Meeting Details
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Time | 9.45 am on Tuesday |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Location | Coordinator's home - Staveley |
| Coordinator | Philip Wraight |
What we do
We are a small, and somewhat diverse, group, meeting informally to explore chamber music together at a very amateur level. Current instruments are violin, two clarinets, flute, cello and piano. We should make it clear we are not a group for beginners, learning to play instruments. Our general standard is about Grade 4 to 5. We would welcome new members prepared to play at this level, and in particular could accommodate an oboe, viola or another violin, although if the group increased in size by more than one or two we would need to find new accommodation.
We have no formal tuition but try to listen to one another and so improve our ensemble playing. Our (small) repertoire ranges from Monteverdi and Teleman to Scott Joplin (arranged by one of our members) and we are also privileged to have "A Staveley Suite", a piece in four movements specially composed for the group in 2004 by the late Alan Paynes, a member of South Lakes U3A.
We normally join with other groups to contribute to an informal "concert" at the April monthly meeting of the South Lakes U3A.
You can listen to group members performing the Staveley Suite via the Gallery page.
Reports
July 2008:
The Group will re-convene on September 9th, after a break in August and will continue to meet weekly at 9.45 on Tuesday mornings. We are fairly full at present. Anyone interested in joining us should discuss this with Philip Wraight, possibly at the coffee morning.
Philip Wraight
April 2008:
Due to holidays etc the revised venues for the group are as follows:
| April 29 | Judith Bird |
| May 6 | Cancelled |
| May 13 | Old Vicarage |
| May 20 | Old Vicarage |
| May 27 | Judith Bird |
| June 3 | Old Vicarage |
| June 10 | Old Vicarage |
| June 17 | Judith Bird |
| June 24 | Cancelled |
| July 1 | Old Vicarage |
| July 8 | To be arranged |
| July 15 | Old Vicarage |
| July 22 | Judith Bird |
March 2008:
Our joint meeting for Carols with the Ruth Gordon Singers before Christmas was a great success as usual.
Having gained a violin and flute last term, we have now regretfully said goodbye to David Silk who felt the time had come to move on to other things. As one of the founder members when the group reformed five years ago, David has made a huge contribution in many ways and we are very grateful to him. I suspect David sometimes thought that the gentle melodious tones of his recorders were lost among the more raucous instruments. We are finding out how important his part was. We are trying to redistribute it between Cello and Clarinets, as we work on the Staveley Suite in preparation for April's monthly meeting concert.
Philip Wraight