As a long-term resident of Dorchester, I’ve had the good fortune to be able to enjoy so many wonderful OSJ performances, here and elsewhere. Tonight was simply majestic, full of goose-bumpy, breath-holding transports of ecstasy. At the end I commented...
- March 16, 2023
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
Our wind trio had a wonderful time today playing to children at a Special Educational Needs in Gravesend. Here is a letter from a severely autistic child which I thought I would share. Another child gave a little speech when...
- September 22, 2022
Adam Lubbock plays the Typewriter Waltz at our NYE concert 2021 in Dorchester Abbey, fresh from his amazing success in his personal fundraiser for Music for Autism
- January 18, 2022
Many Worlds in One Place is the culmination of the Orchestra of St John’s Connections Project, Journey: Bridging Cultures Through Music, which brought together young refugees and asylum seekers at the Oxford Spires Academy, and their year-12 colleagues, with OSJ...
- July 29, 2021
