Friends,
First there is the matter of last Thursday's postponed AGM and piano concert. These will both take place on April 12th, with Oliver Till's piano concert at 12.30 lunchtime in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Then at 2pm (ie, after we have had a cup of something) the AGM. Everyone is welcome to attend the AGM.
Next week brings the first of our monthly organ concerts - Wednesdays at Christ Church. Guest organist this month is Graham Thorpe who is doing very well gaining organ playing and choir directing experience in London's major churches. Graham's concert is at 12.30 lunchtime, next Wednesday, 14th March, at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead KT22 8AT.
The week after that sees our first Music on Thursdays chamber concert of the year when we bring together three Royal Academy of Music friends - friends of these lunchtime concerts too - Emily Andrews (flute), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) and pianist Daniel King Smith. Those three phenomenal talents will be together for us on Thursday 22nd March, at 12.30 in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Meanwhile, you will find more Surrey music-making from many other groups on our musicinsurrey website.
Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy your pick of the concerts coming our way.
Peter Steadman
Concert Manager, LCAS
Next week brings the first of our monthly organ concerts - Wednesdays at Christ Church. Guest organist this month is Graham Thorpe who is doing very well gaining organ playing and choir directing experience in London's major churches. Graham's concert is at 12.30 lunchtime, next Wednesday, 14th March, at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead KT22 8AT.
The week after that sees our first Music on Thursdays chamber concert of the year when we bring together three Royal Academy of Music friends - friends of these lunchtime concerts too - Emily Andrews (flute), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) and pianist Daniel King Smith. Those three phenomenal talents will be together for us on Thursday 22nd March, at 12.30 in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Meanwhile, you will find more Surrey music-making from many other groups on our musicinsurrey website.
Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy your pick of the concerts coming our way.
Peter Steadman
Concert Manager, LCAS
Wednesdays at
Christ Church Guest organist: Graham Thorpe Pettman Organ Scholar, London Oratory, Brompton formerly Organ Scholar Guildford Cathedral, Kings College London, St Peter's Cornhill 12.30 lunchtime Wednesday 14th March |
Music on Thursdays at LMC
2018 Season Opening Concert Emily Andrews flute Anna Hashimoto clarinet Daniel King Smith piano music by Rameau • Schumann • Telemann • Saint-Saëns 12.30 lunchtime Thursday 22nd March |
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Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs
Both Christ Church (UR) and Leatherhead Methodist Church have level access throughout, including toilets, and we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert (there are photos of the churches on our homepage)
After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together - and usually with the musicians too
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Both Christ Church (UR) and Leatherhead Methodist Church have level access throughout, including toilets, and we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert (there are photos of the churches on our homepage)
After our concerts tea and coffee are available, making a time for chat together - and usually with the musicians too
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 26th February 2018
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 26th February 2018
Dear Friends,
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Given the expected weather
Thursday's piano concert and AGM will *NOT* proceed The AGM will be held at 2pm after the concert on 12th April. We will talk to Oliver Till about a concert date later in the season. |
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Well that's the weather warning dealt with ! It's not looking good for Thursday, but there is just a slight chance the worst might pass us by. I'm keeping an eye on BBC Weather.
A Bach Partita and Grieg's Holberg Suite - I have been looking forward to Thursday's 3pm piano concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church for quite a while, so I really hope it can go ahead. This unusually timed concert always feels like the reward for a good AGM !
We first met Oliver Till in August last year when he was accompanist in a very successful oboe concert. For one who looks so young he has a lot of good work on his CV. Do take a look at his biography on the concert webpage.
If you would like to join us for the AGM, then come in by the red doors. We start at 2pm, with tea & coffee from 1.40pm, and again between the meeting and the concert.
We first met Oliver Till in August last year when he was accompanist in a very successful oboe concert. For one who looks so young he has a lot of good work on his CV. Do take a look at his biography on the concert webpage.
If you would like to join us for the AGM, then come in by the red doors. We start at 2pm, with tea & coffee from 1.40pm, and again between the meeting and the concert.
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Our first organ concert in this year's Wednesdays at Christ Church monthly series takes place on Wednesday 14th March, at Christ Church, on Epsom Road. Christ Church has the benefit of plentiful on-site parking.
