A Walk in the Wood(wind)!
3pm Childrens Concert
7pm Evening Concert.
Monday, 29th May,
St Mary’s Church, Worlds End Lane, Green Street Green.
Join us for a day of music on the bank holiday! At 3pm, four world-class musicians will put on a short concert for kids, introducing them to the fascinating and inspiring world of woodwind instruments. With such a variety of instruments to see and hear, the children will be fired up with enthusiasm for music. At 7pm, the adults get a look-in with our usual hour-long recital and chat concert. Our quartet of professional players are taken from the top echelon of London musicians, including one that some of you may have heard last year in Double Trouble – local Chelsfield flautist Karen Jones. She will be joined by the wonderful Sarah Harper, oboe, from St Mary Cray; Sarah Thurlow, clarinet, originally from Bromley; and Jo Stark, bassoon, who we have sneaked in from out of area!
Worlds End Music now has a new financial model – once the musicians and the church have been paid and expenses met, any profit will go to a chosen charity. Bromley Better Beginnings is a local charity just setting up a new initiative – A Healthy Home for Every Child. We will need all your support to make this concert pay for itself and then be able to donate as well – so come along and bring all your friends!
Ideas in the pipeline
Other ideas we are working on at the moment include more concerts in our ‘Double Trouble’ duo series. And another project we would really like to get going on is ‘A Festival of Bach’ which will include the cello suites, some of the violin partitas and if we can finance it, a culmination event including at least one of the Brandenburg concertos. Details will be announced as soon as possible!
Childrens Concerts
We hope very much to have a woodwind concert for the children as soon as possible and we are working on a ‘Musical Magical Mystery Hunt’ in High Elms for next summer. This will be a weather-dependent date! I have approached Bromley council to see how this will pan out so keep your eyes on the page!
Young Artists Programme
We are continuing our commitment to including a talented young local musician in as many of our concerts or festivals as possible. This Christmas we have invited 10 year old Martha Norris from Sydenham to give her concert debut singing ‘Walking in the Air’.
Artists we have heard already include young professional trumpeter Louis Barclay; violinist Scott Storey (now co-leader of the NYO); singer Jonathan Brookes and cellist Nina Kiva, who was the star of the show at our Ukrainian fundraiser. Next season we have already confirmed one of our Young Artists – cellist Henry Hargreaves, who is very local indeed having grown up ON Worlds End Lane!
Festival of Youth!
Another idea we have in the pipeline is a Festival of Youth. Continuing on from our desire to nurture young music in the community we are working on a plan to hold two concerts of young musicians. The first would be school-age players chosen from the classes of local music teachers; the second would be a showcase for college level students. Just on the top of the hill here in Green Street Green there are three teachers representing The Royal Academy, The Royal College and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama so we’re very excited about these possibilities!