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BLACKHEATH HALLS
Spring 2019 • Box office 020 8463 0100 • blackheathhalls.com
FILM
MUSIC
TALKS
DANCE
JOIN IN
COMEDY
ANGELA BARNES
'Pace is fast, material strong, delivery perfect' Chortle
THE FIRST
WALTZ FAMILY FUN
THE MUSIC AND SOURPUSS
THE MAGIC
CONTENTS
BLACKHEATH HALLS
Spring 2019 • Box office 020 8463 0100 • blackheathhalls.com
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HIGHLIGHTS
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FAMILY
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DANCE
Classic tales together with Journey into the heart of Tango
MUSIC COMEDY TALKS OPERA FAMILY ARTS & CRAFTS JOIN IN DANCE THEATRE FILM ARCHITECTURE
audience participation to Argentino
enchant children of all ages
CONTACTS
10 39 44
TAKE
Director
Gemma Okell
Operations Manager DATES FOR COMEDY THEATRE
Hannah Benton
YOUR DIARY
YOUR
Development Officer Featuring some of the biggest The exploits and passions of
Emily Perry and best comedians on the composer Ethel Smyth
Technical Manager UK circuit
Malcolm Richards
SEAT 15 40 45
Programme & Hires Manager
Clare Fisher
Marketing Managers
Janine Howlett
Nicola Metselaar
TALKS FILM
BOOKING
BE PART OF
BLACKHEATH HALLS
Community Engagement Manager
Pop-up community cinema
Rose Ballantyne
Bookkeeper
INFORMATION Well-known authors and
personalities talk about their showing award-winning films
Debra Skeet books with Q&A from the
audience
Box Office & Friends Administrator
Viviana Capriello
Tel: 020 8318 9758
22 42 47
Email:
enquiries@blackheathhalls.com
Box office:
BECOME PART OF THE FABRIC 020 8463 0100
OF BLACKHEATH HALLS blackheathhalls.com
Email: MUSIC JOIN IN HOW TO FIND US
Name a seat in the newly refurbished Great Hall boxoffice@blackheathhalls.com
Make new friends, learn new
Contact Emily Perry on 020 8305 3894 or Join us for a wide range of
skills and take to the stage
email e.perry@blackheathhalls.com to find out more Brochure design by Harpin & Waring
concerts this season
www.ampersand.media
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LEVERET
FRI 8 MAR 8pm
TICKETS: £16
BUDAPEST CAFÉ
ORCHESTRA
SUN 7 APR 7.30pm
TICKETS: £17
EMILY SMITH AND
JAMIE MCCLENNAN
FRI 25 JAN 8pm
TICKETS: £16
ANGELA BARNES JO CAULFIELD
Rose-Tinted Killing Time
SUN 7 APR 8pm SAT 2 MAR 8pm
TICKETS: £14 TICKETS: £15
Parental guidance: 14+ Parental Guidance: 14+
"Feels like a sure-fire bet
the instant she utters
her opening lines." The
Scotsman
MARK STEEL
Every Little Thing’s
Gonna Be Alright
SAT 23 MAR 8pm
TICKETS: £15
Parental Guidance: 14+
COMEDY
HAPPY HOUR!
20% off all drinks
6.30-7.30pm
at all comedy
events
JEREMY VINE
What The Hell Is
Going On?!
FRI 5 APR 7.30pm
TICKETS: £16
HANSEL AND GRETEL
SAT 23 FEB 11am & 3pm
TICKETS: £8.50
Parental Guidance: 3+
SOURPUSS
SAT 30 MAR 11am & 3pm
TICKETS: £8.50
Parental Guidance: 3-8 years
SPRING 2019
The Walrus & The Carpenter SUN 24
Workshop From Russia with Love:
1.15pm p37 Stuart Jackson tenor, Jocelyn
Freeman piano
SUN 10 3pm p27
MUSIC COMEDY TALKS OPERA FAMILY ARTS & CRAFTS JOIN IN DANCE THEATRE FILM ARCHITECTURE Yoanna Prodanova cello &
Mihai Ritivoiu piano MON 25
JANUARY
MON 7
FRI 18
Chamber Music Evening
8pm p23
FRI 25
Blackheath Halls Quiz Night
7pm p43 Royal Wedding singer Elin
11am
TUE 12
p26 Lunchtime Recital:
Annie Yim piano
1.10pm p27
Music Appreciation Manahan Thomas stars in our Richard Grierson
10am p40 SAT 19 Emily Smith and Jamie From Russia with Love series Architectural Lecture: TUE 26
Burns Night McClennan on SUN 27 JAN 7.30pm Richard Upton The Village Cinema: Phantom
WED 9 7pm p23 8pm p24 7.30pm p41 Thread (15)
First Rehearsal: Blackheath WED 30 7.30pm p45
Halls Chorus SUN 20 SUN 27 Trinity Laban Rush Hour WED 13
7.30pm p42 Milton Jones From Russia with Love: Concert Henry MacRory: Ultimate WED 27
+ Maff Brown & Rich Wilson Pre-Concert Talk 6pm p25 Folly: The Rises and Falls of Trinity Laban Rush Hour
FRI 11 8pm p39 6.15pm p24 Whitaker Wright Concert
Trinity Laban Symphony 8pm p41 6pm p28
Orchestra Side by Side with
Philharmonia Orchestra
MON 21
Lunchtime Recital:
From Russia with Love:
Elin Manahan-Thomas soprano FEBRUARY THU 21
6pm
SAT 12
p22 Solomon Piano Quintet
1.10pm p23
& Jocelyn Freeman piano
7.30pm p24
MON 4
Lunchtime Recital:
Goddess of Beauty
Trinity Laban CoLAB
Proms (Part I)
2pm & 7pm p26
MARCH
FRI 1
The First Waltz: TUE 22 TUE 29 1.10pm p25 Symphony Orchestra Side
Tales from Vienna Tea Dance Trinity Laban Beats in the Bar FRI 22 by Side with Bournemouth
7.30pm p22 1.30pm p44 7.30pm p22 WED 6 Trinity Laban CoLAB Symphony Orchestra
Trinity Laban Soloists' Proms (Part II) 6pm p28
SUN 13 Trinity Laban Beats in the Bar Competition Final 2pm p27
First Rehearsal: Blackheath 7.30pm p22 7.30pm p25 SAT 2
Halls Orchestra Trinity Laban CoLab Trinity Laban Family Concert:
2.30pm p43 THU 24 FRI 8 Proms Party Tall Tales, Magical Myths and
The Village Cinema: Trinity Laban Shapeshifter 7pm p27 the Stuff of Legends
TUE 15 Sideways (15) Concert 12.30pm p38
Trinity Laban Beats in the Bar 7.30pm p45 7.30pm p26 SAT 23
7.30pm p22 Hansel and Gretel Jo Caulfield
Pro Youth Philharmonia SAT 9 11am & 3pm p37 8pm p39
WED 16 with Matthew Barley The Walrus & The Carpenter
Lucy Mangan: Bookworm 7.30pm p24 11am & 3pm p37 Tangomotion TUE 5
A Memoir of Childhood The music of Vienna and 7.30pm p44 Trinity Laban Beats in the Bar
Reading Strauss is brought to life on 7.30pm p22
8pm p40 SAT 12 JAN 7.30pm
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SPRING 2019 SPRING 2019
TUE 12 MAR WED 20 FRI 5 FRI 26
Trinity Jazz Orchestra Trinity Laban Rush Hour Bolcom Cabaret Trinity Laban
7.30pm p30 Concert 7.30pm p34 Opera Scenes
6pm p32 Various times p36
WED 13 Jeremy Vine: What the Hell is
Live Composers THU 21 Going On?! SUN 28
