2024 PROGRAMME
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Thu 20 Jun
7pm | Hans Zimmer and John Williams - A Night of Film Music with Sue Perkins
Enjoy the very best scores from the two greatest Film Composers of the 20th Century, performed by the Orion Orchestra and Conductor, Sue Perkins.
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Fri 21 Jun
11am & 12:30 | Noisy Notes presents Peter and the Wolf
The much loved children’s classic by Prokofiev.
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7pm | A Night at the Opera
Soloists from the Royal Opera House with Conductor, Toby Purser and the Orion Orchestra perform the greatest Opera Arias and Ensembles from the most loved Operas by Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Bizet and many more.
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9:15pm | Celtic Music Night
Green Time Folk perform traditional music from Ireland and Scotland.
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Sat 22 Jun
10am | Third Space - Exercise Class
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11am | Mindfulness Session
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12pm | Queen’s College London Brass Ensemble
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7pm | Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in the Gardens
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony was premiered in Vienna 200 years ago. It was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society which was located near Manchester Square Gardens. Beethoven’s masterpiece has its roots in Marylebone - and we are bringing it home! Performed by the Orion Orchestra, the Royal Academy of Music, Purcell School, Westminster School and St Mary’s Medical College, and conducted by Nicholas Daniel.
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9pm | Jazz in the Gardens
Mali Sheard’s Homestead from the Royal Academy of Music.
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Sun 23 Jun
10:30am | Mozart Mass in the Gardens
Choir from St James’s Spanish Place and the Orion Orchestra.
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12:30pm | Marylebone’s Antique Road Show with BBC’s Adam Partridge
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2pm | Marylebone Pleasure Gardens
Including performances from the Royal Academy of Music, Regent Community Brass and many more.
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Join us in Manchester Square Gardens, London
Introduction from HRH Princess Michael of Kent
“It gives me particular pleasure to introduce the programme booklet for this, the 9th Marylebone Music Festival. What a rich programme it is: Sue Perkins conducting the film music of Hans Zimmer and John Williams, that wonderful children’s work Peter and the Wolf, a night of opera arias and one of Celtic music, jazz in the garden, and on the Saturday evening the Orion Orchestra, of which I am the very proud Royal Patron, performing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, his last work for large-scale forces.
And what a great charity the Festival will benefit this year. The Marylebone Project in Central London, with the tireless support of its Patron, Ellie Goulding, provides a transformative service for women in crises of hardship and homelessness.
The Beethoven 9th has a special place for Marylebone. The contributions of its houses helped to fund the £50 commission for Beethoven’s masterwork by London’s Philharmonic Society in 1817, when he made preliminary sketches for it. Beethoven worked on it intensively between 1822 and its first performance in Vienna on 7 May 1824, two hundred years ago.
He was most appreciative of the commission, as by then he was perennially struggling financially, having to rely far more on commissions than on regular support from his patrons, many of whom had died. Among them, my ancestor Josef Franz, Fürst Lobkowicz died in 1816, and the blind Louis Pierre, prince et duc d’Arenberg, who purchased musical scores from Beethoven, died in 1820.
The close ties that developed between the Philharmonic Society and Beethoven did not end with the commission of his 9th. In 1826, when the Society learnt that Beethoven was ill and impoverished, it decided to send £100 to him “to be applied to his comforts and necessities”. Though the money reached him only just before he died, he was able to convey his deep appreciation.
Now allow me to warmly commend this great Festival to you!”