This preview featured in Huddersfield Examiner on Friday 14 May 2010.

Nine cellists will line-up to play a concert in Outlane tomorrow (May 15), four months after the original event was called off because of snow.

Bad weather forced the cancellation of the original concert planned for early January. Now the musicians have regrouped to play a concert at Outlane Methodist Church at 7.30pm.

All nine are from the cello section of the Huddersfield Philharmonic led by Wendy Davies. The ensemble will be ..read more

Among a number of highly favourable reviews of Saturdays’ concert on April 24th 2010 in the Town Hall the following positively glowing comment was kindly posted on the HPS website by Mr Brian Kay.

 

“It was such a pleasure to be able to hear The Phil’s St George’s Day concert – all top quality English music performed with tremendous skill and enthusiasm. The ‘lollipops’ in the first half deserved a far larger audience (where were they?) and certainly were much enjoyed by all of ..read more

The Huddersfield Philharmonic and Kirklees Youth Symphony Orchestras will be performing together in the Huddersfield Town Hall in a concert featuring the best of local musical talent.  

Featuring prize winners in the 2010 Mrs Sunderland Competition Lindley Junior School Choir and Katrina Lee (runner-up winner in Kirklees Young Musician of the Year 2010) in a solo performance of Wieniawsky’s Scherzo tarantella. 

The programme includes:

Mars & Jupiter composed by Holst (from “Planet Suite”) Baba-yaga & The Great Gate of Kiev by Mussorgsky (from “Pictures at an Exhibition”) Music ..read more

Come and hear the cello section of the orchestra in concert at Outlane Methodist Church.  No advance tickets.

Saturday 15 May 2010 at 7.30 pm

Featuring soprano Charmaine Beaumont

Bachianas Brasileiras numbers 1 and 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos, plus other music for multiple and solo cellos.

There will be a retiring collection, refreshments to purchase, and a raffle to raise funds. All proceeds to Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra and Huddersfield Choral Society.

REVIEW: by William Marshall. from Huddersfield Examiner 26 April 2010

DURING her introductory remarks, conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa raised doubts over whether she, a Venezuelan, could do interpretive justice to an all-English programme.

She was being light-hearted. But if the programme had been all-German, all-Italian or all-French, the jest would probably not have been made. English music is still not deemed to possess the universality of music from the Continent. Even composers of the acknowledged greatness of Elgar or the esteem of Vaughan ..read more

Unashamedly patriotic music is programmed for our next concert, falling as it does on the day after St George’s Day.  A concert featuring twentieth-century English music by Vaughan Williams, Arnold and Elgar. 

For those of you who have enjoyed the well-known tunes included in the concert on 6 February, the overture to The Wasps and Arnold’s Cornish Dances will undoubtedly appeal.  

Principal bassoon David Robinson is our featured soloist in one of Elgar’s lesser-known works, the Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, and ..read more

Apr 23 2010 by Val Javin, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

 WHAT more could you ask for, musically speaking, on St George’s Day than a concert of English music?

And that is what Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra has in store at Huddersfield Town Hall tomorrow (April 24) with a programme that celebrates the best of 20th century English music.

That means the music of composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold and Edward Elgar.

The orchestra will play two pieces by Vaughan Williams which are separated in time ..read more

An innovation in this concert was that conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa spoke at some length to the audience in between items, describing and analysing them quite humorously.

It perhaps says something about the entrenched formality of classical music concerts that it should be such a surprise when lines of verbal communication are opened up in this way. But is it a welcome development?

Luis-Bassa’s lively personality and vivacious humour  went down well with most of the audience. And the nature of the concert ..read more

The Society’s current President, Paul Mulcock, was interviewed recently by the newspapers’ Cultural Editor, Val Javin. You can read the resulting article entitled “Join the town’s Phil on a musical journey” by following this link.

Subscriber rates for reserved seats, allocated for the 2011-12 season (3 concerts + one TBC at the Huddersfield Town Hall), are as follows:                                                                           

 3 Concerts       4th Concert

Balcony                       £50.00             £10.00

Balcony Window          £42.00            £10.00

Area                             £40.00             £10.00

 

Typically the subscriber tickets go on sale from July and are fully paid in advance by the end of September latest, to allow for allocation & distribution in time for the first concert performance.

 Please contact the Subscription & Ticket Secretary (see under ..read more