Guest organist at our usual time of 12.30 lunchtime will be Graham Thorpe, currently Organ Scholar at Brompton Oratory. Graham's interesting recital programme is ready on this concert webpage. |
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That is followed a week later, at 12.30 on Thursday 22nd March, by our concert for flute, clarinet, and piano - full details on the concert webpage here.
And then we get to March 29th. I'm hearing from the Royal Academy of Music that they have a viola player who is keen to come to us and just has to decide on an accompanist. As soon as more details come in, I will set up a concert webpage and add a link here too.
Both of these concerts will take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road. To be sure of a space, we recommend parking inthe Swan Centre / Sainsburys multi-storey car park. It's about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
All of our concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. £6 seems a reasonable donation for this type of short concert - they are usually 35-45 minutes. If there are several players then it's appropriate to offer more as we do pay good rates to working musicians.
We have tea and coffee ready after the lunchtime concerts, and you'll find both churches have level access throughout. There is more about the churches including maps, on our homepage.
Let's take a look at some of the other concerts coming up locally over the next couple of weeks. To avoid disappointment, please check with concert organisers if the weather looks unreliable.
And then we get to March 29th. I'm hearing from the Royal Academy of Music that they have a viola player who is keen to come to us and just has to decide on an accompanist. As soon as more details come in, I will set up a concert webpage and add a link here too.
Both of these concerts will take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road. To be sure of a space, we recommend parking inthe Swan Centre / Sainsburys multi-storey car park. It's about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
All of our concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. £6 seems a reasonable donation for this type of short concert - they are usually 35-45 minutes. If there are several players then it's appropriate to offer more as we do pay good rates to working musicians.
We have tea and coffee ready after the lunchtime concerts, and you'll find both churches have level access throughout. There is more about the churches including maps, on our homepage.
Let's take a look at some of the other concerts coming up locally over the next couple of weeks. To avoid disappointment, please check with concert organisers if the weather looks unreliable.
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Tuesday 27th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert ♦ Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Thursday 1st March **3pm** - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society a public piano concert (following the 2pm AGM) Oliver Till, piano • graduate of the Royal Academy of Music Bach: Partita in C minor BWV 826 ♦ Grieg: Holberg Suite Op 40 tea & coffee available BEFORE this concert Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 3rd March 2018 ♦ 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Fumi Otsuki, violin ♦ Alessandro Viale, piano music by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Boulanger, Fauré, Debussy, Elgar Saturday 3rd March ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, KT11 3QQ Gala Fundraising Concert in aid of Sight for Surrey Pupils of Yehudi Menuhin School wine and canapés from 6pm-7pm ♦ Tickets: £25 from 08700 842 020 Tuesday 6th March ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, KT11 3QQ Bartholomew Lafollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky • Brahms • Poulenc ♦ Tickets: £25 from 08700 842 020 Saturday 10th March 2018 ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present Schubert: Winterreise James Gilchrist, tenor 260 Anna Tilbrook, piano Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Saturday 10th March 2018 7.30pm ♦ Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Waverley Ensemble: Concert & Curry (curry at 5.30pm) An Evening of Music by Vivaldi & Telemann Ishani Bhoola, Bozidar Vukotic, Ben Rogerson, Alinka Rowe Tickets: £15 (u16s £8) - (add £10 for curry) Tuesday 13th March 2018 ♦ 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bach • Parry • Hindemith • Karg-Elert • Vierne Tuesday 13th March ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, KT11 3QQ Student Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 from 08700 842 020 Wednesday 14th March 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest Organist: Graham Thorpe, Organ Scholar, Brompton Oratory; formerly Organ Scholar, Guildford Cathedral, Kings College London, St Peter's Cornhill, Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd (on-site parking) |
I hope you enjoy your selection of the events above and I look forward to seeing you at our 2pm, March 1st, AGM, or perhaps just for Ollie Till's 3pm solo piano concert afterwards - but please do check the home page before you set out, just in case we decide to cancel the AGM & concert.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 19th February 2018
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 19th February 2018
Dear Friends,
The top of this week's newsletter is going to look pretty similar to the top of the previous one !
Although the Royal Academy of Music are promising music from the string department for the end of March we still don't know who that will be - violin, viola, or cello.
But we do know how the month opens, and that is at 3pm on Thursay March 1st with Bach's Partita in C minor, and Grieg's Holbertg Suite. Our pianist will be Oliver Till (pictured) who first played for us last August when he accompanied oboist and fellow RAM student Amy Roberts. Full details of Oliver Till's programme are available on this concert webpage.
