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JANUARY MARCH The Codrington Collection, Object of the Term and Three OSRG St George's Church, Rare Books open Byron Consort Concert 4.00pm SUNDAY 1 Bloomsbury TUESDAY 13 Lunchtime Music: Max Prasad (Piano) 1.30pm St Mary’s Church Chamber Music Competition Round 1 12.30pm Music Schools History of Art Lecture: | Old Speech Room 9.10pm Lunchtime Music: Ga Kitada (Piano) 1.30pm St Mary's Church What Makes a Seminal Work of Art? Gallery TUESDAY 3 History of Art Lecture: ‘Pop Goes the Easel’: Music 9.10pm OSRG Lunchtime Music: Michael Yeung (Oboe) 1.30pm St Mary’s Church and the Visual Arts

TUESDAY 20 History of Art Lecture: ‘The Sensation Generation’: The Old Speech Room WEDNESDAY 4 Music For Lent 9.10 pm Chapel 9.10pm Emergence of Young British Artists in the 1990s Gallery Newlands House Play: The English Game by THURSDAY 5 7.45pm Ryan Theatre FRIDAY 23 Woodwind Evening 7.30pm Music Schools Richard Bean MONDAY 9 OH Room Concert 7.30pm OH Room SATURDAY 24 Orchestral Concert 8.00pm Speech Room Lunchtime Music: Music for Clarinet St Mary's Church SUNDAY 25 Music for Guitar 4.30pm Music Schools 1.30pm Pasmore Gallery and Art MONDAY 26 Richard Shirley Smith opens OSRG TUESDAY 10 House Art Competition 5.30pm to 7.00pm School Lunchtime Music: Remove Award Holders 1.30pm St Mary’s Church Chamber Music Finals 7.00pm St John's, Smith Square Structures Shepherd Churchill Hall WEDNESDAY 11 Music For Lent 9.10pm Chapel TUESDAY 27 A Level Photography Interim Show: Private View 6.00pm to 7.00pm Pasmore Gallery Lunchtime Music: Chamber Music Runners up 1.30pm History of Art Lecture: ‘The Artist is Present’: Marina 9.10pm OSRG THURSDAY 12 Abramovic, Idealist or Nihilist? Identity and Memory 12 noon to 4.00pm Pasmore Gallery West Acre House Play: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony WEDNESDAY 28 7.45pm Ryan Theatre FRIDAY 13 An Evening of Shostakovich 7.30pm Music Schools Burgess St John's College Chapel, Singing Prizes 7.30pm Speech Room Byron Consort, Choral Evensong 5.30pm SATURDAY 14 Cambridge THURSDAY 29 West Acre House Play: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony 7.45pm Ryan Theatre Rock Concert Acoustic Evening 8.00pm Music Schools Burgess The Codrington Collection, Object of the Term and Three Rare Books close. TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY Choral Society Concert: Around the Curve of the 7.30pm Speech Room Lunchtime Music: Remove Award Holders 1.30pm St Mary’s Church World by Francis Grier TUESDAY 3 History of Art Lecture: ‘Make Ideas, Not Work’: The The Knoll House Play: Brideshead Revisited, 9.10pm OSRG Emergence of Conceptual Art WEDNESDAY 18 adapted from Evelyn Waugh’s novel by Roger 7:45pm Ryan Theatre WEDNESDAY 4 Featured Artist Series: The Music of Burt Bacharach 9.10pm Music Schools Parsley

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WEST ACRE HOUSE PLAY: A CLOCKWORK powerful lens of a simple game of cricket. At once LUNCHTIME MUSIC AN EVENING OF SHOSTAKOVICH A-LEVEL PHOTOGRAPHY INTERIM SHOW RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH (THE KNOLL, 1949): 80TH BIRTHDAY ORANGE BY ANTHONY BURGESS funny, true and touching, the play is a timely and Tuesdays from 13 January to 10 March, Friday 13 March Tuesday 27 January, Private View 6.00pm to RETROSPECTIVE revealing look at the political and social tensions 1.30pm – St Mary’s Church 7.30pm – Music Schools 7.00pm - Pasmore Gallery Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 January that underpin modern society. Calvin Law Continuing this successful series of Tuesday To mark 40 years since Shostakovich’s death, this Showcasing new work by our talented Sixth Form Monday 26 January – Friday 26 June 7.45pm - Ryan Theatre (Newlands) and Miss Sarah Mackrory direct. lunchtime concerts and displaying once again the concert will feature three chamber music photographers. The celebrated Old Harrovian artist, Richard Anthony Burgess’s gripping exploration of great variety of music going on at Harrow. masterpieces: the hauntingly beautiful Piano Trio Shirley Smith will fill the OSRG with his paintings, morality and free will follows young Alex from his THE KNOLL HOUSE PLAY: Concerts last 25 minutes, after which refreshments No2, written during World War Two, the Violin STRUCTURES drawings, nonsense montages and wood violent beginnings through to his redemption. engravings, covering a career of some 60 years. