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Muppet Songs: Gonzo – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – YouTube

#MfEMondays are Music for Everyone’s weekly emails designed to keep you up to date with MfE events & to circulate interesting finds, special features, and musical musings for your Mondays! We are aiming to send out something new each week.

#MfEMonday – 31st July 2023

31st July 2023 Music for Everyone

Nottingham Chamber Singers will be kicking off our 2023/24 concert season in style with an enchanting concert at St Barnabas Cathedral on Saturday 23rd September. Joined by Mezzo Soprano, Emily Hodkinson and Organist, Peter Siepmann, the Nottingham Chamber Singers will present a flavour of the styles and sensibilities of some of the greatest romantic composers of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries including Franck, Boulanger, Elgar and Faure, finishing with Duruflè’s profoundly moving and deeply consoling Requiem.

Click here for more information about the concert, or here to book tickets.

Please be aware that the MfE Office will be closed next week while we decamp to Trent College for our annual Summer School. Nottingham Bookwise will remain open as normal. If you would like to experience a flavour of what the Summer School is all about, why not come along to our Showcase Concert on Wednesday 09 August at 6:00pm? Tickets are only £5 and include drinks and nibbles! Click here to book.

Did anyone catch MfE friend and alumnus, Sam Sweeney, on radio 4 this week?

Click here to listen and find out how Bach’s Toccata and Fugue and Ski Sunday are connected!

We’re looking forward to hearing the Summer School strings playing the Romance from Eine Kleine Nachtmusic. Let’s hope it’s more successful than this death-defying acrobatic version!

Have a great week!

Your friends at MfE.

31/07/2023

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The 50 greatest classical love songs – Classic FM

#MfEMonday – 13th February 2023

13th February 2023 Music for Everyone

We are recruiting at MfE!!!

If you would like to get involved in the organisation and delivery of Music for Everyone’s exciting artistic programme, please do get in touch. We are looking for a part-time administrator to work a few mornings a week in the office. Please e-mail Su@music-for-everyone.org for an application pack, to submit before the deadline 27^th February.

Watch this space for another paid position coming up in the next few weeks, thanks to Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants. We will be looking for a Project Co-ordinator to assist us with the organisation of the 40^th Anniversary Season. Music for Everyone has thrived over the years because of the valuable support of many hundreds volunteers, offering thousands of hours of their valuable time and expertise. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for what you do, fulfilling various roles across the organisation. We always welcome new volunteers in the office, at events, at Jumbo (music store) where we particularly require some additional help for the choral library. A big thank you to the new marketing volunteers who have put themselves forward for local promotion of MfE activities. Your ongoing commitment is very much appreciated.

We all know that music is the food of love, and that singing and playing music together brings us closer. Let’s spread a little love this week…

Why does Music have such a hold over us?

This article by Susan Rogers explores how “The music we love is functional…Your music-loving brain is shaped by the sounds of your environment.”

Susan Rogers is an audio engineer, professor, and author of This Is What It Sounds Like (Bodley Head). Click here to read her article: The big idea: why does music have such a hold over us? | Books | The Guardian

We look forward to seeing you at St. Martin’s Church in Sherwood for ‘A Multitude of Voices’ on Saturday 11^th March at 7.30pm, featuring Nottingham Chamber Singers. Dive into the rich, exquisite and relatively under-represented canon of choral works by female composers. The concert, in the same week as International Women’s Day, will celebrate 900 years of Passiontide themed motets, both reflective and uplifting from the 11^th Century Abbess and Polymath Hildegard von Bingen through to the emerging and talented Kerensa Briggs (b.1991). The second half will see a beautiful performance of Son of God Mass by James Whitbourn. John Barker saxophone. Henry Parkes organ. Rachel Parkes conductor.

Tickets: https://www.music-for-everyone.org/event/march-ncs/

Have a great week!

Your friends at MfE.

13/02/2023

www.music-for-everyone.org | 0115 9589312

10 Goose Gate | Hockley | NG1 1FF

#MfEMonday – 23rd May 2022

23rd May 2022 Music for Everyone

From little alien Bumblesnouts saving the planet, to trekking through the jungle, to sailing across the ocean with Moana and Maui, Saturday’s Vocals concert had it all!

Conducted by Alison and Rachel, accompanied by Angela on the piano and Alex on the drums with fantastic narrator Mark, the children showed off their hard work from the weekend before and put on an amazing performance. Here are some photos from the concert…

Coming up next… for the adult instrumentalists and singers, Blow the Dust is on Saturday 11 June and Celebrate the Jubilee with Nottingham Festival Chorus on 25/26 June, places are still available on both courses! Find out more and book on our website: https://www.music-for-everyone.org/

Occasionally there are days when we struggle for inspiration for our Monday Motivation, so this week we thought we would hand it over to you, our lovely MfE family! We would love to hear from you about what musical moments have inspired or motivated you. Email us with your heart-warming, funny or even embarrassing stories and we will share them over the next few weeks!

Speaking of embarrassing moments, here’s a round-up of ClassicFM’s followers’ most embarrassing musical moments. https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/humour/musicians-share-embarrassing-things-happened-live-concert/

Have a good week!

Your friends at MfE.

23/05/2022

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