Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for.....

[Beef Oven!]

Looks great, Beefy.

The guy at the top could use some trunking though, IMHO.

He needs an earth Apple.

[Bryn]

Michael Pisaro concert at the City University Performance Space next Tuesday and The Paradoxical Lore Lixenberg a fortnight later.

Well, not actual tickets, but I have booked my places.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Going to hear Alina Ibragimova tomorrow! Not often is there any live music near to our holidays in the Cheviot Hills – we visit around school holidays, so usually there is nothing on………..

http://www.kelsomusicsociety.com/

[Bryn]

Going to hear Alina Ibragimova tomorrow! Not often there is any live music near to our holidays in the Cheviot Hills – we visit around school holidays, so usually there is nothing on………..

http://www.kelsomusicsociety.com/

An excellent and wide ranging programme too. What a treat.

[Zucchini]

I envy you that one CS - & when she's near me, I'll be there

(the photo suggests her old man, Mr Service, keeps her in a broom cupboard or suchlike ...)

[EdgeleyRob]

More freebies arrived today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/exggwh

[Beef Oven!]

More freebies arrived today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/exggwh

Mine too. Had to phone them up to cancel - Salford too far.

[gurnemanz]

ROH Nose tomorrow.

[EdgeleyRob]

Mine too. Had to phone them up to cancel - Salford too far.

Lightweight

[teamsaint]

Lightweight

its no surprise. I offered to buy him a pint of London Pride if he came to Basingstoke for a concert ( Central London 35 miles, trains every 15 minutes), but he didn't show.

anyway, my next scheduled concert night out is Cecilia Bartoli singing Handel Arias at the Barbican at the end of the month.
They just published the programme. It's all Handel arias, with some orchestral interludes. No real surprise, I suppose !!
Really looking forward to this very much. Been on my " to do" list for a long time.

[EdgeleyRob]

its no surprise. I offered to buy him a pint of London Pride if he came to Basingstoke for a concert ( Central London 35 miles, trains every 15 minutes), but he didn't show.

anyway, my next scheduled concert night out is Cecilia Bartoli singing Handel Arias at the Barbican at the end of the month.
They just published the programme. It's all Handel arias, with some orchestral interludes. No real surprise, I suppose !!
Really looking forward to this very much. Been on my " to do" list for a long time.

Not even for London Pride eh ?

[Cockney Sparrow]

An excellent and wide ranging programme too. What a treat.

Kelso Old Parish Church is a Georgian Octagonal church, with a gallery. The ground floor was not completely full but the chairman, in his welcome address did say it was the largest audience they have had and the central part (and more) was full so perhaps an audience of 200 or 250. The Borders are not densely populated, so a good showing. Rumour had it Ibragimova was booked when she played at the Paxton House music week some years ago - was asked, and agreed to perform for the society.

Berio. Sequenza VIII
Bach. Partita No.2 in D minor
Biber. Passacaglia in G minor
Bartok. Sonata for Solo Violin

I'd need to listen to the Berio again, before I could comment. The Bach was sublime, the Biber superb. The programme notes say that Menuhin, having commissioned the Bartok, blanched when he first saw the score. It seemed like a tour de force to me - Ibragimova was totally in command of the instrument, and played the piece with complete assurance and full expression. An evening not to be forgotten - a wonderful experience.

She was smiling when not engaged in playing, but did not say a word. (I overheard TS say the encore was , "err ....err... I think..err.....err..err.... a Bach....err....errr.. one of....err...err... the Sonatas...."). There is a photo on this page of her rehearsing (she played the whole programme through during the afternoon)

http://www.kelsomusicsociety.com/concert-venue

(I remarked to Mrs CS, before the start, that the table and pot plant on the stage suggested we were about to attend a performance by a medium (- or perhaps "The Medium" (Menotti)). However, it has to be said the flexibility of the chancel makes it a good performing space and the acoustics were very good.

[teamsaint]

no ticket required for this one, but I'm going to have a listen.
Friday 18 November
1.10pm: Ana Beatriz Ferreira, piano
Beethoven - Sonata No.21 in C major, Op.53 ‘Waldstein’
Vianna da Motta - Ballade No.1 Op.16
Prokofiev - Sonata No.3 Op.28 in A minor
Royal College of Music series

St James' Piccadilly, tomorrow lunchtime.
Hope she has a good breakfast to keep her energy up.

[Beef Oven!]

Yesterday I got an email from the BBC saying my application for tickets for Tchaikovsky 1, BBC SO Maida Vale 12th Dec, have been successful!

Hooray!!

[teamsaint]

Yesterday I got an email from the BBC saying my application for tickets for Tchaikovsky 1, BBC SO Maida Vale 12th Dec, have been successful!

Hooray!!

what time is it ?
Edit: the concert, not what time is it now, obvs.