Tracy Reed

We had a wonderful day in Askham; thank you to all of you who attended and a special well done to Tracy for playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto so beautifully!

In this week’s Cobweb News
‘New World’ Symphony Study Day in Middlesbrough this Sunday
A message from the Dipton Group for Thursday 22 July
A few sentences from Andy Jackson about the Summer programme, with enrolment links

In this week’s Cobweb News:
Mozart Day
New World Symphony Study Day, Middlesbrough
Guinea Pig Orchestra date

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We had a lovely celebration for ‘Make Music Day’, looking back at our online efforts over the last year and hearing some great performances and demonstrations from Cobwebbers. Congratulations to everyone who took part and a special thanks to Emma for recapping our CVO journey.

Our friend Iona Brown (violin) is doing a recital with David Murray on Sunday at 3pm and there are still tickets left to view it live as well as live-streamed. Iona is donating her fee to http://henrydancerdays.co.uk/.  For more information and tickets, please visit: Dyad – The Globe (theglobenewcastle.bar)

In this week’s Cobweb News:
Mozart Day – Saturday 17th July
Words from The Chair of the trustees
York Group Update

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We’re inviting you to join us to celebrate International Make Music Day on Monday 21st June at 7 p.m.

This might be our last online event (ever / for a while…), to take a look back at how we’ve managed to keep playing and engaging with orchestral music over the last year or so.

There’ll be both live and recorded performances, a review of the 6 performances by the Cobweb Virtual Orchestra, and a chance to play along to Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture. You can find the music here: https://imslp.org/wiki/Die_Hebriden,_Op.26_(Mendelssohn,_Felix)

Please sign up by clicking here (and let us know if you have any items you’d like to perform), and you will be sent a link to the Zoom event.

We hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Andy and Lorna

In this week’s Cobweb News:
Cobweb Musical Book Club – this Thursday
Make Music Day Concert Event
Live Event in Spennymoor (a few spaces left!)
Dates for your Diary

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We’re looking forward to our first live event on Sunday – we’ll let you know how it goes next week!

In this week’s Cobweb News:
TRIPLE FFF: The Music of Farrenc, Franck, and Fauré
Cobweb Composers and Arrangers Group News, May 2021

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Now that we are beginning to come out of lockdown, some of the local groups will be starting up again in the next few weeks. If you haven’t heard from them already, group secretaries will soon be in touch to decide on the best way forward for your group. We hope that by September, we will be back to regular weekly activity across the whole region.

This week’s Cobweb News:
TRIPLE FFF: The Music of Farrenc, Franck, and Fauré 
A discussion with Joe Davies

Thursday 27th May, 7pm
On Zoom, £4/5

Back by popular demand, Joe is bringing an exciting and intriguing discussion on French music on the 27th May. You won’t need your instruments for this one, just enjoy the music! This is what Joe says:

A triple French spectacular as we listen to the glorious music of Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), César Franck (1822-1890), and Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). Why are French composers such good orchestrators? Why does French music go so quickly in and out of fashion? And what makes French music sound so… French?

To enrol, please click here.

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Lorna Wright

Event Coordinator, Cobweb Orchestra

We enjoyed a lovely concert party on Saturday – thank you to all those who performed, and supported for making it such a great event.  We’re fast approaching being able to play in-person again, and we have a live event planned for Sunday 23rd May 2-6pm. There’s a brilliantly balanced orchestra formed, but we still have space for one clarinet player and an oboist.

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Cobweb Musical Book Club
Tyneside Cobwebs – Virtual Play Along Continue reading →

We’re excited for our concert party this weekend! If you haven’t yet signed up to be in the audience please do ASAP, we’d love to have you support your fellow players. More details below.

In this week’s Cobweb News
Cobweb Virtual Concert Party – this Saturday!
Cobweb Musical Book Club
Brass Group Update
Make Music Day – a note from Andy

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