Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Event Number: 53
Talk by Barbican Brass
*Please note: change of venue. This event will now take place in the Teaching Block, Room 6, University of Surrey. Not Studio One*
University of Surrey, Teaching Block Room 6, 2 - 4 pm
Free
Members of Barbican Brass visit the University prior to their concert on Wednesday 23 March (event no 58) to talk about their musical journeys.
Event Number: 54
From Byrd to Bach
Graham Thorp organ
St Mary’s Church, Quarry Street, 7.30pm
Guildford Institute members £4, non-members £6
Tickets only available from The Guildford Institute: 01483 562142
Introductory talk: Wednesday 16 March at 2.45 pm at the Guildford Institute (event no 36)
Byrd The Woods so Wild
Bull In Nomine IX
Sweelinck Est-ce Mars
Scheidt Cantilena Anglica de Fortuna
Buxtehude Chorale Variations on The Lord’s Prayer
Bach Easter Chorale Preludes from Orgelbüchlein
Bach Great Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 547
In an attractive programme ranging from variations on folk tunes to a Bach masterpiece, Graham’s programme will show how Bach’s rich use of motives and figuration in his organ music was partly based in a creative tradition going back to English composers of the late Renaissance. He will continue his pilgrimage through Bach’s Orgelbüchlein and end with the buoyant Prelude and compelling Fugue in C major from his late period.
Event Number: 55
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
(US, 2002) Director: Paul Justman, cert PG, 116 mins
With introductory talk by Dr Tim Hughes
University of Surrey, PATS Dance Studio, 7pm
Admission free, but booking required
University of Surrey Box Office only: 01483 686876
Standing In The Shadows Of Motown is the film that finally told the story of one of the most successful and important musical groups in the history of popular music, the Motown Records studio band collectively known as “The Funk Brothers”. Combining interviews, archival footage, dramatic recreations, and live performances accompanying numerous guest vocalists, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown reveals how this little-known but influential group of hard-working Detroit jazz and R&B musicians provided the music for virtually every song released by Motown from 1959 to 1972 and “played on more number-one hits than The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, and The Beach Boys combined.