Music Appreciation Courses

  ‘Götterdämmerung’ is the final and most complex music-drama of the ‘Ring’ cycle and we are devoting two weekends to it, as a conclusion to our series on the ‘Ring’. In ‘Götterdämmerung’, the world, the gods and the chain of …

  This opera contains one of the most famous love stories and some of the most hypnotic music ever written. It continually fills theatres and its revolutionary design has intrigued the world. But what many do not know is that …

  ‘Götterdämmerung’ is the final and most complex music-drama of the ‘Ring’ cycle and we are devoting two weekends to it, as a conclusion to our series on the ‘Ring’. In ‘Götterdämmerung’, the world, the gods and the chain of …

‘Götterdämmerung’ is the final and most complex music-drama of the ‘Ring’ cycle and we are devoting two weekends to it, as a conclusion to our series on the ‘Ring’. In ‘Götterdämmerung’, the world, the gods and the chain of events …

  Two anecdotes from two conductors: I recall the late lamented Coin Davis announcing a forthcoming Prom performance of the Ninth with the words, “Than which there is no greater work,” and Kurt Masur saying of the Ninth that he …

Free Evening Concert, but please book in advance!

We all know about the Classical and Romantic eras but do we know how one grew in to the other? We will track some of the great Classical composers and show that all of them had elements in their music …

Mahler said “the symphony must be like the world”, and his music reflects this in so many ways. It draws upon medievalism, folk-poetry, great world literature, childhood reminiscences, religion, orientalism, symbolism and so much else. Though his conducting activities took …

  The great Art Tatum once paid tribute to Fats by saying “I come out of Fats Waller – and that’s quite a big place!”  Indeed, everything Waller did in his short life was on a grand scale.  He played …