Music in the Round Spring 2018 brochure by Music in the Round

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Classical, folk, jazz and family concerts in Sheffield

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EXPERIENCE LIVE MUSIC FROM LEADING CLASSICAL, JAZZ AND FOLK MUSICIANS, PERFORMED IN THE UNIQUE SURROUNDINGS OF THE CRUCIBLE STUDIO.

It’s an extraordinary place to encounter music – both intimate and relaxed; where you get so close to the performers you can feel their excitement, see their energy and hear the control in every note. Informal introductions and pre-concert talks mean you don’t need to know anything about the music in advance. And there’s never a dress code, just an open invitation for everyone, of all ages and all musical tastes, to come and join us.

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WELCOME TO OUR SPRING SEASON 2018 Standing at its heart is the return of our weekend festival with resident group, Ensemble 360. Showcasing the complete chamber music of two composers of ravishingly beautiful music – Debussy and Ravel – the festival is presented in collaboration with University of Sheffield Concerts and their French SongMakers’ Weekend. Acclaimed violinist Alina Ibragimova returns with her ensemble, the Chiaroscuro Quartet, followed by consummate folk musician Sam Sweeney and friends. They are all contributing to our ongoing series ‘World of Strings’, presenting string music from across the ages and around the globe. Combined with concerts from Singer-inResidence Roddy Williams, harpist Catrin Finch, the Leonore Piano Trio, Tim Horton and fun events for children and families, we believe we’ve found a great recipe for a fantastic season! Angus Smith Artistic Director See pages 24-26 for booking & venue information

SEASON AT A GLANCE… LA BELLE ÉPOQUE A FRENCH WEEKEND

EVENING CONCERTS LEONORE PIANO TRIO p.08 Saturday 20 January, 7.15 - 9.10pm Crucible Studio Theatre SAM SWEENEY AND FRIENDS Saturday 27 January 7.15 - 9.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre

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CHIAROSCURO QUARTET Thursday 1 February 7.15 - 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre

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RODERICK WILLIAMS Baritone p.11 & SUSIE ALLAN Piano Saturday 10 February, 7.15 - 9pm Upper Chapel TIM HORTON Piano p.21 Wednesday 28 March, 7.15 - 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre

KOFI-BARNES AGGREGATION Friday 19 January, 7.15 - 9.45pm Crucible Studio Theatre

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CHAMBER MUSIC AND SONG FROM FRANCE’S GOLDEN AGE In collaboration with University of Sheffield Concerts LOUISE ALDER Soprano AMY HARMAN Bassoon JAMES BAILLIEU Piano Friday 9 March, 7.15 - 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre

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ENSEMBLE 360 Saturday 10 March, 3 - 4.05pm Crucible Studio Theatre

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THE ART OF IMPRESSIONISM p.14 Saturday 10 March, 4.30 - 5.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 Saturday 10 March, 7 - 8.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre

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GILLIAN KEITH Soprano SIMON LEPPER Piano Saturday 10 March, 9 - 10pm Upper Chapel

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ENSEMBLE 360 p.17 Sunday 11 March, 11.30am - 12.40pm Crucible Studio Theatre JAMES NEWBY Baritone p.18 SIMON LEPPER Piano Sunday 11 March, 1.15 - 2.15pm Firth Hall, The University of Sheffield ENSEMBLE 360 with CATRIN FINCH Harp Sunday 11 March, 3 - 4.30pm Crucible Studio Theatre

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AILISH TYNAN Soprano p.20 SIMON LEPPER Piano Sunday 11 March, 7.30 - 8.30pm Firth Hall, The University of Sheffield

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CONCERTEENIES AT MUSIC p.23 IN THE ROUND Saturday 17 February 0 to 1 years: 10.15 - 11.10am 1 & 2 years: 11.35am - 12.30pm 3 & 4 years: 1.45 - 2.40pm Adelphi Room, Crucible Theatre

Every country in the world has its own string instruments and a tradition of music written for those instruments. Join us as we continue our exploration. This Spring, award-winning folk musician Sam Sweeney and friends celebrate the English Fiddle through the ages. And the Chiaroscuro Quartet, with acclaimed violinst Alina Ibragimova, demonstrates the striking sound world created by instruments strung with classical-style gut strings. 05

LET THE MUSIC BEGIN…

Meet Ensemble 360, Sheffield’s world-class chamber group. Comprising eleven of the country’s finest musicians, the Ensemble is at the heart of our annual classical music programme. These supremely talented musicians regularly come together to perform in pairs, trios, quartets and more.

