British Music Society 1979-80 Season

BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF NORTHERN IRELAND 1979-80 SEASON OF EIGHT RECITALS in association with THE ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND and THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY Saturday 29 September 1979 HARTY ROOM 7.30 p.m. MEMBERS' NIGHT A.G.M. followed by a Recital given by THE HUNT TRIO who will perform Piano Trios by Haydn, Ireland and Beethoven Saturday 20 October 1979 ELMWOOD HALL 7.30 p.m. ALAN HACKER (clarinet) RICHARD BURNETT (fortepiano) The programme will include: Sonata in E flat, Op.. 81a 'Les Adieux' 'La Ricordanza' Variations Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48 Beethoven Czerny Weber Monday 19 November 1979 WHITLA HALL 7.30 p.m. (in association with QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY FESTIVAL '79) CATHY BERBERIAN (soprano) HAROLD LESTER (piano) "MONTEVERDI TO THE BEATLES" An Entertaining History of the Voice, with a running commentary, from the times of the Cavemen to Cage. S E We apologise to our members for any inconvenier of the above programmes be subject to last-minut

Saturday 1 December 1979 7.30 p.m. ELMWOOD HALL CANTILENA PLAYERS OF NEW YORK Piano Quartet in one movement...... Mahler Brahms Piano Quartet, Op. 60 in C minor Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Fauré Saturday 12 January 1980 ELMWOOD HALL 7.30 p.m. DORA SCHWARZBERG (violin) VICTOR DEREVIANKO (piano) Sonata No. 6 in G major, Op. 30 No 3 Suite for violin and piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 Thursday 14 February 1980 Mitsuko chido ELMWOOD HALL 7.30 p.m. DMITRI ALEXEEV (piano) Prelude and Fugue in G major Prelude and Fugue in D major Pieces Op. 76 4 Impromptus, Op. 142 Saturday 8 March 1980 ELMWOOD HALL 7.30 p.m. THE FITZWILLIAM QUARTET The programme will include: Beethoven Britten Brahms Saturday 17 May 1980 R.B.A.I. 7.30 p.m. THE FIRES OF LONDON directed by PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Fantasy and Two Pavans ...... Kammersymphonie Quartet movement in C minor ...... Schubert String Quartet No. 4 Shostakovich Shostakovich Shostakovich Brahms Schubert ... cancelled. Purcell/Maxwell Davies Schoenberg/Webem Miss Donnithorne's Maggot (Staged) Peter Maxwell Davies y inconvenience which may be caused should some to last-minute alteration.

Once again the British Music Society presents a series of concerts by outstanding international artists, many of them visiting Northern Ireland for the first time. Only with the continuing support of regular members is it possible to arrange concerts of such quality so PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE B.M.S. NOW! Our season opens with ALAN HACKER, clarinet, and RICHARD BURNETT, who plays his own Viennese fortepiano made in 1826, in a programme from the Classical repertoire. The soprano CATHY BERBERIAN was born in America of Armenian parents She is said to sing in twenty languages, including Chinese ha and her programme "From Monteverdi to the been acclaimed all over the world. We welcome this year CANTILENA, the American piano quartet who were forced to cancel their tour last year due to illness. Their programme includes one of the great piano quartets by Gabriel Faure. The FITZWILLIAM QUAR- TET, from the University of York, has studied the String Quartets of Shostakovich with the composer; they have recorded the complete cycle and will in- clude No 4 in their Belfast recital. We especially welcome this year two young Russian artists. DMITRI ALEXEEV was born Moscow in 1947 and studied at the Moscow Conservatiore. He won first prize in the Leeds International Piano Com- petition in 1975. DORA SCHWARZBERG was born in Tashkent and now lives in Israel. She also studied at the Moscow Conservatiore and in 1976 won the Carl Flesch Competition in London. She has recently visited Northern Ireland as a soloist with the Ulster Orchestra. The final concert is given by THE FIRES OF LON- DON. Described as "the world's leading music-theatre group", their programme will include a staged per- formance of a work by their director PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: "Miss Donnithorne's Maggot". This is "an outrageous but sympathetic portrait of the eccestric lady who was the real-life inspiration for Dickens' Miss Havisham" Your subscription includes, of course, the Members' Night Recital, to be given this year by the HUNT TRIO a group of talented young professional musicians from Belfast. They will be playing the rarely heard Piano Trio by John Ireland and the 'Kakadu' Variations by Beethoven. SUBSCRIPTION: £12.00 for seven concerts (£9.00 for Senior Citizens) INDIVIDUAL CONCERTS: £3.00 (no concessions) A special student subscription rate of £1.00 is available this year. Application forms for this and all subscriptions and enquiries should be sent to: Arts Council Booking Office, Bedford House, Bedford Street, Belfast 2 (44222) or Miss Linda Salem, The Secretary B.M.S., 31 Salisbury Gardens, Belfast 15 (779743) PLEASE SHOW THIS LEAFLET TO YOUR FRIENDS