Month: February 2025

Next meeting

February 2025

The next meeting is on Monday 24th as usual starting at 7:30. It is called A Walk in the Woods which may sound bucolic but it is a programme of music focusing on woodwind. Wind instruments, based on vibrating reeds, add colour and texture to an orchestra and composers gradually added them to their compositions.

In the nineteenth century, there were many improvement to their design with more keys added to enable the range to be widened and more fluid playing.

The second half of the season has got off to a brilliant start. At our first meeting in January, Peter Horwood delved into the Polish music scene and came up with a number of hidden gems few of whom any of us had heard before.

Last meeting was given by Ute Schwarting who focused on Brahms and related his music to her life story. Two fascinating talks with quite different themes.

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Next meeting

February 2025

The next meeting is this evening, 10 February at 7:30 as usual. It will be on the subject of Brahms and Ute Schwarting will be talking about her personal journey with the composer. Many people have a personal attachment to a composer which sometimes comes from having their eyes opened to classical music by one of their works. Brahms of course needs no introduction but listening to Ute’s reflections will be interesting.

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