1 year
2 months ago
The Church of St Peter, Winchcombe
Saturday 16 May
at 7.30pm
In the presence of
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
English Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Wolfe conductor
Julie Price bassoon
John Anderson oboe
- Rossini String Sonata No 1 in G
- Hummel Concerto in F for bassoon and orchestra
- Hummel Introduction, Theme and Variations in F minor for oboe and orchestra OP 102
- Haydn Symphony No 52 in C minor
Ticket prices:
£40 | £25 | £17 | £8 (unreserved)
Tickets available from Prelude Records, 25b St Giles Street, Norwich NR2 1JN. Telephone 01603 628319 (Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 5.30pm)
Light refreshments including wine and soft drinks will be available in the marquee from 6pm, during the interval and for twenty minutes after the performance.
In order to assist the police, members of the audience for this concert are requested to park their cars not later than 7pm and to be in their seats by 7.15pm.
This event is part of ‘Music in Country Churches’, Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May.
We’ve tagged this post with Prince Charles on Monday 11 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
Seventy free music events for Gloucestershire schools, a fantastic summer term treat for all Gloucestershire school-children!
The Free for Schools scheme is part of the HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival and makes free tickets available to schools for all Music Festival concerts.
Find out about Free for Schools
We’ve tagged this post with education, free, music on Monday 11 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
From Meurig Bowen
Music Festival Director
One of the many enjoyable and impressive aspects of the Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival, for me, was the Friday Night is Music Night performance in the Town Hall. Quite apart from some great music-making by the BBC Concert Orchestra, Guy Barker Big Band and soloists, I really enjoyed the story that was told about Duke Ellington’s friend and musical collaborator, pianist Billy Strayhorn. A superb script, expertly delivered by Clarke Peters and Michael Brandon, wove in and out of the music, and by the end of the evening we were all much the wiser about Strayhorn’s life, loves and musical legacy. (If you missed the performance, you can still catch it for a couple more days on the BBC Radio 2 website with Listen Again)
Such a satisfying combination of words and music wasn’t my first encounter with live musical biography last week — because two nights before, in Trafalgar Square’s church of St Martin in the Fields, I attended ‘Divine Music for Voices and Trumpets’. This was the only other outing this year of the celebratory Handel programme that we’re presenting in the Music Festival on Saturday 4 July in Cheltenham Town Hall.
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We’ve tagged this post with Meurig Bowen, music on Thursday 7 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
“The rhythmic flexibility was part of the sly playing with genre, of which Douglas is such a master.”
Read the full review in The Daily Telegraph
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, review on Wednesday 6 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
“The touch of genius that makes his classical playing so compelling shone through here…”
Read the full review in The Times
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, review on Wednesday 6 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
Watch what happened when Salsa Squad, JazzJiveSwing and the 2009 Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival created a little magic on the streets of Cheltenham.
A big thanks to our friend John Steed of Cheltenham Borough Council for recording and editing the video footage.
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, salsa, video on Wednesday 6 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
To celebrate the forthcoming The Times Cheltenham Science Festival, the festival team and Battledown Brewery have joined forces to brew a special festival ale in advance of the June festival and the festival wants you to come up with a name for it!
Read more… and enter!
We’ve tagged this post with competition, science on Wednesday 6 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
“a haunt of choice for me for a few years. And each time I go I enjoy it more…because Cheltenham is a pleasant town, and whole town at jazz festival time has an addictively friendly vibe…”
Read more on the LondonJazz blog
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, review on Tuesday 5 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
“everybody got out of their seats and it was the perfect climax to a truly uplifting evening. If the rest of the Jazz Festival is half as much fun as the opening concert, it’s sure to be a huge success…”
The Gloucestershire Echo
All reviews from The Gloucestershire Echo.
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, review on Tuesday 5 May 2009.
1 year
2 months ago
“their rousing encore had the audience on its feet to jazz that was at its best for being completely spontaneous…”
Alyn Shipton in The Times.
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, review on Tuesday 5 May 2009.