CLAUDIA AJMONEMARSAN Violin

NAOMI ATHERTON French Horn

AMY HARMAN Bassoon

BENJAMIN NABARRO Violin

ADRIAN WILSON Oboe

GEMMA ROSEFIELD Cello

LAURÈNE DURANTEL Double Bass

MATTHEW HUNT Clarinet

RODERICK WILLIAMS, OBE Singer-in-Residence And meet baritone RODERICK WILLIAMS, OBE, our Singer-in-Residence. In addition to presenting regular recitals, Roddy is a champion of our Music in the Community programme, actively supporting our work with singers of all ages and experience.

JULIETTE BAUSOR Flute 06

TIM HORTON Piano

RUTH GIBSON Viola 07

SAM SWEENEY AND FRIENDS:

Evening Concert

LEONORE PIANO TRIO Saturday 20 January 7.15 - 9.10pm Crucible Studio Theatre £20 £14 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Students & Under 35s

A cycle of the complete Beethoven violin sonatas, cello sonatas and piano trios (concert 5 of 8)

THE ENGLISH FIDDLE

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata in E flat Op.12 No.3 Cello Sonata in D Op.102 No.2 Piano Trio in E flat WoO 38 Piano Trio in D Op.70 No.1 Ghost Beethoven’s Ghost Trio is arguably one of his most evocative pieces. Evidence from his notebook suggests that the slow movement, full of Gothic gloom and extraordinary tension, may originally have been written for the witches in an opera of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The accompanying works offset the dark and sober mood of this movement with an abundance of colour and charm. Saturday 27 January 7.15 - 9.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre £17 £13.50 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Students & Under 35s

SAM SWEENEY Fiddle JOHN DIPPER Fiddle EMMA REID Fiddle MIRANDA RUTTER Fiddle This one-off collaboration concert features four outstanding folk musicians in a celebration of English fiddle style and repertoire from the 17th century to the present day… and beyond. Sam Sweeney, 2015 BBC Folk Musician of the Year and fiddler with Bellowhead and Leveret, has invited three of his favourite players to come together with their unique styles and sounds for an evening of exuberant and spontaneous solos, duets and ensemble playing.

• Post-concert talk All ticket holders are invited to stay on for an informal Q&A session with the musicians after the concert. 08

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Photo: Elly Lucas

CHIAROSCURO QUARTET

Evening Concert

RODERICK WILLIAMS BARITONE SUSIE ALLAN PIANO Saturday 10 February 7.15 – 9.10pm Upper Chapel £20 £14 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Students & Under 35s

Thursday 1 February 7.15 – 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre £20 £14 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Students & Under 35s • Post-concert talk All ticket holders are invited to stay on for an informal Q&A session with the musicians after the concert.

★★★★★ “The playing is intense and refined, exploratory and poised. This is real chamber music.” The Guardian

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PASTORAL ECHOES: THE GREAT AGE OF ENGLISH SONG Programme includes BUTTERWORTH Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ IRELAND Sea Fever GURNEY In Flanders VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Silent Noon FINZI Let Us Garlands Bring and songs by QUILTER, WARLOCK and BRITTEN Roderick Williams presents a handpicked programme of heartrendingly beautiful songs from a repertoire in which he has become acknowledged as a world leader.

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA Violin PABLO HERNÁN BENEDÍ Violin EMILIE HÖRNLUND Viola CLAIRE THIRION Cello

“Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is revelatory. Susie Allan lingers tellingly over an important detail in the piano writing just at the right moment to complement Williams’ exquisite interpretation.” BBC Music Magazine

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C minor Op.18 No.4 FANNY MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E flat SCHUBERT String Quartet No.13 in A minor D.804 Rosamunde The Chiaroscuro Quartet present contrasting masterpieces from the string quartet repertoire. Beethoven’s Quartet in C minor is a powerful and urgent piece, full of dramatic intensity, while a profound melancholy pervades Schubert’s lyrical Rosamunde. In this concert the quartet will also be championing the music of Fanny Mendelssohn, whose Quartet in E flat reveals a composer of immense imagination and the very highest technical ability.

