Sydenham Town Forum

A land without music - with a question mark. We are going to show its not true, but it is the name given to England in the 19th century since there were no top rate English composers. All Handel's fault really. He set a fashion for Italian-style music, and the English couldn't compete and gave up ...

That's how German visitors described England in the 19th Century - since there were no front rank composers. In fact, English music has been prominent at many times in history, so we plan to celebrate this at our summer concert. Saturday June 13th, 7.30pm , we will perform our summer concert in All ...