Although the Royal Academy of Music are promising music from the string department for the end of March we still don't know who that will be - violin, viola, or cello.
But we do know how the month opens, and that is at 3pm on Thursay March 1st with Bach's Partita in C minor, and Grieg's Holbertg Suite. Our pianist will be Oliver Till (pictured) who first played for us last August when he accompanied oboist and fellow RAM student Amy Roberts. Full details of Oliver Till's programme are available on this concert webpage.
We then take a week's break before embarking on our weekly schedule of concerts in their usual 12.30 time slot. And they will run through to the end of November again.
August is going to be a bit special with a mini-festival of Early & Baroque concerts, and a guest organist from Germany, who is in fact Colombian.
August is going to be a bit special with a mini-festival of Early & Baroque concerts, and a guest organist from Germany, who is in fact Colombian.
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But let's take a look at March first.
Wednesdays at Christ Church begins again on Wednesday 14th March (the day before the 3rd Thursday). Guest organist at 12.30 lunchtime will be Graham Thorpe, currently Organ Scholar at Brompton Oratory. Graham's interesting recital programme is ready on this concert webpage. |
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Then our next three performers, all old hands at Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts, have been working hard all winter preparing a superb concert programme for us.
On Thursday March 22nd, at our usual 12.30 lunchtime, Music on Thursdays launches into its 2018 season at Leatherhead Methodist Church with music for woodwind and piano by Rameau, Schumann, Telemann, and Saint-Säens. Those familiar performers are our good friends Emily Andrews, flute, Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, and Daniel King Smith, at the piano. |
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We are fortunate indeed to be able to bring these three busy RAM friends together for a concert. Please click on the blue bar for full details of this concert.
As ever these concerts are free to attend, with a retiring collection afterwards. (Inflation being what it is, it would be really helpful if audience members could develop a 'three £2 coins' habit - rather than the £5 note habit of recent times.) We are really grateful to the people who put in even more as this helps to fund the flow of professional performers we find to mix in with the students.
Tea and coffee are available after each lunchtime concert (but before the 3pm 1st March concert, and before the 2pm AGM). And you will find level access in both churches - Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church, Epsom Road (including toilets).
PARKING ! Christ Church has lots of space on site, but unfortunately LMC does not. So for concerts at LMC please head to the Swan Centre multi-storey car park or the one behind Waitrose, in Church Street. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from Church Road and LMC.
It is time to take a look at what other societies are up to for the rest of this month and the beginning of March. Here are some we know about, from our musicinsurrey.co.uk site:
As ever these concerts are free to attend, with a retiring collection afterwards. (Inflation being what it is, it would be really helpful if audience members could develop a 'three £2 coins' habit - rather than the £5 note habit of recent times.) We are really grateful to the people who put in even more as this helps to fund the flow of professional performers we find to mix in with the students.
Tea and coffee are available after each lunchtime concert (but before the 3pm 1st March concert, and before the 2pm AGM). And you will find level access in both churches - Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church, Epsom Road (including toilets).
PARKING ! Christ Church has lots of space on site, but unfortunately LMC does not. So for concerts at LMC please head to the Swan Centre multi-storey car park or the one behind Waitrose, in Church Street. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from Church Road and LMC.
