Enfield Guitar Society at Bromley

Following hot on the heels of the Wealden GS visit, was an exciting and spirited program put together by Alan Gully and Ray Butcher from the Enfield Classical Guitar Society.

The photo below was included on the program with the words 'Enfield Classical Guitar Society play at Bromley' which was true enough. If you look carefully you can see the BGS Executive Committee occupying the front seats, listening intently!!! We even arranged a wheel chair for our Chairman!!

Under the direction of Alan Gully, the ECGS prepared a very modern program which included the following pieces

Joporo (Traditional Arrangement by C. Bruinsma)

Out of Town (Bricusse and Beaumont Arranged by Alan Gully)

Schedryk (Nicolai Demetrovich Leonovych)

Columbina (Joachim Casanovas)

Beside the Seaside (John Glover Kind)

Every Breath you Take (Sting Arranged by C. Bruinsma)

La Triana (Alan Gully)

Poor Sally (Traditional Arranged by Alan Gully)

Palladio (Karl Jenkins Arranged by R Burley)

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The ECGS then invited the Bromley Guitar members to join them in performing the premiere of Alan Gully's composition 'Cloudy Bay'. It was at this point that your correspondent discovered that one cannot play the guitar and record music tracks at the same time...the first take didn't work and we had to re-record the Cloudy Bay piece again!! Considering the very little time we had in preparing for the performance, it was a cracking result.

Because of the concert and the ensemble work there wasn't much time for solos. Actually I think the second rendition of 'Cloudy Bay took away a bit of our energy. Which is why that we were so glad that young Tommy Page stepped up to the podium and delivered a great performance of Etude No 4 by Villa Lobos.

It was a terrific evening full of music and laughter. On behalf of the BGS I would like to take the opportunity of thanking Alan and the members of the Enfield CGS for a great night. Alan did a brilliant job in leading a rather large orchestra with patience and humour.

I would also like to thank Ray Butcher as well. Prior to the Enfield visit, Ray had done ( and still does) a lot of hard work in leading the BGS ensemble program and it is appreciated. On a personal note, Ray has also assisted me in getting together links and contacts which have contributed so much to the development of the blog site.

News from the Lute Society

LUTE ENSEMBLE CONCERT, LOVEKYN CHAPEL, KINGSTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD, KINGSTON ON THAMES

Thursday 22nd May, 7.45pm
Loeki ensemble – Will Summers, woodwinds, Mike Tyack, Steve Carpenter, Chris Goodwin, lutes, guitars, citterns, voices.
Ballad tunes and cheerful music from 13th to 18th century.
Tickets on the door.

THEORBO FOR SALE

These are normally advertised on the website, but for various reasons the seller was keen for this ad to be included in weekly round robin . . .

For sale: Stephen Barber/Sandi Harris 14c theorbo, str.lngth=80cm. Good condition - forced sale due to relocation £5000 ono. Instrument currently in the UK for viewing. Full details at: http://kevinf567.ipower.com//theorbo/theorbo.html. contact kevinf_x@hotmail.com

AD HOC CONCERT

Yes, it is that time of year again - the Ad Hoc team have programmed a concert of fabulous new music, with theatrical and electronic twists!

This year we will be presenting the evening on Saturday 17th May, 8pm, at the Synergy Centre, Camberwell.

http://www.thesynergycentre.org/

(nearest tube, Oval - Northern Line - travel details on the 'contact us' section of the venue's website)
There is a suggested donation on the door of £8 (£6 concessions) and you are welcome to bring your own drinks, alcoholic or otherwise, to refresh yourself throughout the evening, as there is no bar.
What the evening will throw at you:
*Laura Moody will be entertaining us with a set of her own songs for voice and cello - she will also be playing
*Judith Ring's piece for cello and electronics 'Up To My F Holes'
* Henri Vaxby will be playing 'Cahiers Trouvés', a piece for electric guitar and effects, by Catherine Kontz, and he has also written a piece called 'Violin + Voice' for Angharad Davies

As well as strings+voice+electronics we are also presenting two brand new vocal works, 'as if towards a sweet and gentle sun' and 'the wind's hand creases...' , by
* Raymond Hardy, to be performed by a fractured version of the soprano quartet,
* Tongue Stuff, and
* Morag Galloway and Ian MacDonald will be presenting a new piece of musical theatre 'Exercise in Futility'
* Betsy and Her Voices have devised a piece which, in her words, '...is about my devoted relationship to my 'self' and others in the face of the unravelling of linear thoughts into dream sequences and the whole wild and wooly world of rapid eye movement sleep.'


