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Listed on July 5, 2013 by Alston Hall in A new website, Featured CoursesWhy not spend Real Lancashire day at Alston Hall as Bill prepares and demonstrates a range of Lancashire recipes using locally sourced ingredients.
Please note this session includes coffee and afternoon tea only as you will taste Bill’s food throughout the day. Read more ...
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Dillington in A new website, Featured CoursesShakespeare’s comedies are conventionally thought of as being romances – which they are – but they were also meant to amuse his audiences. Sometimes he did this by inserting a comic scene. Read more ...
Listed on May 31, 2013 by LeisureCourses.net in A new websiteAs from 1 June 2013, you will only find members of ARCA listed on www.LeisureCourses.net - a new portal website containing information and links to residential lifelong learning courses for adults in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in mainland Europe.Read more ...
Listed on May 24, 2013 by Dillington in A new website, Featured CoursesDillington, with the gardens looking their best, and the long summer evenings provide a perfect setting for an entirely new idea – our very own summer music festival. Put together by pianist Ashley Wass, he will be joined by the Solstice String Quartet, Mathew Trusler (violin), Mei Yi Foo (piano) and others. Read more ...
Listed on May 24, 2013 by Dillington in A new website, Featured CoursesWith reference to such works of art and others like the Bayeux Tapestry and the illuminated manuscripts, we will highlight the major staging posts on a cultural journey through medieval England.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesAs well as looking at great works by composers such as Handel, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner and examining that delicate relationship between words and music, we’ll take works by lesser known composers and talk about opera’s changing position within societies past and present.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesFrom Elgar to MacMillan and beyond the last century has seen an explosion of British creative talent. One composer of special significance to this explosion was Benjamin Britten, who was born one hundred years ago.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesThis course is ideal for those who have perhaps enjoyed listening to Classic fM or watching the Last Night of the Proms and would like to know more about classical music but don’t know where to begin.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesThis new International Summer School for cellists is led by William Bruce, recitalist, concerto soloist and long-serving member of the orchestra of English National Opera.Read more ...
Listed on May 10, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesA new special music weekend in Hitchin where groups large or small or individuals and couples who want a short break with the possibility - but not the obligation - of taking advantage of some of our musical facilities are able to come to Benslow Music for a favourable rate.Read more ...