I’ve been pretty poor this year at website updates! Getting into the busy season, have a few concerts with some interesting repertoire that I’m very much looking forward to.
November
Sunday 3rd – Weekend Opera Workshops – Bruckner Symphony No. 5
This is a repertoire day with WOW. I’ve not played a Bruckner symphony yet, so looking forward to this. There is a concert listed here on my blog from 2017 showing Bruckner No. 4 – but that is one of a few concerts a I had to pull out of due to my Hairy Cell Leukaemia diagnosis.
Sunday 10th – The Brass Foundry – Remembrance Services – St. Johns Church, Watford
Annual Service or Remembrance
Sunday 17th – Peregrine Orchestra “A Musical Farewell” – St. Augustine’s Church, Kilburn, 6pm.
Finger – Suite in G minor “Farewell” (written in memoriam Henry Purcell)
Purcell – Dido’s Lament
Haydn – Symphony no. 45 in F# minor “Farewell”
INTERVAL
Mahler – Totenfeier
R. Strauss – Four Last Songs
Daniel Collins – Conductor
Eleanor Pennell-Briggs – Soprano
Sunday 24th Hitchin Band – Brass Band Contest, Leicester.
Yay! Music as a sport…
Saturday 30th Bloomsbury Chamber Orchestra – Winter Concert – St. Mary-at-Hill, Lovat Lane, London.
Sibelius – Symphony No. 1
Holst – Fugal Overture
Delius – Sleigh Ride
Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve Polonaise
Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite
Conducted by Michael Turner
December
Saturday 7th Hitchin Band – The Snowman – St. Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Sunday 8th Hitchin Band – The Snowman – The Broadway Cinema & Theatre, Letchworth
Saturday 14th Hitchin Band – The Snowman – The Quarry Theatre, Bedford
Wednesday 18th Hitchin Band – Rotary Carols – Hitchin Town Square, Hitchin
Saturday 21st Hitchin Band – Christmas Concert – Christchurch, Hitchin
Annual concert with Hitchin Youth Band and Hitchin Community Band
Sunday 22nd The Brass Foundry – Carols by Candlelight – St. Johns Church, Watford
Links
If you would like more information on any of the groups, links for tickets etc, follow the links below