THE ARTS CALENDAR Autumn 2021 - Harrow School
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THE ARTS CALENDAR
Autumn 2021SEPTEMBER
The Old Harrovian Players: The Tempest 3pm Ryan Theatre
Sunday 12
Choral Concert: Handel’s Messiah 7.30pm Speech Room
Tuesday 14 Lunchtime Music: Upper Sixth Musicians 1.30pm St Mary's Church
Takk: Exhibition of Work by Jake Attree
Wednesday 15 6pm Pasmore Gallery
exhibition opens
Organ Recital by David Woodcock
Friday 17 7.30pm Speech Room
and Harrow Boys in Aid of Spirewatch
Tuesday 21 Lunchtime Music: Shell Award Holders 1.30pm St Mary's Church
Saturday 25 An Evening of Mozart 8pm Speech Room
Tuesday 28 Lunchtime Music: Lower Sixth Musicians 1.30pm St Mary's Church
OCTOBER
Lunchtime Music: Junior Chamber Music
Tuesday 5 1.30pm St Mary's Church
Groups,
Takk: Exhibition of Work by Jake Attree
Friday 8 Pasmore Gallery
exhibition closes
Saturday 9 Commemoration Concert 8pm Speech Room
Lunchtime Music:
Tuesday 12 1.30pm St Mary’s Church
Senior Chamber Music Groups
Friday 15 Chamber Music Concert in Aid of Spirewatch 7.30pm St Mary’s Church
Music for Strings 4pm Music Schools
Sunday 17 Shell Drama Festival: Aesop’s Allstars (1) 4pm Ryan Theatre
Shell Drama Festival: Aesop’s Allstars (2) 7.30pm Ryan Theatre
Lunchtime Music: Mendelssohn Concert Pieces
Tuesday 19 1.30pm St Mary’s Church
(clarinets and piano)
NOVEMBER
Loyal to the Hill: The Story of Alexis Theodore
Thursday 4 Casdagli and his Love for Harrow School OSRG
exhibition opens
Tuesday 9 Lunchtime Music: Music for Cellos 1.30pm St Mary's Church
Wednesday 10 Open Mic Evening 9.10pm Recording StudioRendalls and West Acre House Play:
Thursday 11 7.30pm Ryan Theatre
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Rendalls and West Acre House Play:
Friday 12 7.30pm Ryan Theatre
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Sunday 14 Faure's Requiem 7.30pm Chapel
Tuesday 16 Lunchtime Music: Jonathan Yuan (violin) 1.30pm St Mary's Church
Lunchtime Music: Haiwei Li (violin) 1.30pm St Mary's Church
Tuesday 23
Derrick Santini: Lenticular Photography 6pm Pasmore Gallery
Thursday 25 Newlands House Play: The Bloody Chamber 7.30pm Ryan Theatre
Newlands House Play: The Bloody Chamber 7.30pm Ryan Theatre
Friday 26
OH Room Concert 7.30pm OH Room
Saturday 27 Michaelmas Concert 8pm Speech Room
Sunday 28 Music for Pianos 4pm Music Schools
Tuesday 30 Lunchtime Music: Music for Saxophones 1.30pm St Mary's Church
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022021ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR CANCELLATION. SOME EVENTS MAY BE OPEN
ONLY TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCES. PLEASE CHECK THE HARROW SCHOOL WEBSITE BEFORE
ATTENDING AN EVENT OR BOOKING A TICKET.
DRAMA
THE OLD HARROVIAN PLAYERS: RENDALLS AND WEST ACRE HOUSE PLAY:
THE TEMPEST UNMAN, WITTERING AND ZIGO
Sunday 12 September Thursday 11 and Friday 12 November
3pm – Ryan Theatre 7.30pm – Ryan Theatre
Twelve years have passed since the usurped A teacher arrives hoping to make a good
Duke of Milan, Prospero, was set adrift to die at impression in his first job at a prestigious school.
sea with his three-year-old daughter and his The discovery of his predecessor’s murder forces
books. Now Fortune’s wheel has turned, and him to question some dark truths. Whom should
Prospero’s enemies have come within the he confront? The boys he teaches, the masters in
compass of his influence, wrecked on the island charge, or their blind obedience to the authority
by his conjured tempest. The day has come when of the school? Rendalls and West Acre combine to
the banished Duke, now a mighty sorcerer, can present Giles Cooper’s intriguing yet comic thriller,
exact his revenge... directed by Gaynor Jervis.
