Welcome

Beautiful Star

Video with German subtitles: see here

Have you ever stood in the mountains, no city lights around, looking up, seeing all these stars above you? It's very impressive and it may be that this experience has made many generations before us turn to the stars for company, support or guidance. Every year at Christmas we take the tale of the Star of Bethlehem for granted. The story tells us that it led the three wise men to the birthplace of Jesus. Astronomically speaking it has caused quite a lot of controversy amongst historians and scientists - so we thought we'd just tell its story through beautiful Christmas music.

ARTISTS

Susanne Mecklenburg | voice

William Hancox | piano

Sophie Hebden | oboe

Michael Eisinger | viola

PERFORMANCES

Dorchester Abbey

Dorchester-on-Thames, High St. Dorchester on Thames, OX10 7HH, Star of Bethlehem

Wednesday, 15th December 2021, 19:00, free entry

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Over The Moon

The Moon inspires a certain fascination: it’s distant, it’s mystic, it’s secretive. We only ever see one side of the Moon from Earth. In 2019 it was 50 years since the first human set foot on the Moon. This musical Moon programme celebrates and explores the origins of the Moon’s enchantment over us. The space race, fly me to the Moon - our everlasting fascination with travelling to the Moon, Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon”, romantic Moon gazing, sleep, dreams and the Sandman, moonlight and lotus flowers, Galileo and his Moon mapping, the European Space Agency’s Moon village, the dark side of the Moon, werewolves, tides and eclipses, supernatural powers, mythology, Eagles that landed, Apollo the god of music … and many other references in historic and contemporary culture. But - how did they make it into music? This is what we will tell in our programme, combined with some beautiful photography and other special visual and musical effects.