ELY SINFONIA BRINGS GRAND TOUR TO ELY CATHEDRAL
Popular local orchestra to take Cathedral audience on a musical journey through Europe and North Africa, with a hundred and fifty years of romance, opera and film
Ely Cathedral, Saturday 2 October 2010, 7.30pm
A treat is in store for anyone visiting Ely Cathedral on Saturday 2 October 2010, when rising local community orchestra, Ely Sinfonia, takes the audience on an imaginary journey in the footsteps of 19th and early 20th century young adventurers. The orchestra’s Grand Tour takes in France, Italy and Algeria and spans a hundred years of music from classical to jazz, in a programme that includes the overture to Rossini’s opera, “Italian Girl in Algiers”, Berlioz’s “Harold in Italy” (with Brenda Stewart, viola) and Gershwin’s “An American in Paris”.
A limited number of £20 premium tickets are available. These include preferential seating at the front of the Cathedral and a complimentary programme. Other tickets cost £17.50, £12.50 or £10 (reserved), or £5 (unreserved). All tickets are now available from Burrows Bookshop, High St Passage, Ely (Tel: 01353 669759), from Ely Cathedral Box Office (Tel 01353 660349, email box.office@cathedral.ely.anglican.org and online from https://tickets.elycathedral.org.
Written in just 21 days by the 21-year-old Rossini , ”The Italian Girl in Algiers” tells the story of love lost and found, slavery, pirates and even a shipwreck. The overture is still one of his best-known works, full of surprise and contrasts from the very start. Full of energy, sparkle, drama and good humour, it is a fun-filled and charming jewel of an overture.

THE FRIENDS OF ELY SINFONIA PRESENTS TOUCHABLE DREAMS IN THE KEY OF LOVE
Local celebrity duo intertwine violin, electric violin, loops, guitar and voice in a profound homage to love. Presented by the Friends of Ely Sinfonia, Ely Methodist Church, Friday 10th September 2010, 7.30pm

Celebrated local musician, Steve Bingham, is teaming up with wordsmith Jeremy Harmer on Friday 10th September for an evening dedicated to love. Presented by the Friends of Ely Sinfonia and taking place at Ely Methodist Church, the event combines classical and electric violin, loops, guitar and voice, demonstrating the passion, tenderness and agony of deep feeling, as they are brought out by both music and the spoken word.

Touchable Dreams explores the symbiosis between words and music and the ways in which they echo and complement each other. Sometimes words follow the music; at other times music follows the words; and sometimes the words and the music are intertwined in an almost physical interdependency.

“This is an event unlike any you'll have experienced before,” says Roz Chalmers, who chairs Ely Sinfonia. “When I first heard Jeremy and Steve with their unique combination of modern and classical music and words, I was completely bowled over.”

Jeremy Harmer says: “We try to show how music and words, the very bases of human emotion, can co-exist and enhance each other in expressing one of the greatest emotions of the human experience – love. We describe romantic love, transient love, ridiculous love, bitter love, lost love and sublime love.”

Prepare to be transported to another world…

Linton Music Society is delighted to welcome the renowned vocal group, the Armonico Consort, for the last concert in the current season, Glory of Old England.

The Armonico Consort transports audiences to another world with polyphony and chant by Tallis and Byrd, plus some more light-hearted music from the last 500 years, including close harmony and folk songs.

Atmospheric and full of magical musical moments, concerts from the Armonico Consort have been a sensation at every major music festival across the country.

A beautiful sound, BBC Radio 3

The concert takes place on Saturday 19 June 2010, 7.30pm at
Linton Village College. Tickets £10, under 16’s £2, are available at the door, or in advance either by telephoning 01223 893480 or from Sweet Talk News, 77 High Street, Linton.

Further information about all concerts and the Linton Music Society is available by visiting www.lintonmusic.org.uk

Saturday 08 May 2010 at 20:00
Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

Beethoven Ensemble: Expanding Horizons

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Daniel Hill, conductor
Robin Green, piano
Antoine Francoise, piano

Programme:
Jean Sibelius ~ The Swan of Tuonela from 'Legends', Op 22
Francis Poulenc ~ Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor
Ludwig van Beethoven ~ Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67

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The Cambridge Series: Romantic Embers

Saturday March 13th 2010, 8pm, Trinity College Chapel

http://www.beethovenensemble.com

Programme:

Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune arr. Beno Sachs
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ('Songs of a Wayfarer') - Gareth John, baritone, arr. Arnold Schoenberg
Reger Romantic Suite arr. Arnold Schoenberg

Conductor: Daniel Hill

Baritone: Gareth John

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"Hear'st thou not the brooklets streaming Where sweet spring her blossom strewed, Where the woodland lakes are dreaming, By the marble icons gleaming In sweet nature's solitude?"

The opening concert in our 2009/10 Cambridge Season is an exploration of the Second Viennese School and its glorious transcriptions for Arnold Schoenberg's Society for Private Musical Performances. All three works are incredible journeys: Debussy's Faune journeys to a dream world of erotic fantasy and sensuality; Mahler's protagonist - perhaps Mahler himself - leaves behind his previous life of happiness to embark on a solitary journey to come to terms with his lost love; and Reger takes us on a journey into nature inspired by the poetry of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, to a world not unlike Debussy's Faune, "Rise, O Sun on high! Trembling in the sky, Earth quivering with ecstasy. Boldly from the night The wooded splendour bright Is drawn in dreams still stirring."

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