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, ADAPTED FROM are available in the Church room. Sonata written for David Oistrakh and the last Tuesday 27 January With his ‘droogs’ (friends) and without any figures This important retrospective exhibition includes EVELYN WAUGH’S NOVEL BY ROGER composition that the composer ever completed, Shepherd Churchill Hall commissioned works as well as personal projects of authority to tell him otherwise, Alex causes ORCHESTRAL CONCERT his enigmatic and mysterious Viola Sonata. An exciting array of work in various media by our PARSLEY and several paintings not seen before by the havoc in his hometown. Once caught and Saturday 24 January talented Lower Sixth Form artists. public. experimented on by an oppressive government, Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 March 8.00pm – Speech Room CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT: FRANCIS he appears cured of his savage tendencies - but 7.45pm - Ryan Theatre A performance from the Orchestra and The Nine, GRIER’S AROUND THE CURVE OF THE FOUNDER’S DAY OPEN STUDIOS at what cost? With a large cast, West Acre WORLD THE CODRINGTON COLLECTION It is 1943 and Charles Ryder has returned to including a complete performance of Dvorak’s Sunday 8 February, 2.00pm to 5.00pm Tuesday 13 January - Tuesday 17 March presents an energetic and thoughtful reimagining Brideshead once again. He remembers the dramas, Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’. Tuesday 17 March Art School, Leaf and Sculpture Studios of this cult classic. Will Gaisford directs. Due to the passions, the arguments and the friendships of 7.30pm – Speech Room Sir fought with Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and became the adult content of some aspects of this his youth, and we are transported back to the SINGING PRIZES The girls of Francis Holland School, professional THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL… ‘Redeemer of Greece’ after the performance, we advise that it is not suitable for 1920s where he first meets Sebastian Flyte. Thursday 29 January soloists and orchestra join Harrow School Choral Tuesday 10 February, Private View 5.30pm to in 1827. The Codrington Trust has generously lent children under 13 years of age. Charles moves between Oxford, , Venice, 7.30pm – Speech Room Society for a Harrow premiere. Around the Curve 7.00pm - Pasmore Gallery not only some of the Admiral’s most important Paris and South America but, in the end, it is the Boys compete for the Singing Prizes in front of The of the World was commissioned in 2000 to Independently initiated, synoptic work in various naval treasures but also items associated with his ELMFIELD HOUSE PLAY: THE RIVALS dangerous charms of Brideshead that call for him. Royal Opera’s Head of Music, Mr David Syrus. With commemorate the 150th anniversary of the journey of the first four ships and early settlement of media by our A2 level artists children: Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Codrington BY RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1762) Brideshead Revisited is a powerful period drama such high standards of singing and such an 2 1 Canterbury, New Zealand. It draws heavily on the (1823 ), General Sir William Codrington (1816 ) and that poses interesting questions about friendship, eminent adjudicator, this promises to be a Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 February personal diaries and letters of JR Godley (The HOUSE ART COMPETITION Lady Bourchier, whose son, John Edward (18582) faith and love. Lucy Ashe directs. wonderful evening. 7.45pm - Ryan Theatre Grove and The Park, 18272), the leader of the Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm to 7.00pm was Head of School in 1863. Portraits and archive material from the School’s own collections give Elmfield presents Sheridan’s 1775 famed comedy. HOUSE INSTRUMENTAL COMPETITION expedition. The work has been performed nine Pasmore Gallery and Art School Tickets are required for all performances. To times previously, in venues that include Canterbury Adjudicated this year by Peter Randall-Page, this further context to the Codrington story. The play tells the story of Jack Absolute, book tickets or for more information, including Solo Round: Sunday 8 February who – in pursuit of the divinely beautiful and Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The Sheldonian in annual event brings out the very best in boys’ about disabled access, please contact Lynette 4.30pm – Music Schools Oxford and