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RNCM September - December 2016 16 / 09-12 EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE P32 P09 P14 P33 P17 P04 P29 P26 P06 P27 P20 P09P38 P15 P12 3P10 Edward Elgar Introduction Fri 30 Sep and Allegro Op 47 7.30pm Lament for RNCM Concert Hall Frank Bridge Strings Josef Suk Serenade for Sat 24 Sep RNCM STRING Strings in E flat major Op 6 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room ORCHESTRA Andrew Watkinson director Henry Purcell Suite from André Nadais percussion King Arthur LIVE MUSIC Tickets £12 Emmanuel Séjourné Concerto FS NOW for Marimba and String Join us to mark the Orchestra centenary of Live Music Jimmy Webb: The Glen Now’s founder, Yehudi Mon 12 Sep Campbell Years celebrates Doors 7pm Menuhin, as LMN’s North the highlights of the RNCM Concert Hall West branch presents a 100+ recordings from the special concert showcasing Mon 03 Oct JIMMY WEBB Webb/Campbell songbook. performances by current 1.15pm Webb shares his treasure Carole Nash Recital Room THE GLEN CAMPBELL and alumni ensembles trove of anecdotes about inculding Slidin’ About YEARS his collaborations with and Project Jam Sandwich. MONDAY Campbell, revealing Grammy-winning songwriter www.livemusicnow.org.uk/ the personal side to Sat 24 Sep RECITAL Jimmy Webb has had chart- 7.30pm mencennw generational touchstones topping hits in a unique RNCM Concert Hall SERIES like Honey Come Back. Webb Tickets £10 range of genres over György Ligeti Six the last 50 years, from will perform duets with Promoted by Live Music Now in MANCHESTER association with RNCM Bagatelles for Wind country to pop to disco, a recorded Glen Campbell, Quintet with songs including Worst demonstrating the singular CAMERATA That Could Happen, Wichita talents of these two pop FROM HAYDN TO Prima Wind Quintet Lineman, Up, Up and Away icons and the indelible Mon 26 Sep Cressida McKay Frith flute HENDRIX 7.30pm and MacArthur Park. But mark their symbiotic Philippa Austin oboe Rolling Stones/Daniel RNCM Concert Hall perhaps the most enduring craftsmanship made on Benjamin Percival french Schnyder Sympathy For The partnership out of all American music, and all horn Devil these memorable songs is over the world. MANCHESTER Nadia Plummer bassoon Gustav Holst St Paul’s with Glen Campbell. Ellen Tiso clarinet Tickets £22.50 Suite Op 9 No 2 CHAMBER Promoted by Band on the Wall Ralph Vaughan Williams CONCERTS Aaron Copland Duo for flute Oboe Concerto and piano Joseph Haydn Cello SOCIETY CARDUCCI QUARTET Lily Caunt flute Wed 31 Aug Sun 18 Sep Concerto in C major Lee Jae Phang piano W A Mozart Symphony No 29 WITH MARTIN ROSCOE Thu 06 Oct Doors 7pm 3.30pm Doors 7pm in A major K 201 Free admission, no ticket RNCM Theatre RNCM Concert Hall (piano) AND LEON RNCM Theatre Jimi Hendrix/Daniel BOSCH (double bass) required Schnyder Purple Haze SAM BEAM ANDREW Dmitri Shostakovich String ROBIN Variations AND JESCA WILDE (piano) Quartet No 11 in F minor Gábor Takács-Nagy music Thu 06 Oct TROWER Op 122 HOOP Ludwig van Beethoven director 1.15pm Hailed as one of the Sonata in F major Op 54; Ludwig van Beethoven American singer/songwriter Hannah Roberts cello RNCM Concert Hall finest guitarists in rock Sonata in C major Op 2 No 3; String Quartet in C major Jesca Hoop (now a resident Rachael Clegg oboe history, Robin Trower’s Sonata in C minor Op 13 Op 59 No 3 ‘Rasumovsky’ of Chorlton, Manchester…) RNCM career has spanned more ‘Pathétique’ Tickets £35 £28 £20 Franz Schubert Piano teams up with the amazing Quintet in A major D 667 than four decades but he Frédéric Chopin Scherzo £3 students CONCERT Sam Beam, aka alt-folk received his big break in in B minor Op 20; Two Promoted by Manchester Camerata ‘Trout’ pioneer Iron & Wine, to ORCHESTRA 1967 when he joined Procol Nocturnes Op 27; Three Tickets £25, platform showcase their album of + Antonín Dvořák Symphony No Harum. Mazurkas Op 56; Two seats £12.50 original duets, Love 6.30pm 8 in G major Op 88 Waltzes; Andante spianato Promoted by MCCS Tonight he’ll play Letter for Fire. RNCM Concert Hall material from his latest and Grande Polonaise in + Mark Heron, Edmon Levon, PRE-CONCERT solo release, Where Are Tickets £20 E flat major Op 22 6.30pm Chloe van Soeterstede No concessions PERFORMANCE conductors You Going To? Promoted by SJM Tickets £25 £20 £15 £10 Forman Lecture Theatre Free admission, no ticket Tickets £22.50 Promoted by Kantor Concert PRE-CONCERT TALK Free admission, no ticket Management & Public Relations required required No concessions Free admission to ticket Promoted by The Gig Cartel 4 holders 5 Fri 07 Oct Fri 21 Oct 7pm 7.30pm RNCM Theatre RNCM Theatre MARGARET VIVIENNE ATWOOD WESTWOOD HAG-SEED GET A LIFE ‘It’s got a thunderstorm in it. And Incomparable in both style and revenge. Definitely revenge.’ A theatre substance – MLF are proud to present director staging a ground-breaking an evening with one of Britain’s most production of The Tempest is betrayed iconic and pioneering women, Dame and finds himself in exile; can the Vivienne Westwood. Her forthcoming play that heralded his downfall book, Get A Life: The Diaries of bring about his redemption? Acclaimed Vivienne Westwood, brings together Canadian author and MLF favourite the best of her much-loved online Margaret Atwood returns to launch diaries, granting us an insight Hag-Seed, her imaginative retelling of to the intellectual curiosity and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The latest playfulness that underpins her of the acclaimed Hogarth Shakespeare fashion design, her ideas and her commissions, the play’s incendiary way of life. A passionate activist collision of nature, enchantment and committed to human rights and the emotion is a natural fit for Atwood, environment, she has travelled up the artistic visionary and teller of Amazon to draw attention to tribal magical tales. The author of more than communities’ struggles to maintain 40 books of fiction, poetry and essays the rainforest, driven a tank to including The Handmaid’s Tale, the David Cameron’s house to protest Booker-winning The Blind Assassin, the about fracking and founded Climate MaddAddam trilogy and most recently Revolution. Join us as Vivienne The Heart Goes Last, she will be in discusses her diverse career, her conversation with Alex Clark. work as a campaigner and her urgent Please note: Margaret Atwood will not concerns about climate change and be signing books after this event. All the planet with ethical writer and those opting for the ticket and book broadcaster Lucy Siegle. deal with be guaranteed a signed copy Tickets £12 or £25 for ticket and a of Hag-Seed. copy of Get a Life Promoted by Manchester Literature Festival Tickets £12 or £25 for ticket and a signed copy of Hag-Seed Promoted by Manchester Literature Festival manchester literature festival 6 7 Tue 11 Oct 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room DIVERSO QUARTET Sat 08 Oct Mon 10 Oct WITH KATARZYNA WASIAK (piano) 2.30pm 7.30pm Forman Lecture Theatre RNCM Concert Hall THE WEINBERG PROJECT Mieczysław Weinberg Piano Quintet in F minor Op 18 ELGAR VESSELIN Karol Rathaus Rapsodia Notturno Op 66 for cello and SOCIETY STANEV (piano) piano Szymon Laks Piano Quintet on Popular Polish Themes NORTH WEST César Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue This hugely talented quartet performed their final BRANCH Claude Debussy Préludes recital as RNCM International Artist Diploma students ELEANOR ROBERTS: (Book 1) in June 2016. For their first performance as alumni ELGAR, RICHTER AND Frédéric Chopin Preludes here at the College, they will re-explore the THE BUILDING OF A Op 28 cultural legacy of the Holocaust in this deeply moving programme. HALLÉ TRADITION Tickets £22.50 £15 No concessions Tickets £10 FS Free admission, no ticket Promoted by Les Concerts du Lac required Promoted by Elgar Society North West Branch Mon 10 Oct Doors 6.30pm RNCM Theatre Thu 13 Oct Mon 10 Oct 1970s London, Steve 1.15pm 1.15pm Wed 12 Oct Reich’s gripping Triple RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room SUZANNE Quartet, and jazz RNCM Theatre VEGA guitarist and composer RNCM BRASS MONDAY THE LOVER, BeloVED PSAPPHA Mike Walker’s Ropes. BAND RECITAL Tour This epic piece had its ROPES première as part of the William Walton (arr SERIES Suzanne Vega showcases Mike Walker Ropes 2008 Manchester Jazz Hindmarsh) A Wartime her new album Lover, Sketchbook Cécile Chaminade Steve Reich Triple Festival. This, the Beloved - a selection of Fortune’s Concertino in D major Quartet work’s second ever live Stan Nieuwenhuis songs derived from Vega’s Fool Op 107 Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood performance, will feature life-long interest in the Bramwell Tovey Coventry Jules Mouquet La flûte de Never Failed Me Yet Mike’s internationally- American writer Carson renowned jazz quintet Variations Pan Op 15 Psappha Strings McCullers. This show will with the 22-piece Psappha Iain Dixon clarinet, David Thornton, Alex Webb Hannah Corcoran saxophone feature material from the Strings who recorded the saxophone conductors Emily Owen piano album plus hits including work for CD earlier this Mike Walker guitar Kathleen Gaspoz cornet Gabriel Fauré Rêve Marlena on the Wall, Luka year. Gwilym Simcock piano Free admission, no ticket d’amour; Green; C’est and Tom’s Diner. Steve Rodby bass Tickets £20, early bird required l’extase Ticket £38.50 £28.50 Adam Nussbaum drums £17.50 (limited number Reynaldo Hahn Si mes vers Promoted by Chas Cole for CMP conductor available) Entertainment in association Clark Rundell avaient des ailes Promoted by Psappha with Solo Claude Debussy Green Psappha opens its 25th anniversary season + Isla Macewan, with an emotionally- 6.30pm Rachel Speirs sopranos charged programme where Carole Nash Recital Room Hector Leung piano jazz meets mesmeric SPOTLIGHT Odyssey minimalism.