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NOTICE OF THE VIRTUAL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC TO BE HELD:  VIA: ZOOM AT: 18:00 ON: THURSDAY 26 MAY 2022 Dear Members, Normally our AGM immediately precedes a soiree. Unfortunately, as we are still navigating the arrangements to host soirees

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music Tickets are on sale now for the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's winter season! It was wonderful to see audiences returning to the City Hall in April and the Friends of Orchestral Music are looking forward to hosting the final dress

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra are already half way through their wonderful Autumn Symphony Season LIVE at theCity Hall - with two concerts to go.  We invite you to join us on the morning of the concert to experience the final dress rehearsal and also assist the orchestra with much needed

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music As the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra is busy preparing for their LIVE Autumn Symphony Season at the City Hall, we are excited to announce that we were finally given permission to open the hall for all the upcoming rehearsals for

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music Welcome to our first newsletter for 2022. We are cautiously looking forward to a wonderful music filled year ahead with concerts opening up. We urge you to renew your memberships to FOM if you have not yet done so, at

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music It seems like déjà vu that we write at the end of 2021 with the 4th wave of Covid hanging over us. Moving forwards all planning remains in limbo and the arts is in need of our help more than ever. We

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music The Cape Town Concert Series would once again like to invite you to join for their upcoming recital featuring pianist Megan-Geoffrey Prins who will be collaborating with violinist Annien Shaw on Saturday 23rd October, 11am at the Baxter. The lush programme

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music Finally the theatres are starting to open again, and the Cape Town Concert Series once more extends an invitation to Friends of Orchestral Music to enjoy a live recital at the Baxter Concert Hall on Saturday 25th September. Before Covid-19

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music Just as things started to open up again - so they closed! With winter also on our doorsteps, perhaps it has not been the worst time to rather stay indoors and find solace with the CPO Winter Cyber Symphonies and

Dear Members, Normally our AGM immediately precedes a soiree. Unfortunately, our 2020 AGM had to be convened as a remote meeting in accordance with the Lock Down regulations. We have decided to continue to keep our members safe during current level 2 restrictions, and once again will hold our

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music Exciting news with Live classical events opening up: Following the success of their first concert of the year with members of the CPO, the Cape Town Concert Series is hosting their next recital on Saturday 29 May at 11am in

Chairman’s Message to the Members of the  Friends of Orchestral Music 15 April 2021  Dear Members, MEMBERSHIP DRIVE – 2021  2020 was a year like no other. We only had time to enjoy the CPO Summer Season before the Covid pandemic changed our lives so

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music   The Cape Town Concert Series is excited to present it's first live concert of 2021 and what better way than by collaborating with musicians from the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra to present some fantastic chamber music live on stage

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music Thank you for supporting the Friends during this particularly difficult year. While there have been few events to attend, your support has meant that FOM has remained busy. Under our Individual Study Portfolio, we were able to offer support to

Dear Friends of Orchestral Music Thank you for your support with the recent fundraising drives for our education portfolios to take their lessons online and cover additional fees of students who were unable to continue otherwise due to the pressures of Covid.  All the Orchestral

Dear Music Lovers We hope you are keeping well and warm as we reach mid winter. We are all settling into the new world of technology, and our first ever Zoom AGM last week went pretty smoothly, and we thank all those who participated or sent through