55th Season's Preview SASRA Music & Arts
Whether you've been coming to SASRA Music &Arts for each one of its 54 seasons to date or whether you can't tell your Brahms from your Brubeck, why not try a few of this year's seven concerts?
The quality of the music and the variety of the groups that we've brought to West Cumbria over the years has been remarkable. This year is no exception: from The Dave Black Jazz Quintet to The Navarra String Quartet, there is something to appeal to everyone.
Our concerts involving younger musicians are always popular. This year there are two recitals where we have the chance to hear performances by talented music students.
The first is a brass quintet: 'Brass Mark 5', who are studying at the Royal Northern College in Manchester.
Then Chetham's Music School Ensemble and soloists will play for us on 16 January 2009. Chetham's students are some of the best young instrumentalists in the country, and their touring groups include the pick of these.
With such an exciting and varied programme it is difficult to choose the 'best', but certainly the most ambitious is the concert as part of The Cumbria Concert Series in which we join with three other local music societies.
This is the third time we have taken part in this 'Orchestras Live' project. We are fortunate to be able to welcome the famous orchestra The London Mozart Players. Their programme on 10th October in the Market Hall Egremont, is of music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mozart and Haydn.
The season's most unusual event is 'In Memoria' on 7 November in which The Clerks Group are touring the country and performing 15th and 16th century choral masterpieces in 'non-musical' venues, such as a coal mine in Yorkshire, The Victoria Baths Manchester and as in our case, The Sellafield Visitors' Centre.
The final concert is for an unusual group of instruments: clarinet, viola and piano; The Plane Dukes Rahman Trio is a superb and very popular Ensemble who have performed widely in this country and all over the world. The main piece is the 'Kegelstatt' Trio by Mozart.
That's the preview then; we hope to see you at the first concert: Friday 12 September in Egremont Parish Church Hall, 8pm.
All three venues are easily accessible to wheelchairs and interval refreshments are provided by young people of the Copeland-Rungwe (Tanzania) Support Group as a fundraising exercise.
For more information contact Keith on 019467 28724
