Big RNS Birthday Gala
Radio 3 in Concert

The Royal Northern Sinfonia, celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with a monumental concert from the Sage Gateshead – including music of, and inspired by, the 'First Viennese School', archive recordings, and a new commission by Errollyn Wallen.

Beethoven: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Fauré: Pavane
Mozart: Laudate Dominum
Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate

FIRST INTERVAL

Poulenc: Concert champêtre
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D Major, 'Classical'
Wallen: RNS Birthday Commission

SECOND INTERVAL

Haydn: Symphony No 6, ‘Le matin’
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Lars Vogt: Conductor
Mahan Esfahani: Harpsichord
Sarah Tynan: Soprano
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia

Black Cantabs: History Makers
Mon 1 October - Sat 22 December

Cambridge University Library

Black Cantabs: History Makers is a groundbreaking exhibition telling the stories of black students in Cambridge, from the forgotten pioneers of centuries past to the celebrated successes of today.

In it, a collection of photographic portraits including that of Errollyn Wallen (King's College) will celebrate centuries of black students at Cambridge (from 1700 to the present day) and inspire future generations.

Featuring trailblazers from the first black British army officer to the first black female composer to have a composition played at the Proms, the exhibition features famous faces such as Zadie Smith, Thandie Newton and Naomie Harris alongside rare archive images.

New portraits are being taken by the city of Cambridge’s chief chronicler, Sir Cam, including of classical composer Errollyn Wallen, jazz singer Justina Kehinde Ogunseitan and MP Diane Abbott.

These portraits will hang on the University Library’s 'Royal Corridor'.

This collection represents a reinvention of the traditional Cambridge portrait students may see on a daily basis and the exhibition opening marks the first day of the UK’s Black History Month (1 October).

Black Cantabs: History Makers runs from 1 October to 22 December at the University Library, before touring the University and Colleges. It builds on the painstaking research project undertaken by the Black Cantabs Society, the members of which are students and staff at the University. See the results of the project on the Society's website: https://blackcantabs.herokuapp.com

Cost: Free

Ages: ALL AGES

Matthew Sharp performs the Cello Concerto at Errollyn Wallen's alma mater.

A special performance by Errollyn Wallen for Hillary Clinton at Oxford University as she is honoured at the Bonavero Institute, Oxford: An Evening Celebration of Three Remarkable Women

Song for Haddo 2 builds on the success of the first Song for Haddo project. Professional musicians from McOpera return to work with local primary schools and string players from the three Academies (Ellon, Inverurie and Meldrum) to learn, rehearse and then perform during the Festival a selection of the new Friday Afternoon Songs written by this year’s Friday Afternoons composer, Errollyn Wallen who has composed her already acclaimed anthology, MAP: Songs for Children Everywhere. Also on the programme is the original Song for Haddo, a piece for strings and a new composition, working title Second Song for Haddo.

As part of the Americana ’18 series at St John’s Smith Square, Michael Harper, tenor, Nadine Benjamin, soprano, Nigel Foster, pianist, are doing a recital called - Portrait of a Life (or Many): Art Songs from the African Diaspora featuring art songs by Black British and African American composers.

Following on from last year's rapturous reception of Wallen's Concerto Grosso, Chineke! Chamber Ensemble will give the world premiere of a brand new septet commissioned by Cambridge Music Festival.

PROGRAMME

Coleridge Taylor
Clarinet Quintet
Errollyn Wallen
New work (CMF commission)
Beethoven
Septet

Joseph Boulogne String Quartet No 3 in G minor
Haydn Divertimento in C, Adagio and Variations
Errollyn Wallen New work
R Strauss (arr. Franz Hasenoehrl) Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20

Welcome back to Chineke!, St George’s resident orchestra, and Europe’s first professional orchestra comprising a majority of black and minority ethnic musicians, founded by the pioneering double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE.

This will be their fourth visit and this varied programme performed by the Chineke! Ensemble is set to be just as thrilling. It features two beautiful movements from a recently discovered Haydn Divertimento, a virtuoso arrangement of Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel and a new work by Errollyn Wallen whose Concerto Grosso made such an impact here last November. Beethoven’s ever popular Septet, with its famous Minuet movement also used in his Piano Sonata in G completes the programme.

‘Chineke! could deepen and enrich classical music in the UK for generations’ SIR SIMON RATTLE

Chineke.org

In Wigmore "Lates" series
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