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Launched in Marlborough on Thursday evening (14 June) at The White Horse Bookshop, Dr Nick Snashall, National Trust Archaelogist for the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, has just published her first book, a crime novel called The Hidden Bones, under the pen name of Nicola Ford.
American soprano Leigh Michelow and pianist Henry Seaman
The latest concert in the St Peter’s series was unusual in that it featured voice and piano for the first time. The concert was a selection of Schubert songs, hence a ‘Schubertiade,’ sung by the American soprano, Leigh Michelow, accompanied on the piano by Henry Seaman.
Mark Wickham paintings and Louise Wickham ceramicsI think it’s true to say that many, if not most people, would deem a painter of pictures to be a good artist by her or his ability to render things ‘realistically’. A portrait of “Uncle Fred” should look “just like uncle Fred”; a vase of forsythia should be instantly recognisable as such … and so on.
Marlborough Open Studios preview show at the Mount House GalleryThe MOS preview show is a bit like a large firework – bright, sparkling, full of delight … but over in a flash! It runs for only four days from 7th– 10thJune. Nonetheless, it is one of the important annual ‘markers’ of the cultural life in Marlborough and the surrounding towns. It heralds the “Open Studios” season, which runs during each week-end in July.
Brieuc Vourch (violin) & Gamal Khamis (piano - photo: Caroline Bettencourt)The latest concert in this ever-popular series was an astonishing performance of music for violin and piano given by two young musicians Brieuc Vourch (violin) and Gamal Khamis (piano).
This was a very welcome return visit from Jessica Zhu, who had played for a Marlborough audience in the 2013 series of recitals by Brilliant Young International Musicians at Saint Peter’s Church.
The epithet in the title - ‘extraordinary’ - suggests something significantly beyond what one might expect to find in an artist’s sketchbook. That sketchbooks are wonderful things is beyond serious questioning, so I guess it’s a matter of definition.
