Weston-Super-Mare Music Appreciation Society - Programme

A short musical staff with a treble clef and a few notes, twisting and getting smaller

Our Spring to Autumn programme 2025...

9th April Annual General Meeting followed by
‘Not Heard on Classic FM’
Jeff Castrey, Society member
23rd April ’Quilter and Friends’
Margaret Hopes, Society committee member
7th May ‘Mysterious Mozart’
David Threasher, Sub-editor of the Gramophone magazine
21st May ‘Britain’s First Female Symphonist’
Dr Christopher Redwood, Musician and author
4th June ‘Maria Callas’
Andrew Borkovski, Former lecturer at Bristol University
18th June ‘From the New World’
Bob Inskip, Chard U3A
2nd July ‘Berlioz and His Te Deum
Prof. John Pickard, Professor of composition at Bristol University
23rd July ‘The Musicals That Got Away?’
Owen James, Director of musicals locally and retired head teacher
20th Aug ‘Such Sweet Thunder’
George Young, Society Treasurer
17th Sept ‘Sir Adrian Boult – Most Modest Maestro of Maestros’
Geraint Lewis, Society President, composer, lecturer and musicologist
15th Oct ‘French Impressionist Composers’ – on the 150th anniversary of his birth, a look at Ravel and his contemporaries
Dr David Bednall, Composer, organist, pianist and cathedral choral director
12th Nov ‘Written to Please’
Jude Forth, Friend of the society and regular presenter

The above dates are Wednesdays - 2:15 for a prompt 2:30 start

Please note – Programme dates may be cancelled or content changed due to circumstances beyond our control.
The December 2025–March 2026 programme will be published later in the year.

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