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NEW WARWICK VENUE FOR LEAMINGTON MUSIC
FITZWILLIAM QUARTET CONCERT TO BE REPEATED
After six and a half months without concerts, Leamington Music has resumed activity with tickets now on sale for eleven concerts in Leamington and Warwick in October and November.
The concerts in Warwick will be in The Dream Factory, home of Playbox Theatre, a venue that Leamington Music has not used before now. Audience numbers will be reduced following restrictions for COVID-19, ensuring the safety of everybody involved.
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet gives the first concert in the new venue on Tuesday 13 October. This is to celebrate the eightieth birthday in September of Leamington Music’s Festival Director and the audience will be offered a glass of champagne on arrival from 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.
The programme consists of Italian Serenade by Wolf, Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ by Schubert and Quartet in D Op 76 No 5 by Haydn.
Tickets for 13 October went very quickly, with a waiting list growing by the day. So, it has been decided to repeat the concert a week later on Tuesday 20 October. Tickets can be booked online at www.leamingtonmusic.org or by calling 01926 497000.
Richard Phillips, Festival Director, adds “It is wonderful to celebrate an important birthday with a concert of favourite composers, played by a Quartet with which I have been associated since 1971. I first came across the Fitzwilliam when the Quartet started a residency at York University that year and, from 1974-77 when it was in residence at Warwick University, I met up with members when back at my Warwick home from my job as Music Officer of Yorkshire Arts Association.
“My belief that string quartets have the best repertoire of all was inspired by the Fitzwilliam and then the Lindsays, with whom I was involved when they went to Sheffield University. In 1984 I programmed the Fitzwilliam for the first time in the Warwick Arts Week and since then I have put on, with Warwick Arts Society and then Leamington Music, over 400 concerts in our towns with string quartets.”
Three other concerts on Tuesdays will be held in The Dream Factory during November. These see the return of groups popular with local audiences, Joglaresa, Kosmos and the Mellstock Band. These show the range of music that Leamington Music promotes, going from medieval times to world music to music associated with Thomas Hardy. The Dream Factory will prove to be an ideal venue for these concerts.
Leamington Music hopes to put on at least one concert in the Christmas period and details will be announced soon. Plans are in place for 2021, but in the current crisis are under wraps.
Tickets can be booked online at www.leamingtonmusic.org or by calling 01926 497000.