Elizabethan Sussex

The celebrations continue on Friday 24th April, when Members of the Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia will begin the evening by performing pieces of Tudor music. This will be followed by a talk on Elizabethan Sussex by Dr Caroline Adams.

Dr Adams has a doctorate from the University of Chichester on the significance of Elizabeth I’s progress in Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey in 1591, and has published a number of journal articles on Elizabeth I and 16th century West Sussex.  Until July 2014 she was Senior Archivist at West Sussex Record Office and is now a freelance archivist and historian. 

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About the Recorder - it is one of the most quietly beautiful and remarkably adaptable instruments in the world. Ultimately, whatever its size, the mystique of the instrument lies in its paradox: it is simple yet profound, ancient and yet current, delicate yet powerful. In skilled hands it becomes astonishingly expressive and can portray sorrow, joy, mischief and serenity.

The recorder family spans multiple sizes of instrument from the bright and agile sopranino to the growling depths of the sub-contrabass, all of which play an essential role in Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia.

We do hope that you will come