with Steve Lodev (keyboards), Steve Waterman & Martin Shaw (tpts,), Mark Nightingale & Barnaby Dickinson (tmbs)
Ben Crosland, acoustic and electric bass player, is based in Yorkshire and assembled this premier-league brass section to realise a commission from the 2011 Marsden Jazz Festival, inspired by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, An Open Place. The compositions are inspired by specific pieces, such as Henry Moore’s Reclining Figures, and Barbara Hepworth’s Family of Man, the whole composition is suffused with the gentle, pastoral quality of the Park. A project like this would be easy meat for a classical brass group, but here the fascination is how some of the most technically-brilliant brassmen of the jazz world preserve the excitement of jazz, spontaneity and creativity without ‘raising the roof’, which in other circumstances they could easily do.
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In this lecture, Professor Gareth Stedman Jones looks at the last decade and a half of Marx’s life, a period in which he effectively gave up further work on Capital and read up instead on the village community and the early history of man. He was interested in particular in the new work on pre-history which developed from the 1860s onwards connecting this with a notion of primitive communism and an epoch in history before patriarchy and political hierarchy.
Professor Gareth Stedman Jones is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University since 1974. He was Professor of Political Science, History Faculty, Cambridge University from 1997 and in 2010 became Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include An End to Poverty? (2004), a long introduction to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (2002), and The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, co-edited with Gregory Claeys, 2011.
He is currently working on an intellectual biography of Marx commissioned by Penguin and a more general work on political thought between the French Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848.
Doors open at 7pm and wine and nibbles will be served. The talk starts promptly at 7.30pm and will last about an hour.
Tickets are non-refundable but, as a courtesy to others, please let us know if you cannot attend.
Our resident string quartet The Billroth Quartet (Thomas Leate and Christian Halstead, violins, Simon Ballard, viola, James Greenfield, cello) perform free monthly concerts with a wide-ranging programme. This month they perform music by Dimitri Shostakovich, together with contemporary works by modern composers.
The Billroth Quartet perform a versatile selection of summer melodies at Lauderdale House including works of jazz and tango. A delightful mix of composers including Mendelsohn, Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Piazzolla.
The series opens with a song recital featuring two Samling Artists performing Beethoven’s cycle An die ferne Geliebte, as well as songs by Schubert and Finzi, and texts by Shakespeare. Nick Pritchard has won the London Bach Society Singer’s Prize, and has recently performed for Opera Holland Park and Opera North. Ian Tindale is the recipient of the Accompanist’s Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the Gerald Moore Award, and the Royal Overseas League Music Competition Accompanists’ Prize.
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A solo piano recital of Schumann and Chopin, including Schumann’s Fantasiestücke and Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F minor. Kausikan Rajeshkumar won the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in 2009, and has since won numerous other competitions including the Parnassos International Piano Competition. He has performed in prestigious venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and has been broadcast on BBC television and radio.
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Dynamic young clarinettist Joseph Shiner will perform the London premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen’s Nocturne, alongside works by Weber, Lutoslawski and others. A recipient of numerous solo prizes, Joseph has also performed at venues including St John’s Smith Square and the Wigmore Hall. He is a member of the Magnard Ensemble and has collaborated with the Endellion and Alauda Quartets.
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A concert for a Summer’s Eve.
Proceeds to Waterlow Park and The Harington Scheme.
Tickets can be purchased at Brooksby Newsagent in Highgate Village or via tickettailor on: http://www.waterlowpark.org.uk (online booking fees apply).