7pm p31 The Village Cinema: Hidden 7.30pm p42 From Russia with Love:
Figures (PG) Gareth Brynmor John
THU 14 7.30pm p45 SAT 6 baritone & Jocelyn Freeman
Blackheath Halls Opera Live at the Halls Meet the women you don't National Youth Jazz piano
Gala Night SUN 17 MAR 7pm p31 FRI 22 know, behind the mission Orchestra 3pm p36
7pm is one of the Trinity Laban: The Hermes you do THU 21 MAR 7.30pm 7.30pm p34
highlights of our season SAT 16 Experiment MON 29
Snow White, Rose Red, 6pm p32 SUN 7 Lunchtime Recital: Fleur
WED 6 Bear Brown SAT 30 Julia Sitkovetsky & Roger Barron mezzo soprano &
Jette Parker Young Artist 11am & 3pm p38 SAT 23 Sourpuss Vignoles Maya Irgalina piano
Masterclass Grasp the Nettle: The Life of 11am & 3pm p38 11am p35 1.10pm p36
2.30pm p28 Ray Gelato Ethel Smyth
8pm p31 7.30pm p44 Sourpuss Workshop Budapest Café Orchestra
Jette Parker Young Artist 12pm p38 7.30pm p35
Recital SUN 17 Mark Steel
7.30pm p29 Opera Gala Night 8pm p39 Junior Trinity Spring Concert Angela Barnes
7pm p31 7pm p33 8pm p40
THU 7 MON 25
Kamal Ahmed: The Life and TUE 19 Lunchtime Recital: Marcelle SUN 31 MON 8 - FRI 12
Times of a Very British Man Trinity Laban Beats in the Zahra piano From Russia with Love: Anna Journey to Oz Course
8pm p41 Bar 8pm p32 Sideris soprano, Jocelyn 10am p43
7.30pm p22 Freeman piano
Albert Lee TUE 26 3pm p34 SAT 13
8pm p29 Trinity Laban Beats in the Journey to Oz Performance Jeremy Vine's trying to make
Bar 2pm p35 sense of it all on FRI 5 APR
FRI 8
Leveret
8pm p29
7.30pm
THU 28
p22
APRIL
TUE 2 APR TUE 23
7.30pm
Trinity Laban Jonathan Dove Tea Dance The Village Cinema Vote
SAT 9 Birthday Concert 1.30pm p44 7.30pm p46
Blackheath Halls Orchestra 6pm p33
and Chorus Performance WED 3 THU 25 Box office
7.30pm p30 Fri 29 James Russell: Edward Trinity Laban 020 8463 0100
Trinity Laban Symphonic Bawden: Artist and Opera Scenes blackheathhalls.com
TUE 12 MAR A colourful retelling of the Winds Adventurer Various times p36
Tea Dance classic Grimms’ fairy tale 7.30pm p33 7.30pm p42
1.30pm p44 SAT 23 FEB 11am & 3pm
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BLACKHEATH HALLS Telephone 020 8463 0100 before Great Hall or Recital Room • The right is reserved to
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accommodate your needs. interval in the performance. programmes.
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FEATURE
RAY GELATO
SAT 16 MAR 8pm
TICKETS: £22 | £20 conc.
Running Time: approx.
150 mins including interval
AND THE GIANTS 25TH Anniversary Party
The UK’s Godfather of Swing We asked Ray about his jazz same vibe to wherever we are
Bringing his own special brand inspirations and how he’s feeling playing. All we want is for people
of swing and jazz to Blackheath about bringing his sound to to forget their troubles and
Halls, Ray Gelato and his 7 Blackheath Halls for the first worries when they walk through
piece band the Giants time. the door, for a few hours.
are celebrating their 25th What was it about swing and This is the band's 25th
Anniversary with a special show the saxophone that really Anniversary, what would you
in March. With a long standing inspired you? say is your most memorable
14 year Christmas residency I first fell in love with the sax moment of your time
at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club, when my dad took me to see together?
London-born saxophonist Bill Haley and The Comets. After Wow, that’s a tough one
and singer Ray and his band that I was hooked! My parents because there have been so
perform all over the world in an bought me a sax and when I many lovely gigs during our time
energetic, superbly entertaining looked into the evolution of together, every one is special.
show that will have you out of Rock n Roll, I discovered Swing If you could name a seat in
We try to bring the your seats and shouting for music with all its fabulous our venue after any of your
same vibe to wherever more. Incorporating the music musicians. jazz heroes, who would you
we are playing so people of jazz/swing legends such as You're seasoned performers name it after and why?
can forget their troubles Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, at Ronnie Scotts, how do I’d name it for the saxophonist
and worries when they walk Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra you feel about bringing the Coleman Hawkins. He bought
through the door as well as original songs, this is jazz club vibe to Blackheath the sax to legitimate popularity
for a few hours. an anniversary celebration not to Halls? with his sound and genius
be missed. Well we always try to bring the improvisations.
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FEATURE
JOURNEY
10am-4pm
TO OZ
MON 8 – FRI 12 APR
Performance:
Wizard of Oz, Journey to Oz will
focus on the songs from this
iconic musical as well as Wicked
This project is co-presented
by Trinity Laban’s Musical
Theatre Department, who have
SAT 13 APR 2pm and The Wiz to provide a week an unparalleled reputation for
COURSE FEE: £160 of singing, dancing, acting and success on the West-End Stage
stage craft led by West-End and across the globe.
Magic is about to take place industry professionals. The For more information and to
as we present our very first week will end with an informal register email
Youngstars Musical Theatre performance in the Great Hall for Rose Ballantyne r.ballantyne@
Workshop. Inspired by the family and friends. blackheathhalls.com
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BLACKHEATH
PRESENTS
A new Blackheath Halls recital series
My vision for From
Russia with Love is to
bring world-class song to
South East London and I am
delighted to be able to share
this incredible music with
you on the beautiful stage of
Blackheath Halls.
