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WAVES OF COLOUR: the exhibition of spectacuiar seascapes at The Oid Bakehouse Galiery, in Ciitheroe.
j Waves crash at Ciitheroe gallery
A SURPRISING exhibition • of paintings is currently on show at The Old Bakehouse Gallery on Eshton Terrace, in Ciitheroe.
■ Normally paintings of the local area are on show, but currently the gallery is full of spectacular seascapes, crash
ing waves and views of the Cornish coast. Local artist and gallery
owner Peter Taylor is con stantly drawn to the St-Ives area to paint.
ter has contacted Cornish artists Ray Denton, Roger
To balance things out, Pe Curtis and famous Devon art-
: ist and author Ray Balkwill to • show their paintings along- .side his own for his “Picture of Cornwall” exhibition. . To view these fabulous
paintings, visit Tire Old Bake house Gallery at 23 Eshton Terrace.
A splendidly spooky afternoon /:■ S -'i a,V ■ >
a tOU; to follow
1 FANS: Joseph # jL ,
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FAMOUS local children’s au-
. thor Joseph Delaney popped in to host sessions with pupils ■ and fans of his work at Clithe- ; roe Royal Grammar School. _ Author of The Spooks Se
ries (Wardstone Chronicles), which are set in the Pen- dle area, Delaney has been
Two Ruby sparklers:
A KIND-HEARTED West Bradford couple had a spe
cial request for friends as they celebrated their Ruby Wed-" ding... no presents please, but j donations instead to the East : Lancashire Hospice.
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Eaves Hall Countiy Hotel in West Bradford and the cou ple were delighted to hand?
: over donations totalling more - than £1,000 from their gener ous guests.
..Sharon Ciymble, fund-ras-^ S'"-
ing manager for the hospice, ‘ said: ‘tWe wpuld like to thank: Mr and Mrs Dixon for their very generous gesture and who aU who made donations.”
¥ |i!H|iyiiitti!ii!l|lillHII||l!l||il|j!il!|!|l||!l|!!lii , Celebrations were held at ■ nominated for several awards
including “Lancashire Chil--, dren’s Book of the Year”. ■ “Joseph was so enthusiastic
and great with the children,” said Mrs Chadwick, school librarian. “He said he was de lighted to be visiting the area and school as we’re so close
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CELEBRATION: Linda and John|
to Pendle. We’re really lucky to have had the opportunity to meet him and eveiyone re ally enjoyed the afternoon.’” Year 7 and 8 pupils attend
ed two question and answer sessions and also had the op portunity to buy signed copies of the author’s books. ; ■
from their seats at the end and after giving the Dante String Quartet tumultuous applause, simply sat and discussed the concert.
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“What a wonderful audi- : ence youJiave!” said one of
the Quartet. The feeling was mutual.
' The Dante String Quartet
■ is one of the best in the world; ' this was reflected in a phone
...call from one audience mem-
. -her who called before the con- .; cert to ask if it could really be
• the genuine Dante plavinc in Ciitheroe? ■
It-was, even if they were
, came all the way from mid i-Wales to hear them.- ■ . The Dante. Quartet was founded in 1995 by their first violinist Krysia Osostowicz, who teaches at the Guildhall School of Music between con
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- more used to playing in major concert halls. Another couple'
THE first concert in the Clitherpe Concerts Soci ety’s 59th Season was a tri umph and a sellout. Tne audience did not move
by Ken Geddes
he plays with the Concertge- Irouw Orchestra and other Brit ish and European Orchestras. Judith Busbridge, leader of the London Mozart Players, is the violist, while Bernard Gregor- Smith, co-founder of the Lind say Quartet, completes the quartet playing cello. Tlie concert had a deceptive
ly simple theme: Late Great Quartets.
- It started with the last piece
of music Faure wrote. It was also his only string quartet - started at the age of 78 and only completed six weeks be fore his death.
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, However it is not a gloomy work, full of swirling themes,
casting a wry smile on life and love. , Beethoven’s Opus 135 quar- '
tet was again the composer’s last thoughts on the medium, written five months before he died in October 1826. A bit of a mystery, revert ing to a more traditional style
cert engagements across Eu- ^ rope. ,
,; Second violinist Giles Fran- cis lives in Amsterdam where
and maybe a reflection of his feeling that he wanted to speak to eveiybody, feeling he had already pushed forward enough in his previous three
compositions. However, it is very great music, whatever its background.
The second half of the con
cert was devoted to Schubert’s 15th and final string quartet,
composed at the age of only
.. This is a large-scale and powerful work, again prompt-
. mg speculation of a hidden message, in this case perhaps to demonstrate that he could
write the perfect piece of mu sic., ■ - It is hard to think forward to
next month after such a per formance, but in November the society welcomes another internationally acclaimed mu sician, Madeleine Mitchell, who will play a programme of violin music with pianist An drew Ball. Tickets may be purchased
from Ciitheroe Music, the Tourist Information Office or through the Society’s website:
www.clitheroeconcerts.org. You can get further infor
mation from this web address and may also order tickets or ■ join the society with a substan tial discount on the cost of in dividual tickets. Alternatively, just phone 01200423474. ■ -
Brenriaiids abound in our area
BRENNANDS in and around ■ Ribble Valley were the subject
- of a talk to the Ribble-Vallcy - Family History Group by one
d who should know - the group’s'
. chairman Sheila Brennand. '' Fairly common throughout
rived from an area near Dun- sop Bridge. Besides following a Llitheroe family through
j surname is de
out its generations, Sheila ^ so spoke about some of the Slaidburn family connections.'
At the end ,of her talk she was thanked by one of the group’s members and afterwards a number of visitors who had Brennand connections spent time with her discussing their family trees. . •
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