Photo: Benjamin Ealovega

LA BELLE ÉPOQUE A FRENCH WEEKEND

FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC AND SONG FROM FRANCE’S GOLDEN AGE

LA BELLE ÉPOQUE A FRENCH WEEKEND

Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age

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Warm, evocative, sensual… arresting, daring, forward-looking.

• Pre-concert talk Professor Helen Abbott, from University of Birmingham, Director of the Baudelaire Song Project Friday 9 March 6.15 - 6.45pm Crucible Studio Theatre FREE to all concert ticket holders; please request a separate ticket when booking

£14 £10 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Under 35s & Students

BAUDELAIRE AND THE BASSOON

Friday 9 - Sunday 11 March

The music of Ravel and Debussy is all these things and more. Over one weekend in March, Ensemble 360, Catrin Finch and guests present the complete chamber music of these two radical and inspirational composers as part of our Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age, presented in collaboration with University of Sheffield Concerts.

Friday 9 March 7.15 - 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre

Featuring CHABRIER L’invitation au voyage BEETHOVEN Adelaide, Op.46 DEBUSSY Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire DUPARC L’invitation au voyage WAGNER Selections from Tannhäuser HECTOR BERLIOZ La Captive, H.60 with works by FRANCK, WEBER, DUTILLEUX and SERGE GAINSBOURG

Ensemble 360’s ‘bassoonist in a million’ Amy Harman is joined by Louise Alder, ‘the brightest lyric soprano of the younger generation’ and winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017 Audience Prize, and pianist in a ‘class of his own’ James Baillieu. This evening’s concert celebrates the mid-19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire, an enormously important figure in both modern literature and art, and the composers he admired and influenced. 13

LA BELLE ÉPOQUE A FRENCH WEEKEND

Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age

ENSEMBLE 360 Saturday 10 March 3 - 4.05pm (no interval) Crucible Studio Theatre £14 £10 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Under 35s & Students RAVEL Tzigane for violin and piano DEBUSSY Nocturne et Scherzo for cello and piano RAVEL Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré for violin and piano DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano RAVEL Piano Trio Ravel’s Trio, finished just a few days after the outbreak of the First World War, stands alongside Debussy’s Cello Sonata, a work conceived towards its end. Debussy’s work is in one sense traditional, built around sonata form, yet its character is resolutely forwardlooking. Ravel’s Tzigane is a bravura piece of showmanship demanding extreme virtuosity. Expect fireworks! Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age

FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM IN ART & MUSIC Saturday 10 March 4.30 - 5.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre £6 14

Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age

ENSEMBLE 360 Saturday 10 March 7 - 8.15pm (no interval) Crucible Studio Theatre £14 £10 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Under 35s & Students DEBUSSY Piano Trio in G RAVEL Violin Sonata No.2 RAVEL String Quartet in F

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This concert presents Debussy and Ravel at the opposite ends of their careers. Debussy’s Trio is the work of a young man yet to find a personal voice, but it is effortlessly sweet and charming. In contrast, Ravel’s Violin Sonata hints at the composer’s discovery and love of American jazz. Ravel’s only string quartet was much admired by Debussy, and while perceived as progressive and modern, Ravel considered it firmly rooted in classical tradition.