Jocelyn Freeman
Throughout Blackheath Halls’ Programmed by artists to Martineau alongside exciting
long history, many important showcase both established young artists such as James
names in classical music have and emerging talent Newby, Iúnó Connolly and Dylan
graced our stage. To celebrate Working together with Perez. In addition to this, we
our venue emerging Nicky we have a have invited pianist Jocelyn
from its extensive strong vision Freeman to present several It’s an exciting
refurbishment in to provide a concerts under the theme of prospect to have
Autumn 2018, we platform for From Russia with Love exploring a chamber music recital
are collaborating world-class the cultural and political links series reflecting the new
with international chamber music between the former Soviet state of the art surroundings
tenor Nicky Spence to in South East Union and Europe. and legacy as one of
present a series of recitals London. As part London’s most cherished
inviting musical personalities of Blackheath Presents, There will also be a selection of recital venues.
both known and emerging to we will bring together masters lunchtime recitals on Mondays Nicky Spence
perform in this important first full in the field of artsong such as presented by The Friends of
year of reopening. Roger Vignoles and Malcolm Blackheath Halls.
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MUSIC CHAMBER MUSIC EVENING BURNS NIGHT LUNCHTIME RECITAL
SOLOMON PIANO QUINTET
FRI 18 JAN 8pm SAT 19 JAN 7pm
Recital Room Recital Room MON 21 JAN 1.10pm
Admission FREE with a retiring TICKETS: £45 | £425 (per table Recital Room
donation to Blackheath Halls of 10) includes a traditional Admission FREE with a retiring
TRINITY LABAN
THE FIRST WALTZ Orchestra 3 course haggis supper by donation to Blackheath Halls
BEATS IN THE BAR
Tales from Vienna: The Music Running Time: approx. 120 Handmade Foods (vegetarian Running Time: approx. 60 mins
and The Magic mins including interval option available) no interval
TUE 15, 22 & 29 JAN, TUE 5, Running Time: approx. 180
SAT 12 JAN 7.30pm 19 & 26 MAR 7.30pm Come and enjoy an enchanting mins including interval Yuki Negishi piano
Great Hall Recital Room evening of chamber music Tadasuke Iijima violin
TICKETS: £40 Admission FREE, booking performed by ensembles Cheer up your January with an Ayako Yamazaki violin
Running Time: approx. required made up of members of the evening of traditional food and Yohei Nagachima viola
150 mins including interval Running Time: approx. 120 Blackheath Halls Orchestra and great entertainment celebrating Matthew Strover cello
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY mins including interval friends. Scotland’s national bard Robert
ORCHESTRA Featuring Emma Johnson and Burns. Featuring Burns’ poetry Joaquín Turina La oración del
Side by Side with Friends with special guest John Trinity Laban’s jazz department and songs performed by expert torero for string quartet Op.34
Philharmonia Orchestra Suchet is one of the strongest in practitioners, a good dose of fun Granados Piano Quintet in G
Europe and this regular series and laughter is guaranteed – feel minor Op.49
FRI 11 JAN 6pm Waltz into the New Year with a is a great chance to hear the free to wear your kilt! Brahms Piano Quintet in F
Great Hall special music and dance event stars of tomorrow on stage in minor Op.34
Admission FREE, booking which celebrates the best loved Blackheath today.
required music from Vienna, interwoven PRESENTED BY A light lunch is available prior to
Running Time: approx. 60 mins with historical insights. In the recital.
no interval the second half we invite the
audience to try their hand at a
Conductor Jonathan Mann Viennese Waltz and Polka under Box office PRESENTED BY
the tuition of professional dancer 020 8463 0100
Brahms Symphony No.2, Natasha Hubert. blackheathhalls.com
Op.73
MEDIA PARTNER
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PRO YOUTH EMILY SMITH AND FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE TRINITY LABAN LUNCHTIME RECITAL TRINITY LABAN SOLOISTS’
PHILHARMONIA JAMIE MCCLENNAN Opening Recital RUSH HOUR CONCERT GODDESS OF COMPETITION FINAL
BEAUTY
THU 24 JAN 7.30pm FRI 25 JAN 8pm SUN 27 JAN 7.30pm OLGA ARGO soprano WED 6 FEB 7.30pm
Great Hall Recital Room Recital Room CHARIS HANNING piano MON 4 FEB 1.10pm Great Hall
TICKETS: £24 (£20) | £18 (£14) TICKETS: £16 TICKETS: £15 | £12 conc. Admission FREE, with a retiring Admission FREE, booking
£12 (£8) Running Time: approx. 120 Running Time: approx. 120 mins WED 30 JAN 6pm donation to Blackheath Halls required
Running Time: approx. minutes including interval including interval Recital Room Running Time: approx. 60 mins Running Time: approx. 120
120 mins including interval Admission FREE, booking no interval mins including interval
Multi award winning Scottish Elin Manahan Thomas required
Wissam Boustany conductor singer Emily Smith and New soprano Running Time: approx. 60 mins Iuno Connolly soprano Finalists compete in one of the
Matthew Barley cello Zealand born songwriter and Jocelyn Freeman piano no interval Dylan Perez piano most popular and prestigious
multi-instrumentalist Jamie competitions in the Trinity Laban
Bushra El-Turk Mosaic McClennan have been making In resonance with Trinity Laban's Olga Argo and Charis Hanning, Brahms Die Liebende schreibt. Music calendar. Showcasing
Dvořák Cello Concerto in B music together for over fifteen Venus Blazing initiative, this Trinity Laban Junior Fellow in Op.47, No.5. Wenn du nur some of the most talented
minor years. Having spent much of programme will include works Piano Accompaniment, give zuweilen lächelst Op.57, No.2. performers, the winner has the
Amelia Clarkson A Beacon of 2016 off the road the couple by female Welsh a performance of Modest Wie Melodien Op.105, No.1. opportunity to perform their
Hope (world premiere) took time to focus on writing composers, Dilys Mussorgsky’s Songs and Ach, wende diesen Blick Op.57, chosen concerto next academic
Beethoven Symphony No.7 in new material. The fruits Elwyn-Edwards Dances of Death and Claude No.4. Die Schnur, die Perl an year with one of Trinity Laban’s
A major of their labour and Morfydd Owen, Debussy’s Poèmes de Perle Op.57, No. 7. orchestras.
are two albums, alongside Stravinsky, Baudelaire. Debussy La romance d’Ariel
Following their successful the first of which Prokofiev’s Anna Akhmatova Recueil Vasnier. Pantomime
inaugural tour in April 2018, Pro Unplugged was settings and crowned by Recueil Vasnier. La mort
Youth Philharmonia embark on released in April 2018. The Schumann's Frauenliebe und des Amants (V). 5 Poémes
a thrilling tour early in the New duo’s new sound reworks leben. de Baudelaire. Coquetterie
Year. Award-winning composer traditional material from their Posthume. Recueil Vasnier.
Bushra El-Turk’s colourful homelands of Scotland and Pre-concert talk at 6.15pm with Romance - Sîlence Ineffable.
Mosaic will be presented New Zealand as well as Philip Ross Bullock and Richard Recueil Vasnier. Box office
alongside a world premiere drawing on influences from the Stokes. Ravel Kaddisch (I) Deux 020 8463 0100
performance of Trinity Laban folk tradition, Americana and mélodies hébraïques. L’énigme blackheathhalls.com
student Amelia Clarkson's A beyond. éternelle (II). Deux mélodies
Beacon of Hope. FACILITATED BY hébraïques.
