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NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Sat. 16th Jun. 2012 - H.G.Wells 7:30 pm
Weber Jubel Overture Tickets -
Adults £12, Under 16s £5,
Full 2011/12 Seasons - Click Here
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2011/2012 Season's Highlights
WSO has long had close associations with two of this country's greatest composers; Elgar, who conducted the orchestra in 1920, and Vaughan-Williams, President from 1944, both of whom have been featured composers in many concerts since then. We therefore need no excuse to programme a concert of their music in November - the ever-popular Cello Concerto of Elgar, to be played by a magnificent young Cellist Joel Sandelson, and the stormy, violent and electrifying 4th Symphony of Vaughan-Williams, referred to by William Walton as "the greatest symphony since Beethoven". The concert opens with one of music's greatest seascapes, "Tintagel" by Arnold Bax, to whom Vaughan-Williams 4th Symphony was in fact dedicated.
Our Family concert in January features another great orchestral showpiece, Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", which is one of the best ways to introduce young people to music and, of course, another masterpiece of English music. Another brilliant young soloist, Barney Couch, joins the orchestra to demonstrate the beauties of the oboe with the Finale of Mozart's only concerto for the instrument.
In March, Emmanuel Bach, winner of the Woking Young Musician of the Year competition, will play Glazunov's gloriously romantic Violin Concerto. Schumann's Second Symphony fills the second half. If you think of Schumann mainly as a composer of songs and piano music, then come and hear how exciting and powerful his orchestral music is.
In June, we will be featuring Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, to be played by Ivana Gavric who was named "Newcomer of the Year 2011" by BBC Music Magazine; an enormously prestigious award. To open the concert, as part of the "Making Music - Adopt a Composer" scheme, which is operated in conjunction with BBC Radio 3; we will be premiering a newly commissioned work by British Composer Bernard Hughes. WSO are very excited to have been selected for this significant event, which will be recorded by Radio 3. The concert (and the season) ends with Dvorak's best-known and well-loved 9th Symphony "From the New World".
Roy Stratford, Conductor |
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