Easter Egg Hunt
Tue 26 Mar 2013
It’s that time of year guys…the time where we celebrate the joys of new life, the warmer weather (ahem) and indulge in far too much foiled confectionery. So, seeing as we’re sponsored by the lovely chocolatiers Lindt, we thought it was only right to run a chocolate-themed Easter competition. All you need to do is…
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Name a concert: the results
Thu 6 Dec 2012
You may remember that we asked you for your suggestions for a concert title, for an event in our yet-to-be-announced 2013-2014 London Southbank Centre season. The concert features Brahms’ lyrical Violin Concerto in D and Schumann’s heroic Rhenish Symphony. There were lots of great suggestions and we’ve picked out our favourite.
Read MoreA Christmas chocolate conundrum
Tue 4 Dec 2012
Chocolate is for life, not just for Christmas…but as it’s that time of year and we have a wonderful sponsor in Lindt, we thought we’d run a festive competition.
Read MoreName a concert. Take two
Sun 25 Nov 2012
Ok, remember a while back we asked for your help in naming a concert? Well as you’ll read from the previous blog, our plans changed, so here we are rerunning the competition….with a fresh new concert for you to name.
Read MoreName an OAE concert…
Mon 15 Oct 2012
Yes, it’s that time of year again, when we turn to you, our trusted audience, to help us name one of our concerts.
Read MoreCutout Competition
Sun 30 Sep 2012
Our Southbank Centre concerts kick off tonight where we’re going all out to prove that Not All Audiences Are The Same, and we want you to help us.
Read MoreQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers: competition winner
Fri 28 Sep 2012
You may remember that we launched a competition a few weeks back, where you could win a night fit for a Queen. Entrants had the chance to win a private box plus interval drinks for the opening night of our Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers season on 30 September at the Southbank Centre, London. Well, we’ve…
Read MoreQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers: Who’s your heroine?
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Ahead of our Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers series launching on 30 September, celebrating feisty female roles in opera, we’re launching a competition where you could win a night fit for a Queen. Nominate your personal heroine and you’ll be in with the chance to win your own private box plus interval drinks for the opening…
Read MoreEaster Bunnies: Caption Competition
Wed 4 Apr 2012
We’re luckily enough to be sponsored by the lovely chocolatiers Lindt, and this afternoon spotted a few of their rather beautiful chocolate bunnies checking out our upcoming concerts…. The bunnies need a new home for Easter, so we’ll gladly send them onto whoever can supply the best caption to the picture above. Just add your…
Read MoreCanary Competition (win tickets!)
Thu 22 Dec 2011
This New Year we’re at our Kings Place base, performing two concerts to mark the end of 2011 (on 31 Dec at 6pm and 1 Jan at 1pm). The programme contains Vivaldi’s evergreen Four Seasons, but also one real curiosity, Telemann’s Canary Cantata. The piece was written as a tribute to Telemann’s pet song-bird, and…
Read MoreAmazeballs Competition (AKA win chocolate and Night Shift tickets)
Tue 19 Apr 2011
Firstly, apologies for the use of the ‘word’ amazeballs, but it seems to be popular currency in the OAE office at the moment. So, we are very lucky at the OAE to have an amazing sponsor*, namely Lindt. They supply us with lots of lovely goodies through the year which are used for all sorts…
Read MoreCaption Competition: Tell us why Zen isn't looking very, er, Zen and win tickets to Baroque. Contrasted.
Thu 7 Apr 2011
When we did our ‘Green’ picture a while back we saw afterwards that on one of the shots we took our Digital Content Officer, Zen, had a particularly angry/shocked expression on his face…unusual for him given that, as his name suggests, he’s a particularly calm person. Anyway – what do you think is on the…
Read MoreCaption competition
Mon 10 Jan 2011
This pic was taken today at the OAE Academy – a three day training event for members of our Anne and Peter Law OAE Experience scheme (our apprenticeship scheme for young musicians). What on earth was going on?
Read MoreName that concert!
Fri 19 Nov 2010
A re-run of something we did a year or so back that in the end came up trumps. We give each concert in our Southbank Centre concert season a title – a way of summing up the evening in a few words. They’re (ideally) pithy, witty, perhaps a little irreverant, and should be a good…
Read MoreName your dream team and win…
Wed 13 Oct 2010
Wolfgang Amadeus Madonna anyone? This week we’re collaborating with the London Sinfonietta on REMIX, a 3-day festival celebrating remixing, reinventing and recyling music. Over three concerts we’re going to be looking at how composers have copied, stolen and taken inspiration from each other. For example, on Thursday the OAE plays Bach’s version of Pergolesi’s Stabat…
Read MoreOur blogs birthday! Celebrate with free tickets
Wed 2 Dec 2009
I just realised that yesterday our blog celebrated one year online. It’s been a busy year, and we’ve really enjoyed blogging about the OAE’s activities – and hope you have enjoyed reading! We fully intend to go on in the style and manner in which we have started… To celebrate we’re giving away a pair…
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