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John W
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« on: 17:51:33, 14-09-2007 »
Coventry & Warwickshire alert!

SPIRES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
(conductor Colin Touchin)
present

BRUCH  - VIOLIN CONCERTO

and

ELGAR  - THE BLACK KNIGHT

in Holy Trinity Church, Coventry

Saturday 29th September, 2007 at 2.30 pm

Quote the blurb,

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The highly acclaimed Spires Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, performers in the Godiva Festivals of 2005 & 2006, present one of the most famous concertos (always high on Classic FM’s Hall of Fame) and a rarely heard Elgar choral symphony in honour of the 150th anniversary of the
composer's birth

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together with two of DvoYák's delightfully tuneful Slavonic Dances and three graceful unaccompanied Elgar part-songs.

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The soloist is the orchestra’s regular leader, ALEX LAING, a remarkable musician whose own voice is well-known to local music-lovers as he also sings in choirs.
Come to share some of Coventry's glorious music-making in the city-centre, ideally timed to suit those who wish to enjoy some rousing and uplifting music after the morning shopping; or just come in to the city (the church is next to the Cathedral) for some fine music and get home easily in daylight!
Tickets (£8 full price, £5 concession) available at the door on the day, or in advance from the Tourist Information Centre, (024 7622 7264).

For further information, interviews and press tickets, please contact
Colin Touchin on 024 7667 0211, or  colin.touchin@ntlworld.com 
www.spiresmusic.org
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« Reply #1 on: 17:54:54, 14-09-2007 »
I have several questions,

I can't attend as I'll be at the Coventry City football game. How CAN the local orchestra clash it's concert with the footie !!! Roll Eyes !!! Shocked !!! Angry !!! Undecided

Elgar - Black Knight

anyone care to offer their knowledge of this piece?

and what about this spelling DvoYák Huh

and what about : always high on Classic FM’s Hall of Fame

So now we know what audience they are aiming at?  Roll Eyes


£8, not bad eh?


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« Reply #2 on: 20:03:56, 14-09-2007 »
Quote from: John W on 17:54:54, 14-09-2007

£8, not bad eh?


Maybe not?  I have to say it would take a LOT to tempt me to any more concerts in English churches.  The absence of a foyer, a place you can get a tea or coffee before the performance (and sit down for a while, if you'd had a long journey to get there), or get a drink or something to eat in the interval (if you've rushed straight from work, as most people will have done), and adequate toilets (!!) is a major disincentive for me.  Probably there are more dedicated music-lovers with nothing to do the rest of the day, with the bowel-control of a Sufi adept, who find such spartan conditions appealing.  Sadly, I am not one of these.  Perhaps it's why I can't get along with Elgar's choral works - because they're always performed in such lamentable conditions?  I foresee there will be those who disagree with my views here ("your 2-minute call, Mr Grew..") but my own view is that music deserves a sympathetic showcase in which it can be best appreciated... not in a freezing church with no bogs, 40W bulbs, surrounded by a load of tombs Sad
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« Reply #3 on: 20:31:14, 14-09-2007 »
reiner,

How very true, particularly in the case of Coventry's old Trinity Church, as we see here



The new Cathedral is infinitely better



as is the stadium I will be at that afternoon  Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: 20:46:01, 14-09-2007 »
I hope the "sanitary arrangments" at the stadium live up to expectation too Smiley  (pace Billy Connolly and the "gae an' ge' me a Bovril!" sketch...)
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« Reply #5 on: 21:07:24, 14-09-2007 »
heh, heh, I'm a fan of Billy, but I'm not familiar with the Bovril sketch

the stadium is quite excellent though I stay well away from the food  Shocked
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« Reply #6 on: 21:30:13, 14-09-2007 »
the "Bovril" sketch is one of the Big Yin's earlier ones...  the language involved kept it off some of the collections that appeared later, but it involves some vile behaviour at a Rangers/Celtic game Wink

The sound version (without pic) is on YouTube here http://youtube.com/watch?v=bA6OwycDpfY

I hope you don't get sent for any Bovril tomorrow Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: 22:55:35, 14-09-2007 »
Jings, Billy was very mild in those old days. I saw him at a pop festival at  the time of the Welly Boot song, well, that must have been over 35 years ago  Shocked I think I still have the LP of his two Carnegie Hall concerts, one in New York, the other in Dunfermline!!  Cheesy

If conductor Colin Touchin looks in at this thread (I gave him a link to the homepage) he'll be very disappointed to see how this thread has developed   Grin

Trinity Church, though, is just like that photo, pillars everywhere can't see anything, can't hear anything  Undecided

There's another Coventry church St John's (which was a Civil War prison) where the concerts I've been to have been rather good, I recall a Bach Double Concerto there a couple of years ago, and the upstairs hall of the Methodist Hall is very good for concerts though they can never put the grand piano right at the front for concertos for some reason, but I recall another very damp more modern Coventry church (forgot the name right now) where the solo oboe suffered from the dampness requiring several minute intervals between movements while the soloist perfomed some plumbing. Roll Eyes

Best local church concerts here are at Leamington Hastings, big names e.g. Emma Johnson soon

Leamington Hastings


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« Reply #8 on: 23:26:20, 14-09-2007 »
Isn't there anywhere in Coventry to hold concerts besides churches, though, John?   Sad  I honestly think they might get more people turn-out for them if there was?
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« Reply #9 on: 00:01:53, 15-09-2007 »
Yes. The main classical performance venue is at the Arts Centre of Warwick University which is on the SW outskirts of town, but no big scale performances, mainly chamber music. There isn't a concert hall in the city as such, the Apollo was pulled down by the council after it had been a bingo hall for 20 years. There's a stage/room in the museum but not used often. There's the Belgrade Theatre which has been closed for a while for refurb and expansion, don't know if they are planning any music. There's the Civic Hall in nearby Bedworth but they tend to feature just J Strauss evenings and G&S. The Godiva Festival music mentioned above by Colin Touchin is a sort of Proms in the Park affair which I've never bothered with.

Birmingham's Symphony Hall is impressive. Sibelius week starts next week.

The old Birmingham Town Hall, where I believ Mendelssohn conducted, is re-opening, but I'm not impressed with the early schedule published
http://www.thsh.co.uk/town-hall-re-opening-festival
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« Reply #10 on: 00:56:38, 15-09-2007 »
John, if you are in contact with Colin Touchin, send him my regards (once upon a time he was my composition teacher).
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« Reply #11 on: 23:27:56, 15-09-2007 »
Quote from: Ian Pace on 00:56:38, 15-09-2007
John, if you are in contact with Colin Touchin, send him my regards (once upon a time he was my composition teacher).

Will do Ian, I'm exchanging messages with Colin Touchin this week since he announced the above concert. He replied to all the questions I asked, and in answer to why the flyer mentioned ClassicFM, when some of us DO listen to BBC Radio 3, this was what he wrote......

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Very true - but we also know there's a much larger number indeed I'd say a very high percentage of people who mistrust BBC, Radio 3 and what they regard as highbrow and wait for a work to be given the Classic FM seal of approval so they feel safe going in to the concert.

Good heavens! mistrust of Radio 3?


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« Reply #12 on: 00:03:01, 16-09-2007 »
I used to know Colin Touchin too. I wonder whether he remembers me. We went together in a minibus to London once.
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