Manchester Branch Playing Day – Society of Recorder Players

Sat 08Mar2025

Manchester Branch Playing Day conducted by Marg Hall

St Matthew’s Community Hall, Chapel Lane, Stretford, Manchester M32 9AJ

10.00am (coffee from 9.30am) - 5.00pm

Contact: / 07961588464

January 2025

Fri 31Jan2025

Hop into our time machine for a whistle-stop tour of musical history from the medieval through to the 18th century! Recorders, lutes, crumhorns, flutes, viols, violin... fasten your seatbelts as 600 years whizz by in 60 minutes!

St Mary's Church

Church Lane, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire, OX25 5NZ

7:30pm

£15.00 / U18 free

4 performers and 37 instruments, performing music from Hildegard to Haydn including Isaac, Alfonso X of Castile, Machaut, Dalza, Schlick, Attaignant, Susato, Cima, Simpson, de la Barre, and Telemann.

Sounds Historical are Heidi Fardell (recorders/flutes), Mary Tyers (recorders/flutes/voice), Alison Kinder (viols) and Lynda Sayce (theorbo/lutes).

Sounds Historical love to chat to their audiences, introducing the music and instruments as the concert progresses. A fun game of 'instrument' bingo keeps their performances inclusive and interactive! Their programmes are carefully researched and arranged, providing an engaging journey through the changes and developments of music and instruments across 600 years!

See you there!

www.soundshistorical.com/diary

February 2025

Sat 01Feb2025

The workshop will focus on playing Klezmer music with attention to details such as structure, phrasing and ornamentation

Southdown Methodist Centre

The Hollow, Bath BA2 1NJ

10am - 4.30pm

£15

The workshop will be led by Ilana Cravitz who specialises in Klezmer and baroque playing. In addition to playing the music we will listen to historical recordings from the early 1900s and learn about the history, context and development of Klezmer music from the old world of Eastern Europe to New York, Philadelphia and Buenos Aires in the 1950s.
Please note that priority will be given to Bath branch members until the middle of January 2025.

Contact:

Sat 01 - Sat 01Feb2025

The workshop will focus on playing Klezmer music with attention to details such as structure, phrasing and ornamentation

Southdown Methodist Church Centre, The Hollow, Bath BA2 1NJ

10.30am - 4.30pm

£15

Ilana Cravitz specialises in klezmer and baroque playing and is in demand nationally as a performer, educator and dance leader.

We will listen to historic recordings from the early 1900s and learn about the history, context and development of klezmer music from the old world of Eastern Europe to New York, Philadelphia and Buenos Aires in the 1950s

Contact: / 07816096418