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_Basso

Suppe_Clarinetti_in_B

Suppe_Corni_I / Suppe_Corni_II

Suppe_Fagotti

Suppe_Flauto

Suppe_Oboi

Suppe_Percussione

Suppe_Piccolo

Suppe_Timpani

Suppe_Tromboni

Suppe_Trumpets

Suppe_Viola

Suppe_Violini_I

Suppe_Violini_II

Suppe_Violoncello

STRAUSS: GYPSY BARON

Gypsy_Baron_Batterie

Gypsy_Baron_Cb

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

Gypsy_Baron_Vc

Gypsy_Baron_Vl_1

Gypsy_Baron_Vl_2

Gypsy_Baron_Vla

OTHER 2nd VIOLIN PARTS

Chit-Chat 

Lehar-Gold-and-Silver

Mien Herr Marquis Laughing Song

All-PArts-Vedrai-Carino

Gaeaf – Violin II

Bahn-Frei

Champagne-Polka

Perpetuum-Mobile

Thunder-and-Lightning

22 Meine Lippen Violin II

Quando-men-Vo

Art is Calling Me – Violin II

Blue-Danube

Radetzky-March

Auld-Lang-Syne 

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

Programme

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’

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