Tag archives for Fairlight Hall
Piano Picnic
Outstanding young pianists perform in a summer garden Hastings International Piano is delighted to present its annual Summer Picnic Concert at the stunning Fairlight Hall, just outside Hastings, on Sunday…
Musical Conversations on the Edge of Modernity
VICTORIA KINGHAM Sonatas for violin and piano were never my thing, really. But I dare say I have watched and listened to more of these in the past four years…
Hastings International Piano Concerto Finals and Results
VICTORIA KINGHAM So it’s done. A whole year of organisation, ten days of one-after-another performances by some of the world’s finest young pianists. An extraordinary event, a glittering array of…
Rain, Cascades, Swirls, and Rivers, Outside and In
TOM BLASS is moved by the sounds of summer, Schumann, and Scarlatti Raindrops, speckling the canvas of the great umbrellas intended to shield the precious audience from the elements, made…
ARTS DIARY
Summer Picnic Concert at Fairlight Hall Hastings International PianoThomas Kelly Thomas Kelly, 2022 prize winner of the Hastings International Piano Competition, returns for a summer picnic recital at beautiful Fairlight…
Uchida at Fairlight
VICTORIA KINGHAM Once in a century there comes along a composer of towering genius. Once in a century too, there comes along a virtuoso exponent of that composer. It was…
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.…
Dream On
Victoria Kingham is captivated by a fairytale production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream In the abstractly beautiful, slightly other-worldly, Victorian-Gothic setting of Fairlight Hall, we saw what must be one…
Body Count
HUGH SULLIVAN reviews The Duke’s Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at Fairlight Hall. Down at the Capulet family crypt in Verona which doubles as Friar Laurence’s cell,…
Ore continues to Bloom
Local residents have expressed thanks to John Myers, head gardener at Fairlight Hall, for replanting the Ore Sign. John, whose employer supplied the plants, has previous experience planting the parterre…
Stars of stage and screen come to Fairlight Hall
Shakespeare’s As You Like It will be performed by a talented cast in the stunning gardens of the East Sussex stately home on 17-19th August 2018. Forget treading the boards,…
Summer Recital 2018 – Fairlight Hall
Julian Norridge For two evenings in early March, the White Rock Theatre reverberated to the sound of some truly dazzling pieces of playing by some of the world’s finest young…