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Victorian Christmas Activity Day
An invitation to families to enjoy Christmas Craft Activities in the Museum decorated for Christmas.
Activities:
Lanterns, Cornucopias with candy canes, Christmas card making, Robin Trail, Pine cone Robins, Lucky dip.
Children must be accompanied by an adult but grown-ups can join in too. Craft activities are drop-ins. If full on arrival, we also have lots of trails and colouring-in sheets.
Christmas Music:
on the sitar, violin and mandolin 1.30-2.30pm
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 Date: Saturday Dec 12th 2009
Time: 10.30am -3.30pm
Activities:
10.30-12.30
1.30-3.00
Music: 1.30-2:30pm
Location: in the Museum
Tickets:
Adults: £3.50
Concessions: £3.00
Special Offer for the Day: Children FREE
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The English Ayres
A selection of English folk song settings and art songs from the Middle Ages to the 20th century exploring the themes of fleeting love and life, nostalgia and longing for English rural past.
With Jeni Melia: Soprano
Lindsay Brage: Violin
Christopher Goodwin: Lute and Baritone.
Concert sponsored by
The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
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Date: Sunday Nov 29th 2009
Time: 3.00pm
Location: Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
Tickets: £10 ( to include tea/coffee ) available from the Holst Birthplace Museum or Town Hall Box Office |
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| October |
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'Holst and Hardy'
An evening of music and poetry exporing the link between Holst and Hardy. The programme will include four settings by Holst of Hardy poems.There will also be music from contempories of Holst - Vaughan Williams, Galfour Gardiner and Cyril Scott.
The programme will be performed by the distinguished tenor, Gordon Pullen, with Philip Wilby on piano and readings by David Barlow.
Space is limited in the Museum so early booking for this event is recommended.
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Date: October 22nd 2009
Time: 7.00pm
Location: in the Museum
Tickets: £8 to include a glass of wine and available from the Museum
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Beethoven Sonatas
Krysia Osostowicz ( Leader of the Dante Quartet) and Simon Crawford- Phillips ( pianist of the Kungsbacka Trio) play three Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Opus 30
This concert has been sponsored and arranged in support of the Holst Birthplace Museum.
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Date: Saturday Oct 31st 2009
Time: 7.30
Location: Pittville Pump Room
Tickets: ( unreserved ) are £!2 for Members of the Holst Birthplace Trust and available from the Holst Museum or
£14 from the Town Hall Box Office |
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September
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Friends of the HBM AGM & talk
(speaker to be announced)
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Date: Saturday 5th 2009
Time: 2.30pm
Location: St Andrew’s Church
Tickets: All welcome, admission free* |
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Heritage Open Days & Music Sale
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Dates:
Sat & Sun, 12th & 13th Sept 09
Time: 10.00am - 4.00 pm
Location: At the Museum
Tickets: Admission Free* |
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Brass Bands, a talk by David Kaye
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Date: Thursday 13th Aug 2009
Time: 7.00pm
Location: in the Museum
Tickets: £8 (Friends £5)** |
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Cheltenham Music Festival
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Date: 3 July - 18 July, 2009
Various times, venues & charges
Tickets: from the Cheltenham Town Hall |
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| June |
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51 Strings:
David Powell, cello & Katherine Thomas, harp
By kind invitation of Paul & Ana Gifford-Nash
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Date: Sunday the 14th 2009
Time: 11.30am
Location: The Barn Siddington
Tickets: £25 to include concert and lunch with wine*** |
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Holst Birthplace Trust AGM
Followed by a talk by Dr Warwick Cole
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Date: Mon 22nd June 2009
Time: 2.30pm
Location: Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Tickets: All welcome, admission free* |
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In Memoriam Gustav Holst
to mark the 75th anniversary of Holst’s death
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Date: Sun 24th May 2009
Location: Imperial Gardens
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William Howard Plays Holst’s Piano
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Date: Sun 19th April 2009
Time: 7.00pm
Location: in the Museum
Tickets: £15 (Friends £12)** |
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| March |
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Strings Attached
with Raymond Burley & Gilbert Rowland
By kind invitation of Nina, Princess Odescalchi
Strings Attached with Raymond Burley & Gilbert Rowland
The repertoire of these two fine string players includes works by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Straube and Guiliani. Both together and separately, they represent their work has been celebrated. Raymond is one of England’s most experienced guitarists. He has toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada and he has appeared many times at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3, and Radio 4, and has worked with many orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Gilbert’s background is equally impressive with appearances at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and Capital Radio, and an acclaimed catalogue of recorded music.
LINKS:
www.raymondburley.com
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Date: Sat 7th March 2009
Time: 7.00pm
Location: Lake House
Tickets:
£35 to include concert
& dinner with wine*** |
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Friends Music Day
at Pate’s Grammar School
Workshop at 2.30pm; concert at 7.00pm
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Date: Sat 21st March 2009
Time:
2.30pm (Workshop)
7.00pm (Concert)
Location: Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham
Tickets:
Free - all welcome
no tickets necessary
Please pre-book for the workshop. |
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New exhibition opening & booklet launch
£2 to include refreshments** |
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Date: Fri 27th March 2009
Time: at 6.00pm
Location: in the Museum |
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| February |
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A Light-hearted Quiz with Gerald Towell
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Date: Thu 12th February 2009
Time: 7.00pm
Location: In the Museum
Tickets:
£8 (Friends *5)** |
