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Ensemble Liverpool

Ensemble Liverpool performs small-scale 'chamber' classical concerts and recitals, sometimes in unexpected places, with introductory talks where these are required.
Our repertoire, usually for between two and six players, includes composers as diverse as Barber, Amy Beach, the Beatles, Beethoven, Brahms, Cole Porter, Coleridge-Taylor, Debussy, Dvorak, Elgar, Ellington, Ethel Smyth, Haydn, Hurlstone, Korngold, Mozart, Piazzolla, Ravel, Scott Joplin, Schubert, Shostakovitch, Stanford, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi and many others.
We are always ready to add to this portfolio of prepared works if you have special requirements [contact us].
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Our sister organisations are Elegant Music [contact], a group of top-class professional performers (instrumentalists and singers) who offer bespoke programmes of music for your social, business and corporate events, and Live-A-Music (Liverpool) [contact], which provides a range of educational and community events and services for people of all ages and previous musical experience or none, from junior school children to adult groups in a wide variety of settings.

Spring, Four Strings And Four Seasons

08.3.28 Spring from the Four Seasons 140x85 019aa.jpg Daffodils in the sunshine take on a new aspect when they've just been background to a performance of 'Spring' from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Members of Elegant Music are here (below) relaxing in a break from rehearsals for a client's special occasion. ...

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The Hope Street Festivals (1996 - 2006)

Hope Street kids! (small) 06.9.17 254.jpg The Hope Street Festival in Liverpool, delayed from Midsummer, was on Sunday 17 September. This exciting milestone in Hope Street's history, introducing of a start-of-season early Autumn 'Feast' to go in future alongside the Summer Festival, is however neither the beginning nor the end of the journey. ...

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor CD cover (small) 06.10.jpg The black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912) is known almost exclusively for his large-scale work, 'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast'. There is however much more to this fascinating man than just one work, including the story behind his very early chamber music works such as the Opus 1 Piano Quintet of 1893.
Life and art are intertwined in the biography of this gentle, committed advocate of equal rights who was also a hugely talented musician. ...

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Menage A Trois With A Violin

Tony Burrage (concert dress) May 2002.JPG Musicians and their instruments often have a very particular relationship, almost 'human' in some respects. Here is an example of a three-way arrangement which offers even those on the side-line, in this case the notoriously long-suffering 'orchestra wife', something uniquely special and positive. ...

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HOPES Millennium Commission Presentation (London, 22 September 2000)

HOPES: The Hope Street Association (Liverpool) was honoured by being invited in September 2000 to give the 'community festival' perspective at a national meeting in London attended by the Secretary of State for Culture, Chris Smith M.P., the Millennium Commissioners and their special guests. The paper which follows was presented on this occasion by HOPES Hon. Chair, Hilary Burrage. ...

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Liverpool Fringe! Festival

Welcome to the original website of Liverpool Fringe! which was launched on 21st November 2007. This is where everyone can read about the beginnings of the Liverpool Fringe! and where you can post your ideas and messages of support.
For day-by-day information on Fringe! Festival events as they are confirmed, click here. ...

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Science and Innovation

What are the relationships between science, technology and 'modern society'? How are these interactions determined? And what is 'progress'?...

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