O Clap your Hands: The title of the opening piece in this imaginative programme at SJE Arts might just as well have been an exhortation to the audience. Not that one was needed, for there was ample opportunity for applause,...
- February 27, 2023
Dear John Lubbock I had the great good fortune to take three friends to last Saturday’s performance in the Abbey [8 October]. We are all pretty musical, & we’re absolutely overwhelmed by the performances which you brought to us [Rachmaninov...
- October 11, 2022
… The performance by members of the Orchestra of St John’s and OSJ Oxford Voices was given in the version for two pianos and much percussion, in place of the original scoring for large orchestra and two or three choirs,...
- June 28, 2021
A SPELLBINDING CONVERSATION BETWEEN VOICE AND VIOLIN I had almost forgotten the medicinal balm live music can offer. This unassuming concert (one of several for the Orchestra’s festival season this summer) reminded me of just that. Conducted by the prolific...
- June 8, 2021
“My class love these sessions” “Yes please!!!!!!!!!” (I have not exaggerated the exclamation marks) “Our class would love to do that” “We’d love this opportunity, our pupils really benefit from these sessions” “Just arranging the next Zoom day and wanted...
- November 5, 2020
This concert was given by young string players from the Royal Academy of Music and by newly graduated soprano and Leeds maths graduate Sophie Pullen in the Atrium of the Ashmolean Musuem. The intriguing programme was of music for strings...
- September 24, 2020
