Dorset County Museum Music Society

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Membership of the Music Society for the 2007-8 season costs £48 (juniors/students £5). Please apply to Sue Bruce-Payne, 3 Beech Road, Weymouth DT3 5NP, telephone 01305 816178.

Single concerts are £12 (£2), tickets from the Museum, or at the door.

Further information from Eileen Johnson, 01305 266028.

Concerts (at the Museum except where shown)

2008
September 17 (Wed) 19.30: Chamber Domain.
Bridge Phantasy for piano quartet, Mozart Piano quartet in G minor, Mozart, arr. Pärt Adagio for piano trio, Brahms Piano quartet in C minor.
October 15 (Wed) 19.30: Zephyr.
Rachel Holt (flute), Ruth Davies (oboe), Chris Swann (clarinet and saxophone), Helen Peller (bassoon), Lindsey Stoker (horn).
Music by Verdi, Reicha, Milhaud, Patterson, Vintner, Arnold, Ligeti, Farkas.
November 19 (Wed) 19.30: Wu Qian, piano.
Prokofiev Piano sonata no.2, Albeniz Iberia, book 1, Rachmaninov Five pieces, op.3, Rachmaninov Piano sonata no.2.
2009
February 11 (Wed) 19.30: London Concertante.
Martinu String Sextet, Schönberg Verklärte Nacht, Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence.
March 18 (Wed) 19.30: Victoria Davies, harp, and James Turnbull, oboe.
Solos and duos, including music by Alan Hoddinott, Michael Berkeley, Spohr and Debussy.
April 22 (Wed) 19.30: Doric String Quartet, with Bartholomew LaFollette, cello.
Haydn String quartet in C, op.50 no.2, Debussy String quartet in G minor, op.10 (1893), Schubert String quartet in C, D.956.

Lunchtime concerts at the Museum

Dorchester Piano Trio: Peter Oakes (piano), Russell Dawson (violin) and Sally Flann (cello).
Thursdays, 16 October 2008, 15 January 2009, 19 March 2009, 1.05pm.
Three concerts in recognition of Dorset County Museum's purchase of three portraits by George Romney, including music from Romney's lifetime. Piano trios by Haydn, violin sonatas by Joseph Gibbs and Handel, music for cello by Eccles and other English composers. Entrance free.