Author | Lightnews

Reposted

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Mar 29

📅 Sunday 11 May 2025
🕒 3:00pm
🏛️ De Montfort Hall
📍 Leicester Symphony Orchestra 103rd Season.
Brahms & Sibelius, timeless masterpieces spanning the grandeur of Romanticism & the soul of Scandinavian symphonic music.
🎟️ Tickets: demontforthall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
#ClassicalMusic #LSO2025

Leicester Symphony Orchestra presents: Brahms and Sibelius concert, Sunday 11th May 2025

3 4

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Mar 29

📅 Sunday 11 May 2025
🕒 3:00pm
🏛️ De Montfort Hall
📍 Leicester Symphony Orchestra 103rd Season.
Brahms & Sibelius, timeless masterpieces spanning the grandeur of Romanticism & the soul of Scandinavian symphonic music.
🎟️ Tickets: demontforthall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
#ClassicalMusic #LSO2025

3 4

Reposted

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · Mar 8

For #IWD in 2023 I made this, a playlist of 100 women composers.

open.spotify.com/playlist/0P5...

A namewall list of 100 women composers for IWD in 2023. Please see accompanying playlist for names.

6 36 120

Reposted

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 31

Join us for an afternoon of timeless classical music, featuring Braimah Kanneh-Mason performing Mendelssohn’s much-loved Violin Concerto.
📅 Sun 23 Feb 2025, 3:00pm
📍 De Montfort Hall
Conductor: Dexter Drown
🎟️ demontforthall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
#leicesterevents #orchestra #classicalmusic

Ticketbooth

demontforthall.ticketsolve.com

3 6

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 31

Join us for an afternoon of timeless classical music, featuring Braimah Kanneh-Mason performing Mendelssohn’s much-loved Violin Concerto.
📅 Sun 23 Feb 2025, 3:00pm
📍 De Montfort Hall
Conductor: Dexter Drown
🎟️ demontforthall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
#leicesterevents #orchestra #classicalmusic

Ticketbooth

demontforthall.ticketsolve.com

3 6

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Join @LeicesterSymph to celebrate the festive season at our Christmas Concert, at the newly re-opened @LeicsCathedral - featuring the Cathedral Choir and a whole host of Christmas music! 🎶🎄🎶
Saturday 16th December @ 5:30pm – 7:00pm & 7:30pm – 9:00pm:

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/christmas-conc…

Christmas Concert

Join us to celebrate the festive season at our Christmas Concert, at Leicester Cathedral featuring the Cathedral Choir.

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

1

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

🎼 Join @LeicesterSymph @demontforthall on Sunday 21 May 2023, 3:00pm • De Montfort Hall for a 🎶#SummerEnigma🎵 featuring Elgar, Borodin & TchaikovskyTickets on sale now! #LSOSeason #100years

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/3363-2/

Summer Enigma

Join us at Leicester Symphony Orchestra’s Summer 2023 concert in May at De Montfort Hall, part of our 101st Season.

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

🎼 Join @LeicesterSymph @demontforthall on Sunday 5 March 2023, 3:00pm • De Montfort Hall when 🎶#Beethoven meets #Sibelius 🎵Tickets on sale now! #LSOSeason #100years

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/beethovenmeets…

Beethoven meets Sibelius

Beethoven meets Sibelius at Leicester Symphony Orchestra’s Spring 2023 concert in March at De Montfort Hall, part of our 101st Season.

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

🎵 @LeicesterSymph will be @Highcross on Sunday 4 December 2022, 2-3pm & 4-5pm for our Christmas Concert 🎄 with @Leicscathedral choir! 🎼 Why not join us & start the Christmas season in style? 🔔 With the generous support of @Highcross & @BidLeicester.

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/christmas-conc…

Christmas Concert

Leicester Symphony Orchestra will be at Highcross Shopping Centre for our Christmas Concert this year – join us there!

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Join @LeicesterSymph & @JKAConductor this Saturday @demontforthall for our Gala Concert 🎶 and help us celebrate our 100th anniversary! 🎉 Saturday 22 October 2022, 7:30pm • De Montfort Hall: 🎼 a concert of classical favourites 🎵#LSOSeason #100years

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/gala-concert/

Gala Concert

Leicester Symphony Orchestra will be playing our Gala Concert at De Montfort Hall in October, celebrating the 100th anniversary of our first concert in October 1922!

