OAE Tots go Strings: what you heard
Mon 15 Apr 2013
We had great fun in our OAE Tots go Strings concert on Saturday and hope you did too. If you’d like to know a bit more about what we played, read on: Most of our concert was made up of Telemann’s Don Quixote pronounced ‘Don Keyshot’. See what we did there with our donkey theme!…
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Not all tours are the same…
Mon 3 Dec 2012
Not all tours are the same… …so we found out when OAE violinist Susie Carpenter-Jacobs went behind the scenes for us back in May, when we took our Bostridge sings Bach concert on tour to Warsaw, Dresden, Prague, Vienna and Innsbruck. Her video postcard gives a snapshot of what our musicians get up to whilst away…
Read MoreSusie’s mid-tour blog: drama off-stage
Fri 1 Jul 2011
Violinist Susie Carpenter-Jacobs sent us this blog from mid-way through our tour with Sir Simon Rattle the other week: There’s been hectic activity in the orchestra this week: Haydn and Mozart have been jostling for supremacy in the hands of Sir Simon Rattle and the Labèque sisters, from Luxembourg, to Paris, Dublin and the Royal…
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Thu 28 May 2009
One Concert in the Life of a Touring Musician So – how have we weathered these last eleven days? To summarise: four concerts in three venues: Kings Place, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and St. George’s Bristol; three days of ‘Giulio Cesare’ at Glyndebourne; two days of rehearsals at Maida Vale studios, rounded off with a…
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