Christ Church, New Zealand, but this creativity, imagination and sense of House spirit. OBJECT OF THE TERM: CHURCHILL AT impossibly rich Lydia Languish – adopts a new Bieneman, the Ryan Theatre Administrator, Small Ensembles: Sunday 8 February will be the first musical celebration of Godley’s HARROW, 1961 BY HARRY BENSON name and title to woo her better. Inevitably, this via [email protected] or 020 8872 7.30pm – Music Schools work at his former School. Tuesday 13 January – Tuesday 17 March plan goes terribly wrong and, as Lydia’s other 8344. Large Ensembles: Monday 9 February IDENTITY AND MEMORY Fifty years after his death, the OSRG remembers suitors queue up to win her hand, Jack finds 7.30 pm – Speech Room Friday 13 March, 12 noon to 4.00pm SWING BAND CONCERT AND COMPETITION Sir Winston Churchill by displaying a superlative himself stuck in rather tricky situation: should he Pasmore Gallery One of the highlights of the musical calendar, this photograph of him, aged 86, being greeted by reveal all and lose Lydia? Or gamble on and hope Thursday 19 March This promises to be a wonderfully imaginative promises a feast of music as the boys compete in 8.00pm – Music Schools boys at Harrow Songs. The framed photograph is luck runs his way? Dr Joanna Bratten directs this exhibition of work in a range of media by our three classes. Tony Henwood, Director of Music at As ever, the Swing Band will be joined for this a new acquisition and a gift to the School from fast-paced tale of confused identities and Shell artists. Latymer Upper School, joins us as adjudicator. concert by a Jazz legend, who will perform and the Agostinelli family. duplicity, featuring dashing young men, absurd adjudicate the Samuel Jazz Cup. An evening not to A BRIEF HISTORY OF ART LECTURE SERIES country gentlemen, a blood-thirsty Irish baronet VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS be missed. THREE RARE BOOKS and, of course, the infamous Mrs Malaprop, the Tuesdays 13, 20 and 27 January, 3 and 10 Tuesday 13 January – Tuesday 17 March ‘Queen of the Dictionary’. Thursday 12 February February and 10 March, 9.10pm Admission to these events is free of charge The Old Speech Room Gallery is playing an active 7.30pm – Speech Room Old Speech Room Gallery and, with the exception of the Choral Society role in the World War One Centenary Partnership Harrow’s finest violinists tackle these famous Harrow’s Director of Art, Laurence Hedges, has NEWLANDS HOUSE PLAY: THE ENGLISH Concert, without ticket. Tickets for this event (www.iwm.org.uk/centenary). Its termly displays of concertos; always favourites with audiences initiated this series of informal lectures about GAME BY RICHARD BEAN will be available from Hilary Thomas, the rare books throughout 2014-18 include volumes of around the world. aspects of art and culture. Devised to have wide Music Schools Administrator, from Monday 23 the Harrow Memorials of the Great War and the Thursday 5 March appeal, the series will be thought-provoking and February. Book early to avoid disappointment. accounts of Old Harrovians whose lives were cut SPRING TERM CONCERT spark lively, animated debate among the 7.45pm – Ryan Theatre If applying by post, please remember to send a short by the conflict 100 years ago. The Nightwatchmen are an amateur London Friday 27 February self-addressed envelope for dispatch of tickets. audience. 7.30pm – Speech Room cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what Contact [email protected] or call The Old Speech Room Gallery is open every A chance to hear the larger School ensembles, For more information, please contact they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny 020 8872 8231 for more information. weekday during term time from 2.30pm until including the Concert Band, the Orchestra and the Laurence Hedges, Director of Art, via lwh@ Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse 5.00pm (except on Wednesdays and exeats). Kandinsky Ensemble. harrowschool.org.uk or call the Art Schools on and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and From time to time, the Gallery is used by the 020 8872 8310. their teammates spend the day smoking, drinking School, so please contact the OSRG Curator, tea and discussing love, politics and the correct Julia Walton, via 020 8872 8205 or interpretation of the LBW law...The English Game [email protected] before explores the modern British psyche through the making a visit.

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