These once or twice monthly Friday afternoon sessions organised by Barry Millington have become seriously popular. They are at 2.30 and complimentary tea and biscuits follow. Admission is £2 for Fellowship Members and £4 for non Members. Current programme details as follows:
Friday 20th March 2.30pm
Michael Berkeley. The voice of Michael Berkeley, the renowned composer and broadcaster, is very familiar to listeners of BBC Radio 3 from his series Private Passions, which has been broadcast now for thirty years. In this session, Michael will reveal his own private passions as well as details of his new opera.
Friday 10th April 2.30pm
A showing of the late Barrie Gavin’s classic film about Gustav Holst containing fascinating archival footage.
Friday 24th April 2.30pm
Bridget Yee returns to play Liszt’s awe-inspiring Piano Sonata in B Minor, as well as two of Samual Barber’s Excursions and Earl Wild’s virtuoso arrangement of Gershwin’s Embraceable You.
Friday 8th May 2.30pm
Francesca Carpos demonstrates two of the orchestra’s less familiar members, the bassoon and contra-bassoon, together with the repertory associated with the instruments.
Friday 22nd May 2.30pm
Barry Millington illustrates the glittering glories of Richard Strauss’s opera Salome and probes the psycho-sexual complexities of the titular anti-heroine
Friday 5th June 2.30pm
Serena Leader and Barry Solomon join Barry Millington to play music for violin, oboe and piano
Friday 19th June 2.30pm
Milda Daunoraite, the young Lithuanian pianist who gave a stunning recital of Chopin, Ravel and Messiaen last summer, returns with a new programme
Friday 3rd July 2.30pm
tbc
Friday 17th July 2.30pm
Kate Hopkins (soprano) and Niall Hoskin (baritone) perform songs from Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook, a melodious collection of jewel-like miniatures encompassing a whole world of human frailty, passion and pain