Music Matters 22 January 2019

Jan 202019

Birds and Music

Paul Barritt, a keen amateur ornithologist, invites us to share his violinist’s view

Musicians have long found inspiration for their work in the natural world and in turn music is a means by which humans can express their feelings about nature and the world in general. Join us today as classical violinist Paul Barritt, Permanent Guest Leader of the Hallé Orchestra, explores the use of birds, their image, calls and sounds in classical music in a talk complete with musical examples both electronic and live.

Wines, fruit juice, water and nibbles will be served in the interval; all donations for refreshments help to develop Everyone Matters and our Music Matters lecture-recitals.

Enquiries/advance booking: Margaret Archibald, Artistic Director, Everyone Matters, 21, Stone Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9AX Tel: 020 8464 1645; Mob: 07970 123105

E-mail: margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk Website: www.everyone-matters.co.uk Twitter: @EM_Charity

Music Matters 8 January 2019

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Jan 052019

Fiddling in Latin

David Juritz invites us to join him on a trip through the South American violin world

8 Jan ’19 David Juritz

at Whitgift House, 76, Brighton Road, South Croydon CR2 6AB

in the Chapel, 7.30 – 9.30p.m.

Entry to non-subscription holders: £12 on the door.

Wines, fruit juice, water and nibbles will be served in the interval; all donations for refreshments help to develop Everyone Matters and our Music Matters lecture-recitals.

Enquiries / advance booking: Margaret Archibald, Artistic Director, Everyone Matters,

21, Stone Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9AX Tel: 020 8464 1645; Mob: 07970 123105

E-mail: margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk Website: www.everyone-matters.co.uk Twitter: @EM_Charity

Kugelhupf for Brahms

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Mar 182017

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Just out of the oven – my “practice” kuglhupf, baked in my new fluted tin while I was practising the clarinet part of Brahms’ wonderful Quintet Op.115.

To share German and Austrian sausages, cheeses, wines and of course freshly home-made kuglhupf, and to hear this glorious music, come along next Tuesday!

Tuesday 21 March 2017, Music Matters Gala at Whitgift House, 76, Brighton Road, South Croydon CR2 6AB in the Chapel, 7.30 – 9.30p.m.

Exploring Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet

Nicoline Kraamwinkel and Martin Smith violins, Mickey Posner viola, Julia Desbruslais ’cello and Margaret Archibald clarinet

Entry to non-subscription holders: £20 on the door.

All donations for interval refreshments will go towards the continuing development of Everyone Matters and especially our “Music Matters” series of lecture-recitals.

Music Matters Spring Season 2017

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Jan 082017

Music Matters is back on Tuesday nights for its spring season in the Chapel at Whitgift House .

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Paul Sherman launches our Spring series of Music Matters at 7.30p.m. on Tuesday 10 January with an exploration of the extraordinary life, music and times of the Bohemian baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.

Paul, seen here in silhouette, enjoys a busy career playing double bass in a wide range of period, modern and contemporary orchestras and as a soloist. A member and regular principal player with the English Chamber Orchestra Paul has toured and performed with them in over 40 countries and until recently coordinated the orchestra’s outreach activities.

The Music Matters Spring Season continues on Tuesdays fortnightly:

24 January: Alison Hayhurst “The New-fangled Flute (1847-style)”
7 February: Margaret Archibald “Birds in music”
21 February: Nicoline Kraamwinkel and Rosanna Rolton “51 Strings – Music for Violin and Harp Explored”
Tuesday 7 March: Julia Desbruslais and Tim Posner “Cellists’ Choice”
Tuesday 21 March: Gala Night – Nicoline Kraamwinkel, Martin Smith, Mickey Posner and Julia Desbruslais string quartet with Margaret Archibald clarinet “Brahms Quintet in B minor, Op.115 explored and performed”
Tuesday 4 April: William Carter “From the Royal Courts of Europe, Renaissance and Baroque music for the lute and guitar”

Entry on the door: £10; Gala Night 21 March £20; subscriptions available.

A couple of images from December 2016:

Searching for Shakespeare’s Songs

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Dec 152016

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Music Matters 7.30 – 9.30p.m. on Tuesday 20 December 2016 in the Chapel at Whitgift House, 76, Brighton Road, South Croydon CR2 6AB

Musical Offerings 2.30 – 4.30p.m. on Wednesday 21 December 2016 in the Church Room at St Mark’s Church, Westmoreland Road, Bromley BR2 0TB

Most of us know a couple of songs from Shakespeare’s plays, but is it the music Shakespeare himself would have known? Singer Gerald Place traces the detective work undertaken over the last century to find the truth. This fascinating talk is illustrated with Gerald’s own recordings and live performances accompanying himself on the viola da gamba.

