FRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA CONCERT TICKETS … 2016-2017 3-fold.pdfShostakovich’s incidental suite to the film, The Gadfly. Enescu’s Rhapsody shows his deep affection for his beloved

FRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA For a minimum donation of £25 per person per year

you receive: Complimentary interval refreshments

Complimentary concert programmes (otherwise £1 each) Automatic addition to our mailing list

An invitation to attend and vote at the orchestra’s AGM An invitation to all orchestral social functions

An invitation to attend selected open rehearsals

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subscriptions from players and the generous donations of its Friends and Sponsors for its continued existence.

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CONCERT TICKETS Full price: £11.00

Concessions*: £9.50 Students/children under 16: free of charge

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VENUE & PARKING Methodist Central Hall, Queen Street

Scarborough, YO11 1HQ Parking is available on site and there are municipal car parks nearby, plus on-street parking on nearby

Queen Street, Cross Street and Market Street.

All concerts will now begin promptly at 7.15pm and end by approximately 9.15pm.

Doors and Box Office are open from 6.15pm. Latecomers will be asked to wait in the foyer

until there is a suitable break.

PRE-CONCERT TALKS Frank James will be presenting his entertaining and

informative talks in the main hall to introduce each concert. These now begin at 6.30pm.

PROGRAMMES Concert programmes are £1 each.

Season Ticket holders and Friends of the Orchestra will receive a free concert programme on production of their

tickets, as will those who order their tickets online.

2016/17 Season Conductor Shaun Matthew

Leader Anthony Mason

Patron Lady Ayckbourn

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Saturday 26th November, 2016 - 7.15pm

THE BEAUTY OF ROMANTICISM Richard Harwood cello

ENESCU - Romanian Rhapsody No.2 BARBER - Cello Concerto

SHOSTAKOVICH - The Gadfly Suite

Welcome to the opening concert of our 2016/17 season. We are absolutely delighted to welcome back the much sought-after cellist, Richard Harwood, to perform Samuel Barber’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, a definite favourite amongst cello concertos of the twentieth century. Few will forget his spell-binding performance of the Saint-Saens concerto with the orchestra a few years ago - don’t miss this one! To complete the programme for this spectacular opening concert, we bring you two of the most beguiling post-romantic works; George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No.2 and Dmitri Shostakovich’s incidental suite to the film, The Gadfly. Enescu’s Rhapsody shows his deep affection for his beloved Romania with its wonderful gypsy-influenced themes. Shostakovich’s popular Gadfly suite contains the famous Romance and the swashbuckling Galop.

Saturday 11th February, 2017 - 7.15pm

A YOUTHFUL OUTLOOK Jess Gillam saxophone

(Finalist, BBC Young Musician 2016)

HAYDN - Symphony No.104, London DAVID HEATH - The Celtic Concerto

BEETHOVEN - Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36

We are proud to welcome to Scarborough BBC Young Musician 2016 finalist and June Emerson Wind Music Young Artist, Jess Gillam. Jess will be joining us to perform Dave Heath’s Celtic Concerto. Her incredible stage presence and deeply-felt musicianship makes this a performance not to be missed. We open the concert with Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No.104. Nick-named the ‘London’, the symphony was hailed as a triumph at the première and has been a firm favourite ever since. We close the concert with Beethoven’s Symphony No.2. This symphony was completed against the backdrop of his ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’; the now famous document where he revealed his incurable deafness. This malady did not hinder Beethoven in writing one of his most joyous outpourings and affirmations of life.

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Saturday 6th May, 2017 - 7.15pm

HOMEWARD BOUND Niall McEwen trumpet

BRITTEN - Gloriana The Courtly Dances JOHN CARMICHAEL - Trumpet Concerto

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - A London Symphony

Benjamin Britten composed the opera Gloriana in 1953, ‘dedicated by gracious permission to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in honour of whose coronation it was composed.’ The Courtly Dances are a single-movement suite of seven dances taken from Act III. Niall McEwen joins us in the exciting concerto by the Australian-born, UK-based composer, John Carmichael. Written in 1972, the work showcases many elements associated with the instrument: royalty, military display and processions, while sustaining a strong lyrical melodic line and demanding virtuosity from the player. We close with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ epic view of Edwardian London; his Symphony No.2, nicknamed A London Symphony. Premièred in 1914, the symphony underwent many revisions by Vaughan Williams and has now become a firm favourite of concert goers and musicians.

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Saturday 15th July, 2017 - 7.15pm

LEGENDS Gaynor Morgan soprano

SMETANA - Richard III Symphonic Poem BERLIOZ - Herminie Scène lyrique

BRAHMS - Symphony No.1 in C minor

We open our final concert of the season with a wonderful work by the Czech composer, Bedřich Smetana. He composed this symphonic poem in Gothenburg in 1857-58, and conducted the orchestral première in Prague on January 5th, 1862. The full personality of Richard III makes itself felt right from the very start, leading from his victories to the foretelling of his doom. Acclaimed soprano, Gaynor Morgan, joins us for Hector Berlioz’s Herminie. This cantata was written in 1828 for the Prix de Rome and is based on a text by Tasso. It features in the first movement the theme that he later used as the idée fixe in the Symphonie Fantastique. We close this season with Johannes Brahms’s monumental Symphony No.1. This work is one of the great masterpieces of the symphonic oeuvre and is a fitting close to our season.

Don’t miss Frank James’s entertaining and informative pre-concert talks, starting at 6.30pm in the main hall (details overleaf)

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