Shawclough & Healey March 2020

Rochdale Music Society’s
40th Anniversary Season
The Society was founded in 1979 and began promoting concerts
of classical music in 1980, since then the people of the borough
of Rochdale have had the opportunity to experience
performances by some of the very best soloists,
ensembles and orchestras on the international music
scene. Over the years concerts have taken place in
various venues across the Borough, including the
Town Hall, the Gracie Fields Theatre, Middleton Arena
and St. Andrew’s Church, Rochdale. At the moment all
our concerts are being held in Heywood Civic Centre on
Saturday evenings at 7.30pm.
This Anniversary Season will continue on March 7th with an evening
of music played by the Pelléas Ensemble, a Trio of musicians combining
Flute, Viola and Harp in arrangements of music by Couperin, Bartok,
Prokofiev, Debussy and Jolivet. Their performance in London’s Wigmore Hall was
described as exhibiting “captivating vitality” and “effortlessness and delicacy”.
Something different by way of the combinations of sounds which should be very
interesting to experience!
On April 4th the French pianists, Patrick Hammerlé, will play some of the best
loved music by his compatriots, Fauré, Ravel, Debussy,
Roger-Ducasse, Severac along with Chopin’s Four Ballades -
a programme designed to please and satisfy any lover of
music for the piano!
On May 16th the British soprano Raphaela Papadakis,
who has performed in the Royal Opera House, the
Staatoper Berlin and with the Glyndebourne Festival
Opera, will bring our Anniversary Season to its end
with songs by Clara Schumann, Berlioz, Poulenc, Ravel
and Bernstein - a delicious assortment of styles.
Variety could be said to be one of the Society’s
keynotes, with the main one being its emphasis on
bringing to Rochdale great music performed by the
best artists to the delight of all around.
This it hopes to be able to continue to do for many
generations to come.
If there is anything else you would like to know about the Society,
please do get in touch with me or the Chairman, Mrs. Shirley Mitchell,
whose email address is: samitchell655@talktalk.net.
The Reverend Graham Marshall Vice-Chairman Rochdale Music Society
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