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- 22nd August - Wayne Marshall, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Sunday 30th September 2007
Wayne Marshall: Organ Recital
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 30th September 2007 at 7.30pm
The Bridgewater Hall's Organist in Residence Wayne Marshall will be raising the curtain on The Hall's 07/08 International Concerts Series with a recital featuring virtuoso pieces from the French Romantic organ repertoire, plus a symphonic improvisation in the second half of the evening.
Marshall has a speciaat The Bridgewater Hall, which is part of the Hall's International Concerts Series, cost £10.00 and can be booked via The Box Office, telephone 0161 907 9000 or website www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk.
- 22nd August - All Souls, Langham Place - Concert 10th September
ALL SOULS, LANGHAM PLACE W1
INTERNATIONAL ORGAN CONCERT SERIES 2007
MONDAY 10th September 2007 at 7.30pm
ROGER FISHER (UK)
Veteran performer Roger Fisher studied at the Royal College of Music with such giants of English music as Harold Darke and Herbert Howells, gaining his ARCM, FRCO and CHM diplomas and winning the Geoffrey Tankard Prize for Organ playing. His charismatic personality and entertaining programmes have earned him a wide following.
Rheinberger Sonata no 3 in G major op.88
Englebert Humperdinck Overture to 'Hansel & Gretel'
Edwin H Lemare Symphony no 1 in G minor (extracts)
Vierne Naiades
Guilmant Sonata no 1 in D minor
Admission by programme £7.50 (£5)
(Tube: Oxford Circus) Tel. 020 7580 3522
www.allsouls.org
- 13th August - Dr Jennifer Bate FRCO at Victoria Hall
Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
Dr Jennifer Bate FRCO
Saturday September 8th 2007
12 noon Organ Prom - (£4 -concessions £3.50) and
2.45pm Illustrated Lecture - 'Mendelssohn & the Organ (£6)
Organ Prom programme
Imperial March - Sir Edward Elgar
Fantasia in G - Johann Sebastian Bach
Canon in B minor - Robert Schumann
Suite Boutique - Leon Boellmann
Two movements from Sonata V - Alexandre Guilmant
Variations on a theme of Paganini - Sir George Thalban Ball
Toccata on a theme of Martin Shaw - Jennifer Bate
Tickets available on walk-up or Box Office 0870 060 6649
Other enquiries: Michael Rhodes 01782 410961
- 10th August - St Bartholomew's Armley - August Festival Weekend (24th-27th)
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S, ARMLEY, LEEDS
Festival Weekend 24th – 27th August, 2007
Friday 24th Aug
10.00 Feast of St. Bartholomew, Mass in the Centenary Chapel
Saturday 25th Aug
19:30 Organ Concert - Alexander Fiseisky ( Moscow)
Sunday 26th Aug
10:00 Parish Mass (Sung) St. Bartholomew the Apostle
Principal Celebrant & Preacher, the Rt. Revd. Martyn Jarrett, Bishop of Beverley
Celebratory drinks & eats after Mass in the Parish Hall
13:00 Faith Lunch, Parish Hall
17:30 Choral Evensong with the Christopher Wren Singers, in Church
18:15 Music & Wall Quiz, Parish hall
19:00 Barbecue
20:00 Two horse or dog race
21:30 Syndicate Quiz
22:00 Results of quizzes
22:15 Music for listening or dancing
Monday 27th Aug
11:00 Free Concert, Graham & Chris at the Organ, with children participation.
NB Tickets required for barbecue, £3.00 (£2.00 under 12s)
To purchase ring (0113) 2630144 or email: info@armley-schulze.freeserve.co.uk
- 1st August - Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts
Jane Watts is giving an Organ Recital on 14 October at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea, in a programme of Festival Toccata (Percy Fletcher), Pastorale Op 26 (Guilmant), Toccata Giocoso (Mathias), Suite Op 5 (Durufle) and Symphony No 5 Op 42 (Widor). The Choir of King's College, Cambridge are also visiting the Festival on 19 October at St.Mary's Church, Swansea, and among their programme of English Cathedral Music will be two organ solos from organ scholars Peter Stevens and Tom Kimber - Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G and Alain's Litanies. Full details from www.swanseafestival.com
