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Elvaston Ensemble

Friday 14 December, 7pm
St Mary’s Church, Shincliffe, Durham. DH1 2ND.

The Elvaston Ensemble are all Cobweb players: Chrissie (flute), Anita (oboe), Tracy (clarinet), Rye (bassoon) and Clare (horn). They will be performing as a quintet in a concert of classical and festive music.

Tickets are priced £10, which will include festive refreshments in the hall afterwards.

Proceeds will be shared between Ludworth Cobwebs and St Mary’s Church fabric fund.

We found out all about jazz this year!

Thanks go to our special guest, the inspirational saxophonist Richard Ingham, who gave us a fun introduction to improvisation.

We really enjoyed his own pieces, clapping jazzy rhythms and singing some of the melodies as well as playing. Richard has now kindly donated them to our Cobweb library. (If you want to try them again, or if you couldn’t make the weekend and would like to find out what you’ve missed, come to Ludworth next term!)

We also looked at Beethoven’s 8th symphony and Leonora Overture No. 1, and Anita played the beautiful oboe concerto by Bellini.

Anita will be confirming the dates for next year’s Autumn residential very soon, so get your diaries ready!

The Cobweb Chamber Orchestra performed “an evening of music from Bohemia” on 24 November at Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Trust in Penrith.

There were pieces by Dvorak, Janacek, Hummel and Vorisec.

Krommer’s double clarinet concerto (op. 35 in E flat major) proved to be crowd pleaser!

Watch out for future CCO concerts as it may be featured again…

Dear all,

A huge well done to those of you who joined Mark for a study day on Elgar Symphony No.2. It was a difficult work but you all did fantastic and it was an extremely enjoyable day.

In this week’s Cobweb News:
A message from Andy Jackson – Creative Director
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The Royal British Legion Women’s Section and other Ludworth residents had been planning a Remembrance service for the Armistice Day centenary. Dave, who runs the Community Centre where the new Ludworth group meets on a Tuesday evening, had set his heart on having a bugler to play the Last Post.

This was something that hadn’t happened in Ludworth for as long as anyone could remember, but everyone he contacted was playing elsewhere, so he started to talk about it to the Cobweb French horn player…who was eventually persuaded to find a cornet, and learn how to play it.

Here she is, helping to make Ludworth’s Remembrance service very special.

Some of our trustees will be representing Cobwebs at the annual conference of the Culture Durham Meet 2018 on Thursday 22^nd November from 1.30pm until 6pm at the World Heritage Site, Durham Cathedral and at Durham University’s Palace Green Library.

Please read further information about Culture Durham. Look for the Cobweb logo here!