Time stood still for a couple of hours in St Augustine’s Chapel just a week before Good Friday, the day for which Bach composed his Passion according to St John – a form of job interview the like of which surely has never been seen before or since. We, the...
A new season of concerts by the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society was celebrated with an impressive new format for the programme. The new-style booklet is both visually attractive and helpfully informative. The first part of the evening was devoted to two challenging...
What a marvellous life-enhancing piece ‘Papa’ Haydn’s ‘The Creation’ is! And how appropriate that Tonbridge Philharmonic Society’s performance on June 26th should celebrate the 20th anniversary of their relationship with their...
Tonbridge Philharmonic Society broke with tradition in its hugely enjoyable March concert in presenting what conductor Robin Morrish rightly described as a Festival of Youth and Spring – an excellently chosen programme which linked Brahms’ Academic...
The Orchestra of the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society filled Big School recently with an attractive programme consisting of music by two masters of the modern orchestra, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky, together with that most romantic of all piano concertos, Schumann in A...
There can be few works as monumental in scale and conception as Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and it was fitting that this work was given a majestic interpretation by the combined forces of the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society Choir and Orchestra at the weekend. It...
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