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

…and find out more about the show itself: “Mad about Elvis”, was made four years ago and tells the story of how the show was first produced - on BBC 2 this lunchtime:

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…

BBC One - Our Lives, Series 2, Mad about Elvis

Documentary looking at Porthcawl Elvis Festival, the largest Elvis festival in the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

🎼 Classic Elvis: An evening of Elvis songs performed by Michael Glaysher and Gordon Davis, with @LeicesterSymph 🎤 Saturday 25 June 2022, 7:30pm @demontforthall 🎶

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/classic-elvis/

Classic Elvis

Leicester Symphony Orchestra will be playing at De Montfort Hall in June, celebrating our 100th season.

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

🎼 @LeicesterSymph & @ndanielmusic celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams: New Horizons, this Sunday! 22 May 2022, 3:00pm @demontforthall 🎶

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/new-horizons/

New Horizons

Leicester Symphony Orchestra is 100 this year. To celebrate our centenary, we are performing a wide range of music written during the past 100 years in Leicester’s fantastic De Montfort Hall.

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Leicester Symphony Orchestra @LeicesterSymph to perform 100 Years of #Music from the #Movies 🎥 Saturday 5 March 2022, 7:30pm @demontforthall with @JKAConductor 🎼#music #10years @MidlandsMovies @visit_leicester @coolasleicester 🎶

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/3226-2/

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Leicester Symphony Orchestra @LeicesterSymph to perform 100 Years of #Music from the #Movies 🎥 Saturday 5 March 2022, 7:30pm @demontforthall with @JKAConductor 🎶😀

midlandsmovies.com/leicester-symp…

Leicester Symphony Orchestra to perform music from the movies

A fantastic new evening of entertainment comes to Leicester next month with an event for movie and music fans alike. The Leicester Symphony Orchestra will play at the city’s prestigious De Montfort Hall on Saturday 5th March to perform music from some of the most famous movies of all time.

www.midlandsmovies.com

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Come & Play Day! @LeicesterSymph Sunday 27/03/22: 🎼 Come & join the orchestra for the day! 🎶

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Breaking: @LeicesterSymph will be on BBC Radio Leicester @BBCLeicester this afternoon at ~4.20pm talking about our centenary and our 2022/3 concert programme… 🎼 Tune in if you can! 🎶

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Join @LeicesterSymph at @LeicsCathedral this December for a seasonal concert of 🔔 Christmas music 🎶 with @JKAConductor and Leicester Cathedral Choir! Saturday 11 December 2021, 6pm & 8pm • Leicester Cathedral🎄

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

🎼 Leicester Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce further details of our 100th year celebrations! 🎉
🎶 Tickets go on sale from 22 July 2021:

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/lso-100th-seas…

LSO 100th Season

Leicester Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce further details of its 100th year celebrations!

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Leicester Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce provisional dates for its 100th year celebrations! 🎉

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/lso-100th-seas…

LSO 100th Season

Leicester Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce further details of its 100th year celebrations!

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

On Sunday 21 March 2021 at 4pm, join @LeicesterSymph conductor @JKAConductor for a Zoom talk on Mendelssohn and the story of how we came to have a ‘canon’ of symphonic music 🎶All welcome - no charge.

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/event/leiceste…

Leicester Symphony Orchestra presents… a Zoom talk on Mendelssohn and the creation of the ‘canon’

Guest speaker and LSO conductor John Andrews tells the story of how we came to have a ‘canon’ of symphonic music.

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

On Sunday 28 February 2021, join @LeicesterSymph historian Sam Dobson for a fascinating Zoom talk about Edward Elgar; his life and music 🎶All welcome - no charge.

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/event/leiceste…

Leicester Symphony Orchestra presents… a Zoom talk on Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar was something of an enigma even to those who knew him well. Sam Dobson, the secretary of the East Midlands Branch of the Elgar Society, tells the story of the great man with plenty of music and illustrations.

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

For those of you who have enjoyed our gigs with @rainerhersch in recent years... New Year’s Eve is saved! 😀

x.com/rainerhersch/s…

leicestersymph.bsky.social @leicestersymph.bsky.social · Jan 3

Although @LeicesterSymph hasn’t been able to play any concerts since February, we have been busy! 🎼 We hope to have some news about future concerts soon, but in the meantime why not come to one of our lockdown talks on Zoom in November? 🎶

leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk/lso-update/

LSO update

Although Leicester Symphony Orchestra hasn’t been able to play any concerts since February 2020, we did manage to fit in two socially-distanced rehearsals for small groups of wind and strings back in October, just before the second lockdown.

www.leicestersymphonyorchestra.co.uk