It is time to take a look at what other societies are up to for the rest of this month and the beginning of March. Here are some we know about, from our musicinsurrey.co.uk site:
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Thursday 22nd February 2018 **6.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Paul Roberts' Pre-Concert Talk on Debussy's music (30 minutes) ♦ Tickets: free, unallocated Thursday 22nd February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Paul Roberts, piano Debussy: Images Book 1, Images Book 2, Préludes Book 1 ♦ Tickets: £25 click dateline Thursday 22nd February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society ♦ Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £14-£18, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Friday 23rd February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society ♦ Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £14-£18, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Saturday 24th February ♦ **2.30pm matinee ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society ♦ Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £15, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Saturday 24th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Nicholas Smith, conductor Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow ♦ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G • soloist Ursula Perks Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C ♦ Tickets: £14 (u18 & students £8) Saturday 24th February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society ♦ Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £14-£18, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Sunday 25th February 2018 **3pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: Sacconi String Quartet music by Glass, Mozart, Dvorak ♦ Tickets: £20 click dateline Monday 26th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 International Organ Series ♦ Daniel Cook, organ plays Bach, Stanford, Duruflé, and Vierne's Symphonie No 6 in B minor, Op 59 • on the magnificent 7866 pipe organ Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Tuesday 27th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert ♦ Tickets: £17.50 click dateline MARCH 2018 Thursday 1st March **3pm** - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society a public piano concert after the 2pm AGM Oliver Till, piano graduate of the Royal Academy of Music Bach: Partita in C minor BWV 826 ♦ Grieg: Holberg Suite Op 40 tea & coffee available BEFORE this concert Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 3rd March 2018 ♦ 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Fumi Otsuki, violin ♦ Alessandro Viale, piano music by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Boulanger, Fauré, Debussy, Elgar Saturday 3rd March ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, KT11 3QQ Gala Fundraising Concert in aid of Sight for Surrey Pupils of Yehudi Menuhin School wine and canapés from 6pm-7pm ♦ Tickets: £25 from 08700 842 020 Tuesday 6th March ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, KT11 3QQ Bartholomew Lafollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky • Brahms • Poulenc ♦ Tickets: £25 from 08700 842 020 |
I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above. and I look forward to seeing you at our 2pm, March 1st, AGM, or perhaps just for Ollie Till's 3pm solo piano concert afterwards.
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 Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 6th February 2018
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 6th February 2018
Dear Friends,
Welcome to another of our occasional winter newsletters. Let's not dwell on the word 'winter'. It looks like being a chilly week.
I hope you have seen the notice about the Performing Arts Library at the top of this page. Do please come to Thursday morning's meeting if at all possible. Your dram soc, choir, or orchestra, and the amateur performers whose music and plays you regularly go to see and hear all depend on resources like this specialist library.
Our own countdown is well and truly on now. Our first event is the 2pm AGM on Thursday March 1st at Leatherhead Methodist Church (as ever, please don't try to park on site). We'll have the kettle gong from 1.40pm, and again at the end of the meeting.
If you are a member you should receive a copy of the papers for the AGM by the middle of next week. Or you can download the file below, which is available to everyone. The AGM is open to all, all can speak, ask questions, but only members are allowed to vote on motions and elect trustees.
I hope you have seen the notice about the Performing Arts Library at the top of this page. Do please come to Thursday morning's meeting if at all possible. Your dram soc, choir, or orchestra, and the amateur performers whose music and plays you regularly go to see and hear all depend on resources like this specialist library.
Our own countdown is well and truly on now. Our first event is the 2pm AGM on Thursday March 1st at Leatherhead Methodist Church (as ever, please don't try to park on site). We'll have the kettle gong from 1.40pm, and again at the end of the meeting.
If you are a member you should receive a copy of the papers for the AGM by the middle of next week. Or you can download the file below, which is available to everyone. The AGM is open to all, all can speak, ask questions, but only members are allowed to vote on motions and elect trustees.
On the back of the agenda page of the document above is the current state of concert bookings for this year. There are still many gaps!
Or you can see the same info on the Diary Page. |
Oliver Till, piano
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Graham Thorpe, organ
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At 3pm on March 1st our public piano concert will be given by a young player we met last August when he was accompanying excellent oboist and fellow RAM student, Amy Roberts. Oliver Till should be sending over his programme any day now so do keep an eye on this concert webpage.
Our opening organ concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road takes place at 12.30 on Wednesday March 14th, when our guest organist is once again Graham Thorpe, who is now Organ Scholar at London's Brompton Oratory. More details as they come in, on this concert webpage.
And on Thursday 22nd March at 12.30, for our opening concert of the 2018 season in LMC, we welcome three long-standing friends of Music on Thursdays - flautist Emily Andrews, clarinettist Anna Hashimoto, and pianist Daniel King Smith. You can read more about them and see their Rameau, Telemann, Schumann, Saint-Säens programme on this concert webpage.
Our opening organ concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road takes place at 12.30 on Wednesday March 14th, when our guest organist is once again Graham Thorpe, who is now Organ Scholar at London's Brompton Oratory. More details as they come in, on this concert webpage.
And on Thursday 22nd March at 12.30, for our opening concert of the 2018 season in LMC, we welcome three long-standing friends of Music on Thursdays - flautist Emily Andrews, clarinettist Anna Hashimoto, and pianist Daniel King Smith. You can read more about them and see their Rameau, Telemann, Schumann, Saint-Säens programme on this concert webpage.