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TRINITY LABAN BLACKHEATH PRESENTS... COLAB Trinity Laban's cross- TRINITY LABAN FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE LUNCHTIME RECITAL
SHAPESHIFTER CONCERT disciplinary festival is all about COLAB PROMS The Fire of Love
YOANNA PRODANOVA & creativity, bringing people Part II ANNIE YIM piano
FRI 8 FEB 7.30pm MIHAI RITIVOIU together to reach beyond artistic SUN 24 FEB 3pm
Great Hall boundaries, try out new ideas FRI 22 FEB 2pm Recital Room MON 25 FEB 1.10pm
TICKETS: £5 SUN 10 FEB 11am without fear of failure and share Great Hall, Recital Room & Bar TICKETS: £10 | £8 conc. Recital Room
Running Time: approx. 120 mins Recital Room a creative journey. Admission FREE, booking Running Time: approx. 60 mins Admission FREE with a retiring
including interval TICKETS: £10 | £8 conc. required no interval donation to Blackheath Halls
Running Time: approx. 60 mins TRINITY LABAN Running Time: approx. 240 Running Time: approx. 60 mins
Conductor Kwamé Ryan no interval COLAB PROMS mins including intervals Stuart Jackson tenor no interval
Lana Trotovšek violin Part I Jocelyn Freeman piano
Fauré Romance, Élégie, Creative, immersive and Beethoven Piano Sonata
Beethoven Symphony No.8, Papillon THU 21 FEB 2pm & 7pm involved, Trinity Laban students The passion of Liszt’s Petrarch No.14 in C sharp minor Op.27
Op.93 in F major Janáček Pohadka Great Hall, Recital Room & Bar fill Blackheath Halls to the brim Sonnets is complimented by No.2, ‘Moonlight’
James Layton new work Chopin Sonata in G minor Admission FREE, booking with music and movement, for light-hearted serenades by Schumann Kinderszenen
Deirdre Gribbin Venus Blazing required the second instalment of CoLab Tosti. In contrast, the depth and Op.15
Emerging Running Time: approx. 240 2019’s CoLab Proms. earnest of Britten’s Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Join Trinity Laban for an evening international artists mins & 180 mins including Canticle 1 flows
celebrating the title work of their Bulgarian cellist intervals TRINITY LABAN COLAB into humorous A light lunch is available prior to
Venus Blazing season as they Yoanna Prodanova PROMS PARTY folksong settings the recital.
perform the Venus Blazing Violin and Romanian pianist There is something for everyone by Prokofiev, and this
Concerto by award-winning Mihai Ritivoiu perform a in a marathon sharing of music FRI 22 FEB 7pm recital culminates in colourful
composer Deirdre Gribbin with captivating programme featuring and movement in the first Great Hall, Recital Room & Bar Romances by Rachmaninov. PRESENTED BY
soloist Lana Trotovšek. Chopin's final sonata. instalment of CoLab 2019’s Admission FREE, booking
Beethoven’s Symphony No.8 of CoLab Proms. required
1812, which he described Running Time: approx. 180
as “my little Symphony in F”, mins including interval
and a new work by Trinity Box office
Laban composition student 020 8463 0100 CoLab 2019 comes to a
James Layton complete the blackheathhalls.com spectacular close, bringing the
programme. festival to an end with a final
VENUS party in true CoLab-style. FACILITATED BY
BLAZ NG
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TRINITY LABAN TRINITY LABAN JETTE PARKER YOUNG JETTE PARKER YOUNG ALBERT LEE LEVERET
RUSH HOUR CONCERT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ARTISTS OF THE ARTISTS OF THE ROYAL 75th Birthday Tour
Side by Side with Bournemouth ROYAL OPERA HOUSE OPERA HOUSE RECITAL FRI 8 MAR 8pm
ALEXANDER ROCHE guitar Symphony Orchestra MASTERCLASS THU 7 MAR 8pm Recital Room
WED 6 MAR 7.30pm Great Hall TICKETS: £16
WED 27 FEB 6pm FRI 1 MAR 6pm WED 6 MAR 2.30pm Recital Room TICKETS: £25 Running Time: approx. 120
Recital Room Great Hall Recital Room TICKETS: £10 Running Time: approx. 120 mins including interval
Admission FREE, booking Admission FREE, booking Admission FREE, booking £8 conc. mins including interval
required required required Running Time: Leveret is a unique collaboration
Running Time: approx. 60 mins Running Time: approx. 60 mins Running Time: approx. 90 mins approx. 120 mins including Undoubtedly one of the finest between three of England's
no interval no interval including interval interval guitarists the world has ever finest folk musicians, Andy
seen, Double Grammy Award Cutting, Sam Sweeney and
Postgraduate guitarist Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook This free masterclass is a unique Yaritza Véliz soprano Winner Albert Lee, has worked Rob Harbron, each regarded
Alexander Roche performs a chance to observe some of Germán E Alcántara baritone with The Everly Brothers, Eric as exceptional performers and
varied programme including Dvořák Holoubek, Op.110 the finest and most celebrated David Gowland piano Clapton, Emmylou Harris and masters of their instruments.
works by Manuel de Falla, (The Wild Dove) musicians in the world at close The Crickets over his long and Together their
Heitor Villa-Lobos and Toru Dvořák Vodník, Op.107 quarters as they work with An amazing opportunity to hear illustrious career. The British- performances
Takemitsu. (The Water Goblin) Trinity Laban Students. Open for the Royal Opera House’s future born country-rock artist started combine
anyone wanting to see learning stars Chilean soprano Yaritza his career during the emerging consummate
Trinity Laban and long-term in action. Véliz and Argentinean baritone rock 'n' roll scene of sixties musicianship, compelling
partners Bournemouth Germán E Alcántara perform London. After moving to the delivery and captivating
Symphony Orchestra perform lieder repertoire, operatic US, Albert quickly garnered a spontaneity. Their music is firmly
two symphonic poems by Generously supported by arias and duets in the intimate reputation as one of the fastest rooted in the English tradition
Antonín Dvořák – The Wild Dove setting of the Recital Room. guitar players in the business. but sounds fresh and new, and
© ROH 2018. Photographed by Roger Way
© ROH 2018. Photographed by Roger Way
and The Water Goblin. OAK FOUNDATION their intuitive playing makes
"The ultimate virtuoso. His the band three of today's finest
Generously supported by skill is extraordinary, his ear is tunesmiths in the folk field.
