Richard Ormond, great-nephew of John Singer Sargent introduces the new exhibition at the Broadway Museum; a group of works by John Singer Sargent, his contemporaries Augustus and Gwen John and Phillip Wilson Steer, and by his sister Emily Sargent, all recently gifted to the Ashmolean Museum. The first public showing has been kindly offered to [...]
The connection between colour and music goes back to Aristotle, and composers have conceived music as colour ever since. Using piano demonstrations and a trove of audio excerpts, Jonathan James will illustrate how music - keys, tonalities, chords and tone - can be 'seen' and how colour, for some late Romantics and early modernists, became [...]
We are so sorry to inform you that John Julius Norwich has unfortunately had to cancel his talk about The History of France at the festival on the evening of June 12th due to ill health. All those who booked tickets have been refunded in full to their credit card. We are sorry for any [...]
** Update ** This event was a resounding success with 150 attendees. At a joint event with the Broadway History Society on the 21st March JULIET HESLEWOOD will give an illustrated talk entitled ‘WILLIAM MORRIS IN THE COTSWOLDS’ in the Lifford Hall, Lower Green, Broadway, WR12 7BU at 7pm (bar opens at 6pm) Tickets are £7 each [...]
'Parliamentary Middlers: Why We Haven't a Prayer' Journalist and theatre critic Quentin Letts will give us an irreverent, gossipy, bracing blast against the dullards and drongos who infest our Houses of Parliament by a man who watches them daily from the press gallery: sketchwriter and theatre critic Quentin Letts, whose new parliamentary novel is a [...]
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