Thursday 22 November 2012 – Wednesday 27 March 2013
Double Bill with Cocktail Sticks: Sunday 16 December, Sunday 13 January 2013, Sunday 10 and Sunday 17 March 2013, 2.15pm
National Theatre
Alex Jennings Alan Bennett
Members of Southbank Sinfonia
Alan Bennett Hymn
with music by George Fenton
Alan Bennett Cocktail Sticks
Alan Bennett writes: ‘In 2001 the Medici Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton to write a piece commemorating their thirtieth anniversary. George Fenton appeared in my play Forty Years On and has written music for many of my plays since, and he asked me to collaborate on the commission. Hymn was the result. First performed at the Harrogate Festival in August 2001, it’s a series of memoirs with music. Besides purely instrumental passages for the quartet, many of the speeches are under-scored, incorporating some of the hymns and music I remember from my childhood and youth.’
It’s a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book.
Hymn: Dates
Thursday 22 November
Tuesday 27 November
Wednesday 28 November
Tuesday 18 December
(2013)
Tuesday 8 January
Monday 14 January
Monday 4 February
Monday 11 February
Tuesday 19 February
Wednesday 27 February
Hymn and Cocktail Sticks double bill: Dates
Sunday 16 December
(2013)
Sunday 13 January
Sunday 10 February
Sunday 10 March
Sunday 17 March
Tickets
£12 £15
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk | 020 7452 3000
Trailblazers
Thursday 24 January | 6.00 – 7.15pm
St John’s Waterloo
Harvey de Souza violin
Simon Over conductor
See 2013’s new orchestra for the first time, joined by the inspirational leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, for their debut concert. Together they explore the music of trailblazing young composer, Felix Mendelssohn.
Mendelssohn Overture and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Free concert
Part of The Derek Butler Concerto Series
Supported by Anna Yallop
Mendelssohn and the Bard of Avon at the Rose Theatre
Saturday 26 January
7.30pm
Rose Theatre, Kingston
with Patricia Hodge and
John Suchet
Harvey de Souza violin
Simon Over Conductor
Mendelssohn Overture and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’
A programme of much-loved classics includes the theatrical magic of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream introduced by star of stage and screen Patricia Hodge, and Mendelssohn’s evergreen Violin Concerto with soloist Harvey de Souza, the brilliant leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Then, renowned television and radio personality John Suchet reveals his lifelong love of Beethoven. Coinciding with the publication of his new book ‘Beethoven – The Man Revealed’, he introduces his hero’s Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’.
Tickets
£12 £18 £22 £25
available from the Rose Theatre Box Office
Rosetheatrekingston.org | 08444 821 556
A Coastal Concert
Tuesday 29 January | 12.15pm
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Kimon Parry clarinet
Simon Over conductor
In Benjamin Britten’s centenary year, Southbank Sinfonia returns to his seafront Jubilee Hall after a dazzling debut last January. Our players unleash the youthful verve of Beethoven’s first, boundless symphony and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.1
Tickets
£10
available from Aldeburgh Music Box Office
aldeburgh.co.uk | 01728 687110
Part of The Derek Butler Concerto Series
In the Round
Thursday 31 January | 6.00 – 7.15pm
St John’s Waterloo
Simon Over conductor
An opportunity to experience the orchestra closer than ever before, as the audience is seated around the players for an exploration of Tchaikovsky’s great symphony.
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
Free concert