Box office extraordinary and he's gifted on
020 8463 0100 OAK FOUNDATION just about every level." “Leveret – it means young
blackheathhalls.com Eric Clapton hare – is the finest of traditional
English folk today:”
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BLACKHEATH HALLS BLACKHEATH PRESENTS... TRINITY LABAN LEWISHAM LIVE FESTIVAL RAY GELATO AND OPERA GALA NIGHT
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA THE GIANTS
Evening of Bach and Walton WOMEN COMPOSERS LIVE COMPOSERS 25th Anniversary Party SUN 17 MAR Doors 6pm
IN SONG TUE 12 MAR 7.30pm Performance 7.45pm
SAT 9 MAR 7.30pm Great Hall WEB 13 MAR 7pm SAT 16 MAR 8pm Great Hall
Great Hall SUN 10 MAR 11am Admission FREE, booking Recital Room Great Hall TICKETS: £50 | £475 (per table
TICKETS: £16 | £14 conc. Recital Room required TICKETS: £8 | £6 conc. TICKETS: £22 | £20 conc. of 10) including a light supper
£6 under 12s TICKETS: £10 | £8 conc. Running Time: approx. 120 Running Time: approx 120 mins Running Time: approx. 150 Running Time: approx. 240
Running Time: Running Time: approx. 60 mins mins including interval including interval mins including interval mins including interval
approx. 120 mins no interval
including interval In what promises to be An opportunity for young Celebrating their 25th Presented in our beautiful Great
To celebrate International a fantastic evening’s composers to showcase their anniversary with a series Hall, the Opera Gala Night is
Conductors Christopher Stark Women’s Day, Blackheath Halls entertainment, Trinity Laban new work. of special shows, Britain's one of the highlights of the
and Nicholas Jenkins have collaborated with young Jazz Orchestra performs own "Godfather season Blackheath Halls Opera
artists from Trinity Laban and student arrangements of LIVE AT THE HALLS of Swing", Patron, tenor Nicky Spence,
JS Bach Toccata and Fugue pianist Dylan Perez pieces by composer, pianist saxophonist and and some of opera's leading
in D Minor (arr. Leopold to explore the and bandleader Geri Allen. The THU 14 MAR 7pm singer Ray Gelato stars will present a collection
Stokowski) important impact concert opens in style with a Great Hall will be bringing his of operatic favourites amongst
JS Bach Sleeper Wake female composers performance by Andrea Vicary’s TICKETS: £8 | £6 conc. 7 piece band, the Giants, to several fizzy pourings from our
(arr. Percy Grainger) have made to music over Big Band. Running Time: approx. 120 Blackheath Halls. 2019 Blackheath Halls Opera,
JS Bach Sheep May Safely the last 100 years. mins including interval Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène.
Graze (arr. William Walton) VENUS The band perform their special
William Walton Belshazzar’s
BLAZ NG An evening of music celebrating brand of swing, jazz and R&B All performers generously
Feast music composed, created, and to fans all over the world, donate their time and talent
performed by women. Featuring presenting a musical cocktail of for the Gala Night, and all
Blackheath Halls Orchestra and talented young musicians from classic swing and original songs proceeds go toward supporting
Chorus serve up a musical feast Lewisham schools and local in a joyous show that will blow Blackheath Halls Opera.
featuring a trilogy from Bach Box office music groups, performing both you out of your seats!
and Walton’s most celebrated 020 8463 0100 individually as well as together
composition Belshazzar’s Feast blackheathhalls.com in a massed finale piece.
all under the experienced
batons of Christopher Stark and
Nicholas Jenkins.
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TRINITY LABAN TRINITY LABAN: THE LUNCHTIME RECITAL TRINITY LABAN: JONATHAN TRINITY LABAN JUNIOR TRINITY
RUSH HOUR CONCERT HERMES EXPERIMENT DOVE BIRTHDAY CONCERT SYMPHONIC WINDS SPRING CONCERT
MARCELLE ZAHRA piano
PHILIP LESLIE piano FRI 22 MAR 6pm THU 28 MAR 6pm FRI 29 MAR 7.30pm SAT 30 MAR 7pm
Recital Room MON 25 MAR 1.10pm Recital Room Great Hall Great Hall
WED 20 MAR 6pm Admission FREE, booking Recital Room Admission FREE, booking Admission FREE, booking Admission FREE, booking
Recital Room required Admission FREE with retiring required required required
Admission FREE, booking Running Time: approx. 120 donation to Blackheath Halls Running Time: approx. 120 Running Time: approx. 120 Running Time: approx. 120
required mins including interval Running Time: approx. 60 mins mins including interval mins including interval mins including interval
Running Time: approx. 60 mins no interval
no interval The Hermes Experiment, a Jonathan Dove is one of the Conductor Gillian MacKay Junior Trinity’s annual concert
contemporary and innovative Turina Miniaturas world's leading composers of features performances by Four
Recent Trinity Laban alumnus quartet including vocal alumnus Mozart Piano Sonata in C opera, choral works, plays, Cindy McTee Timepiece Part Choir, Big Band, Wind
Philip Leslie returns with a Héloïse Werner performs new major K.330 films, and orchestral and Ailie Robertson New work for Orchestra and Symphony
programme to include piano works by members of Trinity Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor chamber music. In honour of symphonic winds and solo harp Orchestra. It includes solo
sonatas by Joseph Haydn and Laban’s highly acclaimed Op.23 his 60th birthday, Trinity Laban Colin McPhee Concerto for performances by winners of the
Robert Schumann. Composition department. welcomes him to Blackheath Wind Orchestra junior department’s concerto
A light lunch is available prior to Halls for an evening of Cait Nishimura Lake Superior competition.
This concert marks the end of the recital. celebration. Suite
the second collaborative project Matthew Emery When the Sun
between the quartet and our Comes After Rain
postgraduate composers. PRESENTED BY Jodie Blackshaw Soulström
A glorious programme of music
for wind orchestra conducted
by Gillian MacKay is sure to
raise the roof at Blackheath
Box office Halls – don’t miss it!
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blackheathhalls.com
VENUS
BLAZ NG
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE BLACKHEATH PRESENTS... NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ BLACKHEATH PRESENTS... BUDAPEST CAFÉ JOURNEY TO OZ
Secret Treaties ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE
WILLIAM BOLCOM Three Nations Under One JULIA SITKOVETSKY &
SUN 31 MAR 3pm CABARET Groove ROGER VIGNOLES SUN 7 APR 7.30pm SAT 13 APR 2pm
Recital Room Great Hall Great Hall
TICKETS: £10 | £8 conc. FRI 5 APR 7.30pm SAT 6 APR 7.30pm SUN 7 APR 11am TICKETS: £17 TICKETS: £5
Running Time: approx. 60 mins Recital Room Great Hall Recital Room Running Time: approx. 120 Running Time: approx. 60 mins
no interval TICKETS: £10 | £8 conc. TICKETS: £15 | £13 conc. TICKETS: £10 | £8 conc. mins including interval no interval
Running Time: approx. 60 mins £10 under 18s Running Time: approx 60 mins
Anna Sideris soprano no interval Running Time: approx. 120 no interval Led by jazz violin superstar Following a fun packed week
Jocelyn Freeman piano mins including interval Christian Garrick, the Budapest of workshops led by industry
Charlotte King mezzo soprano Wolf Mignon (Kennst du das Café Orchestra play a blistering professionals from the West End
This programme pays homage Georgie Mae Bishop mezzo The UK’s National Youth Jazz Land) Das verlassene Mägdlein barrage of traditional folk and beyond the participants
to the secret Franco-Russian soprano Orchestra join forces with its Auf einer Wanderung Er ist’s and gypsy flavoured music from our Youngstars musical
treaty, Dual Alliance in this, the Young Artists from the German and Dutch counterparts Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia from across the Balkans and theatre course take to the stage
125th anniversary Guildhall School of Music for an evening of exceptional Op.67 Russia. Klezmer laments, to showcase what they have
of its formation. and Drama music-making from the Strauss Einerlei Op.69/3 Romanian Doinas, Hungarian learnt. Inspired by well-loved
The arrangement Dylan Perez piano leading lights of Europe’s next Strauss Befreit Czadas, evoke vivid musicals The Wizard of Oz,
paved the way for a generation of jazz musicians. Op.39/1 images of Tzigane Wicked, and The Wiz, this
very fruitful exchange American composer William Fresh from a joint tour of Debussy Four fiddle maestros, performance is sure to transport
of arts and culture. Works by Bolcom’s music ranges from Germany and the Netherlands Songs from Ariettes Budapest café life you to the merry old land of oz
Wolf, Rachmaninov Rimsky- serialism to ragtime. His eclectic in September 2018, they oubliées and gypsy campfires in a whirl!
