Musical London – Baroque to Rock, Handel to Hendrix

Leicester Square underground station, London (exit 1, by Wyndham's Theatre)

Guided by Corinna

Walk Times

Day Walk Type Start Time End Time
8 March 2020 Tour du Jour 2.30 pm 12.45 pm Winter
12 July 2020 Tour du Jour 10.45 am 12.45 pm Summer

Rocking Baroqueing London. Here’s your Chopin Liszt! Seeking Hayden? Want a handle on Handel? Bop or Hip Hop? Stroll through London’s West End with Corinna and discover five centuries of music and musicians, past and present. See theatres, churches, concert halls and dwelling where the chrysalis for Puccini’s Butterfly began, where Beatlemania started and where music halls of yesteryear still ring with modern musicals. Hear where 16th-century Tallis flourished and Tavener follows on today, where Mozart’s virtuosity shone aged seven, where Mick Jagger still rolls on and Elton John sings for the nation. Find out where opera and operettas make and break aspiring singers, where dancing feet are shod and where Haydn and Handel lived and composed. Find out where Queen Victoria’s parrot had to go, what Elgar’s dog did, where sopranos sparred and flocks of sparrows took flight. Your personal guide to your imagination – soaring on wings of song – is Corinna. She’s a West End and Royal National Theatre actress who sings as well (and into the bargain is a professionally qualified City of London guide). Enthused (it’s a great word, enthused – its Greek root means “breathed into by God”) by music, with luck she’ll sing you a snatch or two. N.B. the walk takes about two hours and ends at the Handel Museum, next door to Hendrix’s house. From there it’s a short stroll to Oxford Circus Tube. Or Bond Street Tube.

MUSICAL LONDON – THE PRACTICALS

Musical London takes place at 2.30 pm on Sunday, March 8 and at 10:45 am on Sunday, July 12.

The meeting point for the Musical London Walk is just outside exit 1 of Leicester Square Tube.

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LONDON WALKS PRIVATE WALKS

If you can’t make the regularly scheduled, just-turn-up, public Musical London Walk do think about booking one as a private tour. If you go private you can have the Musical London Walk  – or any other London Walk – on a day and at a time that suits your convenience. We’ll tailor it to your requirements. And – always  – we go to great lengths to make sure the guide-walker(s) “fit” is well-nigh perfect. Ring Fiona or Noel or Mary on 020 7624 3978 or email us at  [email protected] and we’ll set it up and make it happen for you. A private London Walk is good value for an individual or couple and sensational value for a group. And the clincher: a private London Walk makes an ideal group or educational or birthday party or office (team-building) or club outing. Or indeed a fab present – be it a birthday or anniversary or get-to-know-your-new neighbourhood gift or Christmas present or whatever. Merchandise schmerchandise (gift wrapped or not) – but giving someone an experience, now that’s special. Memories make us rich.

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