22nd January 2025
Dear Friends and Supporters
A REMINDER OF THESE DATES:
• Saturday 8th March: “Divine Music for Trumpets and Voices”, a concert entertainment to celebrate the life and work of George Frideric Handel and involving Instruments of Time and Truth and A Handful of Singers (see below for booking arrangements).
This concert will take us directly into the world of grand baroque and was devised by Ben Hoffnung and David Blackadder. With actor Douggie McMeekin playing the part of the elderly Handel, we learn about the composer’s early childhood, his time spent as a young man in Germany, his love of Italy and his triumphant arrival in Georgian London, where he received the full endorsement of no less than three monarchs.
Featured performances of Divine Music for Trumpets and Voices to date have already included a special performance for the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House with previous concerts at the Cheltenham International Music Festival, Marlborough College Chapel attended by the former Duchess of Cornwall, St Martin in the Fields, and the Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, with the role of Handel having previously been played by Simon Russell Beale, John Bromley Davenport and Harry Enfield.
• Saturday 28th June: We will again welcome the London Mozart Players: programme to be finalised.
Details of our November concert will follow in due course.
BOOKING FOR 8th MARCH HANDEL CELEBRATION CONCERT:
We are opening our priority booking website at 10:00 am on [Friday 24th January]. As for our previous concerts, priority booking will start with our Sponsors, followed by our Platinum and Gold Friends.
Tickets will go on general sale on Monday 3rd February.
Please click on www.wottonconcertseries.co.uk for the WCS website, from where the ‘Booking’ tab will take you through to the booking form via the Three Choirs Festival website, which we are using for our ticketing arrangements. Please note that – unless you’re already registered with the Three Choirs Festival – you will need to provide the usual details to them via the website, such as your address, to enable payment to be made for the tickets (there are other details for which they ask, but which you do not need to complete).
If you have any problems booking your tickets, please email info@wottonconcertseries.co.uk or call Edward Harford on 07860 748811 and we will do our best to help.
Finally, we do hope you will be able to join us at our Handel Celebration Concert in St Mary’s Church, Wotton-under-Edge on 8th March, and look forward to seeing you there. In the meantime, thank you again for your invaluable support.
Kind regards
Edward Harford
Communications Manager
