Manor House Music String Quartet Weblog

Concert at Cheddington Church, 9th December

Last night we returned once more to play a concert in St Giles Church, Cheddington. Half the proceeds from the concert were to go towards the upkeep of the Church, with the remainder going towards the Church Bell Restoration Appeal. As always, the atmosphere in the church was magical with a smell of mulled wine [...]

Concert at St Nicholas Church, Cuddington

On Friday the 16th of September, we performed for the first time at the beautiful church of St Nicholas, Cuddington. Although Cuddington is very near to Haddenham where we have played before, it was exciting to be giving a recital in a new village - and we hoped that people who had seen us at [...]

Music for a Summer’s Evening - Concert at Eaton Bray

On the 10th September, the quartet will be giving our second concert in the lovely village church of St Mary the Virgin in Eaton Bray (a village between Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable).  The concert will aim to raise funds for the upkeep of the church and if it goes as well as last time, ought [...]

Friday the 13th May - Concert in St Giles Church

On Friday, we gave our summer concert in our local village Church (St Giles, Cheddington). It was once again a real highlight of our musical year with such a warm and appreciative audience of around 70 people, many of whom are our friends and neighbours and some who come from further afield.
The theme of the [...]

Christmas Concert - I Saw Three Ships, St Giles, Cheddington

Last night (Friday the 10th December) we gave our first Christmas concert of 2010 in our village church,  St Giles - Cheddington. As ever, there was a good audience of around 80 people, many of whom had seen us perform before and the atmosphere was very festive with plenty of mulled wine, mince pies, candles [...]

Invitation to the Dance - A Concert

On Friday, we gave our first concert in St Mary’s Church, Haddenham. As this was also the first time we’d performed a recital in the village, it was a real unknown in many ways - we were not sure whether we’d have a large audience or just a few people along this first time. Having [...]

Forthcoming Concert at St Giles Church, Cheddington

It seems quite recently that we were blogging about our Christmas concert in St Giles Church, Cheddington (our own village) and already the spring sunshine is here and we’re busy programming for another concert in the church to take place on May the 14th 2010.
As each time we play in the village, we try to [...]

Candlelit Concert, St Giles, Cheddington

On Friday the 11th December we  really got into the Christmas spirit with a programme of winter and festive music performed by candlelight in our village Church, St Giles, Cheddington. This is the fourth time we’ve performed in the church and word seems to have got around because by the week of the concert, the organisers [...]

Lunchtime Recital at St Martin in the Fields

Yesterday we gave a lunchtime concert in the historic church of St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Originally we had been due to play on the 7th of February, but this was the day of the big snow across the South East of England and despite waiting for promised trains (which never turned up), [...]