Hello Everyone

The fifth year of Adult Learner Concerts organised by members of these forums kicks off with the event at Teddington on 7th February 2009


Details are available from the website here. Closing date for entries is 5th January 2009


Please come and support the adult learners who have made these concerts such a success over the years.


Teachers: This event is open to your adult pupils even though they are not themselves Forums members, please encourage them to come along and make the most of an opportunity to perform in front of an incredibly sympathetic audience who are all sharing the same experience.

Cheers
Katyjay

My attempts to be the first off the mark were thwarted as i havn't got my check book with me! However, I do know wjhat I want to play and just about have the piece ready!

Well done Katyjay - I'm sure it will be as good as ever!

My goodness, will it really be five years?

Will get my application off to you just as soon as I can find StuMac's chequebook!

Ambs x

Thanks KatyJay for organising this it sounds great.

Hopefully I'll be there I've just got to sort out my weekends for next year - Oh and decide what to play!

Sue

For info, until katyjay updates the contact link.

The email address on the website for me is now defunct - it got spammed to oblivion so I simply deleted the whole thing. If anyone should need to contact me in the meantime about the location etc. of the concert, please PM me.

Katyjay will either contact me direct to confirm the update on the website, or make an announcement on here.

Thanks

Just my luck! I thought I'd checked every single link, but obviously that's the one that got away....

Sorry Amanda, will fix it shortly.

I have my form filled in.

I don't have a clue what I'm doing.

That sentence certainly has a double-meaning.

Hope to be there, but can't confirm/enter yet.

Yay! That date is perfect as I'm attending a viola workshop at Benslow the following day. I just need to learn a piece and...

W

I have a gaggle of adult students at the moment who would really benefit from more performance experience - I'll try to persuade some of them to come.

I'm now on an operational computer 200 miles from home

I'll get a form to you soon. It'll have a lot of gaps in it

Hi Will

It is an opportunity for adult learners to play to each other. We rehearse in the morning, then have the concert for each other plus family and friends in the afternoon.


Have a look at the website for further details. Link's in the first post of the thread.

Form has been posted - just need to find a piece to play...

W

I still have an accompaniment of yours somewhere that we never got to do.

Have printed my form, though I have no idea as yet what I'll be playing/singing.

I'll have a go at accompanying if anyone needs an accompanist.

That's great, thank you DaisyChain

Volunteer accompanists are always very, very welcome

Looking forward to seeing you all there

Is it that time of year already?

There are a couple of other things which I might have to do on 7th February, but if I can get out of them, I'll be there, and might even inflict some ropey piano-playing on you all.




What do you play, Will?

I'm seriously considering coming, katyjay, though it's a bit scary. What is the piano like at Bushy House? Is it a grand or an upright?

It's a Steinway grand, BMum, but a friendly, lived-in one. I haven't decided yet whether I'm singing or playing, but if it's playing I'll be keeping you company on the working-towards-Grade-8 stuff.

I'm really tempted but we're going to the Met opera screening that evening and it starts at 6pm so I'll have to leave before 5 (to get to Notting Hill Gate in time). What time does the concert normally finish? Would it be rude if I leave early?

We are usually done by about 5 so you should be ok.

Thanks, sbhoa. Will send off the form tomorrow, then. No idea what to play though...

PS> Happy to accompany too if needed

....and this year's Fastest Form winner is Willobie

My form is in the post - remembered to bring my cheque book to work!

Looking forward to it already.

Ambs has asked if I'd like to do a duet with her

Looking forward to that.

Aw, that's nice!

Amber's music arrived today. Monteverdi.

Looks singable.

*gets practising*

Andante has asked me to do a duet with her!

Two singing duets!

Look forward to seeing what the pair of you choose!

Me too..I believe KJ will be advising!

that's good. Will be asking kj to go through my duet tomorrow with me.

I'll be handing two application forms in tomorrow for Teddington . Hope you're getting plenty of forms in katyjay!

Just to say I'm sorry, but something else has come up for 7th February now, so I won't be able to make it. I don't know whether I would have had the confidence to come anyway, so maybe it's partly that I've chickened out!

Hope you all have a good day anyway. Maybe I'll make one of these events later on next year.

That's a pity. Keep an eye on the '09 calendar to see if there's any other event you want to come to.

I would like to do a duet on the violin but I need someone to volunteer to do a duet with me. Any offers. I am thinking about something by Bach.

Well, katyjay and I went through the song, and I can officially say that there are 'difficult bits'.

Also, I can confirm that sbhoa and I are officially coming. I handed both forms, and payment, to katyjay today.

How's it going for early birds?

I'm looking forward to having lots of TBC entries updated with actual pieces....

And I guess I should decide what I'm going to play too....

I was really hoping to be one of them again this time, having missed the last Teddington concert, but it's clashed with an unmissable chamber music weekend with friends at Belstead (Ipswich). That's been a highlight of our musical calendar since some time in the 1970s! I hope you will all have a great time again. I had my (virtual) fingers crossed that Teddington would be the previous weekend.

Have you done any flyers this year katyjay? If so, could I have a few this year for distribution purposes?

When's the very last minute I can let you know pls?

People who need accompaniments need to have made up their minds and let both me and the accompanist know within a week of the closing date for applications - and let the accompanist have the pieces.

People who don't need accompaniments, I am prepared to stretch to a week before the event itself, as I then have to do the draw and the programme.

Thanks

I may just have found a duet for DC and me.

Are we allowed to know what it is, or will it be a nice surprise?

I need to look at it first, and to get it passed by Management.

Management is looking forward to this