The stage concert bookings have reached is that Royal Academy of Music students are being offered dates this week and next. Once they choose we will be able to see what they are bringing us and what gaps that leaves in the diary and what instruments seem under-represented.
A couple of Autumn dates are being held for students of the University of Chichester Music Dept, and we hope to find room for some London College of Music concerts as well.
August 2018 will be our Early & Baroque Music Festival, taking place each week at LMC or in the Old Chapel at St John's School.
Meanwhile, all of the Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert dates are filled, and we have our international invitee for Wednesday 15th August in the School Chapel on St John's Main Quad. Once again Anthony Cairns has found us some new younger organists and we include three ladies. Anthony and I meet more young organists all the time, which is really encouraging for the future of the instrument. You can check out this year's organ concert info here.
But it's never all about us ! Here is a selection of the concerts on offer in Surrey for the rest of the month:
A couple of Autumn dates are being held for students of the University of Chichester Music Dept, and we hope to find room for some London College of Music concerts as well.
August 2018 will be our Early & Baroque Music Festival, taking place each week at LMC or in the Old Chapel at St John's School.
Meanwhile, all of the Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert dates are filled, and we have our international invitee for Wednesday 15th August in the School Chapel on St John's Main Quad. Once again Anthony Cairns has found us some new younger organists and we include three ladies. Anthony and I meet more young organists all the time, which is really encouraging for the future of the instrument. You can check out this year's organ concert info here.
But it's never all about us ! Here is a selection of the concerts on offer in Surrey for the rest of the month:
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Saturday 10th February 2018 **5pm start** ♦ Bookham: St Nicolas Church Bookham Baroque Concert with Dorking Chamber Orchestra Andrew Morley, conductor ♦ Guest Leader & Soloist Guy Button Haydn: Cello Concerto in C - Soloist: Joseph Pritchard, Yehudi Menuhin School Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 ♦ Bach: Orchestral Suite No 1 ♦ Vivaldi: 'Winter' from The Seasons Tickets: £15/£14 (over 60s £7, students and u16s free) Saturday 10th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Kenneth Woods, director ♦ James Brawn, piano Mozart: Overture to Cosi fan tutte ♦ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 ♦ Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusine, & Symphony No 1 Tickets: £19 (child £9.50) click dateline Saturday 10th February 2018 ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present: Leonard Elschenbroich, cello ♦ Alexei Grynyuk, piano Beethoven: The Complete Cello Sonatas • Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Tuesday 13th February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Godalming: Borough Hall, The Burys, GU7 1HR Godalming Operatic Society present Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £15.50/£12.50 (please click dateline) Wednesday 14th February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Godalming: Borough Hall, The Burys, GU7 1HR Godalming Operatic Society present Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £15.50/£12.50 (please click dateline) Thursday 15th February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Godalming: Borough Hall, The Burys, GU7 1HR Godalming Operatic Society present Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £17.50/£14.50, child £9 (please click dateline) Friday 16th February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Godalming: Borough Hall, The Burys, GU7 1HR Godalming Operatic Society present Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £17.50/£14.50, child £9 (please click dateline) Saturday 17th February ♦ **2.30pm matinee ♦ Godalming: Borough Hall, The Burys, GU7 1HR Godalming Operatic Society present Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £11.50/£14.50 (please click dateline) Saturday 17th Feb 2018 **6.50pm - FRC ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Roy Stratford gives a pre-concert talk on Bartok's Sonata SZ 80 Tickets: suggested donation £3 (not bookable) Saturday 17th February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Godalming: Borough Hall, The Burys, GU7 1HR Godalming Operatic Society present Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £17.50/£14.50 (please click dateline) Saturday 17th February 2018 8pm ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society • see above for pre-concert talk at 6.50pm Daniel Lebhardt, piano Beethoven: Sonata in D minor Op 32 No 2 Tempest Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi sonato S 161/7 Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit • Bartok: Piano Sonata SZ 80 Tickets: £20 Thursday 22nd February 2018 **6.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Paul Roberts Pre-Concert Talk on Debussy's music (30 minutes) Tickets: free, unallocated Thursday 22nd February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Paul Roberts, piano Debussy: Images Book 1, Images Book 2, Préludes Book 1 • Tickets: £25 click dateline Thursday 22nd February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society • Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £14-£18, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Friday 23rd February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society • Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £14-£18, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Saturday 23rd February ♦ **2.30pm matinee ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society • Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £15, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Saturday 24th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra • Nicholas Smith, conductor Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G (soloist Ursula Perks) Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C Tickets: £14 (u18 & students £8) Saturday 24th February ♦ 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN Godalming Operatic Society • Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer Tickets: £14-£18, child £9.50 (please click dateline) Sunday 25th February 2018 **3pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: Sacconi String Quartet music by Glass, Mozart, Dvorak Tickets: £20 click dateline Monday 26th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 International Organ Series Daniel Cook, organ, plays Bach, Stanford, Duruflé, and Vierne's Symphonie No 6 in B minor, Op 59 on the magnificent 7866 pipe organ • Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Tuesday 27th February 2018 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert • Tickets: £17.50 click dateline |
To make sure your own society's or ensemble's events are included in the new look 2018 musicinsurrey diary, please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: musiconthursdays@gmail.com.
