2010 - 2011 PROGRAMME for our 52nd Season

We meet on alternate Fridays as shown.
All meetings begin at 7.45 pm, ending at approx. 10.00 pm,

in a comfortable room at Shottermill Hall, in the grounds
of Holy Cross Hospital, kindly rented to us by the Daughters of the Cross.

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Annual Subscription: £20 Visitors: £3 (refunded when joining the Society during the current season)

For further information, Please contact:

Chairman: Roger Saunders (01428) 605002;
Email

Secretary: Mrs. Joy Davis (01428) 651995


 

2010

 

 
FRIDAY

PROGRAMME DETAILS

 

PRESENTER
17th September

Resurrection

 

John Weekes
1st October

A Double Celebration
A programme of music by Schumann and Chopin.

 

Marion Tinsley
15th October

Annual General Meeting

 

29th October

La Belle France
Toujours la Musique

 

Jim Miles
12th November

Byways & Diversions

 

Keith Bray
26th November

Take 5: Part 2

 

Diana Crosser
10th December

Music for Christmas

A merry Christmas to all our members

Joy Davis
 

 

2011

 

 
7th January

An Evening with Mr. B

 

Ann Seal
21st January

Uncle Sam's Music Box

 

Ron Porter
Guildford RMS
4th February

Flying Down to Rio
A programme of South American music

 

Elaine Miles
18th February

A Tribute to Martha Argerich at 70

 

Peter Conway
Godalming MLG
4th March

Celebrating a Rich Inheritance

 

Rhona Morey
18th March

The Mighty Mahler (1860-1911)
Celebrating Mahler's centenary

 

Roger Saunders
1st April

New Releases from Somm Recordings

 

Siva Oke, LRAM
Somm Recordings
15th April

Diabolical Music

 

Morris Rowe
Guildford RMS
29th April
Music for the Piano
Hon. Laura Ponsonby


Our programme of Music for Summer Evenings at members' homes from June to August 2011 will be arranged.

OPERA & BALLET GROUP

The Opera & Ballet Group meet monthly on Saturday evenings
at 6.30 for 7.00 pm at the home of Mrs Joy Davis.

Cost per evening is £2.00.

2010

 

23rd October:

TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugene Onegin. (Glyndebourne 1994)
LPO conducted by Sir Andrew Davis
with Drabowicz, Prokina, Thompson, Winter, Filatova, Olsen & Minton.

 

13th November:

ROSSINI: La Cenerentola. Houston Grand Opera
with Cecilia Bartoli & Raul Giménez, conducted by Bruno Campanella.

 

18th December:

Johann STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus. (Munich 1987)
Bavarian State Opera Chorus & Orch.
conducted by Carlos Klieber with Coburn, Perry, Fassbaender, Wächter & Brendel.

 

2011

 

15th January:

JANÁCEK: The Cunning Little Vixen. (Châtelet, Paris)
Orchestre de Paris conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
with Sir Thomas Allen as The Forester.

 

12th February:

Tomás BRETÓN: La Verbena de la Paloma (Madrid)
conducted by Miguel Roa.
Another zarzuela describing the Fiestas and Spanish Life.

 

12th March:

ROSSINI: Der Barbier von Sevilla. (Munich, 1959)
Bavarian State Opera conducted by Joseph Keilberth
with Herman Prey & Fritz Wunderlich.

 

23th April:

LEHAR: Das Land des Lächelns (The Land of Smiles)
René Kollo in a 1974 film with the Stüttgart Radio Orchestra
conducted by Wolfgang Ebert.

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