Diana Neild and Friends Variety Concert

For the final concert in the 2023 Globe Sunday Matinee concert series Diana Neild by popular demand from her last year’s concert, brings together a host of friends and colleagues from a range of different groups in a variety programme featuring familiar music to relax to.

Diana Neild studied flute many years ago with Amelia Skinner and Nancy Luther Jara, and has loved sharing music in the community ever since. She plays regularly in Trio Bella, functions band Moxy, saxophone quartet Palmy Sweethearts, and with her own family. Diana is also a published children’s writer. In this concert Diana features in all the numbers presented.

The concert opens with her playing flute accompanied by harpist Anthony Yuan in a fantasia on an English folk tune by local composer Roderick Thomas.
She is then joined by Yuri Park on the violin and pianist Shelley Alexander in a bracket including the ever popular Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel.

If your appetite for light classical music is then whetted there is yet more, as the
six-strong Sunday Flutes team present the catchy Overture to The Barber of Seville by Rossini.

The Palmy Sweethearts shift the sound world from flutes to a sax ensemble, as they serenade us with such evergreens as the theme from The Pink Panther, Fly Me to the Moon, and It Don’t Mean a Thing.

Finally, Moxy Unplugged treat the audience to voices in harmony accompanied by instrumentalists with more “easy on the ear” numbers including California Dreaming and Ticket to Ride.

Admission is by donation, recommended from $5.