Arts Events in Richmond Upon Thames December 2013
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Arts events in Richmond upon Thames December 2013 A carillon of Christmas music nce again, the local concert the Wurlitzer on Saturday 7 December societies, orchestras and at 2.30 pm). Omusic groups have a musicalmuseum.co.uk spectacular programme of music in The Mayor of RuT, Cllr. Meena Bond, the weeks leading up to Christmas. is hosting an Evening of Festive Music featuring the Band of the Royal Christmas music Military School of Music (Kneller Hall). Tuesday 3 December at 7.30 pm at Clarendon Hall, York House, Cantanti Camerati has its Christmas Twickenham. Dame Jackie: carol concert at St richmond.gov.uk/mayors_charity_events artsrichmond President Mary Magdalene The Landmark Arts Centre at for 2014 Church, Richmond Teddington’s Carols by Candlelight is on Saturday 21 on Saturday 21 December at 7.30 pm. We are delighted to announce that December at 7.30 landmarkartscentre.org Dame Jacqueline Wilson FRS has pm with Carols for accepted our invitation to be The Rainbow Fund for South Africa Choir and Audience artsrichmond’s Honorary President for has The Spirit of Christmas with local (020 8898 8020); 2014, in succession to biographer and young people supporting their peers in Teddington Choral Society gives a former foreign correspondent Anne Guguletu on Saturday 30 November Christmas concert with jazz singer Sebba, our President for 2013. Becki Biggins on Saturday 14 from 3.00 to 4.00 pm in St Mary December at 7.30 pm at St James’s Magdalene Church, Richmond. Dame Jacqueline is the immensely Church, Hampton Hill [email protected] popular author of some 100 children’s books, and is much remembered (teddingtonchoral.co.uk); and Whitton Richmond Adult Community College locally for (inter alia) her splendid talk Choral Society presents its Christmas has a Winter Music Concert on at an artsrichmond children’s book concert on Saturday 14 December at Wednesday 18 December at 7.00 pm picnic in in the May Fair marquee on 7.30 pm at Whitton Baptist Church, in the main hall at the Clifden campus, Richmond Green in 2008, which Hounslow Road, Whitton, with a with groups of singers from RACC with attracted a record audience of some spectacular range of carols (tickets at the Big Band and jazz students. 400 enthusiastic children, and for her door); Loki Music is at the Lovekyn racc.ac.uk Chapel, Kingston, on Tuesday 3 support for children’s events at the December at 7.30 pm with a Medieval The Middlesex Yeomanry Concert Orange Tree Theatre. Band is at the White House, The Christmas concert performed by Blast Dame Jacqueline has warned us that Avenue, Hampton on Sunday 8 from the Past (lokimusic.co.uk); the due to on-going health concerns she December at 2.30 pm with a seasonal Helen Astrid Festive Singing Concert may have to limit the events she can concert. with songs, arias, choral arrangements attend, but we are delighted to have 020 8941 1227 and carols for everyone is at the her strong support, and are thrilled Normansfield Theatre, Teddington, on Barnes Choir’s Christmas Music that she hopes to present the awards Tuesday 10 December at 7.00 pm. includes Britten’s St Nicholas, Vaughan at the Young Writers Laureate langdondowncentre.org.uk Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas ceremony at the Orange Tree in The Musical Museum at Kew Bridge’s Carols and John Rutter’s Carols for the February, and that she has agreed that Christmas concert with Len Rawle at Choir on Saturday 7 December at 7.30 we may name the event after her: the the Mighty Wurlitzer is on Sunday 1 pm at St John the Divine, Kew Road, Dame Jacqueline Wilson December at 3.00 pm (and Waltzing to Richmond. artsrichmond Young Writers Awards. barneschoir.org.uk Anne Sebba Choral Dame Jacqueline Wilson outgoing artsrichmond Young President Hampton Choral Society performs Writers Awards 2014 Our warmest Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Mozart’s Open to all young people in the area, thanks go to Anne Requiem on Saturday 7 December at leading to the award of Sebba, who has 7.30 pm at All Saints Church, Campbell the Young Laureate given us Road, Twickenham. and Junior Laureate exceptional service and support as hamptonchoral.org.uk Awards for 2014. our President for the past year. Twickenham Choral Society with the Closing date: 10 Brandenburg Sinfonia is singing at St January. AGM and Christmas Party John’s, Smith Square, SW1, on artsrichmond.org.uk/yo Wednesday 11 December at 7.30 pm ung-artists. artsrichmond’s AGM is at the with Iain Farrington’s arrangement of We are very grateful to Hampton Hill Playhouse at 7.30 pm on the first part of Mahler’s 8th the Malcolm Richards Tuesday 3 December, and will be Symphony, Veni Creator Spiritus, and Trust, which has funded