The Phil’s third Town Hall concert of the 2012-13 subscriber season has a thrilling programme with, how you say, “The French Connection”:

Chabrier – Espana

Debussy – Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune

Bizet – L’Arlesienne Suite No 2

Poulenc – Ballet Suite, Les Biches

Saint-Saens – Symphony No 3 (Organ Symphony)      Soloist: Joseph Cullen

Conductor: Nicholas Smith

Leader: Mary Barber

Concert Venue:  Huddersfield Town Hall

Start Time: 7.30pm prompt

Tickets available on-line from the Kirklees Box Office. From £12.00, concessions available.

The Phil’s second Town Hall concert of the 2012-13 subscriber season has a German flavour to it, not least to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Herrn Richard Wagner.

Wagner:          Overture, The Flying Dutchman

Wagner:         Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan and Isolde        Soloist: Cressida Sharp

Bruckner:      Symphony No 7, with a feature quartet of Wagner tubas.

Conductor:  Nicholas Smith

Leader:  Mary Barber

Concert Venue:  Huddersfield Town Hall

Start Time: 7.30pm prompt

Tickets available on-line from the Kirklees Box Office. From ..read more

The opening concert of the Phil’s 2012-13 season promises an exciting Russian theme:

Borodin – Polovtsian Dances from ‘Prince Igor’

Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No 3.                Soloist:  Will Green

Kalinnikov – Symphony No 2

Conductor:  Nicholas Smith

Leader:  Mary Barber

Concert Venue:  Huddersfield Town Hall

Start Time: 7.30pm prompt

Tickets available on-line from the Kirklees Box Office. From £12.00, concessions available.

Christine Stanton’s splendid book “Philharmonic Notes” is now available at just £5.00 per copy. Numbers are limited by a relatively small micro print / publishing run so “buy now” to avoid disappointment (and help boost the Society’s funds through generous donation of any profits).

Says Peter Lewis, President:

“A fascinating read, with many insights from the last 25-30 years or so of the Phil’s history, I wish a copy had been available when I first started my own involvement with the Phil’s ..read more

Most people know the story of the sinking of the Titanic… and that the band played on nobly as the ship went down. What you may not know is that the band leader – Wallace Hartley – was a former member of the Phil.

He appears to have joined the orchestra in 1895 as one of the First Violins and is recorded as having attended rehearsals during the 1896/7 season.

In the 1897/8 season he didn’t ..read more