I hope you enjoy your selection of the local events listed above. and I look forward to seeing you on Thursday morning at County Hall, at our March 1st AGM, or perhaps just for the 3pm solo piano concert afterwards.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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I hope you enjoy your selection of the local events listed above. and I look forward to seeing you on Thursday morning at County Hall, at our March 1st AGM, or perhaps just for the 3pm solo piano concert afterwards.
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
Wednesday, 10th January 2018
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Wednesday, 10th January 2018
Dear Friends,
With no concerts of our own at the moment it is difficult to know how to open this newsletter. However there is one urgent matter still needing our attention.
This Saturday morning at 10.30am there will be a meeting in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, presenting a public update on progress so far regarding Surrey Performing Arts Library at Denbies.
SCC's original idea of total closure has been set aside. Now Surrey Library Service's officers on the one hand, and a group of local people supported by MakingMusic and top specialist librarians, have been looking at alternative futures for the music and drama collections.
Please see the letter (below my sign-off) where Barbara Eifler explains the situation. Barbara also offers a link to pre-book your (free) ticket - so we have a good idea of the numbers planning to attend. Tea and coffee will be available before the meeting.
This year's concert bookings are taking a slow start, although there may be more news on the organ side fairly soon.
Our 3pm AGM piano concert on Thursday March1st is confirmed, with the return of gifted RAM graduate Oliver Till. I have my fingers crossed for the first concert of the chamber season, on March 22nd.
May 10th will be our first concert by students of the University of Chichester. On this occasion the performers are SSATB ensemble Crochets and Quavers !
The next task is to fit in the requirements of the two main conservatoires, RAM and LCM. Only then will it become clear what is missing from the mix. So it is still a case of 'watch this space'.
And so to our usual business of other people's concerts. Here is this month's extract from the musicinsurrey diary:
This Saturday morning at 10.30am there will be a meeting in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, presenting a public update on progress so far regarding Surrey Performing Arts Library at Denbies.
SCC's original idea of total closure has been set aside. Now Surrey Library Service's officers on the one hand, and a group of local people supported by MakingMusic and top specialist librarians, have been looking at alternative futures for the music and drama collections.
Please see the letter (below my sign-off) where Barbara Eifler explains the situation. Barbara also offers a link to pre-book your (free) ticket - so we have a good idea of the numbers planning to attend. Tea and coffee will be available before the meeting.
This year's concert bookings are taking a slow start, although there may be more news on the organ side fairly soon.
Our 3pm AGM piano concert on Thursday March1st is confirmed, with the return of gifted RAM graduate Oliver Till. I have my fingers crossed for the first concert of the chamber season, on March 22nd.
May 10th will be our first concert by students of the University of Chichester. On this occasion the performers are SSATB ensemble Crochets and Quavers !
The next task is to fit in the requirements of the two main conservatoires, RAM and LCM. Only then will it become clear what is missing from the mix. So it is still a case of 'watch this space'.
And so to our usual business of other people's concerts. Here is this month's extract from the musicinsurrey diary:
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Saturday 13th January 2018 **5.30pm ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Njord Wind Trio ♦ flute • clarinet • bassoon Leonardo de Lorenzo: Divertimento No 1 • Koechlin: Trio, Moderato sans Lenteur • Zgraja: Flamenco study for solo flute Stravinsky: 3 pieces for solo clarinet • Beethoven: Variations on La ci Darem la mano Anon: Baroque caprices for solo Bassoon • Mozart: Divertimento number 4, KV 439b Nr 16-20 • Muczynski: Fragments Thomas: Syzygy • Traditional - Day Dawns (arr Perkins) Tickets: £18 Saturday 13th January 2018 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: London Philharmonic Orchestra Jessica Cottis, conductor ♦ Chloë Hanslip, violin music by Mozart, Brahms, Schubert ♦ Tickets: £15, £20, £26, £30 click dateline Friday 19th January 2018 **1.20pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Lunchtime Showcase Concert (1hr) Tickets: £10 click dateline Thursday 25th January 2018 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road ZRI - Schubert at the Red Hedgehog Tavern Ben Harlan, clarinet • Max Baillie, violin • Matthew Sharp, cello • Jon Banks, accordion • Iris Pissaride, santouri Tickets: £25 click dateline Sunday 28th January 2018 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Akiko Ono, violin, leader, & Course Director Gunel Mirzayeva, piano Ricky Gore, violin ♦ Tetsuumi Negata, viola ♦ Ella Rundle, cello Fikrat Amirov: Variations for Piano • JS Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 Schumann: Piano Quintet in Eb major Op 44 this is a fund-raising concert for Gunel Mirzayeva's course fees Wednesday 31st January 2018 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Parish Church Hall, Church Road, KT22 8BD The Golden Age of Song: Cole Porter & George Gershwin slides and videos presented by Pip Burley Tickets: £15 from info AT jackiehampton DOT com tel: O♦I3-7237_664O February and March concert info is taking shape on this link. |
To make sure your own society's or ensemble's events are included in the new look 2018 musicinsurrey diary, please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: musiconthursdays@gmail.com.
I hope you enjoy your selection of the local events listed above. and I look forward to seeing you at the March 1st AGM, or perhaps just for the solo piano concert afterwards.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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I hope you enjoy your selection of the local events listed above. and I look forward to seeing you at the March 1st AGM, or perhaps just for the solo piano concert afterwards.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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The Future of Surrey Performing Arts Library -
the UK's third largest collection of music and drama sets and reference works
From: Barbara Eifler <barbara@makingmusic.org.uk>
Subject: Surrey Performing Arts Library - public meeting 13 January
Dear All,
There will be a public meeting with an update on the future of the Surrey Performing Arts Library (SPAL) on Saturday 13 January, 10.30-12.30 in Leatherhead.
If you wish to attend, please register (free) here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-surrey-performing-arts-library-progress-meeting-tickets-41491819148
Since November, Making Music, FOSPAL (Friends of SPAL) and IAML (International Association of Music Librarians - UK & Ireland) have been working with Surrey County Council (SCC) officers on developing an 'Option 2', i.e. of a SPAL independent of SCC and what that might look like.
We have identified three sub-options, one of which would involve SPAL being run by a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) which we are in the process of setting up, in case it is required for this purpose.Meanwhile, SCC are also working on fully developing 'Option 1', i.e. retaining SPAL within SCC but splitting music and drama and locating them in two different libraries in Surrey, and dispersing single items (e.g. specialist books on music/performing arts) throughout SCC libraries.
In the short-term, SCC will also have to increase charges to reduce the budget short-fall at SPAL.
This meeting is therefore to update you on work and progress made so far and to invite comments and feedback to guide future discussions.
SCC have issued a fuller written update which you can find here: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries/news-and-events-in-surrey-libraries/library-news/surrey-performing-arts-library-consultation
Timeline for decision-making for SPAL:
8 February, 10am, Kingston: SCC Communities Select Committee will receive report from SCC officers (including an appendix from Making Music/FOSPAL/IAML) and decide on recommendations for SCC Cabinet - PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU CAN.
27 March, 2pm, Kingston: SCC Cabinet meeting will take decision on SPAL based on recommendations from the Communities Select Committee - PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU CAN.
This notice - or a similar one! - is being sent to FOSPAL members, Making Music members and to SPAL users - so apologies if you are receiving it more than once. Please disseminate it more widely to those with an interest in the future of this vital service.
best wishes
Barbara
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, 27th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 27th November 2017
Dear Friends,
LATE NEWS:
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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.
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:
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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Julie West Solicitor pleased to support Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts |
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