Southwell Music Pageant returns for a music-filled August Financial institution Vacation weekend.
This 12 months’s tenth anniversary Pageant will see Southwell teeming with musicians as we rejoice our city and the common language of music. Our programme guarantees one thing for everybody, with music starting from the medieval to the fashionable and all the pieces in between. Learn on for extra programme particulars and to start out planning your Pageant weekend.
Tickets go on sale on Monday 17 June, with Festival Friends having fun with Precedence Reserving.
Tickets begin from simply £5, and with free occasions too, we hope to see acquainted faces and new ones for this particular anniversary 12 months!
You may decide up our 2024 brochure in all the same old native locations in and round Southwell, or you’ll be able to view this digital version. Pageant Pals will obtain a duplicate within the put up, together with particulars about learn how to e-book in your Precedence Reserving interval.
Listed below are among the highlights from this 12 months’s jam-packed programme:
- Celebrated tenor Mark Padmore is our first-ever artist-in-residence, performing in a number of concert events throughout the Pageant, together with a Saturday afternoon English Music Recital the place he’ll carry out a particular collection of English songs from composers outdated and new, in addition to Benjamin Britten’s music cycle Winter Phrases.
- On Sunday night, the Pageant Voices and Pageant Sinfonia come collectively to carry out Mozart’s Requiem. Joined by a forged of very good soloists, this guarantees to be a memorable efficiency of an amazing masterpiece.
- The Sunday night live performance will open with the world premiere of a brand new work by composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad and poet Kate Wakeling. Specifically commissioned by Southwell Music Pageant to mark this anniversary 12 months, With What Sudden Pleasure options the phrases of Southwell residents and college youngsters who had been requested to share their private views on the ability of music.
- British jazz singer and lyricist Norma Winstone brings unforgettable tunes and provoking improvisations to Southwell for a Friday afternoon efficiency.
- People trio Leveret convey their distinctive sounds and method to music-making to the Pageant Marquee on Sunday afternoon.
- Followers of opera and musicals can expertise a showstopper of a Saturday night and listen to stellar performances of among the best tunes ever written for stage at our A Night time on the Opera! live performance.
- The Musical Picnic is again for its second 12 months. Head to the Minster’s Palace Gardens for a Saturday afternoon of free music, workshops and enjoyable for all. Pre-booking is crucial.
- The free Pageant Fringe returns for 2024, this 12 months elevating cash for Beaumond Home Hospice.
The Pageant additionally sees the return of its distinctive Encompass Sounds collection within the intimate setting of the Chapter Home, a Stay and Late efficiency of Beethoven’s hauntingly lovely String Quartet No. 15, a celebration of medieval repertoire and a efficiency exploring the scandalous lifetime of poet Lord Byron.
Head to our What’s On web page to discover the programme or download the digital brochure.
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