Thornbury

Music

Now that Coronavirus restrictions have relaxed Thornbury U3A Music Group has resumed their activities and our September 2021 and October 2021 meetings have both been held successfully. We are providing hand-sanitiser and arranging for socially distanced seating but masks may be removed while listening to music and we are serving teas, coffees and biscuits as normal.

Our programme up to the end of the season in June 2022 is as follows:-

2021

Friday 12th November
Helen Roberts will give a talk on Handel.”He was the master of us all. The greatest composer who ever lived” said Beethoven. Helen says “many of his works are instantly recognisable. But so much of his music is less well known. I hope to demonstrate the huge range of his music in my illustrated talk”.

Friday 10th December
Our old friends the Jenner Jazz Quartet will play for our Christmas meeting. Fruit punch and mince pies will be served

2022

Friday 14th January
Gareth Williams will put on his classical music hat and introduce us to his Rockhampton Wind Quintet

Friday 11th February
A visit from performers from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Watch this space to find out which performer or performers they will be sending.!.

Friday 11th March
The Brandon Hill Quartet return with a programme including string quartets, details of the works to be played will be given nearer the time..

Friday 8th April
Miscellany, the ladies singing group, gave us a wonderful concert in December 2019. This time they will be avoiding the usual Christmas favourites and giving us a selection from their large repertoire.

Friday 13th May
Marc Elton (violin) and Despina Hornatidou (harpsichord) will entertain us with a morning of baroque music – there may also be one or two contemporary works for this line up.

Friday 10th June
Local conductor, organist, pianist and music teacher Nigel Davis will be Jos Gregson’s guest as he decides what records he would have with him on a Desert Island and we find out about his very musical life and how he would cope with the solitude of the island.

Annual Lunch – venue to be advised

GENERAL
The U3A Music Group meets on the second Friday of each month from September to June inclusive in Alveston Methodist Church at 10.30am. The church is spacious and there is plenty of room if you just want to turn up on the day. There is a charge of £3 per meeting for visitors. Membership for the season (10 meetings) is £14, (a full year). In the event of the programme being curtailed due to the resumption of lockdown conditions we will either refund members or retain a proportionate credit.

We aim to have 8 of the 10 meetings as live performances from soloists and groups drawn from the local area and on occasions from wider afield. The June meeting is always in a Desert Island Discs format.

Committee: Jos Gregson (411652), Alan Purssord (Treasurer) (501438), Phil Holland (413897), Val Ingram (614404), Elizabeth Smith (418695), Mair Turner (417487), Megan Walden (413524)

The links on the right show programmes for the current & last season and a gallery of pictures of some of our previous guest artists.