Cambridge Szeged week 2008
15th-23th November, Cambridge, UK

 Szeged Week celebrates Cambridge’s twinning with Szeged in Hungary. It will be full of fascinating and varied events including:

  • Concerts – with a thrilling mix of classical and jazz programmes
  • Talks on science, culture, music and language
  • A talk and screening of Hungarian cinema
  • Visitors and performers from Szeged
  • Poetry reading and much more…

There will be something for everyone in Cambridge! Be part of our second annual Szeged Week and help to make it a great success! I look forward to seeing you there,

JULIA SEIBER BOYD
Chair of the Cambridge Szeged Society

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To book tickets contact the
Cambridge Box Office: Tel: 01223 357851


SZEGED WEEK PROGRAMME
15th - 23th November 2008

 
Saturday 15th November

5.45pm Exhibition & Reception - The Guildhall, Cambridge
(the Reception is by invitation only but the exhibition will be open all week with free entry)

7.30pm - Howard Williams CC21 concert - Jesus College Chapel

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Sunday 16th November

2.45pm - Harmonia Consort Happy Music Concert - West Road

7.30pm - Prime Brass Concert - West Road http://www.westroad.org

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Monday 17th November Lunchtime - Harmonia Consort Vivaldi & Baroque selection - Alimentum Restaurant

5pm - Professor Alan Barrell - talk UR Church

6.30pm - Harmonia Consort “Baroque Christmas Concert” - Robinson College

8pm - Ona Cardona (clarinet) & Timothy Lissimore (piano) concert - UR Church

Dinnertime - Bert Santilly/Trevor Barlow Jazz Selection - Alimentum Restaurant

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Tuesday 18th November

Lunchtime - Harmonia Consort baroque selection - Alimentum Restaurant

3pm - Lady Valerie Solti “The work of Sir Georg Solti” talk - Kett House

6pm – c.10.30 John Cunningham, “Transylvanian Silent film” - Talk Bellerbys Language College

Dinnertime - Jazz selection (Ronnie Scott’s) - Alimentum Restaurant

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Wednesday 19th November

Lunchtime - Harmonia Consort baroque selection - Alimentum Restaurant

1.15pm - Dr Adrian Popescu “Eagles, castles & swords” talk - Fitzwilliam Museum www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/

5pm - Jocelyn Charity “Homage to a Language Remembered” talk
- Bellerbys Language Coll

8pm - Francis Knights (clavichord) concert - St Catherine’s College

Dinnertime - Bert Santilly/Trevor Barlow Accordion/Jazz selection
Alimentum Restaurant

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Thursday 20th November

1.00pm - Marie-Noelle Kendall (piano) & Rachel Godsill (soprano) concert
- Bateman Auditorium Caius College

5.30pm - King’s College Choir “Missa Brevis” Seiber choir@kings.cam.ac.uk
- Kings College Chapel

7.00pm - Professor Laszlo Vecsei "Stroke: diagnostic and treatment strategies"
- talk Library House Kett House

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Friday 21st November Lunchtime - Harmonia Consort baroque selection - Alimentum Restaurant

5.30pm - Harmonia Consort (Farkas/Bartók) Concert - UR Church

8pm - Seiber Consort Concert - UR Church

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Saturday 22nd November 11.30am - George Szirtes (poet/translator) “The slant door and where it leads” talk + tour University Library

5pm - Hugh Wood (composer) “Hungarian Music in England” talk Darwin College

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Sunday 23rd November

4pm - George Gömöri “Polishing October” & Clive Wilmer (translator)
poetry reading - Darwin College

7.30pm - Ildiko Allen (soprano) Bridget Cunningham (piano) concert – Clare College

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To book tickets contact the
Cambridge Box Office: Tel: 01223 357851

Sponsored by:
Cambridge City Council
Alimentum Restaurant
Cambridge Building Society
Professor Alan Barrell of Cambridge Worldwide Associates

In association with Cambridge Szeged Society