Christmas isn't Christmas without a major TV marathon. But why not take time out from the spangle of X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing this Saturday for a festive concert in aid of Musequality in Chiswick?
Keith Stent sounds like a proud man, and so he should be. The conductor of Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra has been involved with the group since 1963 when it was called Putney Symphony Orchestra, and now WSO celebrates its 35th anniversary.
Think Gilbert and Sullivan and a montage of their greatest hits spring to mind - the kimonoed little maids of The Mikado, the sexy sailors of HMS Pinafore and the eponymous heroes of The Pirates of Penzance.
"Remember, remember, the fifth of November - gunpowder, treason and plot." We all know the rhyme but how many of us actually remember the story behind it?
Four months, two weeks and one day ago, David Juritz of the London Mozart Players left town with nothing but his violin and a backpack to busk around the world playing Bach.
It seems only yesterday that the final coda in Putney Music's 2006/7 season faded out, and already the conductor is tap-tapping his baton to ready everyone for 2007-08's programme.
