Amore – Summer Music for Strings

Saturday 17th July – 2.00 – 4.00 – 6.00

St Mary’s Church, The Causeway, Horsham

The Stane Street Sinfonietta strings return to the concert stage with a fantastic programme that’s perfect for the summer.

Sandwiched between the Concertino for Clarinet, Gordon Jacob’s delightful arrangement of music by Tartini, and Greig’s much-loved Holberg Suite, is the very beautiful Amore by Robert Hanson, originally composed for the Allegri String Quartet and arranged for string orchestra in 2011.

With the fantastic players of Stane Street Sinfonietta and featuring the orchestra’s conductor, Steve Dummer, as soloist, what better way to bring some calm and most importantly, some Amore to your lives!

Tickets – £12 and £5 for under 18s – only available in advance.

Choose from three different performance times – 2.00, 4.00 and 6.00

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE

Because of the uncertainty regarding the end to lockdown regualtions, tickets are limited to 75 per performance to allow for socially distanced seating. We’ll update here if there are any changes.

Many thanks for your support! It’s been a very difficult time for many in the arts and the loss of earnings due to closed concert venues and theatres continues to have a detrimental affect. Things will soon start getting back to normal but for some of our players it will take a long time for their earning potential to return to anything like its pre-lockdown levels. Please consider making an extra donation to support our musicians.

Neil Brand and Stane Street Sinfonietta celebrate Laurel and Hardy on Saturday 22nd May with three peformances at 4pm, 6pm and 8pm.

We are excited to welcome back the Stane Street Sinfonietta with a very special event. Joining them will be Neil Brand (composer, dramatist, expert in playing and composing for silent movies and recently seen as the presenter of BBC’s Sound of Cinema and Sound of Television series) for an exploration into the early lives and career of the world’s greatest comedy duo – Laurel and Hardy.

The show culminates in a screening of the 1928 classic short You’re Darn Tootin’ with Stane Street Sinfonietta under conductor Steve Dummer playing Neil’s original score.

Tickets – £15 and £5 for under 18s – only available in advance.

Choose from three different performance times 4.00pm, 6.00pm and 8.00pm

Tickets available from the Stane Street Sinfonietta website: http://www.stanestreetsinfonietta.com/ 

Tickets now available for online viewing of December English Music Festival concerts

The English Music Fesstival (EMF) are delighted to announce that tickets are now available for the online screenings of their two concerts, held at St Mary’s Church in Horsham last month. The films are priced £12 each, or £20 for both films; you can view the full programmes here: www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2020-christmas-concerts/programme.php, and tickets are available to purchase here: www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2020-christmas-concerts/film-tickets/01-selection.php.

The first film features a harp / harp and piano recital in the first half, with a number of delightful works by composers such as Britten and Rutter, while the second half features Parry’s Freundschaftslieder followed by A Christmas Garland, comprising captivating and beautiful commissions from Cecilia McDowall, David Matthews, Paul Carr, Richard Blackford, Roderick Williams, Paul Lewis, John Pickard, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Richard Pantcheff and Graham Keitch. The second concert, given by vocal quartet Oxford Liedertafel, with sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious (and always entertaining) readings by celebrated countertenor James Bowman, includes carols and part-songs by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Sullivan, Tallis, Byrd, Henry VIII, Dowland, Campion and Cornysh.

The full Programme Book is also available to purchase as a companion to the films, either as a PDF or a hard copy, sent to you by post. Please visit www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk for further information.

Chichester Diocese is offering a Lent course for 2021 called ‘Cracked Wide Open’, which we will run jointly between our 3 churches, on Thursday mornings at 10am & Thursday evenings at 7.30pm, starting on Thursday 25th February. You can sign up here.