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Passing Open Windows: A Symphonic Tribute to Queen

Submitted by jasmine.snelling on March 21, 2024 - 15:01

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
Dorchester Abbey
Date(s): 
Saturday, 20 April 2024
Timing: 
1930 - 2130
Cost: 
£25
A Symphonic Tribute to Queen by Dee Palmer

Passing Open Windows – A Symphonic Tribute to Queen

The Thames Valley Festival Orchestra comes to Dorchester Abbey on April 20th 2024 to perform ‘Passing Open Windows - a Symphonic Tribute to Queen’, arranged by Dee Palmer. The 65 piece symphony orchestra will fill the Abbey with the sound of many superbly rich arrangements of the music of Queen. Perennial favourites such as Bicycle Race, Somebody to Love, Killer Queen, Innuendo and We are the Champions will feature and lots more.

Conductor: Stephen Ellery
Leader: Guy Haskell

Tickets:
via Eventbrite -
TVFOQueenDorchester.eventbrite.co.uk
via the Orchestra -
thamesvalleyfestivalorchestra@gmail.com

Further Information

Contact Details: 

Venue:
Dorchester Abbey
Dorchester on Thames nr Wallingford, OX10 7HH

Tickets are £25:
via Eventbrite -
TVFOQueenDorchester.eventbrite.co.uk
or via the Orchestra -
thamesvalleyfestivalorchestra@gmail.com

Contact: 07702 577508
Visit the orchestra website for more information: thamesvalleyfestivalorchestra.org

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St Giles Orchestra Concert - Dvorak, Bizet, Grant Still

Submitted by St Giles Orchestra on March 20, 2024 - 21:58

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Date(s): 
Saturday, 20 April 2024
Timing: 
19:30
Cost: 
£11, concessions £10 (under-18s free) - tickets available at the door

Programme:

Bizet, L'Arlesienne: Suite No. 1
William Grant Still, Afro-American Symphony
Dvorak, New World Symphony No. 9

Conducted by Dwight Pile-Gray

Come and join us for an exciting journey into music inspired by the American experience featuring late 19th-century romantic composer Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 “from the New World” and 20th-century African American composer William Grant Still'sSymphony No 1 “Afro-American”. Composed some 40 years apart by composers from very different backgrounds, the symphonies are bound together by the unique influence of Negro Spirituals.

The programme also includes Bizet’s popular “L’Arlesienne: Suite No. 1” whose melodies are rooted in Provençal traditional folk music.

Further Information

Contact Details: 

St Giles Orchestra Concert: Saturday 20 April, 7.30pm
St Andrew’s Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG

Tickets are available at the door, £11, concessions £10 (under-18s free).

For more details see www.stgilesorchestra.org.uk

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Pergolesi Stabat Mater

Last edited by dac3uk on 22 March 2024

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
St Giles Church Oxford
Date(s): 
Sunday, 24 March 2024
Timing: 
6:30pm
Cost: 
Donation

The work was composed for a Neapolitan confraternity, the Cavalieri della Vergine dei Dolori di San Luigi al Palazzo, which had also commissioned a Stabat Mater from Alessandro Scarlatti. Pergolesi composed it during his final illness from tuberculosis in a Franciscan monastery in Pozzuoli, along with a Salve Regina setting, and, as it is said, finished it right before he died.

To be performed by Shannon Miller, Annabel Williams and Nicholas Prozzillo.

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Steve Ashley plus support from Heather Inness

Submitted by Ballygrooby on March 19, 2024 - 13:09

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
Tiddy Hall, Ascott -u- Wychwood.
Date(s): 
Saturday, 4 May 2024
Timing: 
7.30 pm (doors 6.45pm)
Cost: 
£12 in advance £14 on the door
Steve Ashley

Steve Ashley has long been regarded as one of British folk's finest singer-songwriters. His reputation for writing contemporary songs inspired by the English Tradition was established in 1974 with his innovative debut album, Stroll On. Since then, his songs have been recorded by many leading folk artists including Fairport Convention, Anne Briggs, Ralph McTell, Wizz Jones, Show of Hands, O'Hooley & Tidow, Dave Pegg, PJ Wright, The Arizona Smoke Review, Martin and Jessica Simpson, Grace Notes, Phil Beer, Maggie Boyle, The Bushwackers, The Owl Service, Sproatly Smith and Hannah Sanders and Liz Simmons.

He has also played a significant role in the development of British folk-rock, performing as a lead singer with the first Albion Country Band, then with his own Ragged Robin and various line-ups of The Steve Ashley Band. He has also performed occasionally with members of Fairport Convention.

http://www.steveashley.co.uk/

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Contact Details: 

Wychwood Folk and Acoustic Club
Tiddy Hall, Shipton Road, Ascott -u- Wychwood, Oxon, OX7 6AG
Tickets available from:
01993 831427
07870563299
www.wegottickets.com/wychwoodfolkclub
wychwoodfolkclub@outlook.com
www.wychwoodfolkclub.com

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Bach: Mass in B Minor - Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford & Academy of Ancient Music

Submitted by queenschoir on March 15, 2024 - 14:58

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
Sheldonian Theatre
Date(s): 
Friday, 10 May 2024
Timing: 
7pm
Cost: 
General Admission £15/£30/£35/£45 Student £5

The Mass in B Minor represents the culmination of Bach’s career as a composer of sacred music. Completion of this project was one of his last and largest projects, but within he adapted music that he had written decades earlier. Bach draws together a dazzling array of older and newer styles, from superlative displays of rich counterpoint to modern dance-influenced movements. The texts of the Mass provided him with opportunities for this rich variety and for dramatic juxtapositions of styles and characters.

