Stonegrove Serenade December 2022
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 20 December, 19:00
This month will be an evening concert and we will light the Chanukah candles as a community before the concert.
We welcome performers Leora Cohen and Paul Wingfield
Leora Cohen is an artist diploma scholarship student at the Royal College of Music. She plays a c.1720 Turin school violin kindly on loan from the Harrison-Frank Family Foundation. She currently performs recitals across the UK, as well as international concerts and high-profile events with the LGT Young Soloists, with whom she opened the 2022 Heidelberg Festival playing Kreisler.
Paul Wingfield attended Chetham’s School of Music, where he studied the oboe with Sonia Wrangham and Evelyn Barbirolli, and the piano with Charles Hopkins. He lectures in Music at Cambridge University and has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century music. Paul specialises in Czech Music. He is an expert on Janacek and is on the Board of Editors for the Complete Martinu Edition.
Concert Programme:
Guiseppe Tartini (1692-1770), Sonata in G minor, “Devil’s Trill” (ed. Kreisler), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), two songs arranged for violin, ‘Wie Melodien’, 1886, (arr. A. Walter Kramer), ‘Immer leise wird mein Schlummer’, 1886, (arr. Paul Wingfield), Brahms, Sonata in A major for Piano and Violin, no.2 op.100, 1886, Fritz Kreisler, Liebesleid (1910)
We invite you to enjoy a light supper in our pop up cafe before the concert. ‘Cafe 118’ will be open 17:45. The café will re-open after the concert with drinks and doughnuts. Please note when booking if you will be using the café.
All are welcome. Admission is free, suggested donation £5.
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