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Subject Areas:Music
Name, Speaker Location & Areas covered:Mr Alan HICKSUpper Denby :: South Yorkshire only
Contact & Website:
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Subjects:New in 2023
Blokes with Heavenly Voices - presentation about countertenors
Cricket lovely Cricket - wide-ranging musical presentation about the lovely game

MUSIC THEMED - Men in Green Jackets (history of a local male choir)
Two Nightingales sang in Goregaon (with a South Asian connection)
Great Scott! It's Joplin (self-explanatory)
The Singers' Singer (talk on famous light music singer)
The First Alma (profile of multi-talented Alma Deutscher)
Why do Tenors always come Tops? (about a famous operatic tenor)
Voces8 (self-explanatory - the Rolls Royce of a cappella choral groups)
The Tatar Princess (profile of leading operatic soprano)
An Apple a Day (history of the apple with musical interludes)
French Chansons parts 1 and 2 (self-explanatory)
The Tale of Two Samuels parts 1 and 2 (talks about Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
Josephine Baker (about a remarkable woman - singer, dancer, activist, spy)
In Search of the Siberian White Tiger (talk about Dmitri Hvorostovsky, great baritone and one of the 50 most beautiful men in the world)
Vassily Kalinnikov (profile of an unknown Russian composer, said by Tchaikovsky to have been better than him)
ART THEMED - The Art of Flowers (talk on the artist, Monet)
NATURAL HISTORY THEMED - An Apple a Day (history of the apple)
Availability & Fee:Anytime Usually not Tuesday eveningsCharity Donation
Requirements: S, BO, T, FClick for requirements explanation
Virtual Talk Offered: No
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