Stamford, Conservation Town 1967 – 2007 List of events
21 March, Wednesday, 7.30 pm: Stamford Arts Centre, Lecture series
Lady Victoria Leatham
25 years of conservation at Burghley
24 April, Tuesday, 7.30 pm: Stamford Arts Centre, Lecture series
Quinlan Terry, internationally renowned architect
How to construct a stone building that will last for centuries.
27 April, Friday, 7.30 pm: Exchange Hall, Festival of Performing Arts
College Players, Karen Ingham Singers, Stamford Amateur Musical Society, Stamford Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Welland School of Dancing, Stamford Brass
Showtime: A programme of exciting, lively and romantic tunes they don’t write any more including highlights from the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.
28 April, Saturday, 2.00 pm & 4.00 pm: Stamford Arts Centre, Festival of Performing Arts
Stamford Chamber Orchestra and Narrator, Welland School of Dancing, Queen Eleanor Technology College Q Factor Final Singers, Pantomime Players,
Specially for a younger audience (recommended age five and over) Peter and the Wolf, performed by orchestra, narrator and dancers. Dick Whittington romps through Stamford History with custard pies! And the lively, rhythmic and pulsating sounds of our youth singers.
28 April, Saturday, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm & 7.30 pm see description: Stamford School Hall, Festival of Performing Arts
Anyone who wants to come. All standards welcome!
Create a fun choir from scratch with Chris Rowbury. Harmony songs from the 60s and around the world. Rehearse in morning and perform with Woven Chords in the evening concert
28 April, Saturday, 7.30 pm: Stamford School Hall, Festival of Performing Arts
Stamford Endowed Schools, Vocal Chords scratch choir, Welland School of Dancing, Woven Chords
A musical banquet: scrumptious harmony singing, choir of fresh singers, liberally sprinkled with young talented instrumentalists and dancers, topped off with audience participation!
29 April, Sunday, 4.00 pm: Barn Hill Methodist Church, Festival of Performing Arts
Combined Choirs of Stamford Churches, Minor Chords, Stamford Primary Schools, The Burghley Singers, Tolethorpe Youth Drama
A … TO ZADOK An abundance of youthful drama - 'The Railway Children' exerpt - children singing, adult choirs and dancers dancing. ‘Zadok the Priest’ will bring the festival to a resounding conclusion.
3 May, Thursday, 7.30 pm: Stamford School Hall, Concert
Stamford Endowed Schools' major performance of the year by the First Orchestra at the Stamford Endowed Schools
The programme is an ambitious one this year and it is hoped to include Dvorak's 9th Symphony (New World Symphony), Shostakovich Festival Overture and three solo items; an extract from the opera 'Don Giovanni' by Mozart, the slow movement of DeBeriot's 9th violin concerto and 1st movement of Weber's clarinet concerto. The evening will conclude with a new composition by the First Orchestra conductor Mr Nicholas Taylor to commemorate Stamford's forty years as a conservation area.
5 May, For summer, : Stamford Museum, Exhibition
Stamford Museum
In two parts: Conservation in Stamford; Malcolm Sargent - on the fortieth anniversary of his death
12 May, Saturday, 8.00 pm: Stamford Arts Centre, Concert
sinfonia ViVa, Director: Benedict Holland
Malcolm Sargent Commemoration Concert
13th May, Sunday, 7.30 pm: The Broadway, Peterborough, Concert
Stamford Choral Society, Stamford Endowed Schools Choral Association, with the Chameleon Arts Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent commemoration concert
19 May, Saturday, 7.00 pm: Stamford College, Fashion Show
Students of Stamford College
14 - 18 May, Mon - Fri, Daytime, tba: St John's Church, Photographic exhibition
Queen Eleanor Technology College
Byways of Stamford
24 May, Thursday, 7.30 pm: Stamford Arts Centre, Lecture series
Clive Aslett - Editor at large, Country Life
Landmarks of Britain
Sat 30 June, Mon 4 June, 9.30am - 10.00pm: Stamford Arts Centre Anteroom, Art exhibition
Welland Valley Arts Society
Paintings of Stamford
11 - 15 June, Mon - Fri, 9.30am - 9.00pm: Stamford Arts Centre Gallery, Art exhibition
Stamford primary schools
Primary schools art exhibition
19 July, Thursday, 7.30 pm: Stamford Arts Centre, Lecture series
Simon Thurley, Chief Executive English Heritage
Goodbye England - does anyone out there care?
4 Oct, Thursday, 8.00 pm: Stamford Arts Centre, Lecture series
Richard Aldous, biographer of Malcolm Sargent
Rolls-Royce, Whisky and Sir Malcolm Sargent: Stamford Boy on the World Stage