This is a past event
A concert for Dr Roger B. Williams MBE on his retirement, including works by Corelli, Ross & Haydn.
On 23rd November 2010 at 7.30pm, the Aberdeen Musical Society, directed by David J. Smith will host a concert for Dr Roger B. Williams MBE on his retirement.
The concert will provide an opportunity to hear the violin by the eighteenth-century Aberdeen maker, Joseph Ruddiman. The Friends of Aberdeen University Library gave financial support to the playing of music from Special Libraries on this instrument. It will be played alongside a matching instrument already owned by the University in a recital that will include the kind of repertoire that would have been heard at concerts of the Aberdeen Musical Society in the eighteenth century. As well as a sonata by Arcangelo Corelli, who was a favourite with music societies throughout the British Isles, there will be music by James Oswald and Scottish song settings by Joseph Haydn.
It is hoped that the new instrument will make regular appearances at Friends events, bringing the collection of eighteenth-century music in Special Libraries to life.