Korsakov and Prokofiev frame tastes are apparent in bring the spirit of collaboration Rachmaninov Six Songs - a show by the BCO is good
Faure’s Cinq Melodies de his Cabaret Songs, and cultural exchange to the Op.38 enough to make you want to
Venice Op.58 and Poulenc’s written for his wife Halls, featuring members of book that holiday down the
tragic La dame de Monte-Carlo. Joan Morris. Arnold all three bands in a range of Danube!
Weinstein is the poet combinations.
to Bolcom’s music - a pairing Box office
as equal as Da Ponte & Mozart. 020 8463 0100
Whether entertaining, whimsical blackheathhalls.com
or touching, this special cabaret
FACILITATED BY of songs show human nature in
stark reality.
34 | Spring 2019 Blackheath Halls | | Blackheath Halls Spring 2019 | 35WHAT’S ON WHEN MUSIC FA M I LY WHAT’S ON WHEN
FA M I LY
TRINITY LABAN FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE LUNCHTIME RECITAL THE WALRUS & THE HANSEL AND GRETEL
OPERA SCENES Between War and Peace CARPENTER
FLEUR BARRON WORKSHOP SAT 23 FEB 11am & 3pm
THU 25 & FRI 26 APR SUN 28 APR 3pm mezzo soprano Recital Room
Great Hall Recital Room MAYA IRGALINA piano SAT 9 FEB 1.15pm TICKETS: £8.50
Various Times - see online for TICKETS: £10 | £8 conc. Recital Room Suitable for ages: 3+
details Running Time: approx. 60 mins MON 29 APR 1.10pm TICKETS: £6 Running Time: approx. 60 mins
Admission FREE, booking no interval Recital Room Parental Guidance: 4+ no interval
required Admission FREE with a retiring Running Time: approx. 60 mins
Running Time: approx. 120 Gareth Brynmor John donation to Blackheath Halls THE WALRUS & THE no interval Deep in an enchanted forest,
mins including interval baritone Running Time: approx. 80 mins CARPENTER everybody’s looking for
Jocelyn Freeman piano A fun creative activity before something to eat. A
Our postgraduate singers Schubert Winterreise D.911 SAT 9 FEB 11am & 3pm the afternoon performance. tasty treat, a sticky
perform opera scenes From Russia with Love at Recital Room Using recycled arts and crafts sweet - some
connected together into a Blackheath Halls culminates in A light lunch is available prior to TICKETS: £8.50 materials, children can make children’s feet?
dramatic performance with a programme of epic tales of the recital. Parental their own hat and seashore Goody and Storey
piano accompaniment. This battle contrasted with intimate Guidance: 4+ creatures, including oysters - and Norwich Puppet Theatre
is a fantastic opportunity for love and harmony. Ballades Running Time: which can be fed to the Walrus. present a colourful retelling of
the audience to follow the and Romances by PRESENTED BY approx..60 mins no interval All creations can be taken away the classic Grimms’ fairy tale,
development of our gifted Robert Schumann as a reminder of the great time serving up a feast of delicious
young artists whilst enjoying are juxtaposed Based around Lewis Carroll's had! music, dynamic scenery and
the thrilling music of Verdi, with exuberant, famous poem from Alice knock-your-socks-off puppetry.
Charpentier, Richard Strauss romantic and Through The Looking Glass,this "Captivating and humorous A show to tickle your eyes, your
and Wagner. dramatic settings by musical show with live show. Workshop was brilliant - ears, and your tastebuds.
Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, accordion by theatreRotto, even the adults wanted to make
Mussorgsky and Prokofiev, with features a large weepy Walrus things too!" audience member,
texts in German and Russian by puppet, his lugubrious chippy St Leonards-on-Sea
Heine, Goethe, Tolstoy and Box office companion, Maid with mop
Pushkin. 020 8463 0100 and a cameo appearance from
blackheathhalls.com Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
FACILITATED BY
36 | Spring 2019 Blackheath Halls | | Blackheath Halls Spring 2019 | 37WHAT’S ON WHEN FA M I LY COMEDY WHAT’S ON WHEN
COMEDY
TRINITY LABAN FAMILY SNOW WHITE, ROSE RED, SOURPUSS JO CAULFIELD MARK STEEL
CONCERT: TALL TALES, BEAR BROWN Killing Time Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be
MAGICAL MYTHS AND THE SAT 30 MAR Alright
STUFF OF LEGENDS SAT 16 MAR 11am & 3pm SAT 2 MAR 8pm
The music of Antonín Dvořák 11am & 3pm Recital Room Recital Room SAT 23 MAR 8pm
Recital Room TICKETS: £8.50 TICKETS: £15 Great Hall
SAT 2 MAR 12.30pm TICKETS: £8.50 Parental Guidance: 3-8 years Parental Guidance: 14+ TICKETS: £15
Great Hall Parental Guidance: 4+ Running Time: approx. 40 mins Running Time: approx. 110 Parental Guidance: 14+
TICKETS: £6 | £4 conc. Running Time: approx. 60 mins no interval mins including interval Running Time: approx. 140
Parental Guidance: 4+ no interval MILTON JONES mins including interval
Running Time: approx. 60 mins Sourpuss is a very grumpy, Maff Brown & Rich Wilson Jo Caulfield’s new show Killing
no interval Theatre of Widdershins ginger cat. When shut out of Time does what it says on the A few years ago, it seemed
return with a brilliant fairy tale the house he feels lost and SUN 20 JAN 8pm tin. It’s a show of odd topics unlikely that the UK would
A mischievous water goblin, adventure. Snow White and confused, but the beautiful Recital Room and observations covering vote to leave the EU; we had
a loving family, and an Rose Red – sisters, twins, best garden soon intrigues him. TICKETS: £16 everything from tales of a reasonable opposition to
underwater wedding with fish friends – have lived in the forest Watch Sourpuss on his Parental Guidance: 14+ Australian travellers to hotel the Tory Government; Donald
for bridesmaids! These tall since they were Babes in the journey of discovery and enjoy Running Time: approx. 120 baggage handling and one Trump was a buffoon who surely
tales provided the inspiration Wood. Not as worldly wise as learning the secrets of the great mins including interval extremely embarrassing trip to wasn’t going to beat Hilary
for Dvořák’s symphonic their Mother would like, they outdoors. From buzzing bees Harrods. Clinton and Mark was living the
poems, which create a murky are nonetheless, kind, caring to a chirpy robin, stinky rubbish The award winning Outside the married suburban ideal, since
underwater realm and sometimes a little over and vibrant flowers this visual Box Comedy Club comes to Incorporating stories and then it’s all gone completely
full of secrets and enthusiastic in their deeds! show is a feast for little eyes. Blackheath Halls. opinions from the audience, mad! But don’t worry as Mark
mischief. Bring poking some fun and having thinks every little thing’s gonna
the whole family When their quiet life is WORKSHOP 12noon Opening the comedy season a great time doing it, her dry be alright.
