Melling Tithebarn Arts Association October 2010

The 2010-2011 season is getting under way. We have three concert evenings to tell you about, the first being the return visit of the Bella String Quartet on

Friday 19th November at 7.30p.m.

This quartet presents four members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: Kate Richardson (violin), Kate Marsden (violin), Sarah Hill (viola), and Georgina Aasgaard (cello). This delightful quartet have been to the Tithebarn several times and always delight the audience with their choice of music. This time they will perform works by Mozart and Ravel, with some shorter pieces in between. Georgina is on tour at present with the Orchestra in China - something very exciting for them.

Friday 17th December at 8p.m. (Note the slightly later time)

This is our Christmas Carol evening - always popular with our audience. This year we have the pleasure of Cantique - a choir founded in 2007. They have performed at York Minster, Speke Hall, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Tatton Park, The Orient Express, Castle Howard, Canterbury Cathedral and many more. Next year they are hoping to perform in St. Paul’s Cathedral. It sounds an evening to look forward to, helping us to start the Christmas festival with good music, good company and good refreshments!

Friday 21st January 2011

We welcome back to the Tithebarn Alison Neil who will present Living in the Light.
Alison appeared at the Tithebarn while John Hoople was the inspiration and motivator behind the artists presented at the Barn. She will present this story of Hildegard of Bingen, who was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. Living in the turbulent and dangerous 12th Century, she was a musician, healer, artist, visionary, theologian, biographer, playwright and poet. Beginning as a hermit in a cell in a monastery, she rose to an unheard-of position for a woman - preaching in cathedrals, giving advice to an Emperor and criticising the Pope.
Her writing on medicine is now valued by alternative practitioners, her illustrations are recognised as major works of art, and her music topped the charts on Classic FM - 850 years after it was written.
About Alison’s previous one-woman plays, critics have said “unmissable entertainment”, “spellbinding and hugely entertaining”, “simply a masterpiece of theatre”, “the quality of the writing and acting are second to none”, and “just wonderful”. Don’t miss it!

Membership can be renewed at any concert - £5 per person. We rely on all the funding from membership and concert performances. Artists deserve an adequate remuneration for their services and we do hope that you will support us, both with your membership, but above all with your presence at our concert evenings. We look forward to seeing you there!


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