Dr Charlotte de Mille, Music Curator at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and Tim Horton (piano) discuss Impressionism in relation to art and music. With pictorial and musical illustrations. 15

LA BELLE ÉPOQUE A FRENCH WEEKEND

Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age

DEBUSSY AND HIS MUSE

ENSEMBLE 360 Sunday 11 March 11.30am - 12.40pm (no interval) Crucible Studio Theatre £14 £10 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Under 35s & Students RAVEL Violin Sonata No.1 RAVEL Sonata for Violin and Cello DEBUSSY Petite pièce for clarinet and piano DEBUSSY Première Rapsodie for clarinet and piano DEBUSSY Violin Sonata

Saturday 10 March 9pm - 10pm (no interval) Upper Chapel £10 £5 Unwaged & Under 26s

GILLIAN KEITH Soprano SIMON LEPPER Piano At 18, Debussy fell in love with Marie-Blanche Vasnier, a captivating society lady with the voice of an angel. This green-eyed muse sang her way into his heart, inspiring a period of happiness, creativity, and selfdiscovery. Award-winning duo Gillian Keith and Simon Lepper perform Debussy’s ravishing songs, interwoven seamlessly into readings of extracts from diaries, letters and essays.

Energy and vitality counteract a degree of poignancy in this concert. Debussy’s Violin Sonata was the composer’s last completed work and the premiere in 1917 was his final performance. It’s a restless piece with the “breathlessness of a mortally wounded bird, which has a beauty and pathos of its own.”* Ravel’s Violin and Cello Sonata was dedicated to the memory of Debussy and its relentless drive makes it an arresting homage.

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*Martin Cooper, Music Historian

LA BELLE ÉPOQUE A FRENCH WEEKEND

Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age

RAVEL AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

ENSEMBLE 360 WITH CATRIN FINCH HARP

Sunday 11 March 1.15 - 2.15pm (no interval) Firth Hall, The University of Sheffield

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£10 £5 Unwaged & Under 26s JAMES NEWBY Baritone SIMON LEPPER Piano Winner of the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Award, baritone James Newby returns to Sheffield with pianist Simon Lepper to explore the evocative sound world of Ravel. The fragranced Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques are paired with music by Ravel’s pupil, Vaughan Williams. Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems of a wandering vagabond’s reminiscences inspired some of Vaughan Williams’ best writing in Songs of Travel. Sunday 11 March 3 - 4.30pm Crucible Studio Theatre

Friends are invited to join us for lunch on

£14 £10 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Under 35s & Students

Sunday 11 March, 1 - 2.30pm Ego (Mercure Hotel) To find out more about becoming a Friend and / or to reserve your place please call the office on 0114 281 4660 or email info@musicintheround.co.uk

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DEBUSSY Syrinx for solo flute RAVEL Sonatine (arr. for flute, viola and harp) DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp DEBUSSY String Quartet RAVEL Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet Although Debussy only wrote a single quartet, we can be grateful that it’s a wondrous piece, especially loved for its sensuous beauty and iridescent harmonies. In Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, the opening wind and strings duos, followed closely by rippling harp, launch what could almost be a ‘manifesto of impressionism’ in music. Glorious.

LA BELLE ÉPOQUE A FRENCH WEEKEND Festival of Chamber Music and Song from France’s Golden Age

Evening Concert

TIM HORTON PIANO

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Wednesday 28 March 7.15 – 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre £20 £14 Disabled & Unemployed £5 Students & Under 35s A cycle of Schubert’s major Piano Sonatas (concert 2 of 4) SCHUBERT Hungarian Melody in B minor D.817 SCHOENBERG Six Little Piano Pieces Op.19 LISZT Sonata in B minor SCHUBERT Sonata in G D.894

Sunday 11 March 7.30 - 8.30pm (no interval) Firth Hall, The University of Sheffield £10 £5 Unwaged & Under 26s

AILISH TYNAN Soprano SIMON LEPPER Piano Celebrated soprano Ailish Tynan partners with pianist Simon Lepper to conclude our French weekend. The carafe jealous of a giraffe, the Queen of Hearts’ strange icy domain, and the adventures of a flea, an elephant and a pot of jam… Poulenc’s delightful, charming, nonsensical and surreal ‘La Courte Paille’ inspires this programme exploring the voice of children in French song.

Schubert’s piano mastery takes the spotlight once more in the second of Tim Horton’s concerts devoted to the composer. The evening also demonstrates Schubert’s influence on succeeding generations: Liszt’s fiendishly challenging B minor Sonata is one clear example; while Schoenberg’s exquisite miniatures also owe a clear debt to Schubert’s Romantic style. The Sonata in G begins with a serene and seemingly never-ending melody and ends with a finale infused with upbeat Austrian folk melodies.