to experience a full orchestra interrupted by a friendly bear a Recital Room with a cracking night of stand wit and sarcasm are staples of
performing music with the new chapter begins. But why TICKETS: £4 up is the incredible Milton British comedy.
power to draw you into a world has the bear chosen them Running Time: approx. 30 mins Jones, as seen on Mock the
where things are not quite what as playfellows? Why is there Week, Live at the Apollo and QI. COMEDY
they seem… sadness in his eyes? And who Come along and make your Plus support from Maff Brown, HAPPY HOUR!
20% off all drinks
on earth is that rude little man own shadow puppet based writer for Mock the Week and
6.30-7.30pm
with a ridiculously long beard on one of the characters in seen on Lead Balloon, and Rich at all comedy
that they keep bumping in to? the show – a cat, robin or a Wilson as seen on Sky One events
bumblebee. complete the night's line-up.
38 | Spring 2019 Blackheath Halls | | Blackheath Halls Spring 2019 | 39WHAT’S ON WHEN COMEDY TALKS TALKS WHAT’S ON WHEN
TALKS
ANGELA BARNES LUCY MANGAN RICHARD GRIERSON HENRY MACRORY KAMAL AHMED
Rose-Tinted Bookworm A Memoir of ARCHITECTURAL LECTURE Ultimate Folly: The Rises and The Life and Times of a Very
Childhood Reading Falls of Whitaker Wright British Man
SUN 7 APR 8pm RICHARD UPTON
Recital Room WED 16 JAN 8pm Regeneration Rethought WED 13 FEB 8pm THU 7 MAR 8pm
TICKETS: £14 Recital Room Recital Room Recital Room
Parental guidance: 14+ TICKETS: £10 including a glass TUE 12 FEB 7.30pm TICKETS: £10 including a glass TICKETS: £10 including a glass
Running Time: approx. 130 of wine Recital Room of wine of wine
mins including interval + support Running Time: approx. 60 mins TICKET: £15 | £12 conc. Running Time: approx. 60 mins Running Time: approx. 60 mins
MUSIC APPRECIATION WITH no interval £6 students no interval no interval
Following another sell-out run MATTHEW TAYLOR Running Time: approx. 60 mins
at the Edinburgh Fringe, Angela The Bard Comes To Blackheath When Lucy Mangan was little, no interval Few people have led such an Kamal Ahmed's childhood
Barnes as seen on Live at the stories were everything. They extraordinary life as Whitaker was very 'British' in every way
Apollo, Mock The Week and First Lecture: MON 7 JAN 10am opened up new worlds and Richard Upton is an unusual Wright. Few have died in such – except for the fact that he
host of The Comedy Club on then weekly lectures until MON cast light on all the complexities developer who straddles the sensational circumstances. was brown. Half English, half
BBC R4Extra, is back with her 1 APR she encountered in this one. boundary between architecture Drawing on family papers and Sudanese, he was raised in
brand new show Rose-Tinted. Recital Room & Charlton House She was whisked away to and developer and believes archives from around the world, 1970s London at a time when
With stand up and stories, COURSE FEE: £105 (11 Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and strongly in heritage and the Henry Macrory’s compelling being mixed-race meant being
Angela is trying, really trying, to week course) | Further details Wonderland. She ventured quality of buildings. Involved in account of Wright’s life reads told to go home, even when you
look on the bright side of life. contact: Lionel Lewis 020 8297 down rabbit holes and womble the successful regeneration of like a thriller and offers an insight were born just down the road.
1075 LJL@lioneljlewis.org.uk burrows, into midnight gardens Deptford Market Yard and the into the mind of the ultimate His memoire makes the case
“She’s just a gloriously down- Blackheath-music.co.uk and chocolate factories. saving of Smithfield Market, he gambler and conman. for a new conversation about
to-earth, straight talking and Running Time: 120 mins Bringing the favourite characters was appointed a Commissioner race in Britain through personal
extremely funny comic” The including interval of our collective childhoods of Historic England this year. "The book has been diligently stories, political analysis and
Guardian back to life, she brilliantly uses He is a patron of the arts, a researched and the narrative, passionate belief in the ultimate
A foray into the music inspired them to tell her own story. Fellow of the Royal Society for with its dramatic last twist, good of this country.
by the plays and poetry of Arts, and also a member of is highly entertaining." Blake
Shakespeare, with music from the London Advisory Board of Morrison
different epochs, including Historic England.
symphonies, tone poems,
overtures, incidental music, film ALL BOOK
music, opera and ballet. TALKS PRESENTED BY
PRESENTED BY
40 | Spring 2019 Blackheath Halls | | Blackheath Halls Spring 2019 | 41WHAT’S ON WHEN TALKS JOIN IN JOIN IN WHAT’S ON WHEN
JOIN IN
JAMES RUSSELL JEREMY VINE BLACKHEATH HALLS BLACKHEATH HALLS QUIZ JOURNEY TO OZ COURSE
Edward Bawden: Artist and What The Hell Is Going On?! ORCHESTRA COURSE NIGHT
Adventurer MON 8 – FRI 12 APR
FRI 5 APR 7.30pm First Rehearsal: SUN 13 JAN FRI 25 JAN 7pm Great Hall 10am-4pm each day
WED 3 APR 8pm Great Hall 2.30pm-5.30pm followed by TICKETS: £10 per person Performance: SAT 13 APR 2pm
Recital Room TICKETS: £16 weekly rehearsals (maximum 8 per team) Great Hall
TICKETS: £10 including a glass Running Time: approx. 90 mins, Performance: SAT 9 MAR Running Time: approx. 180 COURSE FEE: £160
of wine no interval 7.30pm mins including interval 15% sibling discount available
Running Time: approx. 60 mins BLACKHEATH HALLS COURSE FEE: £75 | £68 conc. For more info and to register
no interval One of the UK’s most CHORUS COURSE Running Time: 180 mins Come and test your wits at this email Rose r.ballantyne@
successful TV and radio Belshazzar’s Feast including breaks fun quiz night in support of our blackheathhalls.com
In a long and illustrious career broadcasters, Jeremy Vine fabulous Royal Greenwich and
Edward Bawden (1903-89) increasingly finds himself asking First Rehearsal: WED 9 JAN Conductors Christopher Stark Blackheath Halls Youth Choir. Youngstars presents an
achieved renown as a painter, ‘What the hell is going on?!’, as 7.30pm-9.30pm followed by (Bach orchestrations) exceptional Musical Theatre
designer, illustrator and teacher, information and misinformation weekly rehearsals Nicholas Jenkins With live music you can expect experience for children aged 8
yet he remains an elusive figure. get mixed together Performance: SAT 9 MAR (Belshazzar’s Feast) a really engaging quiz with a years and over.
