On Friday 17 September 2021 at 6pm, at St George’s Guildhall, King’s Lynn, Classical Music Rocks and Shakespeare’s Guildhall Trust presents Kamila Bydlowska on violin and Siobhain O’Higgins on piano.
Just £8 for adults, and £2 for children (one accompanying child per adult).
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra presents ‘An Inspirational Journey’. Sunday 15 March 2020, 3.30pm at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. Free tickets for under-18s (when accompanied by a paying adult).
Composer James Francis Brown talks about his clarinet concerto Lost Lanes, Shadow Groves and its connection with Norfolk:
The programme also features our leader Er-Gene Kahng playing Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending:
Malcolm Arnold’s Scottish Dances:
And Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra:
Estevão Devides will be playing guitar in his recital for King’s Lynn Music Society this Wednesday, 15 January, at 7.30pm, King’s Lynn Town Hall. Free of charge for under-18s. Full programme available here.
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.
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 Norfolk Music Centre’s combined wind band, orchestra and choir entertained shoppers at Tesco Hardwick this afternoon with a selection of seasonal favourites.
Many thanks to all who took part or supported this event. And if you’d like to take part next year, join us now.
Well done to all who played in our December concert on Saturday. Finland (and seasonal trips to Lapland) may be short of snow this year, but we had both Sibelius’s Finlandia and an abundance of seasonal cheer this weekend.
Amongst settings of Christmas favourites, we also heard Elizabethan music set for wind band, young singers, a bassoon solo and Mozart from our string players.
Before the music, Certificates were awarded to our exam candidates for their outstanding performance last term: 14 exams entered, 4 passed with distinction and 9 with merit. Don’t forget that we offer exam candidates the chance to play at our open concerts in February and May at the exam centre — and that members and non-members are welcome to take part in these concerts too.
Although our term is now finished, come along to see us play and sing (or to join in) at Tesco Hardwick, King’s Lynn, on Saturday afternoon, 8 December!
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.
On 3 May, Joo Yeun Sir (violin) and Irina Andrievsky (piano) will be playing at St Mary’s Church, Snettisham at 7.30pm. Music includes Vaughan Williams’ ‘Lark Ascending’ and a new work to celebrate love letters written in World War II. Free entry for students under 21.
We will be back again on 19 May with another concert for soloists. If you would like to play and sing at the concert, contact us and we’ll add you to the programme!
Open to amateur players and singers at all levels, why not come and share 5 minutes of your favourite music with a friendly audience?
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