Welcome to our twentieth newsletter – designed to keep you informed about our activities, as well as other local chamber music events.
2016/17 COFFEE CONCERT SERIES AT ACCA HAS ENDED
The final concert of the series, on 19 March, featured the Trio Wanderer. For once, opinion was divided about the success of the concert. Richard Amey found the programme “well played but miscalculated” while Guy Richardson wrote about their “absolutely wonderful committed performance” and Helen Simpson about their “enormous sensitivity”. What did you think? See all three reviews on https://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk .
THE 2017/18 COFFEE CONCERT SERIES
The dates, for your diary, are as follows:
Sunday 29 October 2017 Sunday 26 November 2017
Sunday 17 December 2017 Sunday 28 January 2018
Sunday 25 February 2018 Sunday 25 March 2018
All will be at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA). We await details of performers and programmes. The plan is that we return to the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange for the 2018/19 season, when the refurbishment will be over.
FEEDBACK ON THE 2016/17 SERIES
As you will recall, we didn’t this year, as in the past, undertake an annual survey of members’ views as your views were becoming more and more predictable. We did though promise to let you have your say on the 2016/17 season. If you wish to take advantage of this and let us know about how you have felt about the music, musicians, concert arrangements, ticketing or anything else related to Strings Attached, drop a line to membership@stringsattachedmusic.co.uk. We’ll collate what you tell us and publish the results in a future newsletter. We will also, of course, if appropriate, pass on your views to our colleagues at Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival.
MEANWHILE THERE ARE THREE FESTIVALS WITH PLENTY OF CHAMBER MUSIC TO LOOK FORWARD TO::
1. Brighton Festival (6 – 28 May). A friend recently commented that there wasn’t much in the programme for Strings Attached Members. I was surprised and got the programme out. There are two string quartets (The Doric and the Alke) and one piano trio (Vivo), several piano recitals, including Paul Lewis at Glyndebourne, some great song recitals (Ben Appl, Sarah Connolly), a recorder quartet, a viola recital, a guitar duo and, if you define chamber music widely enough, two world famous groups performing Monteverdi (I Fagiolini and Les Talens Lyriques). Not bad!
2. Brighton Fringe (5 May – 4 June) has more chamber music than it’s possible to list here, from professional, semi-professional and amateur players.
3. Lewes Chamber Music Festival (23 – 25 June) where players of the highest standard come together over one weekend to play music they love in an informal but intense atmosphere. This year it’s based on the Schumanns but somehow Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Chopin have slipped in as well as one contemporary composer, Huw Watkins, who will be there in person.
OTHER CHAMBER MUSIC EVENTS
Details of concerts at Brighton churches (St Nicholas’, St Luke’s, and the Chapel Royal) and those organised by music societies in, for instance, Seaford, Uckfield and Steyning, can all be accessed via the Strings Attached chamber music calendar. Go to http://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk and choose ‘calendar’ from the top of the page.
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