In a varied career Gerald has sung everything from Byrd to Berio and his broadcasts range from BBC Radio Three to Radio Penguin in Siberia. He has made a special study of the renaissance composer-prince Carlo Gesualdo, including an Italia Prize-winning film for German director Werner Herzog, “Death for Five Voices”. Most recently he has edited and recorded all of Shakespeare’s songs for Naxos International with lutenist Dorothy Linell.

Entry to non-subscription holders: £10 on the door. Refreshments including home-made mince pies will be available at the break (donations invited)

Enquiries to Margaret Archibald, Artistic Director, Everyone Matters, 21, Stone Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9AX Tel: 020 8464 1645; Mob: 07970 123105

E-mail: margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk Website: www.everyone-matters.co.uk

Blog: www.passporttomusic.wordpress.com Twitter: @EM_Charity

Everyone Matters: a company limited by guarantee no. 07450130; registered charity no. 1143445

Music Matters Autumn 2016

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Sep 242016

It was lovely to see Whitgift House Chapel filling with lots of familiar friendly faces at the start of our new Music Matters season on 13 September. Nicoline Kraamwinkel and I set feet tapping with a programme of dances that started in medieval Europe and finished in New Orleans, our musical journey taking in Russian Jewish Klezmer and Argentinian Tango.

Richard Suart has chosen to call his presentation on Tuesday 27 September “Generally G&S” or “I should Ko-Ko”, a typically Gilbertian double title. Richard has recently completed a run of performances of “The Mikado” at the London Coliseum in the latest revival of English National Opera’s hugely successful production. If you look carefully at this picture of Richard as Ko-Ko the Lord High Executioner, a role that Richard has made especially his own, I think you may be able to see the “little list” poking out of his pocket! mikado-2012-3-134

The full autumn series of Lecture-Recitals at Whitgift House, 76, Brighton Road, South Croydon, CR2 6AB in The Chapel, 7 for 7.30 – 9.30p.m. costs just £64. It’s not too late to take out a subscription, or you can simply pay £10 on the door on each occasion.

Tuesday 27 September: Richard Suart “Generally G&S” or “I should Ko-Ko” – an evening of reminiscence and song, with baritone favourites from the operettas accompanied by Margaret Archibald at the keyboard.

Tuesday 11 October: Jorge Jimenez “Contrapunctus” – Polyphony for solo violin.

Tuesday 25 October: Alan Shellard and Margaret Archibald “Two of a Kind” – costumed clarinettists in marches and much more.

Tuesday 8 November: Alan George “Beethoven’s last quartets: absolutely contemporary for ever!”

Tuesday 22 November: Stephen Bingham “Lines and Loops” – for violin, electric violin and live-looping.

Tuesday 6 December: Katie Clemmow and Margaret Archibald “Imitation” – exploring a favourite device in the composer’s armoury.

Tuesday 20 December: Gerald Place “Searching for Shakespeare’s Songs” – Gerald sings songs Shakespeare would have known, accompanying himself on the viola da gamba.

There is a second chance to hear Richard Suart, Alan Shellard, Stephen Bingham and Gerald Place who will each appear the next day in our 2.30p.m. Wednesday afternoon series of Musical Offerings at St Mark’s Church Room, Bromley.

Details from Margaret Archibald: 07970 123105; margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk

Contrapunctus – Polyphony for Solo Violin

Everyone Matters, Lecture-Recitals

Jun 152016

Wednesday 22 June 2016 2.30 – 4.30p.m.

Lecture-Recital in the series Musical Offerings

in the Church Room

St Mark’s Church, Westmoreland Road, Bromley, BR2 0TB

Jorge’s passion for the violin and for music of the highest quality has led him to direct, conduct and lead international ensembles throughout Europe, giving stylish, authentic performances of music from Medieval times to the 21st century.

As a soloist, Jorge has toured widely in Europe and South America playing on a 1680 Vincenzo Ruggieri made in Cremona or, as best suits the repertoire, on a 1797 Neapolitan J&A Gagliano.

Jorge’s engagements in 2016 include guest director of Capella Cracoviensis, assistant musical director at Netherlandse Opera, musical director and conductor of Wratislavia Cantans Festival Orchestra and Choir, and his new solo programme “Duende” at the Varazdin Baroque Evenings 2016 (Croatia).

Entry to non-subscription holders: £10 on the door

Home-made cakes, tea, coffee and biscuits will be on sale during the interval

Enquiries: Margaret Archibald, Artistic Director, Everyone Matters, 21, Stone Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9AX

Tel: 020 8464 1645; Mob: 07970 123105

E-mail: margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk

Website: www.everyone-matters.co.uk

Blog: www.passporttomusic.wordpress.com

Twitter: @EM_Charity

Everyone Matters: a company limited by guarantee no. 07450130; registered charity no. 1143445

A View of the Trombone From the Bottom

Lecture-Recitals

May 212016

Wednesday 25 May 2.30 – 4.30p.m.

