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October 2015 – October 2019 Oct 2015 – Oct 2019
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Oct
30
Fri
Keats, Love and Myth Understandings – John Hegley @ Jacksons Lane
Tickets
Oct 30 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

A selection of verses on the above topics, devised as an adult show, but tolerable to some 10 year olds. Verses concerning Keats’s relationships with vegetables and surgery. A long look at love, both on, and off the buses and musings on the old chestnut of Orpheus’s disruptive turn around. Deep and daft. Come and Sing.

‘Awesomely mundane’ Independent

‘Scandalously talented’ Sunday Times

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Jacksons Lane Tags: 40th anniversary anniversary special jacksons lane John Hegley Keats love Orpheus sing verses
Nov
12
Sat
Highgate Choral Society sings Brahms German Requiem @ All Hallows Church
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Nov 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The opening concert in our 2016-2017 season has a sombre feel, commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Starting with The Banks of Green Willow by George Butterworth, who was killed in action on 5th August 1916, aged 31, this work is complemented by Ronald Corp’s The Somme – A Lament. The mood lifts with the choral arrangement of Serenade to Music by Butterworth’s contemporary, Vaughan Williams and the programme closes with Brahms’s glorious German Requiem.

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Tags: All Hallows Church Brahms Butterworth choral music HCS Vaughan Williams
Jan
12
Sat
Amritsar 1919 @ Coolhurst Lawn Tennis and Squash Club
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Jan 12 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

As preparations are underway to commemorate the centenary of what is seen by many as the worst attrocity of the British Raj, historian Dr Zareer Masani separates myth from reality and explains the causes, context and consequences of the massacre and why it’s been so crucial in Indo-British relations.

This Coolhurst Speaker Evening includes dinner. Price £25. Contact Michaeljocallaghan@hotmail.com for tickets.

Dr Masani has a doctorate in history from the university of Oxford. His work may be familiar to readers of the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, and to BBC Radio 4 listeners.

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Oct
12
Sat
A Night At The Opera: Dinner & Talk @ Coolhurst Tennis and Squash Club
Tickets
Oct 12 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Coolhurst Speaker Evening with Penny Chalmers.

As well as chairing the Coolhurst GMC, Penny Chalmers has had two parallel careers:
consultant in Social Services, and professional opera singer.

 

In October 1996 Penny learned the leading lady had
gone ill after the second act of a Covent Garden opera,
and the understudy was abroad.
There was one chance to avert disaster.
She had minutes to decide if she would accept
their request to go on as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre,
one of the most demanding roles in the repertoire,
but one she had not prepared.
This world class production featured a cast of opera stars.
It was conducted by one of the all-time greats,
Sir Bernard Haintink, and it was being broadcast live.
Come to the speaker evening on October 12th
to hear what happened next.

Tickets are on sale at the bar at £21,or for 18 years and under,£18
Register your interest with Sarah
or Michael O’Callaghan. michaeljocallaghan@hotmail.com 07771593404

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Tags: Coolhurst Tennis and Squash Club Dinner and talk
October 2015 – October 2019 Oct 2015 – Oct 2019