Today he is remembered for and the sheer 7.30pm difference!
his spectacular linocuts and volume of news COURSE FEE: £85 | £76 conc. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Using the story of The Wizard
humorous illustrations, yet he that gets thrown at Running Time: 120 mins Minor (arr. Leopold Stokowski) of Oz for inspiration, sing and
was once feted as an innovative us all is mindblowing. including breaks Bach Sleeper Wake (arr. Percy dance your way down the
modern painter. As curator Get ready to laugh and cry as Grainger) yellow brick road and join us
of last summer's Bawden Jeremy tries to make sense of Nicholas Jenkins makes Bach Sheep May Safely Graze for a fabulous musical theatre
exhibition at Dulwich Picture a world that increasingly makes a welcome return to lead (arr. William Walton) experience.
Gallery, James Russell draws no sense at all. this project. Come and join William Walton Belshazzar’s
on in-depth research, archive Blackheath Halls Chorus to Feast Led by industry professionals
material and more to share with sing this wonderful piece from from the West End and beyond,
us the story of this artist and the choral repertoire, William Come and join Blackheath Halls the week will be a fun packed
adventurer. Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, in Orchestra to play some Bach Box office creative experience of singing,
our fabulous new Great Hall. All lushly orchestrated by Leopold 020 8463 0100 dancing, acting, theatre
PRESENTED BY are welcome from beginners to Stokowski, Percy Grainger blackheathhalls.com making, creating, devising and
seasoned singers. and William Walton as well as stage craft, culminating in a
Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast. performance in the Great Hall.
42 | Spring 2019 Blackheath Halls | | Blackheath Halls Spring 2019 | 43WHAT’S ON WHEN DANCE THEATRE FILM WHAT’S ON WHEN
DANCE THEATRE FILM
TANGOMOTION PHANTOM THREAD HIDDEN FIGURES
SAT 23 FEB 7.30pm TUE 26 FEB 7.30pm THU 21 MAR 7.30pm
Great Hall Recital Room Recital Room
TICKETS: £15 | £13 conc. TICKETS: £8 | £6 conc. TICKETS: £8 | £6 conc.
Running Time: approx. 120 Certificate: 15 Certificate: PG
mins including interval Running Time: approx. 130 Running Time: approx. 127
mins, no interval mins, no interval
TEA DANCE A breath-taking journey into the GRASP THE NETTLE SIDEWAYS
heart of Tango Argentino, from The Life of Ethel Smyth Director Paul Thomas Director Theodore Melfi
TUE 22 JAN, 12 MAR, 2 APR virtuoso displays of traditional THU 24 JAN 7.30pm Anderson Cast Taraji P Henson, Octavia
1.30pm tango dance in stunning SAT 23 MAR 7.30pm Recital Room Cast Vicky Krieps, Daniel Spencer, Janelle Monáe &
Great Hall costumes to the exquisite Recital Room TICKETS: £8 | £6 conc. Day-Lewis & Leslie Manville Kevin Costner
TICKETS: £7 sounds of 1930s and 40s TICKETS: £20 Certificate: 15
Running Time: approx. 180 Buenos Aires and the powerful Running Time: approx. 127 Set in postwar London, The untold true story of a team
mins including interval Nuevo Tango music of Astor Dame Ethyl Smyth, composer, mins, no interval amid the world of 50s haute of female African-American
Piazzolla. writer and suffragette, was couture, Phantom Thread is a mathematicians working at
Come and spend a magical the living embodiment of the Director Alexander Payne gothic romance, a tale of lost NASA, who served as the
afternoon in the friendly Tangomotion features new passion with which Victorian Cast Paul Giamatti, Thomas mothers and broken spells, with brains behind one of the
atmosphere of a Blackheath choreographies created by women challenged the ‘male Haden Church, Virginia secret messages sewn into its greatest operations in history:
Halls tea dance where you get a world class tango dancers machine’. Madsen & Sandra Oh cinematic cloth. the launch of astronaut
chance to dance in our recently Alexandra Wood, Guillermo John Glenn into orbit. This
refurbished Great Hall. There’s Torrens, Paula Duarte and Grasp the Nettle is a whirlwind The Village Cinema uncorks stunning achievement inspired
sequence dancing, quickstep, Richard Manuel, with new of Ethel’s exploits and passions a charming little vintage from generations to dream big.
cha cha cha and much more. original music and evergreen performed and sung by Lucy 2004. A full-bodied road
tango classics from the Stevens accompanied by trip through the vineyards of
acclaimed Tango Siempre Elizabeth Marcus. Napa Valley. It's rich, intense, ALL FILMS
quartet. mellow and fruity, all together a Box office PRESENTED IN
PRESENTED BY memorable blend. 020 8463 0100 COLLABORATION
“Here is the tango, raw, blackheathhalls.com WITH
intoxicating, speaking with its
true voice.” Financial Times
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watch from the following: London Bridge (12 mins), Blackheath Halls is next to the Transform Blackheath Halls
Bexleyheath and Dartford (23 mini-roundabout serving Lee supported by
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME mins). As you come out of Road, Lee Park, Lee Terrace Hearn Foundation
Certificate: 15 Blackheath Station, turn right and Blackheath Village. Viridor Credits
and we are a two-minute walk Bernard Sunley Charitable
DUNKIRK up the road. PARKING The nearest car Foundation
Certificate: 12A park to Blackheath Halls is
DLR The nearest Docklands Blackheath Station pay and
LADY BIRD Friends of Blackheath Halls is a great Light Railway station is display car park, which is two
Certificate: 15 village network. We exist to support Lewisham. Connections can be minutes walk from the Halls.
the Halls, raising funds, providing made to Blackheath by National Please note that there is no
CRAZY RICH ASIANS audiences and putting on our own Rail or bus. parking at the Halls and that
Certificate: 12A cultural events. The Friends programme includes parking is not permitted in
regular lunchtime recitals, exciting architecture visits, BUS Routes, 54, 89,108, 202, Blackheath Park, the adjacent
To vote email literary evenings with well-known authors and visits to 380, 386 and N89 all stop in private road.
villagecinemablackheath@gmail. the theatre and opera followed by discussions. Blackheath Village. and numerous generous
com @thevillagecinema I hope you will consider making a individuals.
or fill out a voting slip at commitment to the Halls by emailing me BY CAR The A2, A20 and BLACKHEATH HALLS
Blackheath Halls. Voting closes: for a Friends brochure. South Circular all provide easy
FRI 22 MAR Dame Joan Ruddock, Chairperson access to Blackheath. Situated Blackheath Halls is a registered
Email: damejoan.friends@hotmail.com at the south end of the village, charity, No.287589
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