Past events archive (2021 and earlier)
Portsmouth Festivities is back for 2018 and it’s just as big as ever!
Portsmouth Festivities, Portsmouth’s flagship multi-disciplinary arts festival, is now in its 19th year, and the programme continues with a fantastic mix of concerts, talks, theatre
29 March, 2018
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Review: The Chichester Singers sing Handel, Parry and Duruflé – 24 March
The Chichester Singers, with the Southern Pro Musica orchestra, served up a mixed programme of music in Chichester Cathedral, with compositions by three composers from
28 March, 2018
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Review: Petersfield Music Festival Youth Concerts
This year was another resounding success for Petersfield’s young musicians, with over 330 singers and instrumentalists coming together from the local area to collaborate in
28 March, 2018
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Review: Petersfield Orchestra concert – 15 March
The Petersfield Orchestra’s concert for this year’s Petersfield Festival was the third with their new conductor, Mark Biggins, but his first at the Festival; and
26 March, 2018
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Review: Dutch Renaissance Masters – 24 March
The Renaissance Choir are a very fine group of singers and they were in particularly good form for Saturday’s concert in Petersfield. Their programme, featuring
26 March, 2018
Past events archive (2021 and earlier)
Preview: Portsmouth Light Orchestra’s Spring Concert
Musical Director Edward McDermott’s dabs are all over the programme for the Portsmouth Light Orchestra’s Spring Concert. So they should be. The choice of numbers
25 March, 2018
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Review: Royal Marines and the Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra Concert
Here’s a recipe for a great evening with a spectacular orchestra. Take musicians from the Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Portsmouth and Collingwood and mix them
24 March, 2018
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Review: Bach St John Passion at the Petersfield Musical Festival
Reading Piers Burton Page’s excellent programme notes, one wondered what the good people of Leipzig, attending the first performance of Bach’s “St John Passion” on
23 March, 2018
Past events archive (2021 and earlier)
Preview: Handel masterpiece for The Chichester Singers
The Chichester Singers offer a programme of Handel, Parry and Duruflé when they perform in Chichester Cathedral on Saturday, March 24 at 7.30pm. Musical director
22 March, 2018
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Review: The Passion of Christ – Portsmouth Festival Choir with The Consort of Twelve
Portsmouth Festival Choir chose Emsworth Baptist Church for its performance, on Sunday evening, of Handel’s The Passion of Christ. The choir coped well with an acoustic
21 March, 2018
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Review: Liz le Grove and Russ Young at Holy Trinity, Gosport
Temperatures of barely above freezing could not keep us away from Holy Trinity today where we were rewarded with a super recital of organ and
20 March, 2018
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Review: Havant Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
Antonin Dvořák’s violin concerto in A minor must be a tricky number. Johannes Brahms’s favourite fiddler, the legendary Joseph Joachim, took one look at the
19 March, 2018