MUSIC ON
SUNDAYS
CHICHESTER - WEST SUSSEX
Registered Charity No. 1082050
About us
Current Programme Past Performers
Welcome to Chichester's Sunday Music Club - now in its 14th 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 £8.00 for non-members (students £4.00), 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 2010 and Standard Membership requires ticket entry of £5 for all concerts in 2010 ( 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 - Yvonne Scott, Sarah Laing, Raymond Greenlees, James Smith, Suzanne Russell, Gilly Hansford.
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 27 June 2010
CHICHESTER STRING ENSEMBLE
directed by MARK HARTT-PALMER (violin)
guest soloist ARISA FUJITA (violin)
flautists GILLIAN HOOKER and BRIDGETTE KNIGHT
continuo RICHARD BARNES
CORELLI, orch. REGER - Variations on "La Folia"
soloist - Arisa Fujita
BACH - Brandenburg Concerto No.4
soloists - Mark Hartt-Palmer, Gillian Hooker & Bridgette Knight
VIVALDI - Violin Concerto in E (from L'Estro Armonico)
soloist - Arisa Fujita
BACH - Double Violin Concerto
soloists - Arisa Fujita & Mark Hartt-Palmer
ELGAR - Serenade for strings
BOUGHTON - Three Folk Dances
My admiration for the level of artistry and expertise attained by this orchestra mushroomed when I was told, during the break, that this was its debut performance. To judge by the capacity audience's clear enthusiasm for its reading of Elgar's lovely Serenade, they agreed that the Chichester String Ensemble had come out of the blocks running: a sensitive account of the slow movement's love-music had followed a refreshingly open-air allegro.
But what made this edition of Music on Sundays most memorable was the three splendid and contrasting baroque concertos that showcased guest soloist Arisa Fujita, leader Mark Hartt-Palmer and Chichester S.O. flautists Gillian Hooker and Bridgette Knight. The last three gave an expertly buoyant account of Bach's 4th Brandenburg Concerto: this tuneful, easy-going music, full of lightness and cool flute sounds, was ideal for a hot afternoon, and the unusual lilt given to the andante greatly helped the music's flow.
The Brandenburg was sandwiched by two Italian pieces for violin and strings, given virtuoso performances by London Guildhall professor Arisa Fujita. In a delightfully perky account of the Vivaldi opening allegro, as in the highly energetic finale, Miss Fujita's playing was well-nigh flawless. Quite how lucky Chichester was to have her became still clearer when she was joined by the orchestra's director in the greatest of Bach's violin concertos. The largo's poignant duet was realised in a touchingly eloquent dialogue between two fine artists, and the gusto with which soloists and orchestra despatched the all-action finale provoked the loudest applause of the afternoon.
Rutland Boughton's unpretentious folk dances afforded some of us our first taste of a neglected composer. The effect was of a lively extended encore - so that the real one, a waltz by the ever delightful Dvorak, gave us a second helping of dessert. It rounded off a musical feast that contrasted starkly with the bitter pill being served to other audiences (i.e. a certain soccer match against Germany.......).
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