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Classical Concerts in Worcestershire UK A selection of forthcoming music in and around Elgar country |
| 18 February 2012 | |
| 7.15pm Adrian Boult Hall Paradise Place Birmingham B3 3HG United Kingdom Details: Birmingham Box Office Web site +44 (0)121 245 4455 £16, Student (16+) £4. Children under 16 free if accompanied by an adult | John McCabe and the Conservatoire Tutors Ensemble *John McCabe (piano) The Conservatoire Tutors Ensemble: Nathaniel Vallois (violin) John Todd (cello) Richard Lewis (double bass) Robert Markham (piano) Schubert: Fantasy in C for violin and piano, D934 Britten: Lachrymae *McCabe: Berceuse for piano (World première - BCMS commission) BCMS Composition Prize-winning work (World première) Schubert: Quintet in A, D667 (Trout) Birmingham Chamber Music Society Tickets available at the door or in advance from the Birmingham Box Office at Birmingham Central Library |
| 10 March 2012 | |
| 7.30pm Malvern Theatres Great Malvern Worcestershire United Kingdom Details: Web site | Britten: St Nicolas Simon Berridge, tenor Malvern Festival Chorus Iain Sloan, conductor |
| 17 March 2012 | |
| 7.30 pm St Mary's Church Pembridge Herefordshire United Kingdom Details: Robert Anderson, The Garth, Pembridge, Herefordshire +44 (0)1544 388292 £25 (cheques payable to Pembridge PCC - please enclose stamped, addressed envelope) | Concert in memory of Simon Boosey Marcus Farnsworth (baritone) Alberni String Quartet Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance) McCabe: Silver Nocturnes (String Quartet No 6, with baritone) (world premiere) Barber: Dover Beach for baritone and string quartet Dvorak: String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) Proceeds to be divided between Pembridge Church and the Presteigne Festival |
| 24 March 2012 | |
| 7pm Thinktank Science Museum Planetarium Millennium Point Birmingham B4 7XG United Kingdom £12, 10 and 8 | Gustav Holst's Space Opera Neil Arthur Williams, musicologist and Holst scholar Tickets are now on sale for Gustav Holst’s Space Opera, a superb double-bill featuring some visual hi-tech wizardry and edutainment in Dolby Digital sound at the Thinktank Science Museum Planetarium at Millennium Point, Birmingham at 7pm on 24th March 2012. Full details and online booking can be found here: http://www.thinktank.ac/page.asp?section=996§ionTitle=Space+Opera If you also click on the Space Opera website link, you will gain some idea of how wonderful, amazing and hi-tech the 360-degree panoramic dome show part of the evening will be. The first-half of the double bill show is an audio-visual illustrated lecture by Neil Arthur Williams entitled, Gustav Holst’s The Planets: From Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond! (An Incredible Tale of How One of the Most Cherished Works of the Classical Concert Hall Has Gone on to Inspire and Influence Worldwide Popular Culture in Television, Movies, Sci-Fi, Sport, Multimedia and Rock, Pop & Jazz.) Aside from being a self-employed clinical hypnotherapist and freelance writer and composer, Neil Arthur Williams is one of the world’s leading scholars of Gustav Holst and The Planets and his expertise in these subjects was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 programme in April 2011. As well as being a published musicologist, he is also an historian of popular culture, both of which areas of expertise will be brought into play when he delivers his first-half audio-visual illustrated lecture of the double bill, Gustav Holst’s The Planets: From Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond! |
| 25 May 2012 until 27 May 2012 | |
| Highnam Gloucestershire United Kingdom Details: Web site | Carducci Festival The Carducci Quartet Emma Johnson, clarinet Roderick Williams, baritone Julius Drake, piano |
| 15 June 2012 | |
| 7.30pm Civic Hall Stratford-on-Avon Warwickshire United Kingdom Details: Web site | Music for trumpet and orchestra Simon Desbruslais, trumpet Orchestra Of The Swan David Curtis, conductor Tippett: Little Music for Strings Deborah Pritchard: New work for trumpet and orchestra (first performance) A group of madrigals Saxton: Psalm for trumpet and orchestra McCabe: new work for trumpet and orchestra (first performance) Tippett: Divertimento on 'Sellenger's Round' |
| 16 June 2012 | |
| 7.30pm The Priory Great Malvern Worcestershire United Kingdom Details: Web site | An evening of French Music Malvern Festival Chorus Iain Sloan, conductor To include: Fauré: Requiem Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine |
| 23 August 2012 until 28 August 2012 | |
| St Andrew's Church Presteigne Powys United Kingdom Details: Web site | Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts |