Cooler Classics, English Symphony Orchestra, Music

ESO “Concerts in Care Homes & Hospices” selected as one of Worcester Waitrose ‘Community Matters’ charities.

The English Symphony Orchestra’s “Concerts in Care Homes & Hospices” programme has been selected as one of the Worcester Waitrose ‘Community Matters’ charities.

So, if shopping at Waitrose in Worcester,  pop a green token in their box!

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ESO Wind Quartet.(From left: Catherine Handley, Graeme Adams,Sara Temple,Rosemary Cow.)(11th October 2018)

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ESO String Quartet.(From far side: Eleanor Cooke,Jacqui Allen,Helen Roberts,Corinne Frost) 12th April 2019.

(Both concerts at Offenham Village Hall for Evesham Dementia Action Alliance.)

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“Cooler Classics” Monday 11pm-midnight.

On this week’s edition, we speak with Noriko Ogawa, international pianist, who appears with the English Symphony Orchestra at Kings Place, London, tonight (28th April).

Programme

Bohuslav Martinů – Partita for Strings (1931)
Mozart – Piano Concerto in C major K 415 (version for strings by Mozart)
Vítězslava Kaprálová – Partita for Piano and Strings
Noriko Ogawa – Piano
Antonín Dvořák – Serenade for Strings.

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Listen at www.nccr.co.uk  “Cooler Classics” Monday 29th April 2019,11pm-midnight

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NCCR “In The Cooler” Friday 26th April 2019 (7-9pm)

This week’s show features two musicians, two writers and a director!!

Craig Ogden is a classical guitarist…… Alex Mendham tells us about our opportunity to be in on a great project( and he also has a Chipping Campden link…!)
Mooseman(!!) talks to us about So That’s What We Call Musicals, which represents 57 years of musical theatre and film. There will be some show-stopping songs and some iconic moments(at Evesham Arts Centre 16-18th May 2019)

Paul Willetts (King Con) and Peter Sutton (Armenian War & Peace) are appearing at the Campden Literature Festival (8th and 10th May).. and spent a while explaining something about their writing and careers so far…

Be sure to tune in…..www.nccr.co.uk..
Who knows what else might turn up!!

 On With The Show So That's what We Call Musicals

King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor        

(Copyrights acknowledged)

Cooler Classics, Interviews, NCCR, Uncategorized

“COOLER CLASSICS” MONDAY 22ND APRIL 2019 (11PM-MIDNIGHT) ..BLEDINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019

On tonight’s “Cooler Classics” (www.nccr.co.uk 11pm-midnight).. a look ahead to the The Bledington Music Festival 2019.(4-6th June 2019).interviews with Rodney Beacham (Festival Organizer), Jo Harris (Bella Tromba) and featuring the music of ZRI and The Albion Quartet. More information at: https://bledingtonmusicfestival.co.uk/

  

Bella Tromba and The Albion Quartet

 

ZRI and Rodney Beacham,Festival Organizer.

 

More information at: https://bledingtonmusicfestival.co.uk/

In The Cooler, Interviews, Music

NCCR “In The Cooler” 7-9 pm. Friday 19th April 2019.

“In the Cooler”

  • Mark Beaumont and his “Around The World in 80 Days”… on a bicycle!!
  • Mark Evans looks ahead to the “Wartime in the Cotswolds” event on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.
  • Adrian Phillips ..”Over The Hill” Americana and Roots Music Festival (Witney) in August.
  • Paul Curran, our resident poet, provides insight into the poems of Mark Twain and DH Lawrence……..

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Mark Beaumont, Wartime in Cotswolds,Over The Hill & Paul Curran