This concert continues the acclaimed collaboration between the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford and the world famous Academy of Ancient Music, a combination of the finest choral singing and an orchestra with a worldwide reputation for excellence in baroque and classical music.

Choir and orchestra are conducted by Owen Rees, Director of Music at The Queen's College, whose interpretations of choral music have been hailed as ‘revelatory and even visionary' (BBC Music Magazine).

Julia Doyle soprano

Esther Lay mezzo-soprano

Guy Cutting tenor

Ashley Riches bass-baritone

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford

Academy of Ancient Music

Owen Rees director

Further Information

Contact Details: 

For further enquiries please email choir@queens.ox.ac.uk or ring the Choir office on 01865 289177

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Listening Party 13: Music of Social Change

Submitted by OCM on March 13, 2024 - 12:12

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
The Old Fire Station Cafe
Date(s): 
Thursday, 11 April 2024
Timing: 
7pm-8:30pm
Cost: 
Free (donations invited to cover costs)

An open mic style night where the audience brings their favourite tracks to share on the theme of Social Change, as part of Marmalade Festival.

What is it?

We love discovering new music, and the best way to discover is to share.

Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. You’ll hear it on a great sound system, discover something new, and meet other music enthusiasts. This edition takes place in partnership with Marmalade Festival.

How does it work?

Like an open mic, let us know when you arrive if you’ve brought something to share. We’ll have inputs for LP, CD and for minijack, and a computer, so you can bring a track on vinyl, CD, on your phone, or as a name in your head.

We’ll have two sessions of music with a short break in between, and ask you to attentively enjoy every offering as you would at a live gig. We’ll limit contributions to 4 minutes each so that we can fit in lots of contributions. If you’d like to introduce your track, we’d like to hear what you love about it.

We’ll also have an open Spotify playlist setup that you can add to during the event, if what you hear inspires you - we’ll play the night’s bespoke playlist during the break and after the formal sharing part of the evening is over.

Food and drink will be on sale from the Old Fire Station Cafe.

Edition 13: Music of Social Change

This time we’re inspired by Marmalade Festival's theme of Social Change. This could be music of protest, a track which inspires hope or collective action, or something that brings people together around a common cause.

Here's a track to get you started:

WAKE (for Grenfell) by seed. https://open.spotify.com/track/5nm0P99dC...

We wish to provide an open forum for people to share music that is meaningful to them without censorship, including sensitive topics and explicit language. The Listening Party aims to be an open and welcoming space - as such we ask everyone to respect each other as well as the diverse music we are likely to listen to.

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Venue address: Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AQ
Booking: https://ofstickets.ticketsolve.com/ticke...

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JdP Family Cushion Concerts: April

Submitted by JdP on March 12, 2024 - 10:57

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
JdP Music Building, St Hilda's College
Date(s): 
Sunday, 21 April 2024
Timing: 
10am & 11am under 5s, 12pm over 5s
Cost: 
£6 per person / £20 family of four / under 1s free

We are very excited to announce the continuation of our cushion concert series for the 23/24 season. Led by Becca Marriott (opera singer), our monthly cushion concerts will introduce different styles of music and different instruments to children and their families. Come along to all eight concerts or just drop in for a few!

Remember to bring your cushions to sit on and your best singing voice, dancing feet and clapping hands!

https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/fa...

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Jacqueline Johnson cello Dominic Piers Smith piano - Rachmaninov and Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas

Submitted by Simon Payne on March 11, 2024 - 18:01

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
St Nicolas church, Abingdon
Date(s): 
Sunday, 14 April 2024
Timing: 
3pm
Cost: 
£12

Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19
Mendelssohn Sonata for piano and cello Op. 45

Jacqueline Johnson cello
Dominic Piers Smith piano

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Gershwin and Tchaikovsky – 7pm at Dorchester Abbey

Last edited by Simon Payne on 17 March 2024

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
Dorchester Abbey
Date(s): 
Saturday, 27 April 2024
Timing: 
7pm
Cost: 
£5-£25

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Gershwin Porgy and Bess excerpts (orchestral arrangement)
Tchaikovsky Symphony no 4

Maki Sekiya piano

Orchestra of St John’s

Further Information

Contact Details: 

www.osj.org.uk
Free tickets available for NHS workers and for the disabled. Please email admin@osj.org.uk.

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Mahler – 6pm at SJE Arts, Oxford

Submitted by Simon Payne on March 11, 2024 - 17:50

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
SJE Arts
Date(s): 
Saturday, 27 April 2024
Timing: 
6pm
Cost: 
£5 - £25

Mahler
‘Blumine’ from Symphony no 1
Songs of the Wayfarer
‘Im Abendrot’ for choir
Symphony No 9 4th movement

David Pike Baritone
Orchestra of St John’s

Further Information

Contact Details: 

www.osj.org.uk
Free tickets available for NHS workers and for the disabled. Please email admin@osj.org.uk.

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