CLASSICAL MUSIC GROUP Sorry on hold
2019-2020 (Sept-June) Programme
| ........ | Concerts: | By coach, visiting City of Birmingham Symphony Hall to enjoy their Concerts. |
| Booking: | Booking Forms available by email or at the monthly U3A Meetings from Group Leader. | |
| Seats: | Stall or Choir Seats (facing the Conductor) | |
| Costs: | Matinee Performances between £33 and £45 and Evening Performances between £35 and £50 | |
| Price includes ticket, coach & driver gratuity (based on 24 and dependent on support and seating options) | ||
| Payment: | A non-refundable cheque is required ... payable to Bridgnorth U3A Activities A/c | |
| One for each Concert which MUST be received BEFORE the Closing Date prior to the event. | ||
| Tickets: | Please collect at monthly U3A Meetings or on coach | |
| Pick ups: | Westgate (free parking); High St (Barclays Bank); Lavington Court; Mill Street (Low Town); Alveley (Royal Oak) | |
| Contact: | tbc activities@bridgnorthanddistrictu3a.org.uk | |
| Websites: | www.cbso.co.uk www.thsh.co.uk |
2019-2020 PROGRAMME ... example for info only
| No | Day/Time | Concert | Closing Date: |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | Friday 17th Sept (7.30pm) |
BRITTEN-SHOSTAKOVICH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Two great 20th Century Composers and a superbe multi-national orchestra, tonight making their first ever UK appearance ... |
18th July |
| (2) | Saturday 28th Sept (7.00pm) |
SHEKU PLAYS ELGAR From the Royal Court of 17th Century England to the New Mexico desert ... |
24th July |
| (3) | Wednesday 30th Oct (2.15pm) |
DVORAK'S SEVENTH For some, it's the roar of a nationa awakening to freedom; to others, it's a life-and-death drama ... ... |
28th August |
| (4) | Thursday 28th Nov (2.15pm) |
HAYDN AND MOZART Clarinet and basson are the orchestra's beauty and the beast - but Richard Strauss knew that if they could only dance together, they'd fall in love ..... |
25th September |
| (5) | Wednesday 29th Jan (2.15pm) |
MIRGA'S BEETHOVEN Happy Birthday Ludwig van B! In the year that the CBSO turns 100, Ludwig van Beethoven turns 250, and Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla has picked out two of Beethoven's fastest, funniest and most thrilling synphonies....... |
27th November |
| (6) | Thursday 6th Feb (2.15 pm) |
ICOLA BENEDETTI: BARTOK Hopelessly in love, a young artist takes opium. He falls intoa delirium, and sees the strangest of visions |
27th November |
| (7) | Friday 27th March (7.30 pm) |
100 YEARS OF MOVIE MAGIC Classic FM knows that some of the most exciting music of the last century was written for the cinema. But there isn't a cinema sound system on earth to compare with the sensation of hearing film music played live in concert by the 90 strong CBSO ..... |
22nd January |
| (8) | Wednesday 29th April (2.15pm) |
BEETHOVEN'S EROICA Mozart often directed his own music from the violin, and that's exactly what Julien Rachlin will be doing today, as together with viola player Sarah McElravy ........ |
26th February |
| (9) | Thursday 21st May (2.15 pm) |
BRAHMS' SYMPHONY No 1 rising passions: Brahms' First Symphony begins with the pounding of a broken heart, and ends in a blaze of triumph........ |
15th March |
| (10) | Wednesday 10th June (2.15 pm) |
RACHMANIOV AND SHOSTAKOVITCH War, protest and a nation on the brink:officially, Shostakovitch based his massive 11th Symphony on the events of 1905, but this blockbuster of a symphony is still grippingly relevant today ..... |
8th April |