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.
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.
The next Society meeting is this evening 21 October and is a members’ evening so if you are a member and haven’t sent your contribution to Robin – there’s still time. It will be preceded by a short agm. Same place and same time. Programmes are in the TIC by the way.
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.
The next meeting will take place tonight, Monday 15 April starting at 7:30 as usual and is on the subject of Nino Rota a composer of several operas and a number of film scores.
The Society meets tonight (25th March) at 7:30 as usual for a members’ evening. This will be a series of favourite pieces selected by members themselves. All are welcome.
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.
The Society meets tonight, Monday 26th February, for an evening of music from the southern hemisphere. Starts at 7:30 as usual and only £3 at the door if you are not a member. Free parking just outside the door.
The Society meets tonight (12th) to hear Angus Menzies’ presentation The Sound of Music in 17th Century Salzburg. Starts at 7:30, £3 at the door for non-members and there is free parking right outside.
January 2024
Last night: review shortly.
The second half of the Society’s season starts on Monday 29th at 7:30 as usual with a presentation by Chris Cope posing the question ‘is there more to Gustav Holst than the Planets?’ Holst was a reticent man and the fame which followed the success of the Planets was not altogether welcome. Much of his music was unknown but there has been something of a revival since the ’80s and hopefully we will hear more during Chris’s presentation.
[This event may appear in the Salisbury Journal’s What’s On page and even though it was posted with the correct date, the confirmation was returned with Friday shown and I have been unable to change it. To confirm: the meeting is on Monday 29th].
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