Dorset Museum Music Society

Solem Quartet

22 February 2023, 7:30pm

 

Two richly inventive quartets by composers in their young manhood together with a work that is helping to draw its composer out from the shadowy position of being ‘merely’ Robert Schumann’s wife.

Programme

  • C SCHUMANN 3 Romances
  • BARTOK String Quartet No 2
  • MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No 5

 


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The Dorset Museum Music Society are fortunate in being able to make use of the Victorian Hall of the Dorset Museum, a unique environment that continues to draw enthusiastic praise from our visiting artists

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Special Display

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Community Exhibition

2 December 2023 - 21 April 2024

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Special Exhibition

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Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within

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Family Activity

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Storytelling

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What’s new in the British and Irish Neolithic? | Dr Alison Sheridan

While the past doesn’t change, our knowledge and understanding of it are being transformed by new discoveries and new research – and this is especially the case with the Neolithic period, the time of the first farming communities from the late 5th millennium to around 2500 BCE. This lecture offers some highlights from the past decade or so.

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Family Activity

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Elf Workshop

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Tours

20 December 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Collections Discovery Centre Tour

Join our Collections Team for an opportunity to explore behind the scenes in the Museum’s Collections Discovery Centre.

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Family Activity

21 December 2023, 11:30am - 12:30pm | 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Elf Workshop

The Elves need your help in the workshop. Join them and lend a hand! You're invited to embark on a magical journey filled with Christmas crafts, fun activities, and the chance to learn all the secrets of the elves

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