Directed by Tobias Deacon (Newlands 2000³),
this 70th anniversary production of NEWLANDS HOUSE PLAY:
Shakespeare’s The Tempest by the Old Harrovian THE BLOODY CHAMBER
Players will also be staged at the Sam
Wanamaker Playhouse on London’s South Bank
Thursday 25 and Friday 26 November
— a candlelit, indoor space at the world-famous 7.30pm – Ryan Theatre
Shakespeare’s Globe — over the weekend of 18 A glittering wedding turns into a horrific
and 19 September. For further information on nightmare. In all its gothic, gruesome splendour,
obtaining tickets for these performances, please The Bloody Chamber thrills with a castle, a grand
contact theatre@harrowschool.org.uk. piano, a dark chamber haunted by bodies, and a
powerful exploration of gender dynamics. Angela
THE SHELL DRAMA FESTIVAL: Carter’s seminal feminist tale entertains and
shocks in equal measure. Directed by Lucy Ashe,
AESOP’S ALLSTARS
Newlands presents Bryony Lavery’s adaptation
Sunday 17 October of the gothic short story, based on the fairy tale
4pm and 7.30pm – Ryan Theatre of Bluebeard.
Vibrant, eccentric and comic, Aesop’s Fables
introduce us to dynamic characters and moral For more information and to book tickets
debates. New boys from each House present for all events, or to inform us about any
their own versions of the timeless tales, directed accessibility requirements, contact theatre@
by Sixth Formers. harrowschool.org.uk or 020 8872 8344.
Front cover – Scene from The Knoll House play 2021, Rope by Patrick HamiltonMUSIC
CHORAL CONCERT: HANDEL’S MESSIAH REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: FAURE’S REQUIEM
Sunday 12 September Sunday 14 November
7.30pm – Speech Room 7.30pm – Chapel
The Chapel Choir and Choir of Francis Holland Performance of the Faure Requiem by a small
School will join forces for a performance of this choir of boys, joined by girls from Francis Holland
great work. Soloists will also be drawn from the School, to conclude our acts of Remembrance.
choirs and accompanied by a small professional Tickets not required.
orchestra. Tickets not required.
MICHAELMAS CONCERT
COMMEMORATION CONCERT
Saturday 27 November
Saturday 9 October 8pm – Speech Room
8pm – Speech Room Always a highlight of the term as the Concert
The annual Commemoration Concert, given in Band, Orchestra, Big Band and other ensembles
conjunction with John Lyon School, will feature a perform for the first time in the new academic
joint orchestra, a combined choir and samples of year. More than 100 boys will be performing in a
the best of the music-making taking place at each programme with something for everyone. Tickets
school. This year’s programme will have a not required.
Remembrance theme as we celebrate the
centenary of the War Memorial Building. Tickets
For information about these concerts, contact
not required.
the Music Schools Administrator on music@
harrowschool.org.uk or call 020 8872 8231.ART OLD SPEECH ROOM GALLERY
TAKK The OSRG will be closed until 4 November 2021.
Wednesday 15 September – Friday 8 October
6pm – Pasmore Gallery LOYAL TO THE HILL: THE STORY OF ALEXIS
THEODORE CASDAGLI AND HIS LOVE FOR
Takk is an exhibition of 13 oil pastels by artist
Jake Attree and a poem by Michael Symmons HARROW SCHOOL
Roberts, all created in response to Pieter Brughel Thursday 4 November – Friday 3 December
the Elder’s painting The Procession to Calvary. This loan exhibition tells the remarkable story
of Major Alexis Theodore Casdagli (The Grove
DERRICK SANTINI: 1920¹) and features his diaries, photographs,
LENTICULAR PHOTOGRAPHY keepsakes and embroidered artworks. From his
time working in his father’s cotton business in
Tuesday 23 November
Egypt, through his ordeal as a prisoner of war
6pm – Pasmore Gallery in Germany and his later career in the UK, the
Photographer Derrick Santini joins Photography theme that linked together all the important
students in a masterclass on creating lenticular experiences in his life was Harrow. Visitors
photographs. The masterclass will be followed are invited to bring their phones or tablets to
by a private view of an exhibition of Santini’s this exhibition as QR-enhanced labels provide
own work. fascinating additional information for some of
the key objects, the result of new research by his
For more information and exhibition daughter, Alexis Penny Casdagli. See also www.
cylixpress.co.uk/events.
opening times contact Laurence Hedges
at lwh@harrowschool.org.uk.
The OSRG is generally open to the public
from 2.30pm to 5pm on weekdays (excluding
Mondays and Wednesdays) in term time.
Occasionally, the gallery is closed for School
business. Please call 020 8872 8205 to check
opening times and dates before planning
your visit.
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