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Joint summer concert with Wantage Male Voice Choir:
Sunday June 27th at Wantage Catholic Church, at 7.30pm

Elgar Elegy
Haydn Clock Symphony
Selected choruses

GRAND SPRING CONCERT jointly with Oxford Studio Orchestra:
Saturday May 15th at Wantage Parish Church, and
Saturday May 22nd at St Andrew's Church in Oxford.

Simon Whalley – An Abingdon Overture
Gilles Mathieu – King Alfred Symphonic Poem No. 1
Mahler – Symphony 1

FEBRUARY (RUSSIAN) CONCERT
Saturday 13th February 2010
Glazunov 5th Symphony
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1

Soloist James Willshire (sponsored by Wantage Rotary Club)

AUTUMN (SCOTTISH) CONCERT Saturday 21st November 2009
MacCunn Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Mendelssohn Symphony no. 3 (Scottish)
Bruch Fantasy on Scottish Airs, soloist MunJeong Kim (Violin)

SUMMER CONCERT June 28th 2009
Bizet Carmen Suite
Benoit Flute Concerto
Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Gounod Ballet Suite from Faust
Saint Saens Danse Macabre

SCHOOL CONCERT Joint Concert with KA's A level music students Weds 1st April
Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers
Ellen Chadwick - Cornet
Dunstan Langrish - Bass
Marcus Taylor - Drum Kit
Mozart Clarinet Concerto Last Mvmt
Megan Watson - Voice
Duncan Clark - Piano
Chris Teale - Clarinet
Britten - Soirees Musicales

SPRING CONCERT Saturday March 21st
Rossini Italian Girl in Algiers
Mozart Clarinet Concerto, soloist Charlotte Swift
Beethoven Symphony No. 7


AUTUMN CONCERT November 22nd 2008
Borodin Prince Igor overture
Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto with soloist James Willshire, winner of Making Music’s Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists in 2008.
Dvorak Symphony No 6

SUMMER CONCERT SUNDAY July 13th 2008 featuring local young soloists
Programme:
Saint Saens Havanaise soloist Joanna Cousins
Hayden trumpet concerto opVII no1 soloist William Young
Franck Symphonic Variations soloist Duncan Clark
Cuccini Ave Maria soloist Lois Haines
Schubert's Rosamunde Ballet Music
Weber's Oberon overture
von Suppe's Light Cavalry
Faure's Pavane

SPRING CONCERT MAY 2008
Humperdink Overture to Hansel and Gretel
Bartok Dance suite
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Vaughan Williams 8th Symphony

AUTUMN CONCERT NOV 2007
soloist CHRISTOPHER TEREPIN cello

Verdi Force of Destiny
Elgar Cello Concerto
Brahms Symphony No. 4




JUNE 2007
Young Soloists concert.
ABIGAIL GOSTICK played the first movement of Weber’s Clarinet Concerto and
ELLEN BUNDY played Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams.
CLARE BRISTOW played Kol Nidrei by Bruch;
CHRIS LYNCH played Romance in F by Beethoven and
MARK SIMS played the first movement of Hindemith’s Clarinet Concerto.
JOS ROWE, JAMES BAKER and GARY ANNELLS played Britten's quirky Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
The Orchestra also played
Pomp and Circumstance No. 4 by Elgar and the
Dam Busters March by Coates.

MAY 2007

30th Anniversary Concert on Saturday 12th May 2007
7:30 p.m. in Wantage Parish Church

Programme:

Russian Easter Festival Overture Rimsky Korsakov
Firebird Suite Stravinsky
Symphony ‘from the New World’ Dvorak

January 2007
January Concert on Saturday 20th January 2007 at 7:30 p.m.in Wantage Parish Church

Soloist: Emma Armstrong-Hawkins Horn
Programme:

Finlandia Jean Sibelius
Horn Concerto No. 1 Richard Strauss
The Pines of Rome Ottorino Respighi
Bridge on the River Kwai Suite Malcolm Arnold

 
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