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ONA — Old Novocastrians Association Magazine
RGS Arts Diary Spring Term 2011 RGS Chamber Music Thursday 20 January at 7pm A concert featuring school chamber groups, including string quartets, a brass quintet, wind quartet and string ensemble playing a variety of music, from Haydn to Villa-Lobos. Free entry
Newcastle University Gilbert and Sullivan Society presents “The Grand Duke” Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 February at 7.30pm NUGSS’s cast of students return with a high-speed cut-down production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s final comic operetta. Fed up with Friends Cabaret Night in their economically prudent Grand Fenwick and Lilburne Duke, the citizens of a small Friday 28 January at 7pm Germanic dictatorship plan to revolt, A showcase for talent of all kinds. and who better to lead the revolution Tickets £3/£2 than a bunch of actors? Monumental RGS House Singing and Music egos clash in a spree of duelling, gambling and sausage roll eating Monday 31 January at 7pm while it is determined who will play Each house puts forward their best performers in the hope of winning the the lead part. Tickets £8/£5 coveted House Cup. Always a noisy and entertaining evening. Free entry RGS Post Tour Concert Wednesday 3 March at 7pm RGS Charities Week Senior Wind Band and Brass Monday 31 January to Ensembles play a selection of Saturday 5 February traditional wind and brass music as well as some well known film A host of exciting events to raise music. Free entry money for local charities. Details to be announced. RGS Spring Recital in Recital Room RGS House Drama Wednesday 7 March at 7pm Thursday 10 February at 7pm In the same vein as our wildly An informal music concert where entertaining Year 7 & 8 House Drama Junior and Senior School musicians event, students from Year 9 and perform their latest pieces. Free entry above take to the stage to show off their devising and improvisational Steinway Concert skills in the hope of winning the Wednesday 16 March at 7pm House Drama trophy. Free entry Steinway & Sons, renowned for over 150 years for producing the world’s Inter University Dance finest pianos. In association with Competition Tyneside Piano Company, we are Saturday 12 February 12–5pm proud to welcome Steinway to the UK Universities show off their dance RGS for a pianistic extravaganza featuring a talk offering a fascinating skills and compete for prizes in all insight into the production of these types of dance styles! Tickets £5 world famous pianos. The event Newcastle Jewish Players in Alan concludes with a concert on a Steinway Concert Grand featuring Bennett’s “The Lady in a Van” our fine young pianists and our own Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 and piano tutor Nicholas Nowicki will Saturday 19 February at 7.30pm Bennett’s bittersweet diary of a batty give a recital. Entry by donation old woman who unceremoniously parked herself in his back garden and long outstayed her welcome. A class act in slick humour and heartbreaking philosophy. Not to be missed. Tickets Wednesday and Thursday £8; Saturday £9, Concessions £6.00
RGS Dance Showcase – New Horizons Friday 18 March at 7pm An energetic evening of vibrant dance including Bollywood inspired movement; style studies of both Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse; and site specific work involving multi media. Along with these new dance pieces, we will be incorporating some old classics such as Street Dance and Stage. Free entry New Tyneside Orchestra Saturday 19 March at 7.30pm The New Tyneside Orchestra’s Spring Concert features Tchaikovsky’s popular 5th Symphony. In addition, there is a chance to hear Britten’s Four Sea Interludes and Jacob’s Little Symphony. The strings of the Orchestra complete the programme with a performance of Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings. Tickets £9/£7 conc. /£4 student
RGS Stars and Stripes Forever Concert Tuesday 12 April at 7pm The RGS Orchestra will play an American themed concert featuring classics such as Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 From the New World. Free entry RGS Junior School Concert Wednesday 13 April at 7pm A hugely enjoyable celebration of Junior School musical talent, including items from the JS Orchestra, Choir, various small ensembles and soloists. Tickets organised by the Junior School
Chernobyl Continuity presents Youth4Youth11 – 25th Anniversary Concert Friday 15 April at 7.30pm Young people from the North East of England perform in a variety concert to raise money to bring teenagers from Belarus to the North East on RGS Mini Gala Concert month long respite holidays. Hosted Monday 22 at 7pm The Mini-Gala will feature the best of by Denise Robertson MBE – the Agony Aunt on ITV’s Good Morning the RGS Senior School’s younger and attended by His Excellency, the ensembles. Orchestral music from the Sinfonia, Jazz from the Blue Note Ambassador of Belarus and many local dignitaries. Tickets £6 Jazz Band, Choral singing by Cappellina and the big sound of the Concert Wind Band, as well as smaller chamber ensembles from For tickets, please contact Years 7-9. It should be a grand event Jill Graham and well worth attending! Free entry T: 0191 212 8930 J.Graham@rgs.newcastle.sch.uk RGS Festival Monday 4 to Friday 8 April A feast of entertainment across the whole site. Look out for the Festival magazine which will give full information about this exciting new event. Northumberland Orchestral Society in Concert Saturday 9 April at 7.30pm Exciting programme to include Bruch’s Symphony Number 1, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances and Elgar’s Nursery Suite. Tickets £8/£4
