The Works: 6 March pictures
Mon 26 Mar 2012
A little late, but here are a selection of pictures from our event back on 6 March, all by Joe Plommer. The event featured Laurence Cummings directing the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.5 and Suite No.3, with presenter Hannah Conway. View the full set over on Facebook or Flickr.
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Speed-date the Orchestra: the table plan…
Mon 5 Mar 2012
At tomorrow’s The Works concert we’re repeating our ‘speed-date the orchestra’ event – a great opportunity to meet members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. So, after the show, there will be 10 numbered tables out in the foyer, each of which will have a musician or two on them. Simply join a…
Read MoreBrand new trailer: Back with Bach
Mon 5 Mar 2012
Yes, The Works returns tomorrow evening with an evening of Bach, and we’re all primed and ready to give you a guided tour of two of his most popular pieces, the Suite No.3 (which includes Air on a G String) and the Brandenburg Concerto No.5. Here’s a trailer to whet your appetite… Find our more…
Read MoreLaurence Cummings: Speed Interview
Tue 28 Feb 2012
The Works is back on 6 March with an all-bach event directed and presented by Laurence Cummings. We caught up with him to ask a few questions… What/when was your big breakthrough? I feel that my musical career has been one long and fortunate slow burn but the thing that really changed my musical life…
Read MoreMissed The Works?
Mon 17 Oct 2011
We know some of you came to our very first The Works concert on 4 October at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and weren’t able to get hold of a programme, so we’ve made it available to download here: The Works 4 October programme We had some great feedback, including a couple of Facebook comments: “Had…
Read MoreThe Works: pictures, reviews and feedback
Mon 10 Oct 2011
Well, last week saw our very first The Works event. Although man one clearly really didn’t enjoy himself (storming out half-way though) we’ve had some really wonderful feedback from audiences. As with anything new (such as this website) there are clearly things to change and refine, one very obvious thing being that we ran out…
Read MoreRobert Levin: ‘Mozart was the Duke Ellington of the 18th Century’
Tue 4 Oct 2011
Ahead of our The Works performance tonight, in which we’ll be giving the audience a guided tour of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23, here’s a video with pianist Robert Levin talking about how differently things would have been done in Mozart’s day.
Read MoreLove is in the air….speed-date the OAE at The Works
Mon 3 Oct 2011
Another feature of tomorrow’s The Works event is a special speed-dating session after the show. Well, speed-networking is maybe a better way to express it, but we’re going to use the structure of speed-dating to enable the audience to meet the Orchestra. There will be 10 tables in the foyer post show each with a…
Read MoreThe Works trailer
Mon 3 Oct 2011
Here at OAE towers we are just having our coffee and getting set up for the week ahead. It’s a busy start to the week though as tomorrow sees the launch of our brand-new concert series, The Works. Here’s a trailer for tomorrow night’s event:
Read MoreIntroducing The Works – why, what, how & when…
Tue 20 Sep 2011
Many of you will know of, or will have been to, one of our Night Shift events. We introduced these late-night concerts about 5 years ago, for a number of reasons – the prime one being that we wanted to appeal to a different audience to that which comes along at 7pm. But also at…
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