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.
Tonight’s meeting (Monday 11 April) is entitled The Vienna State Opera season of 1955-56 to be given by James Murray: an intriguing title if ever there was one. Starts at 7:30 as usual and we look forward to seeing you there.
Our next meeting is tonight, Monday 28th March when Robin will be presenting: “Women composers who won the Prix de Rome”.
I hope you will be able to attend.
Note that we have a range of CDs for sale at a £l each or less as well as a selection of books for sale including biographies of Mahler and Ben Britten as well as other books on musical topics. All at bargain prices!
Our next meeting will be on Monday 14th February 2022, when Angus Menzies will be presenting: ‘H is for Heinichen and Hesse, masters of the Dresden baroque’.
As before, we feel it is appropriate to ask all attending to follow the Covid safety measures we have in place including well spaced seating, wearing a mask and as far as possible maintaining social distancing.
The following meeting on 28th February will be Peter Horwood presenting favourites from his own collection.
Looking ahead you may be interested in a Palm Sunday recital on Sunday 10th April, in St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Wilton at 4.00pm of string quartets, featuring the concert premiere of Variations on Love Divine by Ailsa Dixon (1932-2017) www.ailsadixon.co.uk. Ailsa Dixon was one of the many female composers side-lined in musical history, but her work has been the focus of new interest since she died in 2017, with posthumous premieres of a number of works found in her archive.
We hope you will be able to come on Monday.
ET
The next meeting, the last before Christmas, will be on Monday 6 December at 7.30 when Ruth Barlow will present Classical Music in Animations and invite us to join her in an end of term scamper through some cartoons with great classical music, including considering whether Fantasia was Mickey Mouse’s finest hour and listening to Tom and Jerry playing Liszt.
As before, we ask all attending to follow the Covid safety measures we have in place including signing in and sanitising procedures on arrival, well spaced seating, wearing a mask, minimising moving around and maintaining social distancing. From recent government announcements, it would seem that provided we follow our current practice this will fit within the latest Covid guidelines, so we plan to go ahead with the meeting on Monday, but if anyone feels uncomfortable and decides not to attend we shall understand.
After Monday we have a break until 31st January 2022 when we shall be delighted to welcome John Challenger to explore the highs and lows, the delights and difficulties of commercial recording on one of the greatest cathedral organs in the country: Salisbury’s own Father Willis Organ
We hope you will be able to come and feel comfortable on Monday 6th December
The next meeting is tonight, Monday 25th October, when Ed Tinline will be presenting: Harmony around the Baltic
He hopes you’ll be able to join him on a musical journey around some of the Baltic countries, enjoying pieces by local composers including Jean Sibelius, Arvo Pärt, Hugo Alvén, and others.
We shall have an interval when we will be able to offer tea or coffee, but you’re welcome to bring your own drink. As before, we ask all attending to follow the Covid safety measures we have in place including signing in and sanitising procedures on arrival, well spaced seating, wearing a mask, minimising moving around and maintaining social distancing.
Copies of the full programme for the season will be available at the meeting.
However please would you note that while the dates of coming meetings are unchanged we have had to alter the running order in November. The amended programme up to Christmas is now:
Our final meeting before Christmas will be on 6th December 2021 when Ruth Barlow will present ‘Classical Music in Animations’ and invite us to join her in an end of term scamper through some cartoons with great classical music, including considering whether Fantasia was Mickey Mouse’s finest hour and listening to Tom and Jerry playing Liszt.
We hope you will be able to come on Monday 25th October at 7.30 and to feel comfortable with the arrangements we plan to have in place.
The next meeting will be on Monday 11th October when Peter Horwood will present Parry, Stanford and the English musical renaissance.
We shall have an interval when we will be able to offer tea or coffee, but you’re welcome to bring your own drink.
Covid
As in the last 2 evenings, we ask all attending to follow the Covid safety measures we have in place including signing in and sanitising procedures on arrival, well spaced seating, wearing a mask, minimising moving around and maintaining social distancing. Copies of the full programme for the season will be available at the meeting .However please would you note that while the dates of coming meeting are unchanged we have had to alter the running order in November.
The amended programme up to Christmas is now:
25th October 2021: Ed Tinline – Harmony around the Baltic
8th November 2021 Alan Forshaw – Listening to Beethoven in a different light
22nd November 2021: Members’ Evening
6th December 2021 Ruth Barlow: Classical Music in Animations
We hope you will be able to come on Monday 11th October at 7.30 and to feel comfortable with the arrangements we plan to have in place
We are attaching details of a vocal recital that Hurn Court Opera on 16 October. HCO is a charity set up to create performance opportunities for selected young classical singers at the start of their careers. Until now, their events have largely been based in the Bournemouth area, but after a sell-out performance of Dido and Aeneas in Wilton last month, they are staging recitals in Salisbury.
The next meeting will be on Monday 27th September at 7:30 and will be a Members’ Evening for which the Committee will bring and introduce their choice of pieces.
The meeting will start with the Annual General Meeting.
We shall have an interval when we will be able to offer tea or coffee, but you’re welcome to bring your own drink. May we remind any member who has not yet joined for this season, that the membership fee is £20 as before, and that Ruth would be pleased to accept cash or a cheque payable to SRMS. The fee for occasional visitors continues at £3.
We have met staff at the Guides and agreed appropriate Covid safety measures which we ask all attending to follow. These will include sanitising procedures on arrival, well spaced seating, wearing a mask, minimising moving around and maintaining social distancing.
Copies of the full programme for the season will be available at the meeting. The next meeting will be on 11th October and will be presented by Peter Horwood.
We hope you will be able to come on Monday 27th September at 7.30 and to feel comfortable with the arrangements we plan to have in place.
We have another meeting on Monday 8th March starting at 7:30pm. We have done a number of these so far and they have been successful. A slightly different format to our physical meetings in that speakers are introducing YouTube videos to discuss aspects or show performances.
If you would like to participate, leave a message here on on Facebook and we will get the joining instructions to you.
The next meeting of the Society on Monday 29th April 2019 and will be a members’ evening. Usual place and usual time, 7:30. A reminder if you are not a member that there is free parking just outside the door.
The following meeting on 29th April is a members’ evening so please bring along a suggestion for playing. No more than 10 minutes (including any introduction) it will help Tony to put together a programme for the evening.
16 April 2019
Salisbury Recorded Music Society 