• Pre-concert talk 6.15 - 6.45pm Tim Horton discuss the impact and legacy of Schubert’s piano music. FREE to all concert ticket holders; please request your talk ticket at your time of booking. 20

“This band is about enjoyment for performers and audience alike – the perfect antidote to the po-faced gloom school of jazz!” Alan Barnes

KOFI-BARNES AGGREGATION Friday 19 January 7.15 – 9.45pm Crucible Studio Theatre £17 £13.50 Concessions £8 Students with NUS card £3 Under 16s

TONY KOFI Saxophones ALAN BARNES Saxophones JOHN TURVILLE Piano ADAM KING Bass ROD YOUNGS Drums Contrasting alto sax talents Tony Kofi and Alan Barnes make a very welcome return to the Studio. Kofi provides heavier-toned, blues-drenched sounds, in the Jackie McLean mould; while Barnes represents a lighter, crisply phrased style, evoking Art Pepper. Combine the two approaches and the chemistry is instantly explosive – producing accessible, hard-swinging music!

Informal concerts for ages 0-4

CONCERTEENIES WITH MUSIC IN THE ROUND Saturday 17 February Adelphi Room, Crucible Theatre 0 to 1 years: 10.15 - 11.10am 1 & 2 years: 11.35am - 12.30pm 3 & 4 years: 1.45 - 2.40pm £7.50 per grown-up Accompanied children free* Because each session is specially designed for the ages specified, we aren’t able to accommodate siblings of different ages within the same session - sorry! Children must be accompanied by a grown-up and grown-ups must be accompanied by one or more children.

Join Louise Thomson and Polly Ives for an introduction to the harp in this exciting new series of relaxed concerts for 0 to 4 year olds, presented in partnership with Concerteenies. Featuring music on a watery theme, including pieces by Saint-Saëns, Smetana and Renie, concerts also include bubbles, percussion, puppets, singing and informal introductions, ensuring there’s plenty for even our youngest audience members to listen to, explore and enjoy!

*On purchasing your ticket, please specify how many children will be attending. Child tickets are limited to a maximum of two per one grown-up. If you’d like to bring more children with you, please give us a call in the office on 0114 281 4660 before booking your tickets.

Booking Information

Venue Information

BOOKING YOUR TICKETS

OUR VENUES

Under 35? If you’re under 35, then you can see many of our concerts for only £5*. Just show some form of ID at the Sheffield Theatres box office when booking your tickets. Concessions Concessions are available for people with disabilities, those registered unemployed, students and under 35s. Prices are indicated on each concert page. Re-sales You can also book in person at Sheffield Theatres’ box office. Opening Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 8pm. On non-performance days the box office closes at 6pm. Booking Dates Advance booking for Friends opens on Saturday 30 September at 10am in person or by phone.

Save 10% with a 5 Ticket Subscription Save 10% when you buy tickets for Chiaroscuro Quartet, Leonore Piano Trio, Roderick Williams & Susie Allan, Tim Horton and Sam Sweeney & Friends* at the same time.

Tickets at this time are limited to two per Friend per event / four per event for Joint Friends.

A 5 ticket subscription costs £87.30 / £62.55 (Disabled & Unemployed).

General booking opens on Saturday 7 October at 10am in person, by phone or online.

No need to order in advance; your saving will automatically be deducted when you purchase your tickets online, over the phone or in person from box office.

New to Music in the Round? If you’re completely new to our classical concerts, then our first-time deal offers you your first pair of tickets for just £5* each. Please make yourself known at the Sheffield Theatres box office, in person or on the phone. (Offer not available online. A maximum of two tickets can be purchased per household.) 24

If the event is sold out Sheffield Theatres will endeavour to re-sell your tickets on your behalf at a charge of £2.00 per ticket.

Save Time & Money with a Full Series Subscription If you’d like to buy tickets for the full spring series, we recommend you book through the Music in the Round office to save time.

