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4 Feb 2008 - Music Appreciation

Music Appreciation

We have covered a lot of ground since we started this group 13 years ago – 1200 years of music in fact. We started by looking at music in the 8^th century and progressed up to the 20^th century. We’ve heard Romantic piano music, how the Symphony has evolved, Mozart arias, musical jokes as well as funny peculiar music, French music, and sea music. We have heard Spring and Summer music – we’ll eventually get to Autumn and Winter. We listen to operas and ballet on CD and see them on DVD and we’ve had a live concert of flute and recorder music and a quiz on film music.

We occasionally get out in to the wide world and have visited two keyboard instrument collections, one The Cobbe Collection at Clandon Park near Guildford, and the other at Finchcocks near Goudhurst in Kent , and we have been to a Dolmetsch Festival concert .

Most people have wanted to do their own Desert Island discs. We’ve done it, and have had many enjoyable sessions wondering why people have chosen that, or being glad that they have. Any new members who join are given their opportunity too, if they wish.

We are currently studying composers from A to Z. We are on B and have been for some time. The end of B is in sight but only in the distance. We hope to live long enough to get to Z. We are also comparing four versions of the Orpheus story.

It’s been a very interesting 13 years.