Lecture-Recital in the series Musical Offerings

in the Church Room

St Mark’s Church, Westmoreland Road, Bromley, BR2 0TB

Ian Fasham 20160521_145633 — “…all that tubing”

Ian Fasham started off his musical life as a tenor trombone player at the age of 11. From the start he was fascinated by the look of the bass trombone (with all that extra tubing) and the sound of the low notes that it could make. He joined Kent County Youth Orchestra at the age of 13, and was loaned his first real bass trombone! He developed an early passion for opera, and now works regularly with Glyndebourne, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Garsington Opera. He has been the bass trombone player of the London Mozart Players since 1985. Away from the trombone, Ian has a wife (also a professional musician) and two school age children. When they get the chance, as a family they like to enjoy the outdoors and countries with warm climates!

Entry to non-subscription holders: £10 on the door

Home-made cakes, tea, coffee and biscuits will be on sale during the interval

Enquiries: Margaret Archibald, Artistic Director, Everyone Matters, 21, Stone Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9AX

Tel: 020 8464 1645; Mob: 07970 123105

E-mail: margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk

Website: www.everyone-matters.co.uk

Blog: www.passporttomusic.wordpress.com

Twitter: @EM_Charity

Everyone Matters: a company limited by guarantee no. 07450130; registered charity no. 1143445

Romance and the Romantics

Lecture-Recitals

Apr 122016

Wednesday 27 April 2.30 – 4.30p.m.

Lecture-Recital in the series Musical Offerings

in the Church Room

St Mark’s Church, Westmoreland Road, Bromley, BR2 0TB

A programme of passionate pieces by Weber, Schumann, Reger, Brahms, German, Finzi, Dondeyne and Poulenc

Margaret Archibald clarinet

John Flinders piano

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Margaret and John’s enduring musical partnership is built on shared ideals. Both passionately believe that music is for sharing and both divide their time between performance in recital and chamber music, and between teaching, coaching and lecturing. Margaret has toured extensively in Europe, the USA and Japan, especially with period instrument orchestras, and in 2010 she founded the charity Everyone Matters that now takes a wide range of projects into schools, special schools, nursing homes, day centres and the wider community. John has appeared on BBC TV, Radio 3 and Classic FM, and has performed in Croatia, Iceland, Japan, Portugal, Turkey and South America. In London he has played at the Barbican Centre, Cadogan Hall, the Purcell Room, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and St John’s, Smith Square.

Entry to non-subscription holders: £10 on the door

Home-made cakes, tea, coffee and biscuits will be on sale during the interval

Enquiries: Margaret Archibald, Artistic Director, Everyone Matters, 21, Stone Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9AX

Tel: 020 8464 1645; Mob: 07970 123105

E-mail: margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk

Website: www.everyone-matters.co.uk

Blog: www.passporttomusic.wordpress.com

Twitter: @EM_Charity

Everyone Matters: a company limited by guarantee no. 07450130; registered charity no. 1143445

Two Favourite ‘Cellists Make a Welcome Return

Lecture-Recitals

Mar 172016

Julia Desbruslais is once again partnered by her son Tim Posner in a new programme of music for two ‘cellos. There are two chances to catch them, so why not come to both!
Tuesday 22 March at 7.30p.m. in Whitgift House Chapel, South Croydon
Wednesday 23 March at 2.30p.m. in St Mark’s Church Room, Bromley
Non-subscription holders: £10 entry
The friendly, informal atmosphere at these events allows everyone to chat to the musicians, especially during the intervals. We run a donations bar on Tuesday evening with wine, soft drinks and nibbles, and we sell afternoon tea with home-made cakes on Wednesday afternoons. All proceeds go towards sustaining these professional lecture-recitals.
Julia Desbruslais is Co-Principal Cello of the London Mozart Players and recently became the orchestra’s Executive Director. Her son Tim Posner began his cello studies with his mum at the age of seven, and he is currently a pupil of Leonid Gorokhov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover.

Information: Margaret Archibald (who will also play the keyboard for Julia and Tim) tel: 020 8464 1645; mob: 07970 123105; email: margaret@everyone-matters.co.uk

Our Spring series of Musical Offerings at St Mark’s Bromley continues:

Wednesday 27 April 2016: Margaret Archibald and John Flinders “Romance and the Romantics” – Passionate Music for Clarinet and Piano

Wednesday 25 May 2016: Jorge Jimenez “Contrapunctus” – Polyphony for Solo Violin

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