Category: Concerts 2025

Concerts 2025

Pet Sounds Reimagined & Bird With Strings

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Pet Sounds Reimagined & Bird With Strings

Sunday 5th October 2025, 7:30pm

This year Pet Sounds Reimagined has expanded to include the Festival Chamber Orchestra, exploring the music of the Beach Boys in in yet more exciting and innovative ways.

Alongside this ‘Bird with Strings’ uses the wonderfully lush orchestral arrangements which feature on the album’ Charlie Parker with Strings’ which he recorded in the late 1940’s and early 50’s.

Both Albums are seen as iconic in their own right and the new versions performed this evening, present a wonderful fusion of Classical and Jazz with a wonderful tapestry of Musical Styles and colours.

Runtime: 120 minutes

Full price tickets: £30

Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall


Credits:                                                Paul Booth – Saxophones          Ian Shaw – Vocals                    Liane Carrol – Vocals                  Natalie Duncan – Vocals        John Harle – Conductor.      With:                                                  The Bansangu Ensemble          Festival Chamber Orchestra

 

Concerts 2025

16 March A Musical Tapestry

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A Musical Tapestry

With the programme containing works from different periods, providing a mix of styles with varying colours and textures, the concert will truly provide a ‘Musical Tapestry’.

Conductor – Stephen Barlow
Saxophone – John Harle OBE
Oboe – Ian Crowther

Programme to include: Holst, Moorside Suite; Zipoli, Adagio for Oboe Cello and Strings; Delius’ Two Aquarelles; Corea Children’s Songs for Saxophone & Strings; Corelli, Concerto Grosso No 9; Plus More…
Running time 65 mins approx.

Sunday 16th March 2025
Venue: Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, 4pm. Doors open 3.30pm

Tickets: £20, students £10

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Email: ian@crowthersofcanterbury.co.uk
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