A full season subscription ticket costs £163.30 / £118.55 (Disabled & Unemployed) and includes the following 5 evening concerts Chiaroscuro Quartet, Leonore Piano Trio, Roderick Williams & Susie Allan, Tim Horton, and Sam Sweeney & Friends, plus all 6 La Belle Époque French Weekend festival events taking place in the Crucible Studio.* Call us in the office on 0114 281 4660 or email marketing@musicintheround.co.uk with your request and contact details, confirming if you’d like to include the University’s SongMakers concerts pass in your purchase too (an extra £25 / £12 Unwaged & Under 26s) and we’ll make the arrangements, then supply you with an order number to use when you pay at box office. Coming as a Family? We believe that classical music should be for everyone, including young children and families. Each season includes family events that have been specially tailored for younger listeners. We generally recommend our evening concerts for children aged 7+. However, if you think that your child will sit quietly, then we have no problem with younger children in our audiences. To give everyone the best possible concert experience, we’re currently trialling some designated ‘family friendly’ seats at every concert, so should your child become distracted, you can make a discreet exit between pieces. For more information please ask a member of staff before a concert, check our website or call the office on 0114 281 4660.

Crucible Studio Theatre and Adelphi Room, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 1DA Seating Areas: All seats in the Studio are unreserved, but please specify which area you wish to sit in when booking, i.e. stage level, tier one or tier two. Talks and Q&As: All pre-concert talks are free to concert ticket holders but please request a separate ticket for talks at the box office. A separate ticket is not required for post-concert Q&As. Drinks: You may take drinks purchased from the Crucible bars into our concerts in plastic glasses which can be provided by Sheffield Theatres staff. Access: These venues offer easy access for wheelchair users although spaces are limited in the auditoriums; please inform the box offce at the time of booking if you require a wheelchair space. Latecomers: The auditorium will usually open 30 minutes before the advertised start time. Please note that latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance. Parking: There is a 24-hour Q-Park on Charles Street, which offers discounted parking for concertgoers. Present your concert ticket to the Sheffield Theatres box office to obtain a car park voucher. For blue badge holders, spaces are available in the Q-Park, NCP car park, and outside the theatre on Surrey Street and Norfolk Street. Public Transport: The nearest bus stops are on Arundel Gate (50m) and High Street (300m). There are two Supertram stops in close proximity to the theatres: Castle Square and Cathedral (both 400m).

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Venue Information

OUR VENUES Upper Chapel Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JD

Firth Hall The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN

SHEFFIELD FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC WITH ENSEMBLE 360 AND GUESTS

Seating Areas: All seats are unreserved. Access: Upper Chapel is accessible for wheelchair users although spaces are limited; please inform the box office at the time of booking if you require a wheelchair space.

Seating Areas: All seats are unreserved.

Latecomers: Upper Chapel will open 30 minutes before the advertised start time. Please note that latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

Latecomers: Firth Hall will open approximately 30 minutes before the advertised start time. Please note that latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

Parking: There are a number of car parks and on-street parking available close to Upper Chapel, including NCP, Q-Park and council owned sites. Visit upperchapelsheffield.org.uk for further details.

Parking: Durham Road car park is in close proximity to the venue and is operated by Q-Park.

For blue badge holders, see Crucible Studio Theatre information. Public Transport: See Crucible Studio Theatre information.

11 – 19 MAY 2018

Access: At Firth Hall there is a lift and ramp for wheelchair users. Please speak to the Concerts Team when you arrive who will be able to assist you.

Public Transport: You can catch the Supertram to the University from the railway station and the city centre. Several bus services stop at or near the University, for more infomration please visit sheffield.ac.uk/concerts.

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Concert Duration: Please be aware that all concert end times are supplied as approximate timings only and may be subject to change. * PLEASE NOTE that subscriptions do not include any Sheffield Jazz events or Concerteenies concerts. The 5 concert subscription discount cannot be applied to any events in our Belle Epoque French Weekend (as these all have their own special festival ticket rate). Individual tickets for any of these events must be purchased additionally, at the stated prices. All tickets within a subscription must be purchased in one transaction. Subscriptions cannot include more than one ticket for each concert.

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The Wizard of Oz By L. Frank Baum With Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg Background Music by Herbert Stothart Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard Orchestration by Larry Wilcox Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros.

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