AMIGOS DE MÚSICA at OS AGOSTOS Dear Amigas and Amigos, NEWSFLASH I have a Radio broadcast of the semi finalists of the Leeds Piano Competition on BBC Radio3 – one of them playing the Scriabin Sonata No 4, in F sharp – a relay presented by “our” Katya Apekisheva, and I feel inspired to write […]
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NEWSFLASH; September 17th, 2021
Sunday, September 19th, 2021Newsletter September 1st, 2021
Sunday, September 19th, 202130 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER and ***** Invitation***** Dear Amigos, September 1, 2021 Our summer break ended with the heat, and here we are at the beginning of the very special 2021-22 Concert and Membership Season – this will be our 30th Anniversary year !!! and may it […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 202130 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER and ***** Invitation***** Dear Amigos, August 12, 2021 Summer greetings and WELCOME to the concert- and membership season of 2021/22! This season we shall start by giving a unique event its proper dues: We shall celebrate the 30th Anniversary of our Associationon Friday, […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021Membership year 2021/22 Dear Amigos, Another membership season is upon us. The last one was without much exaggeration a difficult one, in which we entered uncharted territory of cancellations and reshuffles. Yet it also gave us reason to stand by notions of resilience and determination, and I am grateful to you for sticking it […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 202130 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER Dear Amigos, May 19, 2021 Am I spoiling you ???? Here in the middle of the most amazing concert series with the great Dudana, I come to you and tell you about the next two piano recitals AND the last two concerts of […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 202130 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER Dear Amigos, May 3rd, 2021 I am / we are grateful for your continuous and unstinting support during these stressful times. I particularly thank you for bearing with me in these reshuffles of dates and names of artists. In all of these pandemic […]
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Monday, May 3rd, 202130 Years of Great MusicT From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, May 3rd, 2021 I am / we are grateful for your continuous and unstinting support during these stressful times. I particularly thank you for bearing with me in these reshuffles of dates and names of artists. In all of these pandemic enforced pauses and cancellations […]
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Friday, April 2nd, 202130 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, April 2, 2021 HAPPY EASTER!! To me, Easter Week has always been particularly great for listening to the best music in the world in concert halls, churches and, fortunately, also on various radio stations. What a wonderful tradition that is now, during […]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2021Amigos de Música at Os Agostos 30 Years of Great Music Dear Amigos, January 20, 2021 After rereading my last Newsletter with the “Adieu to 2020”, I admire the author for her optimism and cheer with which she invites you/us all to look towards the coming “better” year. In relation to the pandemic situation, she […]
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Monday, January 4th, 2021To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, December 31, 2020 Please join me in an ADIEU to 2020 – the year that I summarily would like to describe as The Big Test. An extraordinaryscourge raised its ugly head to all of us, with challenges for Solidarity, but found us wanting, so it lingers and […]
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