Category: Forthcoming meeting

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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Next meeting: tonight

January 2025

Our first session of 2025 will be tonight, Monday 27th January 2025 when Peter Horwood will present “A Polish Panorama” – a summary and brief survey of Polish composers from medieval times to the 21st Century.

Following that on 10th February, we shall welcome Ute Schwarting to tell us about her personal journey with the music of Johannes Brahms.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Christmas Quiz!

Next meeting will be our Christmas quiz

November 2024

Our next meeting on 2nd December will be our last before Christmas, and we will be holding our Christmas Quiz.  This will be our second such classical music Quiz and, as previously, conducted again by Ruth Barlow  So don’t be put ORFF, come BACH for more!                                  

In the New Year we will resume on Monday 27th January 2025 when Peter Horwood will present “Polish Panorama” – a summary and brief survey of Polish composers from Medieval times to the 21st Century. 

We hope to see you on 2nd December, and in the New Year. 

Meeting tonight

The Society’s penultimate meeting takes place tonight, Monday 29th April, and is entitled The curse of the ninth. Some symphonic composers have reached nine but not quite managed, or finished, a tenth. Alan Forshaw examines the myth that of why nine composers couldn’t or wouldn’t write a tenth symphony.

Starts at 7:30 as usual.

Next meeting

March 2024

The March meeting of the Society will take place tonight, Monday 11th March at 7:30 and features the English composer Rutland Boughton. He was extremely popular in his day and was a prolific composer with symphonies and operas to his credit. His star has waned and he is now seldom performed. So it is with great pleasure that we will be welcoming Ian Boughton to play a selection of his works and widen our knowledge of this composer. The title of the presentation is Rutland Boughton: beyond the Immortal Hour, one of his best known operas from a play with the same title.

The Society prides itself on widening the knowledge of its members and this is another example of that, to go along with the presentation on Holst in January.

We look forward to seeing you and it is £3 for non-members at the door. Free parking at the rear.