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A little night-music from the gardens of Schönbrunn palace

6:00pm | 28 May 2012
Museum

Let us whisk you back to Vienna in the summer of 1815 in this celebratory concert on period instruments, recreating Hummel's famous "Ducat Concerts".

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Symphonic Jazz and its Pianistic Processes

5:15pm | 14 June 2012
East Parry Room

David Owen Norris explores the influence of jazz on the likes of Milhaud, Schulhoff and Constant Lambert, whose manuscripts will be exhibited in the RCM Library. Part of the Grove Forum lecture series "Keyboard Music(s)"

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".....all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order!"

5:15pm | 21 June 2012
East Parry Room

Andrew Zolinsky explore the skills needed in the performance of contemporary music. Part of the Grove Forum lecture series "Keyboard Music(s)"

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Cotswold Ways: Chamber Music of Gurney and Howells

6:00pm | 21 June 2012
Recital Hall

This concert celebrates the music of close friends and RCM alumni Ivor Gurney and Herbert Howells, and includes the world premiere of Ivor Gurney's Piano Sonata in D minor, recently discovered in the RCM Library by RCM Junior Fellow Jonathan Musgrave.

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The Oriental Miscellany: Wild but pleasing when understood

5:15pm | 28 June 2012
Museum

Jane Chapman and Andrew Woolley present the fascinating "Hindustani Airs" - 18th transcriptions for harpsichord of Indian vocal music. Part of the Grove Forum lecture series "Keyboard Music(s)"