“The 39 Steps” (1935 Alfred Hitchcock), presented by John Sacks

To reserve your place, or to propose a future cinematic experience, please email SavilianFilmSociety@gmail.com

To coincide with the Savile Club’s loan of a painting by its former member Sir William Nicholson to the major exhibition of his work at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, its Director Simon Martin will present an illustrated lecture on the artist’s remarkable life and work. It will explore the artist’s extraordinary creativity in different media from bold ‘Beggarstaff’ poster designs and iconic woodcut prints (several of which are displayed in the Club) to dazzling still lifes, evocative views of the Downland landscape and insightful portraits. 

Simon Martin has written numerous books on British art and artists, including on Glyn Philpot, John Piper, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Minton and thematic studies such as ‘Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists’ (on which he spoke at the Savile Club in 2024). He is the co-editor of a new monograph on Nicholson, published to coincide with the exhibition. 

John Gill chairs the Savile Club Art Committee. Now retired, he has spent four decades working with visual artists as director and curator in galleries and arts agencies in the public sector.  He was founding chairman and board member of several arts charities across the UK, and author of books and articles about arts and culture. In 2015/16 he held a Visiting Fellowship at Harvard where he continued his ongoing research into theatrical portraiture in the 18^th and 19^th centuries. Away from artists’ studios, he is generally to be found in concert halls and opera houses indulging his passion for music.

Cherubim’s own ‘u-Tuba’ Dafydd Owen in a half hour of musical comedy showing unexpected versatility of the tuba, and ending with a sing-along of Gilbert & Sullivan and the Hippotamus Song (by Savilian Michæl Flanders) accompanied by Michael Maxwell Steer.

Aperitif Concert videothèque: https://www.youtube.com/@savileaperitif

Proposers and their Candidates are invited to attend a dinner hosted by the Club at which several members of the General Committee will be present. This will give candidates the opportunity of meeting both members of the Committee and other Savilians.

(Proposers and their Candidates, General Committee Members)

Simone Alessandro Tavoni is an acclaimed Italian pianist who has performed internationally at prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and Palau de la Música Catalana. A Parklane Group Artist and Keyboard Charitable Trust Artist, he received a full scholarship to the Aspen Music Festival, studying with Fabio Bidini.

He holds degrees from the Royal College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Liszt Academy, and Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart. Simone was selected for the BBC Pathway Scheme and is supported by HSH Dr. Donatus Prince of Hohenzollern. 

His programme commemorates two composers with vividly contrasting styles, born 150 and 160 years ago respectively: the Spanish Manuel de Falla and the French Erik Satie. To conclude, we hear Chopin’s monumental Third Sonata: an unmissable evening.

PROGRAMME:

Manuel de Falla Four Spanish Pieces
Erik Satie Gnossiennes Nos. 1, 3
Erik Satie Gymnopedie No.1 Ogives 1-2-3

Erik Satie: Ogives 1-2-3

Francisca Gonzaga: Bionne, Lua Branca 

Frédéric Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

Children of all ages welcome.  Please advise their ages at the time of booking.

Dress code: relaxed.

A Vegetarian and Vegan option will be available on the day, if possible please advise us in advance if you would like one.

Aimee’s  ‘Craft Barn’ will be returning, this time with an Easter theme for all our young guests with a range of fun activities.

Cancellations received later than 3pm on Saturday 21^st March, or no shows will be charged @ £25/per person.

TO BOOK A TABLE PLEASE EMAIL RECEPTION TEAM:  Joanna, Irina and Anna at reception@savileclub.co.uk

Club Table will also be available but places have to be pre booked.

Derek Winterbottom is a biographer of Thomas Hughes and a historian whose books mainly focus on the Isle of Man and the British public schools. He has been a member of the Savile for many years but not as long as this famous Celtic cross has stood in its place in a Manx churchyard.

Thomas Hughes was almost a founder member of the Savile and was already famous throughout the British Empire as the author of ‘Tom Brown’s School Days’, based on his own experience of Rugby under Dr Arnold and published in 1857. It had an amazing impact on the development of education in Britain and elsewhere, as Derek will explain.

The Savile Wine Committee is organising another of the hugely enjoyed and popular “Call My Bluff” Wine Quizzes.

The Call My Bluff team are again Charlie Boyd and Molly Newport of Ellis of Richmond – one of our principal wine suppliers.

The format will be like the September 2025 quiz.  Each table of eight – we can cater for eight tables – works as a team.  There will be seven or eight different wines – all interesting and none on our Wine List.  Served one by one, each wine will have two completely different stories told about it – origin, cepages, terroir etc.  You taste, discuss, agree which is True and which is Bluff and vote as a team.

As last time, the wines will be accompanied by a half-time serving of antipasti and cheeses.

Whether you are of the wine cognoscenti or whether you just like wine and enjoy exploring it, this evening is for you – all.

Prizes too!

For Savile and Garrick Club members, wearing bow ties.

Limit- Maximum of 24 places (members only).

Lily Owens flute & Defne Anar harp, both Cherubim Young Musicians at the RAM.

Admission free but booking required.

Aperitif Concert videothèque: https://www.youtube.com/@savileaperitif