followed by the Christmas Haydn’s Wind Band Mass – the awards in previous party. The chairman, David Harmoniemesse. years in memory of the late editor of the Ward, reports on sjss.org.uk artsrichmond’s activities Richmond and Twickenham Times, and now to the Barnes during the past year, elections are held Putney Choral Society is at St Paul’s Church, Augustus Road, SW19, on Literary Society, which has given a for vacancies on the executive generous grant to support the awards for committee, the Treasurer presents the Saturday 7 December at 7.00 pm singing Handel’s Messiah. the next three years. accounts, and there is an open Picture by Nick Sharratt 07909 981 278 discussion about artsrichmond’s activities in supporting the arts in RuT. Thames Philharmonic Choir is at St with a concert with a Scottish Flavour Nominations in writing are invited for Paul’s Church, Augustus Road, SW19, for St Andrew’s Day, with 13 year old positions on the artsrichmond on Saturday 30 November at 7.30 pm violinist Songha Choi from the Yehudi Executive Committee. with Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man Menuhin School: Debussy’s Marche and Kevin Jones’s Cantus de Stellis. Ecossaise, Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, There’s a Thames Concert with the thamesphilchoir.org.uk and Borodin’s Symphony No. 1. landmarkartscentre.org Tiffin Boys’ Choir singing Britten’s Richmond Concert Society has 020 8977 7558 Ceremony of Carols and other seasonal VOCES8 with choral works by music at St Andrew’s Church, Maple Monteverdi, Parsons, Byrd, Gibbons, Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra is playing Road, Surbiton on Saturday 7 Palestrina, Praetorius, Rachmaninov, at the Royal College of Music, Prince December at 7.30 pm. Holst, Tippett, Tavener and Roxana Consort Road, SW7, on Sunday 15 thamesconcerts.com Panufnik on Tuesday 10 December at December at 6.30 pm. with Dvorak’s Join in with Carol Singing around the 7.45 pm at St Mary’s Church, Violin Concerto and music by courtyards at Hampton Court Palace Twickenham. Anderson, Arnold, Bizet and Delius. with the Epsom and Ewell Silver Band, richmondconcerts.co.uk chairman@stoneleighyouthorchestra. org.uk 17 to 23 December from 6.00 to 8.00 Lyric tenor James Gilchrist is singing at pm. the new Wathen Hall Concert Series The Dysart Arms at Petersham’s hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/ on Friday 22 November at 7.30 pm at classical concert on Sunday 1 CourtyardCarolSinging2013 St Paul’s School, Barnes. Britten’s December at 7.30 pm is Ivana Gavric Winter Words and songs by Schubert, (piano). artsrichmond Purcell, Ravel and Bernstein. 07967 481 625 wathenhall.com Choral Workshop with Maiastra, led by Arisa Fujita, performs quartets by Britten, Beethoven, Philip William Petter Orchestral/instrumental Glass and Dvorak on Friday 13 December at 7.30 pm at St Mary’s of Concordia Voices Church, Twickenham Riverside. Saturday 15 March Richmond Orchestra’s next concert is maiastra.org.uk at the Wathen Hall, St Paul’s School, St Augustine’s, Hospital Bridge on Saturday 30 November at 7.30 pm Recital to inaugurate the overhauled Road, Whitton with Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine and Schrider/Hill organ at the Chapel Berlioz’s Harold in Italy Royal, Hampton Court Palace, Sing and learn Fauré’s Requiem richmondorchestra.org.uk Thursday 28 November at 7.45 pm, and The Cantique of Jean Racine with James O’Donnell, organist and Thames Philharmonia is at the master of the choristers at artsrichmond.org.uk Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, on Westminster Abbey. Saturday 30 November at 7.30 pm chapelroyal.org The Palace’s Ice Rink with the Tudor Watch out for the spectacular The Ham Music Project, Ham in West Front as a backdrop will be open Christmas at Kew at the Royal Botanic Session, funded by Youth Music and from 30 November to 12 January (not Gardens: from 28 November to 4 delivered by Richmond Council’s Youth Christmas Day). January, day and night, with a new Service, has a studio open four On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in illuminated tour after dark of some of evenings a week for local young November and December the Palace the Botanic Gardens’ highlights people to gain support in studio offers Ghost Tours around the royal through the winter landscape (4.30 to recording, guitar and drums, rapping apartments, the Haunted Gallery, the 10.00 pm, not every day), plus and singing. During the day, the courtyards, cloisters and apartments. Christmas Village and much more. centre will work with groups from 7.00, 8.00 and 8.30 pm. kew.org/christmas local schools. richmond.gov.uk/ham_youth_centre There are Walking Family Ghost Tours Christmas Lights Switch-On on Saturdays in November and Jazz and rock December at 6.30 pm.