An inspired piece of programming gave us an intense and thought-provoking evening for the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society’s Easter concert. Both the Nelson Mass of Haydn and the Mozart Requiem were written in 1798. Both were late works, written at a time of...
On a surprisingly chilly November evening, a sizeable audience assembled in the imposing setting of Tonbridge School Chapel for Tonbridge Philharmonic Society’s performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. Conductor Robin Morrish eloquently dedicated the...
Joint Concert with Kantorei Heusenstamm “Music has always had the gift of bringing people together and crossing boundaries”: so said the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society’s Chairman, Eric Holder in his welcoming remarks in the programme for the Joint...
A rich and exciting menu of American music, including two sets of dances by 20th Century American masters. The first set of dances was a suite from the Ballet Appalachian Spring by Copland which is firmly rooted in the `folksy’ style of American music, with its...
What more splendid setting could there be for a performance of J S Bach’s challenging masterwork, the St Matthew Passion, than the Chapel of Tonbridge School? Seated in the sideways choir stalls, this was as much like attending the original performance in the...
Like many music societies, The Tonbridge Philharmonic is including works by Mendelssohn in its current programme. The season started in grand style, on Saturday 21st November in Tonbridge School Chapel, with one of Mendelssohn’s last and most popular works,...
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