Monday 30 April 2012

Snapshots for March & April 2012

Trevor Ives plays French Horn
with the Isca Orchestra
Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony
Sidmouth Parish Church

Rebekah Brown & Andrew Henley
are Patience and Grosvenor in
Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Patience'
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Marie Langrishe is violin soloist
Mozart's First Violin Concerto
Exeter Symphony Orchestra
Southernhay URC

Lucy Elzik and Sebastian Pope are Ethel and Ernest Pringle
in James Saunders' 'Alas Poor Fred' (1958)
OwlGlass Theatre at the Hourglass Inn, Melbourne Street 
Lily Neal is Mrs Sparsit (Hard Times)
(reading Mr Bounderby's life story
as related to Mrs Gradgrind)
Topsham Dickens Cosy Read-Aloud
Topsham Bookshop 11 March
Director Max Stafford-Clark
And members of the cast
discuss the play 'Top Girls'
with audience members
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Tenor Jonathan Schrantz
Soprano Lucy Bray
Mozart's Mass in C minor
with Exeter Chamber Choir
Exeter Cathedral

'Cellist Jane Pirie
with the Powderham Consort
and Divertimento Ensemble
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
James Wyatt Music Room

Ad Hoc Chamber Choir
Rachmaninov: Vespers 1915
Killerton House Chapel

Chris Gradwell: alto saxophone
with the Beare Trio
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House

Mezzo Soprano Kitty Whately meets Natasha Iuchanka
after playing Rosina in Rossini's 'Barber of Seville'
with English Touring Opera - Exeter Northcott Theatre

Alice Gerstenberg's 1916 play 'Overtones'
Cygnet New Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter
Hannah Brooks is Hetty, Maia Gibbons is Harriet
Sally Geake is Maggie, Lucy Theobald is Margaret
Director Louisa Wilde

Devon Baroque present a Banquet of English Song
Leader Margaret Faultlell, Baroque Oboe Rachel Chaplin
Harpsichord Andrew Wilson-Dickson, Mezzo Soprano Meg Bragle
Baroque 'Cello Andrew Skidmore, Theorbo Elizabeth Kenny
Dartington Great Hall

Mary O'Shea poses outside
Broadclyst Parish Church
after her soprano recital with
Pianist John Scarfe

Mary O'Shea at Broadclyst Church

Exeter Cathedral Chapter House

Conductor Timothy Carey kisses the hand of understudy Cheryl Enever
after her stunning performance as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin'
English Touring Opera at Exeter Northcott Theatre


Baroque Recorder: James Risden
Harpsichord: Jonathan Watts
Sackbut: Emily White
Dartington Ship Studio
Devon Baroque:
Golden Age of English Music
The Golden Age of English Music
ends on a high note

Mezzo Soprano Meg Bragle
"When I am laid in earth"
Henry Purcell: Dido & Aenaes
Dartington Great Hall

Devon Baroque's Chairman
Basil Butler
bids a fond farewell
to Devon Baroque's Leader
Margaret Faultless 

Emma Welton joins 'Music on the Edge'
(clarinettist Chris Caldwell and falutist Susie Hodder-Williams)
'Live at the Long Room'
Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton

Emma joins 'Exeter Contemporary Sounds'
for Paul Whitty's 
'Bury Your Love Like Treasure'
Top Studio, Exeter Phoenix 

In the Phoenix basement
Susie hits a perfect five
in the Phonic FM studio

In Chagford
Phonic FM presenter Martin Hodge meets
harpist and composer Elizabeth-Jane Baldry

The Laurence Blyth Singers in Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Soprano Josie Walledge, Counter-Tenor Laurence Blyth
Keyboards (& Baritone) Matthew Cann, Tenor Edward Woodhouse
Bass Julian Rippon, 'Cello Hilary Boxer

Saturday Lunchtime Concert
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Grace Oh & Tansy Bennett
Piano & Violin

Kapellmeister Professor George Pratt
plays the Bryce Seede organ
James Wyatt Music Room
Powderham Castle

Mezzo Soprano Dorothy Ferrier & Pianist Dorothy Worthington
present 'A Grab-Bag of Songs' at Sidmouth Parish Church

The Honeymead Ensemble
Violin: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
'Cello: Bartholomew LaFollette
Piano: Tom Poster
Exeter Cathedral

Zazou Cowboys - mezzanine bar, Exeter Northcott Theatre
Amazing double bass, lead guitar and slide guitar
Acoustic violin? - Rebecca Willson!

St Boniface Concert Society
 Church of the Holy Cross
, Crediton
Piano: Melisa Gupta
'Cello: Jonathan Dormand
Sergei Prokofiev: 
Cello Sonata in C minor

Live harp accompaniment to Douglas Fairbanks Senior's
1924 silent movie, 'The Thief of Bagdad'
Jubilee Hall Chagford
Composed and performed by Elizabeth-Jane Baldry

Two young stars of
Chagford Filmmaking Group's 2012 production
The Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heugh
Premiere at Exeter Picturehouse

Another uncredited star
the young actress who played
'The 'Laidley Worm'
into which the princess was transformed.
(But what happened next . . . ?)

The evil step-mother - Actress Maxine Fone
meets Christina Thomas (who played 'Nurse')
Exeter Picturehouse restaurant

Dr David Schellenburg of University College
Otterburn Manitoba
with the Providence Chamber Singers
Buckfast Abbey

Soprano Janet Macdonald
sings John Rutter's 'Requiem'
Holy Trinity Church Exmouth

. . . and for light entertainment -
percussionist Ben Lund-Conlon
with 'washboard tie'!

Macdiva! - Janet Macdonald

Mezzo Soprano Kate Lees

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