For further research check out:

www.myspace.com/lauramoodymusic
www.myspace.com/moraggalloway
http://www.catherinekontz.com/

Hope to see you there to join in all the fun!
The Ad Hocians

Early Music for the Guitar

For those of you interested in Early Music for the guitar here is a site that might be of interest. The site has been set up by John Sayles, who prides himself as a 'journeyman' guitarist (I rather like that term) rather than a professional. The site contains downloadable MP3 files with a wealth of titles from Englans, France, Spain and Italy

Click here to visit the site

(Thanks to Ray Butcher for the link)

Lute Society News Update

1. BROKEN CONSORT AT THE SHUNT CLUB, LONDON BRIDGE, THIS THURSDAY
Quintus broken consort [flute, violin, bass, lute, cittern and bandore] are playing a slot at The Shunt, London Bridge, from 9pm this Thursday night, 8th May.

Tickets on the door; entry in Stainer Street. Music by Morley, Allison, Danyel, Johnson etc.

2. THROUGH THE OLIVE GROVES-MUSIC FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD - CONCERT IN YORK, THIS THURSDAYDeborah Catterall - SopranoMartin Eastwell - Lute, Theorbo, Guitars, Gothic Harp, & Arabic OudThursday May 8th, 7.30 pm, The University Chapel,York St John University,Lord Mayor's Walk,YorkYO31 7

EX Tickets; £5, £2 concessions.

To reserve seats, please contact Vanessa Simmons or James Alexander, Facultyof Arts. T: 01904 876433 E: v.simmons@yorksj.ac.uk

3. BROKEN CONSORT, THIS SUNDAY, DULWICH
Quintus broken consort [flute, violin, bass, lute, cittern and bandora] are giving a concert

Care, Charming Sleep at Christ's Chapel, Gallery Road, Dulwich, on Sunday 11th May, 3pm, with readings of Elizabethan poetry by Tom Daplyn; Music by Morley, Allison, Danyel, Johnson etc. Tickets £8/£6, on the door, or from http://www.dulwichfestival.co.uk/

Performer Spotlight: Nils Klöfver

Nils Klöfver is a prize-winning Swedish guitarist based in London. Active both as a solo performer and in ensembles, Nils is enjoying a busy freelance career with work ranging from recording film and TV scores to appearing in concert halls – stretching from London and around the UK to Japan.

Nils graduated from the Bachelor of Music (Hons) course at the Royal College of Music in 2006 with a first class degree. In the same year he also won first prize in the yearly Royal College of Music Guitar Competition, made his debut at the Wigmore Hall and appeared as a finalist in the distinguished Jörgen Rörby competition in Sweden.

Apart from playing the standard classical guitar Nils is also a keen alto-guitarist – an eleven-string instrument merging together the best qualities from the renaissance lute with the modern guitar. The alto-guitar is particularly suitable for early music and presents a new way of playing lute repertoire as a guitarist.

During his London years Nils has performed frequently with appearances in concert series, music festivals and in outreach work programmes in schools and hospitals. Nils has appeared in The Wigmore Hall, St. John Smith Square, The House of Commons, Downing Street, The Barbican Centre and The Bolivar Hall. Last spring also included a performance celebrating the Carl von Linnaeus tercentenary attended by Queen Silvia and King Carl XVI Gustav, the royal
family of Sweden.

Vist Nils web site for more information about his concert dates or to listen to his pieces

Lute Society News

1. HORNIMAN CONCERT TOMORROW, SUNDAY 4th

I would like to remind the early guitar concert on this Sunday 4th May 3pm at Horniman Museum, London.There are slight change of the programme and now I am going to play Baroque guitar, English guitar(guittar) by Preston, Lyre guitar by Le Jeune and Vienna style claccical guitar by Hauser Sr. Pieces by Corbetta, Le Moine, Handel, Straube, Sor and others.I have heard there is some engineerring work going on the BR, so please check the way beforehands. I hope I can see you there!

Details are on

http://www.crane.gr.jp/~tarolute/english.htmhttp://www.horniman.ac.uk/visiting/get.php

Taro Takeuchi


2. ELIZABETHAN CONSORT-OF-SIX CONCERT, SUNDAY 11th MAY
A concert of music by Byrd, Morley, Allison and Bull, will be given by Loki Broken Concert [violin, flute, lute, cittern, bandora, cittern, bass], at Christ’s Chapel, Gallery Road, Dulwich, at 3pm, with poetry readings by actor Tom Daplyn.

Tickets and details from http://www.dulwichfestival.co.uk/ and I assume, on the door.

3. Lute Recital by Jakob Lindberg, OXFORD, SUNDAY 11th MAY
Sunday, May 11, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Holywell Music Room Oxford
Tickets at the door or through http://www.ticketsoxford.com/ or telephone 01865 305305.

The lute was the most important musical instrument of the renaissance. Here is a rare opportunity to hear Jakob Lindberg, one of the world's leading lutenists, play a wide range of music from renaissance Europe and Britain on a lute of the period, built c.1590 by Sixtus Rauwolf of Augsburg.

For further details, go to this link:

Wealden Guitar Society Web Site

( from Ray Butcher)

Hi Folks

Please would you visit Rick's society webpage as often as possible so that it may register on the search engines. Reccommend to friends as well.


http://members.lycos.co.uk/wealdenguitarsociety/

Ray