2023-4 season – All at Square Chapel
All rehearsals and concerts at Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax HX1 1QG. Players should bring their own music stand. Concert dress – all black.
Sunday 7th January 2024 at 3pm
- Rehearsing Sunday 7th January 2024 at 10.30am
Conductor: Katherine Stonham
Soloist: Kathy Macaulay
Programme:
Suppe: Poet and Peasant Overture 10’
Strauss: Chit Chat Polka 3’
Lehar: Gold and Silver (Waltzes) 7’
Strauss: Mein Herr Marquis (Die Fledermaus) 4’
Mozart: Vedrai Carino (Don Giovanni) 4‘
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards: Gaeaf 3’
Eduard Strauss: Bahn Frei 2’
Strauss: Champagne Polka 3’
INTERVAL
Strauss: Gypsy Baron 8’
Perpetuum Mobile 3’
Thunder and Lightning 3’
Lehar: Meine Lippen Sie Kussen (Giuditta) 6’
Puccini: Quando m’en Vo (La Boheme) 3’
Herbert: Art Is Calling For Me (The Enchantress) 4’
Strauss: Blue Danube (Waltzes) 10’
Strauss: Radetzky March 3’
Auld Lang Syne
MUSIC:
Gaeaf (score)
(Gaeaf sound file)
Art Is Calling Me (score)
(Art Is Calling Me sound file)
SUPPE: POET AND PEASANT
Suppe_Corni_I / Suppe_Corni_II
STRAUSS: GYPSY BARON
Gypsy_Baron_Cl_1 / Gypsy_Baron_Cl_2
Gypsy_Baron_Cor_1 / Gypsy_Baron_Cor_2 / Gypsy_Baron_Cor_3 / Gypsy_Baron_Cor_4
Gypsy_Baron_Fg_1 / Gypsy_Baron_Fg_2
Gypsy_Baron_Fl_1 / Gypsy_Baron_Fl_2
Gypsy_Baron_Ob_1 / Gypsy_Baron_Ob_2
Gypsy_Baron_Tr_1 / Gypsy_Baron_Tr_2
Gypsy_Baron_Trb_1 / Gypsy_Baron_Trb_2 / Gypsy_Baron_Trb_3
OTHER 2nd VIOLIN PARTS
Mien Herr Marquis Laughing Song
REHEARSAL ORDER:
10:30-12:10
Radetzky
Poet and Peasant
Zigeunerbaron
Blue Danube
Chit Chat
Gold and Silver
Bahn Frei
Champagne
Perpetuum Mobile
Thunder and Lightning
Auld Lang Syne
BREAK 12:10-12:25
12:25-1:30
Mein Herr
Meine Lippen
Art is Calling
Puccini
Vedrai Carino
Gaeaf
Concert Sunday 17th March 2024 at 3pm
- Rehearsing: Sunday February 25th at 2pm
- Sunday March 10th 2024 at 2pm
- Sunday March 17th 2024 at 10.30am
Conductor: John Lyon
- Mozart Cosi fan Tutte (2222 2200 T Str) 5’
- Weber: Bassoon concerto (2200 2200 T Str) 18’ (soloist: Vicky Chandler)
- Elgar: Chanson de Nuit et Chanson de Matin (1121 2000 piano str) 8’
- Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish) (2222 4230 T Str) 31’
Concert: Sunday 23rd June 2024 at 3pm
- Rehearsing: Sunday 9th June 2024 at 2pm
- Sunday 16th June 2024 at 2pm
- Sunday 23rd June 2024 at 10.30am
Conductor: Stephen Threlfall
- Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream (with narration) (2222 2231 T perc str) 35’
- Brahms No. 1 Serenade (2222 4200 T Str) 46’
For the 2023-24 season, EVERYTHING will be at Square Chapel, with the first two rehearsals in the Cornerstone room, and everything on the concert day in the Red Brick Auditorium.
Programme Suggestions 2023-4 season
Vicky: Haydn: Symhony No. 85 La Reine (1202 2000 Str) 24′
Vicky: Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (2222 2100 Harp Str) 17′
Vicky: Dvorak Czech Suite (2,2+1,2,2 2200 T Str) 22′
Michele: Beethoven Romance in F for Violin (1202 2000 Str) 9′
Jenny: Strauss: Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon 20′ (Harp Str) 20′ Parts not on IMSLP
Jenny: Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3 (2222 2230 T Str) 36′
Jenny: Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht (Str) 29′
Max: Schumann: Symphony No. 1 “Spring” (2222 4230 T triangle Str) 30′
Max: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 “Scottish” (2222 4200 T Str) 43′
Max: Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (2222 4230 T Str) 44′
Max: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (2+1,2,2,2 4231 T perc Str) 42′
Caroline: Bizet: Jeux d’Enfants (2222 4200 T perc Str)
Mary: Gade Symphony No. 3 (2,2,2,2, 4,2,1,0,T, Str) 31′
Deborah: Rosetti Concerto for 2 horns
Deborah: Franz Strauss: Concertante for 2 horns
Deborah: Franz Strauss: Introduction and Polonaise for 2 horns
Jenny: Halvorsen: Suite Ancienne op 31
Mary: Ireland: Downland Suite (str) 17’
Nick: Haydn: Symphony No. 82 (The Bear) (1202 2200 T Str) 25′
OCTOBER 2022
Conductor: John Lyon
Rehearsal Sunday October 2nd 2022 6.30pm-9.30pm
Rehearsal Sunday October 9th 2022 2pm-5pm
Rehearsal Sunday October 16th 2022 2pm-5pm
CONCERT SUNDAY OCTOBER 16th 2022 7.30pm
Tomlinson: First Suite of Folk Dances 2222 2230 perc strings 14’
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending 2122 2000 triangle violin solo str 15’
Ketelbey: Bells Across the Meadows 1121 2230 timps bells strings 5’
Wranitzky Symphony in D “La Caccia” 1202 2200 timps str 32’
JANUARY 2023
Conductor: Katherine Stonham
Soloist: Kathy Macaulay (soprano)
Rehearsal Sunday January 8th 2023 10am-1pm
CONCERT SUNDAY JANUARY 8th 2023 3pm
MARCH 2023
Conductor: Stephen Threlfall
Rehearsal Sunday March 5th 2023 6.30pm-9.30pm
[Respighi, then Symphony, break, Delius, Debussy]
Rehearsal Sunday March 12th 2023 2pm-5pm
[Respighi 2pm, Beethoven 3.30pm]
Rehearsal Sunday March 19th 2023 10am-1pm
[Debussy, Respighi, Symphony, Delius]
CONCERT SUNDAY MARCH 19th 2023 3pm
- Delius: 1st Cuckoo in Spring (1122 2000 6’)
- Debussy: Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane (harp str 10’)
- Respighi: The Birds (2122 2200 harp celeste str 19’)
- Beethoven 6 (2222 2220 42’)
JUNE 2023
Conductor: Melvin Tay
Rehearsal Sunday June 11th 2023 2pm-5pm (Beethoven then Dvorak at 4pm)
Rehearsal June 18th 2023 2pm-5pm (Dvorak 2pm, Beethoven 2.40pm?, Sibelius 4.40pm)
Rehearsal Sunday June 25th 2023 10.30am-1.30pm (Beethoven, Sibelius, Dvorak)
CONCERT SUNDAY JUNE 25th 2023 3pm
- Sibelius – Suite Mignonne 2000 0000 str 6’
- Dvorak Serenade for Wind Instruments 0222 3000 cello bass 27’
- Beethoven 3 2222 3200 timps str 47’