Handel`s Judas Maccabaeus is the current piece being practiced by Lower Windrush Choral Society who will perform this music on June 2nd in Witney with soloists and orchestra.
This Monday 19th February we will start learning No 35 Hail Judea, happy land! (Novello Edition).

If you are interested in joining this non auditioning Choral Society do consider this opportunity to come along.
We are a convivial small choir currently numbering around 50 singers from around West Oxfordshire.
Conductor: Terry McNamara who has been leading us for the past 10 yrs. Singers for all four voice parts are most welcome. Do call if you intend coming.

Please check our web site for more overall information on the choir and learning links.

First-year students Tom Carr & Toto Gill return to the JdP to perform works by Bach-Busoni and Mompou.

Programme:

Bach-Busoni – Chaconne
Mompou – Música callada, volume 2

Admission is free, and all are welcome.

Curated by Dr. Jonathan Williams, the Director of College Music at St Hilda's, the popular Lunchtime Recital Series offers weekly concerts performed by members of College, students from across the University, and professional musicians.

Stephen Montague was born Syracuse, New York, 1943 and studied at Florida State and Ohio State Universities followed by two years in Warsaw, Poland as a Fulbright Scholar (1972-74). Since 1974 he has been based in London where he works as a freelance composer, pianist, and conductor but tours world-wide.

Major commissions include London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Proms, London’s Southbank and Barbican Centres, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Paris, Singapore, and Hong Kong festivals. Conducting work has included the London Sinfonietta, City of London Sinfonia, Danish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony and many others.

Liveness, Hybridity and Noise is a new series of talks, concerts and workshops convened by Professor Martyn Harry focusing on experimentalism and contemporary classical music, with most events live-streamed by the JdP. Three times a term invited composers will give lectures at the JdP, St Hilda’s College on a range of topics pertaining to composition, creative collaboration and live electronics that will provide the basis for a vibrant scholarly and interdisciplinary dialogue between composers, performers, academics and audiences.

All our LHN events will be livestreamed for free on our website.

In our Cushion Concert series, Rozzy or Tom introduce children and their families to different instruments and how they make music, feeding curiosity and nurturing love of music, up-close. We have performances suited to under fives and over fives, and babies come free. Make sure to bring your own cushions!

Even after many years travelling, singing and playing Mike is still fascinated by music, to him it is a never ending voyage of discovery; “Being able to play music is like having my birthday every day. The size of the audience is irrelevant, 1000 people,100 or 10 it’s still the same, it’s an exchange of emotions: occasionally, there is that frisson that ripples through them in the very few seconds between the end of the song and the beginning of their applause: it’s like an earthquake in your heart”.

fRoots June 2016 by David Kidman
…revered as one of this country’s most accomplished singer-songwriter-guitarists…
It takes special talent to offer such supremely sensitive, caring and very personal renditions…
.…outstanding interpretive skills…
…wonderfully mellifluous guitar.. trademark ‘less is more’ intricacy…

http://mikesilver.co.uk/

Due to the adverse weather conditions this event has been postponed until further notice.

Ian has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award for co-writing Sandi Thom’s number one single, ‘I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker’ and the album from which it was taken. He co-wrote the lead song in the long running West End musical ‘Dreamboats and Petticoats’ and has written songs for many artists including Fisherman’s Friends, Show of Hands, Jason Donovan, D Side, Pixie Lott, Graham Gouldman, Henry Priestman, Simon Webbe, Drumsound & Bassline Smith and even Meryl Streep. His songs have been played on Radio 1, Radio 2 Radio 4 and Radio 5 in the last year. His ambition in 2018 is to conquer Radio 3 and is currently writing a collection of neo classical Zither tunes!
This summer Ian will return to the fringe stages and after-hours sessions at some of the country’s most prestigious festivals and folk clubs. http://www.ianwbrown.com/

An international debut. Two major creative talents from within our alumnae, composer Nicola LeFanu and poet Wendy Cope, have come together to create this piece for the 125 Anniversary of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

Nicola LeFanu has composed over a hundred works which have been widely played, broadcast and recorded; her music is published by Novello and by Edition Peters. She has been commissioned by the BBC, by festivals in UK and beyond, and by leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists.

Wendy Cope's poetry collections include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986), Serious Concerns (1992) and If I Don't Know (2001), and Two Cures for Love (2008), a selection of previous poems with notes, together with new poems. Her latest collection is Family Values (2011). Wendy Cope is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded an OBE in 2010.

The threat of fascism creeps ever closer. What use is art in the face of all this? The Conductor is a concert-play: a story told, and woven within the music of the symphony itself.