What's On - Spring 2014 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
What's On - Spring 2014 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
What's On - Spring 2014 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
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Lunchtime Lights<br />
Tickets 029 2039 1391<br />
www.rwcmd.ac.uk<br />
25<br />
Wed 22 January 1.15pm<br />
Piano Impromptus<br />
‘Impromptu’: it means<br />
unprompted. Unpredictable.<br />
And unexpected. But one<br />
thing we can promise you<br />
in this lunchtime concert is<br />
serious artistry – and some <strong>of</strong><br />
the loveliest piano music ever<br />
composed.<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
For full Lunchtime Lights<br />
concert programmes,<br />
please see our website<br />
www.rwcmd.ac.uk<br />
Wed 29 January 1.15pm<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Welsh</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Percussion Ensemble<br />
A generation ago, percussion<br />
recitals were a rarity.<br />
Today they’re a byword<br />
for stunning programmes,<br />
dynamic performances and<br />
great splashes <strong>of</strong> musical<br />
colour. Get thoroughly<br />
soaked this lunchtime!<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Wed 5 February 1.15pm<br />
Harps Galore!<br />
This sparkling lunchtime<br />
concert gives just a hint <strong>of</strong><br />
what our harpists can do, in a<br />
programme that travels from<br />
France to the Caribbean – and<br />
right back home to Wales!<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Wed 12 February 1.15pm<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Welsh</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Chamber Winds:<br />
Reasons to be Cheerful<br />
Who says you need a<br />
full orchestra to play<br />
Beethoven? Not us – not<br />
when we’ve got five young<br />
wind players as good as<br />
these. Beethoven’s brightest<br />
Symphony No 4 is the perfect<br />
chaser to a brand new work<br />
by Robert Spearing.<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Wed 26 February 1.15pm<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Welsh</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Symphonic Brass:<br />
A Green and<br />
Pleasant Land<br />
Why should the strings get all<br />
the fun? Our superb brass<br />
ensemble tackles Elgar’s great<br />
showpiece Introduction &<br />
Allegro in this spirited all-<br />
British lunchtime concert: the<br />
kind <strong>of</strong> music that was simply<br />
made for brass.<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Wed 12 March 1.15pm<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Welsh</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Brass Band: Fireworks<br />
Dr Robert Childs conductor<br />
Our acclaimed Brass Band is<br />
at the heart <strong>of</strong> musical life<br />
here at the <strong>College</strong>; hear why<br />
today as some <strong>of</strong> the best<br />
players <strong>of</strong> their generation<br />
revel in the power, colour and<br />
sheer brilliance <strong>of</strong> two true<br />
brass classics, Denis Wright’s<br />
Cornet Concerto and Elgar<br />
Howarth’s Fireworks.<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Wed 19 March 1.15pm<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Welsh</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Wind Orchestra:<br />
This Sceptred Isle<br />
Delius <strong>On</strong> Hearing the<br />
First Cuckoo in <strong>Spring</strong><br />
Vaughan Williams<br />
Tuba Concerto<br />
Peter Graham <strong>On</strong> the<br />
Shoulders <strong>of</strong> Giants<br />
Meyrick Alexander conductor<br />
Andrew McDade tuba<br />
Every tuba player loves<br />
Vaughan Williams’ delightful<br />
Concerto – and so does<br />
everyone who hears it. It’s the<br />
warm heart <strong>of</strong> this lively, folkflavoured<br />
lunchtime concert.<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Wed 26 March 1.15pm<br />
Bartok: Sonata for Two<br />
Pianos & Percussion<br />
It doesn’t look much on paper:<br />
but there is absolutely nothing<br />
ordinary about Bartòk’s<br />
spectacular workout for<br />
pianos and percussion.<br />
Gripping, shattering, and<br />
riotously entertaining – it’s one<br />
<strong>of</strong> those pieces that simply<br />
everybody needs to hear.<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Wed 2 April 1.15pm<br />
Ein Liederstrauss für<br />
Richard: White Jasmine<br />
and Red Roses<br />
150 years young this year,<br />
Richard Strauss is still one<br />
<strong>of</strong> music’s all-time great<br />
storytellers – no wonder his<br />
songs are like tiny romantic<br />
operas. Some <strong>of</strong> our best<br />
young singers and pianists<br />
bring them to life today.<br />
Tickets £5 in advance<br />
£7 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
*Transaction fees may apply
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