TO COME

We try to keep you informed of our future plans and we set out
below three different series for presentation in Autumn 2023
and Spring 2024

WEBER

To start with Blackheath Halls will not be available to host us

until 9 October. We are therefore planning a medium length
course for September to be held at CHARLTON HOUSE of four
lectures on the music of WEBER (1786-1826) starting on 11
September

Of the many contemporaries of Beethoven, Weber stands apart

because he has maintained his prominence and in this series
Matthew will be able to deal with his symphonies, his concertos ,
his operas such as Der Freichutz and Oberon.

SIBELIUS AT BLACKHEATH HALLS

--EARLY SIBELIUS-- LATE SIBELIUS

Our main Autumn programme for 2023 will be a shortened series
from 9th October to 4th December in Blackheath Concert Halls.
This will be a revisit to Sibelius consisting of eight lectures.
Matthew first presented Sibelius lectures twenty years ago. This
time he plans to examine aspects of some of his symphonies and
a number of his orchestral works, many inspired by the Finnish
epic, the Kalevala.

THE LEGACY OF DIAGHILEV = SPRING 2024 AT BLACKHEATH

This programme planned for Spring from January to March 2024

and will be again at Blackheath Halls. It will pay tribute to the
varied works produced or commissioned by the impresario
Diaghilev through the Ballet Russes before and after the first
World War. We will also touch upon the earlier period of
Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Rimsky Korsakov. There will be the pre
great war period with Stravinsky and the war horses, Firebird,
Petruska and The Rite of Spring. Works of other composers of the
period, may include Ravel (Daphnis and Chloe) and Debussy
(L’Après Midi and Jeux), Respighi and his Boutique Fantasque, Da
Falla and the Three Cornered Hat, Prokofiev (Scythian Suite and
Chout) may be on the table. Or the neo classical well behaved
Stravinsky (Pulcinella); And perhaps Satie’s Parade (with
typewriter and vacuum cleaner) and, if Matthew can, Poulenc’s
Les Biches and Constant Lambert’s Romeo and Juliet. A wealth of
colour and variety.