The start of a new year is a good time for newspapers, broadcasters, commentators…and concert halls…to look forward to some of the highlights, anniversaries and likely defining moments in the upcoming 12 months.
Here is a first look at Turner Sims by numbers in the year ahead:
- 1.
the first performance of a new work by young composer Zoe Sones
also the name of Tim Garland’s release named Jazzwise Album of the Year in 2016 - 2.
past winners of Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year Awards appearing in the Spring season – Joseph Moog (2015) and Beatrice Rana (2017) - 5.
lines in a limerick, a poetic format popularised by Edward Lear, composer, painter and polymath. Here’s an example:
Turner Sims is a fine music venue
With concerts galore on its menu
So whatever you choose
There’s no time to lose
Which tickets for events can we send you?
- 12.
instrument strings involved in Lawrence Power and Vilde Frang’s duo performance - 25.
moveable frets on the setar, the four-stringed lute which Kayhan Kalhor will perform on in May - 41.
symphonies composed by Mozart, culminating in the Jupiter, as unwrapped by SÓN and David Owen Norris in March - 59.
days it took British polar explorer Felicity Aston MBE in 2012 to ski alone across Antarctica. The first woman to achieve the feat it was a journey of 1744km and gave her a place in the book of Guinness World Records. - 88.
keys on a concert grand piano, and the day of the year (normally 29 March apart from a leap year like 2020 when it is 28 March) declared as International Piano Day. Come and discover more with Sarah Nicolls and her Inside-Out Piano - 220.
the estimated number of album releases submitted for consideration for the Mercury Music Prize from which 12 ‘Albums of the Year’ are selected, including SEED Ensemble
- 250.
birthdays for Beethoven and Wordsworth
- 400.
years since the Mayflower departed Southampton for America
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