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. June programme details as follows:
Friday 20 June 2.30pm
Baroque musicians: what do they do differently?
Walter Reiter
Baroque violinist, teacher, author and director Walter Reiter reflects on his long journey back in time from the 20th to the 17th century, why he never gets bored with Baroque music, Mahler or the Beatles and how the period instrument revolution has changed the way we listen to all music.
Friday 27 June 2.30pm
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn)
Kate Hopkins (soprano) and Niall Hoskin (baritone)
Gustav Mahler’s exquisite settings of the celebrated collection of German folksongs are some of the wittiest, most colourful and most wistful of his compositions. They include the song competition between a cuckoo and a nightingale (judged by a donkey), St Anthony preaching valiantly to impervious schools of fish, and the heartbreaking song of a soldier visiting his sweetheart before he goes to an expected death in battle.
Kate Hopkins and Niall Hoskin present a selection of their favourite songs from the cycle, with Barry Millington at the keyboard.