Mornings with a Masterpiece
If you enjoy listening to music but would like to know more about it, these talks are for you. Mornings with a Masterpiece is a well-established series of Zoom talks, providing an opportunity to discover and discuss great works of music in the company of other music-lovers. Rosemary introduces the works, with musical illustrations, and provides background and analysis to encourage and deepen musical understanding and enjoyment.
These sessions are held on Zoom on selected Thursday mornings from 10am – 12.30pm, including a break for coffee. Subjects covered so far are:
Bach – the Brandenburg Concertos
Mozart – Great Mass in C minor and the Requiem
Mozart – Wind Serenades, including the Gran Partita for thirteen wind instruments
Schubert – Song cycles: Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise
Schumann and Brahms – Two Piano Quintets
These talks could be delivered by arrangement to any interested groups, online or face-to-face.
Use the contact form on this website to get in touch and discuss possibilities, or click on Rosemary’s News page on this site for details of the latest topics.
Talks on general musical topics
Rosemary also gives face-to-face talks of a more general nature to local arts associations, religious and other interest groups. Topics have included:
The music of the Psalms
Some heavenly music – music in Shakespeare’s plays
Just a minuet – a short history of the dance that escaped the ballroom
The rise and fall of the piano concerto
Prelude, fugue and fantasia – why the music of Bach has endured through the centuries
The tip of the iceberg – a look at the background of some very popular musical works
Vaughan Williams and verse – how the composer was inspired by three very different poets
Workshops
Rehearsing an arrangement for a young chamber group
Singing workshops for children or adult amateur choirs
Training sessions on sight-reading and musical literacy
Workshops on compositional techniques and on helping students to compose