The Snowman!
Back by completely overwhelming demand, our musical journey of the children’s classic The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs, will be narrated by Susie Riddell, from The Archers, and accompanied by the live music from the film, by Howard Blake. (This is a string quartet arrangement of the original music by Blake himself.) Last year’s success at Orpington Methodist Church led us to have it there again – a date for your diary, afternoon of 19th December. (Time tbc, probably 2pm)
Christmas Concert
Worlds End Music always has a Christmas concert! This year we will be once again bringing you a string quartet, with some more unusual arrangements of Christmas music from around the world. We will be including folk carols arranged by Bartok and Schnittke, as well as the usual suspects of Once in Royal David’s City and On the 12th Day of Christmas. Always a fun evening, with some beautiful music, come and get your Christmas started on 19th December, 7pm at St Martin of Tours.
Plans for 2027
Mozart’s Letters
Mozart’s Letters – a wonderful hour of music and readings collated by principal flautist of the LSO, Gareth Davies. Music from the Mozart flute quartets interspersed with readings from his letters. An informative, touching and amusing way to spend an evening. Currently postponed due to illness, we hope very much to be able to put this concert on early in the spring.
Virtuoso Violins
One of our local violinist, Naoko Keatley, alongside her colleague Alix Legasse, both from the London Symphony Orchestra. Postponed from last year, we can now go ahead and find a date for this fun show.
Gary Ryan
Gary, our local guitar hero, has agreed to come back and give us another wonderful solo recital.
Possible ideas
For the children, I’m planning a very reduced version of Peter and the Wolf, but need to find a venue with piano. And one of our local families, the Barclays, have been approached to produce a kind of ‘Family story’ concert, including Karen, flautist extraordinaire, who you will have heard on the soundtrack to almost every movie you’ve ever seen, Andy, principal percussionist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Louis, freelance trumpet, who played in our very first set of concerts, and Ella, who may be persuaded to sing. Keep your fingers crossed that this one works as it would be amazing!
Young Artists Programme
We would like to continue in our commitment to include some local young musicians in our concerts. If you know of a particularly talented youngster, do get in touch – we love to give a spot to uprising talent from the local community.
Young artists we have heard already include young professional trumpeter Louis Barclay; violinist Scott Storey (co-leader of the NYO, now student at the RCM); singer Jonathan Brookes and cellist Nina Kiva, who was the star of the show at our Ukrainian fundraiser. For the 223/24 we had Martha Norris from Sydenham to give her concert debut singing ‘Walking in the Air’; this year we had the wonderful James Wibberley, solo for the Dickens concert, and Beatrice White, Susie’s daughter, who wowed us at Orpington Methodist Church.