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About Witney Music Society
Membership of the Society gives free
entry to all concerts. Subscription
for 2008/2009 is £35 (concessions
£30). Tickets for individual concerts
will be £9 (£7.50 concessions) Tickets
obtainable from The Music Stand, High
St. Witney or from Greenway
(Antiques), Corn St. Witney, or at the
door on the night.
The Witney Music Society was founded
in 1965. It exists primarily in order
to provide the town with The Witney
Winter Concerts, a series of chamber
music concerts given by professional
musicians throughout the winter
months, October to March. Concerts are
held on the second Friday of each of
these months, the usual venue being
the main hall of Wood Green School,
Woodstock Rd., Witney. Occasionally
concerts are held at High St.
Methodist Church in the town. Since
1978 the Society has also arranged a
visit each summer to a Promenade
concert at the Royal Albert Hall in
London. More recently a second trip
has been added each spring to Symphony
Hall in Birmingham. Members of the
Society have free admission to all
the Society’s concerts in Witney in
return for an annual subscription. It
is not necessary to be a member of the
Society in order to attend its
concerts, but the season’s membership
subscription is fixed at a level that
provides a discount of about 35% on
the sum of the ticket prices for the
individual concerts. Concessionary
rates, both for individual concerts
and for season membership, are
available for senior citizens and for
students. Children from local schools
are admitted for £1 per concert
through an arrangement with the Witney
Educational Foundation (WEF). The WEF
has also, for many years, made funding
available to the Society so that it
can arrange concerts during the school
day in Witney schools by professional
musicians. Witney Music Society is a
registered Charity (registration
number 1041940). It is affiliated
to’Making Music’(the National
Federation of Music Societies) and
also receives financial support each
year from the Witney Town and West
Oxfordshire District Councils
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