Fund raising concert for music at the City Church
A CELEBRATION OF OUTSTANDING YOUNG MUSICIANS featuring:
BEN WESTLAKE (clarinet) JOHN FISHER (piano)
SENIOR STUDENTS OF MILTON KEYNES MUSIC SERVICE
Programme to include:
BACH: Partita No 2 in C minor
MOZART: Larghetto from Clarinet Concerto in A
BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C minor (Pathetique)
WEBER: Fantasy on Themes from ‘Der Freischutz’
Music at the City Church needs to raise additional funds for the purchase of new equipment and for refurbishment to piano and organ to maintain their high quality as recital instruments. Today‟s special concert features outstanding senior musicians from Milton Keynes Music Service, several of whom are about to take up or are working towards places at the UK‟s top conservatoires and universities. Special guests include 16 year old Ben Westlake, a finalist in BBC2‟s Classical Star 2007 and John Fisher, a frequent prizewinner in MK Festival of the Arts.
Please support the event, bring all your friends, help to raise funds for the Music Department and enjoy some wonderful music! (There will be a minimum admission charge, but you are invited to give more if you feel able. We would also welcome donations from those unable to attend. )
Minimum admission £6.50 (conc £6, child £1) at the door
Wednesday 7th October 7.45pm
| Alea Quartet Florence Cooke (violin) Amanda Lake (violin) Clare Fox (viola) Sophie Rivlin (cello) HAYDN: Quartet in G minor, Op 20, No 3 MAXWELL DAVIES: Naxos Quartet No 10 MENDELSSOHN: Quartet in D Op 44, No 14 |  |
Admission £8.50 (conc £8, child £2) at the door
Sunday 11th October 6pm
CHORAL CELEBRATION 'What Diamonds are equal to mine eyes.'
THE CHOIR OF THE CITY CHURCH, director Adrian Boynton
Celebrating the life and works of Thomas Treherne. Free will offering
Monday 12th October 7.45pm
MUSICAL MILESTONES: 250th Anniversary celebration
HANDEL (i) Early Years
A talk illustrated with fine CD recordings by Adrian Boynton
Handel travelled widely in Germany and Italy before settling in England. His music reflects his cosmopolitan life, and the taste of the public for whom he composed. Important works of the early years are Dixit Dominus, Utrecht Te Deum, Chandos Anthems, Coronation Anthems (including Zadok the Priest), Birthday Ode for Queen Anne, Water Music, Harpsichord Suites (including the Harmonious Blacksmith Variations), the pastoral Acis and Galatea and operas Rinaldo, Radamisto, Ottone and Julius Cesar.
Admission £4 (student £1) at the door
Thursday 15 October 7.45pm
| HARUKO SEKI (piano) BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) CHOPIN: Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 / Scherzo No 2 in Bb minor SAINT SAENS: Valse Langoereuse / Valse Nonchalante DEBUSSY: Images Book 1 LISZT: Un sopiro / Liebestraume No 3 LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor “bathed in tonal beauty… her vivid colouristic strokes took one off into a world of serene enchantment” [The Times] |  |
Haruko Seki won first prize in the USA‟s St Charles Illinois International Piano Competition before launching on a career which has taken her across America, Europe and the Far East. She has played in all the major UK venues and recorded for the BBC and German television. With an earlier degree in English literature, she takes inspiration from the relationship between music and poetry in her performance of romantic repertoire.
Admission £8.50 (conc £8, child £2) at the door
Thursday 22 October 7.45pm
EXPLORING MUSIC: 20th Century Masters
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (ii) The Post-War Era 1945-1959
A talk illustrated with fine CD recordings by Adrian Boynton
7th June 1945 was a momentous day for Britten and English music: The emphatic success of the premiere of 'Peter Grimes' stamped Britten as the most gifted musical dramatist since Purcell, and began a new 'golden age' of British opera. The following years were amazingly prolific, with such works as 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', 'St Nicolas Cantata', 'Spring Symphony' and 'Prince of Pagodas' (influenced by Balinese sonorities of the Far East) appearing alongside more outstanding operatic scores – 'Albert Herring', 'Billy Budd' and 'Turn of the Screw'.
Admission £4 (student £1) at the door
Saturday 24th October 7pm for 7.30pm
ANYTHING GOES - AN EVENING OF MUSICAL MAGIC AND MERRIMENT
GUYATHRIE PEIRIS (soprano) JOHN MACDOMNIC (trumpet)
MICHAEL KEEP (piano) Hosted by ADRIAN BOYNTON
HANDEL – HAYDN – SCHUBERT – MENDELSSOHN – DVORAK – ROSSINI
PUCCINI – GERSHWIN – BERNSTEIN – PORTER – KERN
7pm Sparkling Wine Reception 7.30pm Gala Concert
8.45pm Buffet Supper 9.30pm Cabaret
Music, Magic and Merriment offers a complete evening of high quality musical entertainment. After a Sparkling Wine Reception guests enjoy a Gala Concert mingling instrumental and vocal music from the baroque, classical and romantic eras (including opera), and exploring a wide range of moods and emotions. A delicious hot supper is then served against the ambient background of a gentle piano interlude. To end the evening, a sparkling Cabaret sequence offers upbeat dance numbers, theatre songs and romantic ballads from popular music's 'Golden Age'. A bar is available throughout the evening. The incomparable Guyatherie Peiris, fresh from an acclaimed Australian tour, is joined this year by virtuoso trumpeter John MacDomnic and versatile pianist Michael Keep. It promises to be a memorable evening.
Parties of six or more are invited to reserve a table. Please note that, while late bookings may be considered, we can only guarantee to provide supper for bookings made by Monday 19th October. Please advise in advance of any special dietary requirements.
Full tickets with Supper £17 (conc £16.50) [inc Reception, Concert, Supper, Cabaret]
Full tickets without Supper £11.50 (conc £11) [inc Reception, Concert, Cabaret]
Concert only tickets £8.50 (conc £8) [inc Reception & Concert only]
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