Shrewsbury School Calendar

Jonathan Day is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communications and Theoretical and Historical Studies in Art and Design at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.  He is particularly involved in lens based media and has recently published a book on the work of documentary photographer Robert Frank.  Jonathan intends to discuss his own personal responses to the work of Frank.

This public lecture is essential for all AS and A2 Photographers and will be of great interest to anybody who owns a camera. It takes place in the Art School.

A song recital in the Maidment Auditorium at Shrewsbury School on Friday 24th February at 7.30pm promises to be an evening for those who love opera, song and musicals alike.

Mezzo-Soprano Kathryn Turpin and Bass-Baritone Jonathan May, both singing teachers at the school, will be accompanied by Shrewsbury School's Director of Music John Moore to perform a wide ranging programme of song that will be adored by the audience.

The first half includes Mahler's song cycle:  Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, a group of  duets from Mahler's song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Ibert's song cycle, written for the great Russian bass Chaliapin, Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte

The second half includes such operatic favourites as the Prologue from Pagliacci and Softly Awakes My Heart from Samson and Delila followed by a popular selection of musical favourites from My Fair Lady and Sondheim's Company.

Both performers are distinguished professional concert and opera singers having appeared as soloists with the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish and Welsh National Opera, numerous opera companies in Europe and the United States, and with many of the UK's leading orchestras. 

This will be an evening of the very finest song - do not miss out!

Tickets £8 /£4 from dkwood@shrewsbury.org.uk / 01743 280810.

Music in the Round’s resident group Ensemble 360 presents Janáček’s stunning second quartet in a compelling new semi-staged version devised in collaboration with the actor Daniel Evans, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres. Janáček’s letters to his young lover – here adapted by writer Paul Allen – form a remarkable commentary on the translation of a composer’s inspiration into music. This Quartet, Janáček’s “manifesto on love”, is powerful, evocative and sweeps along on an irresistible tide of passion. Set alongside Schubert’s profound and radiant Quintet, this promises to be an evening of supreme beauty and intensity in the Maidment Building.

‘An extraordinarily candid and at times despairing expression of a one-sided relationship, Ensemble 360 interleaves the four movements with readings from Janá ek's letters that combine passages of sensuality with a revealing commentary on the composer's working methods. A fine concept that seamlessly modulates between the spoken word and its musical subtext." *** The Guardian

Pre-concert Talk 6.45: ‘Hidden Messages’ - Judith and Claudia discuss how composers have hidden coded meaning in their works, in particular Janáček's Intimate Letters.

SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D.956
JANÁČEK String Quartet No.2 Intimate
Letters - semi-staged with readings

Claudia Ajmone-Marsan VIOLIN
Judith Busbridge VIOLA
Laurène Durantel DOUBLE BASS
Benjamin Nabarro VIOLIN
Gemma Rosefield CELLO

Tickets £16 / £8 from Theatre Severn 01743 281281.