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Huddersfield,
HD1 2TA
Offenbach: Overture – Orpheus in the Underworld
Elgar: Suite No 2 – The Wand of Youth
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Grieg: Suite No 1 – Peer Gynt
Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Conductor: Natalia Luis-Bassa
February’s programme is designed to appeal to a family audience, with pieces of relatively short duration and lots of well-known tunes to recognise. We will dance the can-can in the underworld, remember the antics of Mickey Mouse to the music of Dukas, and meet both tame and wild bears in the very early music of Elgar for a family play. And that’s only the half of it!
In the second part of the concert we hear perhaps the best-known works of Edvard Grieg, the movements Morning and In the Hall of the Mountain King from the incidental music to Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt. The programme ends with a work in which every section of the orchestra has its moment in the spotlight, the music written by Benjamin Britten for a documentary film of 1946, called simply The Instruments of the Orchestra. The theme on which Britten based his work is from Purcell’s music for the play Abdelazer, written in 1695, the earliest music featured in this series of concerts.
Fantastic! I look forward to April
Fantastic night and great to hear the conductor’s narration. A great family night out – recommended
Fantastic performances, a tremendous concert ‘on the night’ – well done – and Natalia’s narration from the podium was truely wonderful. A real winner of a programme all round, “warmest congratulations” are certainly due to the whole orchestra! Thank you for producing such a thoroughly enjoyable evening, which I know was greatly appreciated by everyone fortunate enough to attend (& I spoke to quite a few).
Our President, Paul Mulcock, was interviewed by Val Javin of the Huddersfield Examiner today (26 January). Watch out for a full-page article in the paper on Friday, featuring a concert preview and lots of news about the orchestra and its plans.
i think this has to be one of most audience friendly concets to date and one that should push on from where the Peter and Wolf concert left off. We have a chance to braoden our demographic and raise our profile whilst having a an exceedingly good time. I can’t wat !