Works Performed: Schubert: Rosamunde Overture Beethoven: Symphony No.8 Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
The overture used to accompany Chézy’s unsuccessful play Rosamunde was actually composed for an earlier play. It remains one of Schubert’s finest orchestral pieces, filled with ingratiating tunes and demonstrating his characteristic warmheartedness and good humour. Its main theme appears at once, defining a kind of restless energy, which gradually builds in momentum to its bright and triumphal conclusion.
Beethoven created the sparkling Eighth Symphony at a time when his life...
Devon was on flood alert today after torrential overnight rain.
Motorists were facing a tricky journey into work because of strong winds and standing water on many routes including the A376 and A380.
A landslip has closed a long stretch of the A379 road in Shaldon, from Ringmore Road to Deane Lane in Maidencombe.
The landslip is reported to be at least 15ft across and 3ft deep.
A flood warning map (below) issued by the Environment Agency showed 10 flood warnings and 19 flood alerts, including along the Exe. Officials say high tide, expected at around midday...
These newly-developed holiday activity days offer children a great chance to immerse themselves in history surrounded by the museum collections. Each full day of challenging new activities for unaccompanied 8 to 12 year olds will fire their imaginations, cultivating curiosity and drawing out the hidden curator, story-teller, explorer and historian.
10 April: Them and Us
Try on the clothing of Britons and Romans. Explore their different foods and social lives. Make some British artefacts and some Roman ones using clay and other materials. Ask a Roman soldier what he thinks...
A talented local mother and her two daughters are currently exhibiting an unusual range of paintings, prints and felted items at A la Ronde, near Exmouth. The family of artists – Daphne Currier, Louisa Currier and Josephine Birch – work both together and individually to celebrate the natural environment.
Daphne Currier (BA Art/Ed) works mainly in felt to make pictures, wall hangings, cushions, hats, bags and accessories. Daphne says: ‘My work is embellished with hand and machine stitching and some elements of collage. Felt work is becoming more popular as a versatile and durable...
Exeter Cathedral will be hiding Easter egg shapes throughout the Cathedral during the Easter holdiays.
You have to count as many as you can see, write your answer on the form you pick up from the entrance desk and then take your entry to the Cathedral shop to claim your prize.
Your name will be entered into the draw for the chance to win some Easter goodies.
Easter Family Activities: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 12 April Come along to the Cathedral on the above dates to do some fun Easter activities.
Try dressing up as a bishop or a medieval knight/princess, make egg box birds, decorate Easter eggs, create a giant flower and have a go at brass rubbing. The activities are run by the education team and will take place from 10.30am-3.30pm in the Chapter House (entry via the Cathedral). Access to all these activities is just £1 per child. Buy your ticket on the day from the Cathedral entrance desk. Standard admission to the Cathedral applies....
Acoustic Strawbs are David Cousins, Dave Lambert, and Chas Cronk, the front-line of the classic 1970's line-up of Britain's most successful international folk-rock band.
In the early 1970s Strawbs scored chart success in Britain with huge albums such as 'Grave New World' and 'Bursting at the Seams'. From the mid-1970s the group concentrated their attention on the United States and Canada where their albums, including the classics 'Hero and Heroine' and 'Ghosts', spent over fifty two weeks on the Billboard charts.
Strawbs toured with the likes of Santana, The Eagles, REO...
