Days of Special Interest are held at Moor Park Mansion, WD3 1QL, and include coffee and a light lunch within the ticket price. Each Day consists either of lecture 1, coffee, lecture 2, light lunch and lecture 3 (ending at 15:15), or, lecture 1, coffee, lecture 2 and light lunch (ending at 14:15). It is impractical to provide an online Zoom version.
Non-members
If you wish to attend as a visitor please use the General Queries Form at the foot of this page. The cost varies from lecture to lecture but is usually around £40.00.
Time
Arrive in person from 10:00. Refreshments are available from the bar. The first lecture begins at 10:30.
2 Nov
WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2022
SPREAD A LITTLE HAPPINESS
THE STORY OF THE BRITISH MUSICAL
Speaker:
Malcolm Jones
The British Musical was triumphant in the 1930s, when the musicals of Coward and Novello dominated the West End - until the arrival of Oklahoma! in 1948 changed everthing. For 30 years audiences flocked to see the big American musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein and others. But British musicals still had moments of great success. Julian Slade, Sandy Wilson, David Heneker and Lionel Bart had hugely successful shows. Then, in the 1970s and 80s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice re-established the British musical as a major global force.
2 Feb
IMPRESSIONISM
IN MUSIC & THE ARTS
Speaker:
Peter Medhurst
In these three lectures Peter Medhurst will examine some of the great works of Debussy (Preludes, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune), as well as key works by Faure and Ravel, side by side with the world of late 19th century art (Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet) to determine whether or not there is a link between impressionism in music and impressionism in art.
5 Apr
ART
AS REHABILITATION, REMEMBRANCE AND REFORM
Speaker:
Angela Findlay
Today's subject casts light onto areas of our society where the Arts are not only visual, decorative or commercial, but absolutely vital, hugely relevant and potentially life-changing. Interspersed with her personal accounts of humorous and even sometimes slightly horrifying situations, Angela Findlay's three talks are moving, informative and highly original.
7 Jun
FIVE EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN
WHO INFLUENCED THE COURSE OF MODERN ART
Speaker:
Julian Halsby
Today's three lectures look at the lives and work of five women - sometimes scandalous, always fascinating - who in different ways influenced the course of modern painting in Europe and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
