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Classical Music this weekend
Mozart and Chausson at Christ Church St Leonards Max Baillie’s St Leonards Concerts series hosts this weekend The Kleio Quartet, rising stars in the music world here and abroad. Since their formation in…
Choral Music for Easter
Hastings Philharmonic Choir will perform a programme of beautiful choral masterpieces: Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Brahms’ Schicksalslied (‘Song of Destiny’),accompanied by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marcio da Silva.…
Chamber Music Festival showcases women composers
The 2025 Hastings Chamber Music Festival presents its most ambitious and varied programme to date, offering a vibrant mix of four chamber music concerts spanning an impressive 350 years of…
Northern Lights
Hastings Philharmonic Choir sing music from Northern Europe GARETH SIMPSON In July, Hastings Philharmonic Choir will perform the works of two living composers, Arvo Pärt’s Berliner Messe and Ola Gjeilo’s…
150 and Not Out
Christ Church, in Silchester Road, celebrated its 150th birthday last week, with an open weekend programme of music, verse, tours, services and family activities to mark this very special occasion.…
Hastings Philharmonic Perform Stabat Mater
STEWART RAYMENT Easter might have arrived early this year, with Dvořak’s Stabat Mater performed at Christ Church, St Leonards on 5 April. But Bach’s Easter Oratorio saw its first outing…
Hastings Philharmonic to perform Dvořák’sStabat Mater
VERA BELL It’s difficult to describe the depth, complexity, and intensity of this work, comprised of ten phases, of which only the first and last are melodically related. It’s lush,…
Love, Mania, Transfiguration
VICTORIA KINGHAM on the St Leonards Concerts Weekender Once more, it has to be said that down here in a small area of St Leonards and Hastings we are privileged…
Carols for All
Hastings Philharmonic Choir (HPC) will present their annual Carols for All concert on Saturday 16 December at the beautiful Christ Church, Silchester Road, St Leonards starting at ; Carols evolved…
Beethoven and Brahms! The Crocodile and the Mouse!
VICTORIA KINGHAM at another extraordinary concert from St. Leonards Music Charles Davies PhotographyMax Baillie and Guests If you think you don’t like classical music, if you think it’s boring, difficult,…
Haydn and Mozart at Christ Church
VICTORIA KINGHAM returns to Christ Church in St Leonards to appreciate the Philharmonic Choir in full voice. Assiduous followers of this newspaper will have noticed, back in cold February, these…
Classical Music Special: Classic Provision
Classical music in and around Hastings is burgeoning. But for some reason and for some people it has been a secondary interest compared to the rockier, jazzier, more raucous genres.…
Ore Solar Panels
Council Officers Overruled By Rick Dillon Hastings councillors have approved a plan to site 30 solar panels on the roof of the ‘historic’ 162-year-old Christ Church in Ore – despite…
Warrior Flowers
Opening just before Christmas 2017, there is a new place to buy flowers in central St Leonards. That place is Warrior Flowers, situated opposite Christ Church on London Road. It…
Appeal for Solar Energy Sites
BY KENT BARKER The Hastings cooperative, Energise Sussex Coast, has won a grant to install solar panels in Ore. Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) is a community benefit organisation set up…