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Published: 26 July 2007

GOAL chairman Malcolm Wroe on a poetry recital visit to India

Music from movies for benefit concert

PREVIEW: CLASSICAL MUSIC AND OPERA AT THE MOVIES
St Martin's Church

WHEN the devastating tsunami struck in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004, leaving more than 200,000 people dead and almost two million homeless and facing poverty, the good folk of St Martin’s Church, Gospel Oak, knew they had to act.
Their response was to hold a benefit concert in the weeks after the disaster and it has since become an annual fund-raising event.
This year’s benefit concert, Classical Music and Opera at the Movies, takes place on Thursday, August 2 at 7.30pm. With tickets priced “pay what you can afford”, all proceeds from the event will go to Gospel Oak Action Link (GOAL).
The concert will feature local musicians Frances Barlow (violin) and Susan wood (piano) playing works by Beethoven and Schubert, while organists Geoffrey Hunter and Ricardo Bonci will join West End singer Judith Garner Jones (Phantom of the Opera) in an eclectic selection of operatic pieces featured in movies.
Local poet and chairman of GOAL, Malcolm Wroe, will also recite several of his poems.
Both GOAL and St Martin’s have been providing youth projects for the disadvantaged in the borough for more than a decade.
Funds raised this year will go towards the administration of a summer programme of accredited courses in drama, music, computer voice training for young people with dyslexia, anger management, health and beauty training and classes in multicultural respect.

* Classical Music and Opera at the Movies takes place at St Martin’s Church, Vicar’s Road, Gospel Oak on Thursday August 2 at 7.30pm.
Tickets are ‘Pay what you can afford’ and all proceeds go to charity.
Further details from Revd John Hayward.
Tel: 07958 959591

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