Category: Events

Heritage Open Day: 15 September

We are inviting all our members to play (or sing) for a little while at King’s Lynn Town Hall for Heritage Open Day, Sunday 15 September 2019.

Whether it’s just a minute of music or half an hour, let us know what you’d like to do. There are time slots available throughout the day, and if you want to explore everything else on offer in town you will have plenty of time for this too.

This is not a formal concert, so players and listeners alike can come and go freely. Whatever you’ve been learning this term, or even before, keep it up over the summer and take up this great opportunity! Just contact us by email and we’ll agree everything else afterwards.

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Music Centre concert 13 July

West Norfolk Music Centre presents its end-of-term concert on Saturday 13 July at 7pm, Springwood High School, King’s Lynn. Come and enjoy music from our groups and soloists.

Tickets £4 on the door, raffle tickets available, refreshments will be served at the interval.


 

West Norfolk Music Centre is a registered charity and is supported by Norfolk Music Hub.

Classical Ukulele Recitals: 27 and 28 July

Enjoy classical ukulele recitals by Donald Bousted, who teaches ukulele and guitar at West Norfolk Music Centre, this month. On 27 July in West Acre and then 28 July in Ely, Donald will take you on a journey through 500 years of music on the ukulele.

Entry to both recitals is free of charge; there will be a collection for NSPCC, for the benefit of Childline.

For more information about the concerts follow these links:

West Acre, 27 July, 3pm

Ely, 28 July, 4.30pm

11 November: NSO Remembrance Day concert

Norfolk Symphony Orchestra’s afternoon concert on 11 November, with King’s Lynn Festival Chorus, is based around the themes of remembrance and hope:

“During the past four years, as Centenaries have passed, we have had to endure the horrific memories of the Great War. In November this year, we mark the Armistice – but do we celebrate an ending or mourn the terrible consequences? In the first part of our final Remembrance programme, which includes the music of two brilliant young composers killed in the trenches, we experience a journey through the emotions of the time. Beginning in the beauty of the English countryside, we move to the feeling of national pride, through excitement, terror, violence, bleak despair and, finally, desperate heartbreak. In the second part of the concert, moving towards Hope, we are joined by soloists from English National Opera and the King’s Lynn Festival Chorus in perhaps the most inspiring music ever written. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony shows us how we can, with fortitude, courage and brotherhood, win our way from darkness and despair to triumph and hope. In Beethoven’s world, if we all just pull together, the human spirit can conquer all.”

Book tickets in advance at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange box office, and don’t forget that a number of free tickets are allocated for young concertgoers (when accompanied by a paying adult).


Opportunity for cellists: this Friday, 27 July

Taking place this Friday, King’s Lynn Festival has announced an extra event with artist in residence, cellist Marcin Zdunik. Aimed at anyone who is learning to play cello or is interested in doing so, this event is an informal and flexible 50-minute session, in workshop format, with a Q&A session.

The event is at St George’s Guildhall, King’s Lynn, at 3pm on Friday. Full details are available here.

 

19 May – Norfolk Symphony Orchestra: A Heroic Golden Age

Enjoy music by Schubert and Strauss on Saturday 19 May, 7.30pm at St Nicholas Chapel, King’s Lynn, played by Norfolk Symphony Orchestra.

“As a man and as a musician, Schubert personifies many of the main characteristics of 19th Century Romanticism. The world is a bad place and getting worse, nothing can be done – we must all just sit together and wait for the end. Art, therefore, is an escape from this awfulness. His Fifth Symphony, is, perhaps his lightest and most charmingly cheerful work, he expresses his love for Mozart and yearns for what he sees as the “brighter, better life” when he was still alive.

“The massive and monumental work Ein Heldenleben, (A Hero’s Life), is clearly based on the life of Richard Strauss himself, although he was slow to admit this. The orchestra is vast. The Hero, played by eight horns, faces his enemies, the critics who he felt were unfair in his early career. His beloved wife, the singer Pauline de Ahna, takes centre stage, represented by beautiful and extremely virtuosic violin solos. With her by his side he faces his foes and, after a great battle, vanquishes them, retiring afterwards into tranquillity and fulfilment.”

Free tickets for under-18s accompanied by a paying adult.