Category: Forthcoming meeting

Next meeting

Our next meeting will be this evening, Monday 23 October at 7.30pm in our usual venue.

We will commence at 7.30pm with our short Annual General Meeting and then move on to our Members’ Evening at which several members will introduce and play pieces of their own choice.  We are grateful to Robin for coordinated contributions and drawing up the programme. 

If you have not already paid may we remind you that membership subscriptions of £22 are now due and will be welcome at the meeting. 

After this, our next evening will be on Monday 6th November when Peter Horwood will be presenting a programme of 20th century music. We look forward to seeing you at both events.

Next meeting

Details of the next meeting on 9 October: tonight!

This meeting will be a presentation of music from South America, a continent with a strong tradition which does not receive the attention it deserves.

The following meeting on 23rd October 2023 will be our Members’ Evening.  All members are invited to select a piece of music, of up to 8 minutes, to have played.  This can either be on your own CD which you bring, or a link to a YouTube recording.  In either case, so we can draw up a schedule in advance, please will you bring details on 9 October or send details to Robin Lim email: robert.lim@virginmedia.com. 

The meeting on 23 October will be start at 7.30 with our Annual General Meeting which we hope will just take a few minutes. 

If you have not already done so may I remind you that membership subscriptions of £22 are now due and will be welcome at the next meeting.

Details of our coming programme are available in our leaflet and on this site along with an account of our very enjoyable and informative last meeting presented by Tim Smithies. Copies can be found in the Library, Oxfam and the TIC.

We hope to see you on 9th October

ET

New season has got underway

Next meeting on 6 November 2023

The Society’s new season started in September and we have an interesting programme again this year. We have a wide ranging series of evenings including music by Puccini, Gustav Holst, the best of the 20th Century and on why so few composers managed a tenth symphony. We also have two members’ evenings and a Christmas quiz.

You can download the programme here or printed copies will be in the Library, Oxfam (upstairs) and the Tourism Information Centre next week.

The Society meets once a fortnight on a Monday evening starting at 7:30 and we aim to finish at 10 pm. It meets in the Guides’ Centre in St Ann Street although access is from the rear off Friary Lane. Parking is free and it is accessible for people with mobility difficulties.

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If you want to speak on the phone then contact Ruth on T: 01722 782387 or M: 07759 785760

Last meeting

Our final session of 2022-23 will be tonight, Monday 5 June when Peter Horwood will present his ‘American Adventure’. This will be a selection of composers both familiar and less so.

Our programme for 2023-24 is almost completed and will be published shortly.  We will resume on Monday 25th September 2023 when we hope to welcome you back.

Meeting on 17th April

Note change to programme this coming Monday

It was good to read Peter Curbishley’s report on Robin’s presentation in last week’s Salisbury Journal. 

Our next meeting will be on Monday 17th April as scheduled, but due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to change the ‘running order’ of our coming evenings. Alan Forshaw has very kindly agreed to bring forward his presentation, so our programme now is: 

On Monday 17th April,  Alan Forshaw will present “Like father like son . . .”  and describe how ‘keeping it in the family’ can work a treat.

This will be followed on Monday 22nd May when our guest presenter, Simon Coombs, will now present “Czech music from Smetana to Martinů” .

And then our final session of 2022-23 will be on Monday 5th June when Peter Horwood will present his ‘American Adventure’.

We hope you can join us for all or most of the remaining sessions for 2022-23.

Next meeting

The next meeting is tonight, 13 March 2023, and is a presentation about making recordings during Lockdown. It will be by concert pianist Christopher Guild and this is an extract from his biography:

Born in Scotland in 1986, Christopher Guild studied piano and violin locally before entering St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh aged 13. He took top honours in the Moray Piano Competition 2001 – he remains the youngest winner to this day.  Christopher entered the Royal College of Music in 2005 as a Foundation Scholar and studied for six years with Andrew Ball, gaining a First Class BMus (Hons), and the MMus and Artist Diploma with Distinction.  He went on to be the Richard Carne Junior Fellowship in Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance 2012-13.  

Christopher teaches at Godolphin School. We look forward to seeing you at 7:30pm

Next meeting

Our next meeting will be this Monday, 27th February, when Jon Hampton will be presenting a fascinating insight into the colourful life of Alma Schindler – a woman who had an immense influence on music and the creative arts. Starting at 7:30 as usual and free parking outside the door.

We hope we will be able to welcome you on 27th February.

Next meeting

Second half of the season starts soon

The second half of our current season will start on Monday 30th January 2023. 

Jeremy Barlow’s  topic is “Sergio Celibidache: the greatest conductor of the 20th Century?” in which he will present and discuss live recordings of the controversial Romanian conductor’s work, from his early career as conductor of the post-war Berlin Philharmonic, to his final tenure in charge of the Munich Philharmonic until his death in 1996. 

The following meeting on 13th February 2023 be our Members’ Evening. 

All members are invited to select a piece of music, of up to 10 minutes, to have played.  This can either be your own CD which you bring, or a link to a YouTube recording.  In either case, so we can draw up a schedule in advance, please will you bring details on 30th January or send details to Robin Lim email: robert.lim@virginmedia.com. 

Change to the programme

Looking further ahead, because 8th May 2023 will now be a bank holiday, we have had to amended the programme and have moved Alan Forshaw’s presentation “Like father like son” to Monday 5th June 2023

We hope we will be able to welcome you on 30th January.

Christmas meeting

Our next meeting will be on Monday 5th December 2022 at 7.30 when Ruth Barlow will be gently challenging us with ‘Christmas Crackers’ – her classical music quiz. Ruth’s presentation last year was a great success, so we are looking forward to this years. Non-members will be very welcome and entry is only £3.

It will be our last meeting in 2022. 

We will resume in the new year on Monday 30th January 2023 when Jeremy Barlow will be presenting: “Sergio Celibidache: the greatest conductor of the 20th Century?”

Scriabin

Our next meeting will be on Monday 21st November 2022 at 7.30 when Simon Nicholls from the Scriabin Society will explore aspects of the work of Alexander Scriabin. Simon is a leading authority on this composer and we are delighted that he has agreed to come to Salisbury for this presentation.

Looking ahead our last meeting before Christmas will be on 5th December when Ruth Barlow will present  ‘Christmas Crackers’ – her classical music quiz.

We hope we will be able to welcome you on Monday and on 5th December.

ET