Talks coming up this season
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Monday 20 January
Richard Strauss at 150
Celebrating his gift to the soprano voice in opera and Lieder, Dame Felicity Lott discusses Strauss’s soprano operatic roles and songs with Andrew Neill, Chairman of the Richard Strauss Society.
8-10pm The Dryburgh Hall, Putney Leisure Centre, SW15 1BL
Members & Young Persons FREE; Visitors £5
Monday 3 February
Remembering John Amis
An evening of illustrated recollections from Robert Ponsonby and Denis Moriaty who knew our late Vice-President. John Amis’ long life brought him into contact with some of the most prominent names in music over seven decades.
8-10pm The Dryburgh Hall, Putney Leisure Centre, SW15 1BL
Members & Young Persons FREE; Visitors £5
Monday 17 February
A New Yorker abroad
Andrew Litton, Principal Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Director of the Minnesota Orchestra’s annual Sommerfest and Music Director Emeritus of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, talks to Andrew Keener.
8-10pm The Dryburgh Hall, Putney Leisure Centre, SW15 1BL
Members & Young Persons FREE; Visitors £5
Monday 3 March
Found my horn
David Pyatt, soloist and Principal Horn of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, discloses some of the mysteries of his chosen instrument to Ian Partridge, and talks about his love of the horn repertoire.
8-10pm The Dryburgh Hall, Putney Leisure Centre, SW15 1BL
Members & Young Persons FREE; Visitors £5
Monday 17 March
Our President, David Cairns, talks about his friend and colleague Sir Colin Davis who died in 2013.
8-10pm The Dryburgh Hall, Putney Leisure Centre, SW15 1BL
Members & Young Persons FREE; Visitors £5
Monday 31 March
Comparing Notes
Soloists and orchestral players, the violinist Thomas Bowes and the cellist John Heley (Academy of St Martin in the Fields) talk with Andrew Keener about life in and out of the orchestra.
8-10pm The Dryburgh Hall, Putney Leisure Centre, SW15 1BL
Members & Young Persons FREE; Visitors £5
January 17, 2014