MUSIC ON SUNDAYS

CHICHESTER - WEST SUSSEX

      Registered Charity No. 1082050

About us

Current Programme

Past Performers

Links to other Music Groups

Welcome to Chichester's Sunday Music Club - now in its 16th Season.

• Some of the best music in West Sussex

• Interesting conversation

• Open to members and visitors. Students admitted at half-price.

• Programme and refreshments included

                                                                                                                                                                           
Music on Sundays was founded in 1995 and, until recently, met at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts. Meetings are now held at Christ Church in Old Market Avenue, off South Street, Chichester see map, from 2.30  to 4.30 p.m. normally on one Sunday each month, except there is no meeting in August. Tickets are available from the Assistant Secretary or at the door. Please note that doors open at 2 pm for a start at 2.30 pm. There are several car parks nearby and parking is free on Sundays.

Admission to all presentations is £10.00 for non-members (students £5.00), except October - £6.00 (students £3.00). Life Membership allows free admission to concerts for life, Gold Membership allows free admission to all concerts in 2011 and Standard Membership requires ticket entry of £5 for all concerts in 2012 ( except October at £4 and half price for students).

The year's programme includes recitals of classical music and occasionally jazz or folk music, together with illustrated talks on composers and musical themes.

For all enquiries please contact the Chairman - Jean Greenlees.

New members are always welcome

If you think you might like to join the Club, please download the Membership Application Form.

Poppy Crosby - founder, former chairman and current President of Music on Sundays

Committee Members - Jean Greenlees, Yvonne Scott, Raymond Greenlees, James Smith, Suzanne Russell, Roy Lidstone and Linda Shaw.

The Club now has associate membership with Bognor Regis Music Club which means that members of both groups enjoy reduced rate admission to the concerts in Bognor and Chichester.

Other groups the Club is associated with include the Harting Music Club, the Gosport and Fareham Music Society and the Funtington Music Group.

The Club also arranges regular group visits to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's concerts at Portsmouth Guildhall.

Review of Music on Sundays Concert on 25th SEPTEMBER, 2011  at CHRIST CHURCH, CHICHESTER

A Recital by Students and Members of the
WEST SUSSEX GUITAR CLUB
presented by Alexander Levtov

This recital was a great advertisement for the healthy state of the West Sussex Guitar Club, which will shortly celebrate its twentieth anniversary.  Performances by eight current students, and by tutors and experienced players, bore witness not only to excellent teaching standards, but also,  judging by the atmosphere of this recital, to the obvious pleasure taken in being members of the club.

A commendable feature of the programme, which was entertainingly and (where required) sensitively compered by club director Sasha Levtov, was its great variety - with everything from Bach to Boulch to the Wizard of Oz! The high standards attained by students as young as twelve were in evidence from the start, as Emily Spirit gave a poetic account of a Gary Ryan piece. Each youngster performed well, particular highlights being the guitar AND flute playing of Zoe Barnett, and the well-known Villa Lobos E minor Prelude in which Patrick Sowden's phrasing and tempo variations displayed a real feeling for the genre.

After the interval members and tutors gave us, if anything, even greater variety, with contributions from the Gala Guitar Quartet, a Bach solo prelude, and a self-accompanied Smuggler's Song from Robin Smith. Particularly appealing among  a raft of South American classics were pieces by Reis and Mochado, stylishly played by Camilla Hessenburg and Jeney Craven, and a difficult Barrios number, negotiated impressively by Linda Kelsall-Barnett.  

PHIL JENKINS

Music on Sundays has been given a grant of £2,100 by the National Lottery, Awards for All Programme for the purchase of high quality audio equipment. This allows us to provide excellent sound reproduction for our recorded music presentations and talks.

We should like to thank Phil Hewitt, Arts and Entertainments Editor of the Chichester Observer, for publishing notices of our meetings.

Frequent beautiful flower displays at Music on Sundays meetings are presented by Blooms Florist 3a, Little London, Chichester - tel. 01243-788484.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart