Come and join Splann! (https://splann.co.uk/) a lovely trio who lead really fun ceilidhs here in Cornwall. All proceeds will help to deliver Music Therapy throughout Cornwall!
The event is on the 4th November at 7.30pm in Chacewater village hall
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Please read about the next concert, below. Tickets for people aged 25 and under are only £1 to encourage lots of young people to come and enjoy the experience!
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ fabulous Sea Symphony (1910) is the centre-piece of Three Spires Singers’ first autumn concert this year. Performance requires a large orchestra, soloists and choir – the latter forming an intrinsic part of the whole work. Using words from the visionary American poet Walt Whitman, Vaughan Williams vividly paints all the moods of the sea and Whitman’s awe and exhilaration. It’s colourful, exciting and moving by turns.
Conductor Christopher Gray describes it as "music that encapsulates vividly all the moods of the sea, but also Whitman’s metaphors: Whitman presents the sea as something awesome and deeply spiritual that is a great leveller, uniting us all in various ways, but in a world where things are not always plain sailing."
The programme also includes two works composed at the very end of the nineteenth century: Sibelius’s Finlandia is a stirring tribute to his beloved homeland; in Elgar’s Sea Pictures for mezzo soprano and orchestra listen out for the opening poem by Roden Noel which evokes Kynance Cove!
TICKETS
All seats unreserved - come early for the best seats.
Only Patrons and Friends are given named and reserved seats, in the zone of their choice. If you'd like to know more about joining this group of supporters, see our website: click here.
Nave £25 - Gallery £20 - Side Aisles: £18 - Age 25 or under £1
The ticket price includes the cost of a concert programme.
Tickets available from Minack Theatre Box Office services - click on the blue button below or phone 01736 810181.
They run a paperless system - you will receive your e-tickets by email just after ordering, and also by SMS telephone text message 48 hours before the performance.
The Cornwall Youth Orchestra are looking for new players! If you are interested in joining an amazing ensemble then click the button below!
Further information can be found on the poster below! Click the image to download.
On the 6th of November Carleen Anderson will be performing at the Hall for Cornwall!
If you would like to bring a group (can be 2-200 students) please email Getcreative@hallforcornwall.org.uk to secure the booking and I would be happy to arrange that for you.
Please note this show would suit 11+ students
Learn to play day has returned! Check out the posters below for more information!
Sound Waves South West has organised a concert in Bude on the 9th October to be given by the Chameleon Wind Quartet. This quartet will be coming to Cornwall to give Workshops in 11 schools, for over 1,000 children in and around Bude during the week of 10th October. The quartet has won several awards and will be quite an inspiration to the children.
The concert will be on the day before the workshops start, giving everyone a chance to hear what the children will be experiencing.
IMS Prussia Cove are celebrating their 50th anniversary this September and as part of the celebrations they are presenting an afternoon of string orchestra playing which is open to all string players in Cornwall.
Shostakovich’s 8th Quartet has always fascinated me – it’s a piece with little hope and plenty of musical discord yet caries enormous beauty and touches us deeply. On Saturday 24th September a quartet from IMS (of which I am privileged to be a part and led by Lesley Hatfield who is an enormously inspiring musician and wonderful violinist) will be leading a rehearsal session on this piece. Please come and join us! We want to make a large string orchestra with players from all over the county to explore and rehearse this piece together, ending with a run through for our own enjoyment.
Follow the link on the flyer to sign up – and it’s FREE!
Hoping to see you on September 24th,
Best wishes,
Tim Boulton
Conductor
Based on a poem by Michael Rosen, The Firebird is a new puppet opera composed by Noah Mosley and co-produced by English Touring Opera and Little Angel Theatre.
Ivan is a young and foolish Prince who thinks only of himself. He captures the Firebird, only to set her free when he feels a sadness in his heart. She gives him a feather that will help him if he needs it… Delve into the enchanted castle where Ivan will meet a free-spirited Princess and a menacing and cold-hearted King!
The Firebird brings together English Touring Opera’s singers and instrumentalists with the expert puppeteers of the Little Angel Theatre to create an atmospheric fun, comic, and enthralling online tale for children. The film is directed by Valentina Ceschi and designed by Little Angel Theatre’s Ellie Mills.
“Last month the Triggshire Wind Orchestra performed at an exciting new venue: Sea View Farm shop, St Teath. The owner had built a large outdoor stage from straw bales which was situated on the cliffs with dramatic views, so we called it ‘Trigg Glastonbury’. The whole concert had a happy feel and it finished what has been a fabulous year for Trigg.”
Listen to the entire performance here:
“What a fabulous afternoon the SuperStrings and Friends had in Truro Methodist Church on Sunday July 10th. This was our third and biggest adventure yet, including for the first time woodwind, brass and percussion players, an idea that came from Gareth Churcher (CMST Head of Service) to create a supersized orchestra for our younger players.”
Our programme began with the full orchestra playing three short Scottish Dances by Peter Martin. Conducted by Gareth Churcher these were perfectly suited to this combination and level of players, giving everyone a moment to shine. Next came three string orchestra only pieces, 'Noble Maiden Fair' from the disney film Brave especially arranged for us by Stuart MacQaurrie. Sting's beautiful ballad 'Fields of Gold' came next and then a lively foot tapping sea shanty called 'The Wellerman'.
To round off our short concert the whole orchestra came back together to play David Stone's arrangement of Mussorgsky's 'The Great Gate of Kiev' which brought down the house. How can you fail to be excited by this music when the final few bars involve huge, loud sounds, drums, organ and every instrument playing and giving their best effort.
“There is no shortage of reasons why playing in an ensemble benefits children. It allows young people to create something magical and preparing for a concert provides constant motivation to practice and improve over a number of weeks.
The finished performance may look easy, but it’s challenging to collaborate with many other players to make one piece of music sound whole, in tune, and expressive. Every player must learn to communicate and work as a team to deliver one musical idea. Therefore, an orchestral musician learns to listen, harmonise and follow direction. Something the young people in SuperStrings & Friends are learning to do very successfully at a very early age.”
“The Superstrings met for their summer term rehearsal and concert earlier this term and this time they were joined by woodwind, brass and percussion players. It was a wonderful sight to see 90 young musicians playing together and to hear their rousing rendition of Mussorgsky’s Great Gate of Kiev and Martin’s Scottish Dances. The strings began the concert with three pieces of their own which they played with confidence and a lovely, warm balanced string sound.”
