Solent Concert Orchestra summer concert SOLENT Concert Orchestra gave what must have been one of the first performances by an amateur orchestra during Covid when they played outside Bramshaw Village Hall recently. The concert, under the baton of their musical director Simon Wilkins, was in aid of the Village Hall Trust which is striving to overcome the serious structural damage caused by a freak storm last year. Social distancing was in force but this did not prevent the event being very well supported by both the villagers and the orchestra’s loyal supporters, including its long-standing patron Dr. Julian Lewis MP.
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A great pianist celebrates a significant birthday, plus music for solo winds and a rare French ballet score
by Graham RicksonSaturday, 17 July 2021
Martha Argerich Edition (EuroArts)
Almost eight hours of Martha Argerich on film. What a glorious prospect! This six-DVD set mostly consists of recordings of live concerts. The set was released to celebrate the great Argentinian’s 80th birthday last month. Again and again in performance, she finds depths, colours and transcendence that simply stop you in your tracks. There is a Prokofiev 3rd Concerto with the LSO and Previn recorded in Croydon in 1977, where she switches from the most delicate of dream sequences to playing which is forceful, propulsive, totally commanding. And there are those occasional precious moments when t
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Denis Robinson Column: Special memories of my big assignment at Rolls-Royce
I have a very special memory of the Rolls-Royce site in Hucknall, which has been bought by ITP Aero to end more than 80 years of the company s presence in the town.
Friday, 21st May 2021, 5:00 pm
It was in the mid-1950s, just a couple of years after I had started work as a cub reporter with the Dispatch, that I was given by far my biggest assignment up to that time.
This was to report on development at Hucknall of the Flying Bedstead, the strange-looking contraption which made history as the first aircraft in the world to make a vertical ascent and landing, powered solely by two Nene engines. This paved the way for the Harrier jump jet.