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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 21 March 2010
Renowned filmmaker and broadcaster Christopher Nupen shares his films and memories of Jacqueline du Pre from a close friendship that lasted for 26 years.
Purcell Room
Bach Weekend 2010: The Coffee Cantata
Sunday 21 March 2010
Cantata 211 "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" ("Be quiet and cease your chatting") was probably performed several times at Zimmermann's coffee house, a perfect setting for a mini-opera on the subject of coffee addiction.
Purcell Room
Bach Weekend 2010: Orchestral Suites
Sunday 21 March 2010
Records show that orchestral works by Handel and Telemann featured at Zimmermann's coffeehouse, as did Bach's own orchestral suites.
Royal Festival Hall
Wandsworth Schools' Music presents A Brighter Sound
Monday 22 March 2010
A lively festival of vocal and instrumental music from primary, secondary and special schools with participants from nine to 18 years old.
Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Ivor Setterfield conducts London's largest regular choir and the Trafalgar Sinfonia in two great anti-war works by modern British composers.
The Clore Ballroom
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Acclaimed British composer, Errollyn Wallen, has worked alongside Pegasus Opera singing leaders and director Frances M Lynch in an ambitious eight-school project.
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Unlike the opening work, based on liturgical references, Prokofiev's 1913 Second Piano Concerto apparently terrified and scandalised the audience, some of whom walked out.
Royal Festival Hall
Coloma 140th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday 25 March 2010
All members of the Coloma community are especially welcome to attend this celebratory event as part of the anniversary that marks 140 years since Coloma Convent Girls' School was founded in Croydon by the Daughters of Mary and Joseph in 1869.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 25 March 2010
This young Russian pianist has been lauded worldwide for his sensitivity, originality and imagination
Royal Festival Hall
Sound Moves: Music and Dance - the next generation
Friday 26 March 2010
At the centre of the two-day event Sound Moves, this show in Royal Festival Hall with performances by over 400 young people promises to be full of energy and young talent
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 26 March 2010
Psappha, one of Britain's leading new music ensembles, presents Bernstein's first foray into music theatre, his one-act operatic masterpiece Trouble in Tahiti.
Foyer Bar - level 2
Friday 26 March 2010
Outstanding young musicians from the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Royal College of Music's Junior Department and the Purcell School of Music play a programme of classical chamber music.
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 27 March 2010
Take a nostalgic journey as June Whitfield introduces more memorable hits from the Blitz era with Gavin Sutherland, special guests and live orchestra in an all singing and dancing celebration
Purcell Room
Saturday 27 March 2010
Imagine an acoustic piano that is no longer restricted to 'western tuning'.
Level 5 Function Room
Saturday 27 March 2010
A seamless two-hour relay piano performance.
The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 27 March 2010
An amazing opportunity to sit in amongst an orchestra as they rehearse.
Royal Festival Hall
The Bach Choir - St. Matthew Passion
Sunday 28 March 2010
The Bach Choir's annual tradition of performing Bach's St Matthew Passion in English dates back to 1930, and today's audiences continue to appreciate the relevance and immediacy of the performances.
The Front Room at QEH
A Celebration of Youth: Choral Triple Bill
Sunday 28 March 2010
Three contrasting choirs of young voices present a celebration of children's singing in this all-afternoon Voicelab Welcomes special.
Purcell Room
Nightingale Project Concert: A Chopin Première
Sunday 28 March 2010
Korean-Spanish pianist Soojung Lim performs a benefit concert with the Tippett Quartet, one of Britain's most exciting young string quartets.
Royal Festival Hall
Barnardo's Young Supporters Festival Competition Concert
Monday 29 March 2010
Barnardo's return to Royal Festival Hall for their second annual choir festival.