Summer : 2024

dear All,: Please find attached our programme for the forthcoming term. Members and their contacts continue to offer an excellent range of concert evenings. The term starts with a recital given by two University of Bristol students (please note the date, 22 April), continuing through to 8 July, featuring the welcome return of many familiar, well-loved performers and groups, as well as a new group of talented young students on 1 July.

There are two particular points to note:

Dates:-: For various reasons we have had to diverge from our normal fortnightly routine. The dates for this term are printed on the front of the programme.

Cashless Payment: Please note that the Club can now accept payment by card only. Arrangements for paying in cash have become increasingly difficult and are now impossible.

Other Matters

Club Composers: We have recently celebrated two particularly special evenings: a concert of music by our esteemed President, Raymond Warren, and another one of excerpts from Jolyon Laycock’s chamber opera. We are aiming in the next season to return to the format featuring works by a range of composers in a single concert. If you would like your work to be included, please get in touch with Jolyon Laycock, jolyonlaycock@hotmail.com

Thanks:-: Club evenings cannot happen without a huge amount of support in the background. The sterling members of the Music Club Committee generously give their time to provide a skeleton front-of-house team, admitting members and visitors, serving refreshments in the interval and giving help with stage management. Recently our Committee members have been boosted by other regular audience members offering to take on aspects of these tasks, either on an ongoing basis, or by arrangement for a particular date. This help is invaluable. If you feel you could similarly offer your help in some capacity alongside Committee members - perhaps as a one-off experiment with no further commitment or expectation? - we should be very glad to hear from you!

With best wishes and thanks - and looking forward to seeing you at one or more of our concerts this coming Summer Term, starting immediately after the Easter Monday Bank Holiday, indeed in just about a week’s time… Meanwhile, enjoy the Easter break!

Victor Barley (chiarman)

Janet Dixon (Programme Secretary)