December 2024
Aspidistra
Drawing Room Orchestras
New Year Concert
7:30 pm on
Sunday 5th January
At Lauderdale House, Highgate
Hill
London N6 5HG
Nearest tube Archway
Tickets £10, Concessions £9,
Children £5:
www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/aspidistra
Celebrate the New
Year in style with the Aspidistra
Drawing Room Orchestra. That is
in palm court style. The
Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra
is an ensemble of string quartet,
piano, flute and oboe and has
been praised for their joyous
interpretation of unjustly
neglected Palm Court music.
The programme will
include The Hampden Roar by Fred
Hartley, Rhythm on Rails by
Charles Williams, The Black Cat
Rag by Frank Wooster, Illusions
Perdue by Jacob Gade, the Gold
Diggers Song by Harry Warren
amongst others.
December 2024
Click
above to visit the website
and open the Christmas Cracker!
November 2024
For information
about past and upcoming episodes
of Friday Night is
Music Night on BBC
Radio 3 you can follow this link:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xmxc/episodes/player
It shows previous
episodes which are still
available for replay via BBC
Sounds (for up to 30 days after
broadcast).
13th
December 2024 at 7.30pm
Opera Gala
Soraya Mafi and Nicky Spence join
conductor John Andrews and the
BBC Concert Orchestra in an
evening at the opera, recorded at
West Green Opera in July.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025llf
20th
December 2024 at 7.30pm
Sounds of Christmas
Celebrate Christmas with the BBC
Concert Orchestra & BBC
Singers live from Snape Maltings.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025t7n
10th
January 2025 at 7.30pm
From Saffron Hall (repeat)
Gabriella Teychenné and
the BBC Concert Orchestra at
Saffron Hall in a
Spanish-flavoured concert.
Thibaut Garcia plays Rodrigo's
Guitar Concerto and Felicity
Buckland sings Carmen.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9df
November 2024
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Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/robin-white-promotion
November 2024
Troxy
490 Commercial Road
London, E1 0HX
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October 2024
Ernest
Tomlinson
1924 - 2015
A life in music with
pictures and ...
a little light music!
The presentation
by Hilary Ashton (daughter of
light music maestro, Ernest
Tomlinson) which featured at our
most recent meeting in October
was recorded by Jonathan Burns
and can be viewed here.
A full report on
the meeting can be found here
October 2024
Sergio
Mendes
(1941-2024)
The Brazilian
musician Sergio Mendes, who with
his band Brasil '66 introduced
Bossa Nova to a worldwide
audience in the 1960s, has died
aged 83.
An obituary by
Anthony Wills can be found in our
Obituaries section, HERE
September 2024
The Story
of Light Music
Sunday
22nd September 2024 at 7:15pm on
BBC Radio 3
Marking the
centenary of composer Ernest
Tomlinsons birth (whose 'Little
Serenade' 1955 - is
one of the treasures of British
light music) and exploring the
sound-world of pioneering light
composers Eric Coates, Robert
Farnon, Frederic Curzon, Ronald
Binge, Peter Hope and others
presenter and singer
Catherine Bott takes a look at
what light music means today and
its deep legacy for radio,
television and film scores as
well as its re-emergence on
digital platforms like Tik Tok.
Contributors include composer
Peter Hope, conductor John
Wilson, Ernest Tomlinson's
daughter Hilary Ashton, modern
day light music composer Thomas
Hewitt-Jones and organist Richard
Hills.
The programnme is
available here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002383y
September 2024
BBC Proms
Sunday 1st
September at 1.00 pm
On Radio 3 there
was a repeat of a programme,
first broadcast in March, looking
at Henry Mancini's life and
career including archive
interviews.
Monday 2nd
September at 7.30 pm
BBC Proms
presented Ultra Lounge - Henry
Mancini & Beyond.
Henry Mancini was
more than one of the greatest
composers in the history of film
music. He was also one of the
most versatile musicians of his
or any time. Marking a century
since the flautist, composer and
conductors birth in Ohio,
Edwin Outwater and the BBC
Concert Orchestra celebrate the
man and his music in styles
ranging from jazz to light
classical and film music.
Among the classics
are the slinky 'Lujon'
and themes from The Pink
Panther and Peter Gunn,
joined by gems from the lounge
music and space-age pop genres
Mancini helped inspire, including
easy-going tracks by Burt
Bacharach, Les Baxter and Juan
García Esquivel.
Broadcast live on
BBC Radio 3 and recorded for
broadcast on BBC Radio 2. It is
now available on BBC iPlayer for
11 months here: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022njg
Anthony Wills
August 2024
A
Centenary Celebration - Three
Musical Luminaries
Trevor Duncan, Ernest Tomlinson
and Angela Morley
On Bank Holiday
Monday, August 26th 2024 Serenade
Radio presented a
special feature to commemorate
the centenaries of these famous
composers, who made a great
contribution to world of British
Light Music in the years after
World War Two.
Compiled and
introduced by André Leon and
produced by Tony Clayden, the
programme features some of the
trio's most prominent
compositions.
You can catch up
on our LLMMG streaming
service.
August 2024
THE BIG
INTERVIEW - John Wilson
There is a new
item in the Articles section of
the website reproducing an in-depth interview
with John Wilson by George Hall
which appeared in 'The Stage'
during June.
June 2024
Mark
Fitz-Gerald Orchestra
concert at The British Home
A report on this
event can be found in the Reports
section of the website - here
Click here for
archived news items
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