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Autumn Events

Thursday 27 October 2005 at 7.30pm - Cathedral
CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS

Violin
Soprano
Conductor

BEETHOVEN Overture Leonora No.3, Op.72b
BRUCH Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26
SIR JOHN European Premiere

With forces of 200 strong this celebratory and exciting concert features Bruch's First Violin Concerto, consistently and deservedly voted one of the favourite works of the British musical public, performed by sensational teenage violin star Chloë Hanslip, as well as Beethoven's great overture. Complementing this - and not to be missed - will be the European Premiere of Ikon of Eros, an exciting work that sees the performers in a layout that resembles a pyramid with the solo violin at the pinnacle.
In partnership with - MMC (Marsh & McLennan Companies)
Tickets £30 £25 £15*
*Unreserved seating with no direct view of stage (TV monitors provided for seats in side aisles)

Monday 14 November 2005 at 8.00pm - The Venue, Spur Road, Quarry Lane

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE & TIME - Monday 14 November at 8pm - replaces the originally advertised date/time Tuesday 10 November at 7pm

'Family and countrymen seem inextricably linked - in some ways our country is like our family: we know it extraordinarily well, yet we don't always like it. Nevertheless it keeps its hold on our loyalties in spite of everything else.' The BBC's World Affairs Editor's new volume of memoirs entitled Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood recalls the England he grew up in, painting a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s.
Tickets £10 - Reserved Seating

Tuesday 22 November 2005 at 7.00pm - The Venue, Spur Road, Quarry Lane

Drawing on an extensive and often neglected archive material in the India Office Library and National Army Museum, celebrated military historian and television presenter Richard Holmes discusses Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914, a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India. Its focus, like that of Tommy and Redcoat, is on the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that vast and dusty country, bore their children, and, all too often, mopped their brows as they died.

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NOVARTS

An imaginative coming together of the Chichester Arts Trust, Chichester Festivities and Chichester Festival Theatre.


CHICHESTER OPEN ART EXHIBITION
Saturday 5-Sunday 20 November 2005, 10am-5pm daily and until the end of the concert interval - Chic Lounge, Minerva Theatre, Free Entrance
A national exhibition of contemporary painting, drawing and print


TO BOOK FOR THE FOLLOWING EVENTS Please contact The Box Office, Chichester Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6AP. Tel: 01243 781312


MARTHA LEWIS 'CAFE AMAN'
Tuesday 8 November, 7.45pm - Minerva Theatre
Cafe Aman marries the urban blues of the cafes of Athens in the 1920s with urban London. Performing Martha Lewis' distinctive and original compositions and songs, the instrumentation of a four piece band provide a nostalgic and lyrical background to her striking vocal lead.
Tickets £15 £12


HOMAGE TO GRAPPELLI
Wednesday 9 November, 7.45pm - Minerva Theatre
Violin
Piano
Double Bass
Drums
A celebration of the immortal Frenchman Stephane Grappelli.
Tickets £15 £12



Sunday 13 November, 7.45pm - Minerva Theatre
The sensational Soul Diva has had hits here and abroad including If You're Ready (Come Go with Me), and I'd Rather Go Blind.
Tickets £17 £14


ANTONIO FORCIONE
Monday 14 November, 7.45pm - Minerva Theatre
Antonio Forcione Guitars
Percussion
Jenny Adejayan Cello
Igor Outkine Accordion
Internationally renowned guitarist Antonio Forcione breaks the mould of most conventional, popular guitar sounds - be it in the field of jazz, Spanish, Brazilian or improvised music.
'One of the great acoustic guitarists' The Guardian
Tickets £17 £14


FOLK MUSIC OF ARGENTINA - 'THE CHAMAME'
Tuesday 15 November, 7.45pm - Minerva Theatre
Chango Spasiuk Accordion
David Sebastian Villalba Guitar/Vocals
Victor Manuel Renadeau Violin
Percussion
Marcos Nunez Guitar
Juan Nunez Bandoneon
'Chamame' is music with the deepest swing in Argentina - a heady mixture of rural polka and tango. Winner of BBC Radio 3's Award for Best Newcomer for World Music.
Tickets £15 £12


BONGO FURY with O DUO PERCUSSION
Thursday 17 November, 7.45pm - Minerva Theatre
Bongo fury hits Chichester with the arrival of crazy virtuosi percussionists O Duo! - alias and Ollie Cox. This award-winning duo astound with their musicianship performing revelatory arrangements of the classics.
Tickets £12 £10


ELKIE BROOKS LIVE - THE FIRST 45 YEARS
Friday 18 November, 7.30pm - Chichester Festival Theatre
Elkie's undisputed vocal and performing talents have made her the biggest-sellingg female album artist in the history of the British pop charts.
Tickets £20 £18 £15


BOOGIEMEISTER
Saturday 19 November, 7.45pm - Minerva Theatre
The undoubted King of Boogie-Woogie, Axel Zwingenberger loves slow thoughtful late-night blues displaying an ease and lightness of touch that other boogie players haven't yet dreamed of. A mujst for any true Boogie-Woogie fan.
Tickets £15 £12


Soprano
Piano
Sunday 20 November, 3.00pm - Minerva Theatre
HAYDN
SCHUMANN
MOZART 2nd Movement from Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, KV310
MOZART Voi che Sapete from Le Nozze di Figaro
DVORAK Song to the Moon from Rusalka
PUCCINI Si, mi chiamano Mimi from La Boheme
Hamburg-born has received numerous awards around Europen and has performed many major operatic roles including at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
Tickets £15 £12



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