Newsletter #55

Strings Attached has just learned that tickets for the concert on 22 November are now on sale from the Brighton Dome Box Office online at https://brightondome.org  . Choose ‘What’s ON’ then ‘Classical Music’ then click on the Gildas concert and choose ‘View Event’. Alternatively, book by telephone on 01273 709709 Tuesday to Friday 10am to 2 pm.

The details are as given in the last newsletter:

Date:               22 November 2020
Time:               11.30am
Place:              Brighton Dome Concert Hall,
Performers:    Joanna MacGregor (piano) and the Gildas String Quartet
Programme:    Schubert Quartettsatz
Haydn String Quartet Opus 76 No.1
Shostakovich Piano Quintet

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Newsletter #54

It gives us enormous pleasure to be able to give advanced notice of a Strings Attached coffee concert next month.

Date:       22 November 2020
Time:      11.30am (a little later than usual to allow staff to prepare the venue after the previous night’s show)
Place:     Brighton Dome Concert Hall, where the Stalls will be reconfigured in cabaret style, to ensure social distancing (see picture). If needed there will be additional seating, suitably distanced, in the Stalls Circle. Continue reading Newsletter #54

2020 Petworth Festival Special

The organisers of Petworth Festival have announced that the 2020 Petworth Festival is moving from its usual summer slot to the longer autumn evenings running between Friday 16 October and Sunday 1 November to include the 10th Anniversary Literary Week – Live On Line! This 2020 Petworth Festival Special will be a special online mix ‘for 2020 only’ of stellar performances and literary events. The full line-up will be announced in early August.

Additionally, to mark the original summer Festival dates, between 7.30pm on Tuesday 14 July and midnight on Saturday 1 August, at any point you will be able to catch an online concert being specially recorded in St Mary’s Church. This will be a three part mini-celebration that features two remarkable sets of students from the Royal Academy of Music and one of Petworth Festival’s all-time favourite performers, the piano genius, Harry the Piano. Each will give short performances to remind us of the wonderful chemistry between live music and our beautiful ‘home’ venue. This will be available to all through the Festival’s website.

See https://www.petworthfestival.org.uk/whats-on/

Newsletter #52

This is the last in our series of occasional newsletters featuring chamber music that means something special to our authors. The next newsletter will be sent when we are able to inform you about plans for the 2020/21 season. Until we know what those plans are we shall not be asking members to renew their subscriptions.

Today’s article is by Jack Adler-McKean, step-son of Mary, our Chair. Jack takes us into territory that is unfamiliar Continue reading Newsletter #52