Stonegrove Serenade August 2023

Stonegrove Serenade – Music for the Community

EHRS is delighted to present Stonegrove Serenade, a series of concerts at EHRS. On every third Tuesday of the month, please join us for music featuring up and coming classical musicians.

Audiences and musicians alike have praised Stonegrove Serenade’s fantastic acoustics, intimate concert setting and warm welcome and attendees have been bowled over with the standard of talent the series has attracted. Café 118 has delighted customers with its fresh and tasty homemade food. Some of the comments we have received is that its ‘an oasis of calm’ and ‘it doesn’t matter if you’re on your own, there is always someone friendly to sit with’.
Stonegrove Serenade and Café 118 are run by volunteers with support from EHRS and Simply Scrumptious Catering. We pay our talented musicians – high calibre students and graduates of The Royal College of Music – providing work for them, as well as an opportunity for audiences to enjoy a very reasonably priced meal, concert and company. We are grateful for everyone’s donations on the door and some generous extra donations which enable us to continue to book musicians. All funds raised go into the provision of Stonegrove Serenade and Café 118 and not to other synagogue purposes.

Tuesday 15 August, 19:30
Felix Mendelssohn: A Jewish Composer? with Haia Livni
Stonegrove Serenade’s August concert will be a very special evening of music and learning with special guest Haia Livni. Haia is an internationally acclaimed musician who has toured worldwide with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. She is a graduate of the Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Her lecture/concert on this night follows on from her excellent ‘The Jewish Violin’ concert at EHRS last year. We will enjoy excerpts from Mendelssohn’s violin concertos, the Italian Symphony and spring songs, performed live, together with stories from his life and the artistic milieu in which he lived in early Nineteenth century Hamburg and Leipzig, where a young man originally named Jakob Mendelssohn could become one of the greats of classical music. Hosted by Rabbi Mark.

We invite you to enjoy a light supper in our pop up cafe before the concert. ‘Cafe 118’ will be open 18:30. The café will re-open after the concert with drinks, desserts and a chat. Please note when booking if you will be using the café.

All are welcome. Admission is free, suggested donation £5.

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