Past events - 2014 - 2015

Soirées, in private homes

Thu 18 Sep 2014	'Bach to the Future' - Barbershop Quartet - Barber Shop standard repertoire supplemented with spirituals and jazz
Thu 16 Oct 2014	'Songs from the Stage' - Joanna Goldspink (soprano) & Russell Harrold (piano) - Offenbach, Gilbert & Sullivan, Purcell, Arne, Noël Coward and Johann Strauss II
Fri 24 Apr 2015	'Cello Delights' - Dominic Martens (cello) & Hanlie Martens (piano) - Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich
Tue 12 May 2015	'Wrong sex, wrong instrument' - Maggie Cotton - A CBSO percussionist for many years, Maggie will take us behind the musical scenes


'Music at Lunchtime' events at the New Guesten Hall, Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings - all presented as part of Bromsgrove Festival 2015

Wed 17 Jun 2015	'Flanders and Swann Revisited ... through the eyes of Sir John Betjeman' - Michael Lunts - Betjeman’s beloved steam trains run alongside the Transport of Delight, while animals abound, from hippos to gnus, and warthogs to elephants!
Wed 24 Jun 2015	'A Cheste of Fyne Jewells' - Diabolus in Musica - Historical music played on authentic instruments by specialist musicians in period costume - Review
Wed 1 Jul 2015	'Taking a Bow' - Michael Seal - An illustrated talk - The Associate Conductor of the CBSO talks about life on and off the rostrum, his career as an orchestral musician and conductor and reveals what a conductor actually does! - With a music career of over 23 years, there will be many tales to tell and maybe the odd revelation or two
Wed 8 Jul 2015	**The Wentworth Quartet with Alastair Moseley (clarinet)*** - Brahms Clarinet Quintet - Finzi (arr. Alexander) Bagatelles for clarinet and string quartet * Sadly, the Virr Quartet withdrew eight days before the concert, but we are very pleased that the Wentworth Quartet (all graduates from Birmingham Conservatoire) enthusiastically offered to perform the same works
Wed 15 Jul 2015	'Light Opera Favourites' - Poor Wand'ring Ones - This young quartet of fine singers will be entertaining us with songs from Gilbert & Sullivan, together with other songs from the shows Bella Harris (soprano), Joanna Goldspink (mezzo), Tom Dalton-Cheetham (tenor) and Ben Cuffin-Munday (baritone)