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NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY2019

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PULHAMORCHESTRA

2018-2019

Conductor

andMusicalDirector:

MARGERYBAKER

Leader:MARTINWYATT

Chairman:MIKEBISHOP

Secretary:JEANBISHOP

Tel.01603720586

Treasurer:ANDREWBAKER

Librarian:

DIANEBAGSHAW

Publicity:PAULKAY

Website:

ELIZABETHMARTYN

NewsletterTeam:LINDAROY

ELIZABETHMARTYN

Patrons2018/19

LORDMACGREGOROFPULHAMMARKETOBE(HONORARYPATRON)

BARRYCARBEN(HONORARYPATRON)

FRANCESHARDY-WYATT

JOYWOLTON

Website:www.pvo.org.uk

Welcome to the Pulham Orchestra Newsletter 2019.

What another good year 2018 was for the orchestra. Apart from one Tuesday when we were thwarted by the Beast from the East rehearsals took place as planned and we are grateful to Alex Girdlestone and Ian Hÿtch who have stood in for Margery (sometimes at very short notice) whilst she takes care of Peter. The orchestra keeps thriving. We are reminded inside this issue how much it has grown since the early days when there were only around a dozen members. Quite a few new players have joined us over the past few months and it has been nice to see some familiar faces re-joining us too, welcome to you all! The string section seems to be getting stronger by the year and we have wind section that spanned nearly the whole length of the Memorial Hall at the last rehearsal! Of course a large part of our success is due to the huge amount of enthusiasm that emanates from our Musical Director, Margery. Thank you Margery. Also we cannot underestimate the huge part that the orchestra committee have to play in making it work - at the moment we have a very dedicated team serving us, thank you all for your commitment to our orchestra. We are particularly grateful to Andrew Baker who has stood as Treasurer for over 10 years – thank you Andrew for all the time you have given up in order to manage the purse strings. We send our good wishes to our Publicity Officer Paul Kay who recently had an operation - we hope you have a speedy recovery.

Round the corner we have two spring concerts to look forward to as well as the annual �Come and Play� day. We have been studying a wide range of music ready for our concerts including the well loved Hebrides Overture by Mendelssohn and A Shropshire Lad by Butterworth. The latter piece has had mixed responses from members – hopefully by the end of the year we will be able to do it justice and everyone will have grown to love it as much as I do!

As always we are grateful to our Friends and Patrons for their continued support – special thanks to Hilary Hardy who gave lots of help at events last year as well as being our Friends and Patrons Secretary. Lastly, a big THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to this Newsletter.

Have a very happy musical year! Linda Roy

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BECOME A FRIEND OR PATRON OF THE PVO FRIENDS A donation of (at least) £10 annually entitles you to: • bring yourself and a party of family and friends to one concert a year without charge

(if more than one person is in the party, this in itself will represent a saving to you on the concert admission fees);

• receive a printed copy of the annual newsletter. If you are interested in joining as a Friend of the Orchestra, then please contact us.

PATRONS Corporate and Individual Patrons In return for an agreed contribution to our funds, patrons receive acknowledgements: • on our Notice Board at events • within our concert programmes • on our website • as well as a copy of the annual newsletter and tickets to our concerts for themselves

and members of their family.

SPONSORSHIP FOR PARTICULAR EVENTS Some of our events are very expensive to stage. If you would like to help us stage an event, either through a cash donation or in the provision of equipment and other facilities, we would be delighted to hear from you. If you are interested in becoming a Patron, Friend or Sponsor, please get in touch with Hilary Hardy, Tel. 01379 676534 or get in touch via the PVO website: www.pvo.org.uk

The Pulham Orchestra is a Registered Charity (No. 1117434)

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE……… * 2018 Events, p. 2-9

* Other Articles p.9-14

* Forthcoming Events, p. 15

* Rehearsal, Concert and Event dates for 2019, Back Page

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PULHAM ORCHESTRA 2018 EVENTS

‘COME AND PLAY’ DAY, SUNDAY 15TH APRIL

I arrived at the Memorial Hall to find our music for the day all beautifully set out ready for the players - as usual, Diane Bagshaw, our Librarian, had done her preparation meticulously. On looking round I was happy to note that there were some new faces alongside the regular orchestra members, and people were already getting to know each other or greeting old friends.

Our conductor for Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 “London” was John Barnett, one of our guests for the day. John recently retired as Director of Claxton Opera. Despite the orchestra being a little unbalanced due to the small number of violins we had a good warm up with the first two movements of this piece.

During the coffee break people took the opportunity to become better acquainted. I discovered there were several players from Waveney Strings, including a lady called Mary who told me she was a founder member of the Pulham Orchestra.

The section after break was a lively and challenging arrangement of Rossini’s Soirées Musicales by Benjamin Britten. Margery held the baton for this and was very patient with us when we were concentrating so hard that we didn’t see or hear “stop” signals! The Tarantella section was particularly challenging, especially for the flautists were rather traumatised by a top D flat!

The lunch break found Jaya and Becky entertaining us with a cello duet which was beautiful.

We were lacking a bassoon in the morning and were fortunate to be joined for the afternoon session by Joanna from the Norfolk County Youth Orchestra. Alex Girdlestone, another guest for the day, directed and led with violin through Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre. Alex, who has been associated with the Pulham Orchestra for many years, is a member of the well known and very successful Norwich-based Academy of St Thomas Orchestra. After a further break John Barnett returned to conduct us through the last two movements of the London Symphony.

Special thanks go to Jean Bishop, who put a huge amount of administrative work into organising the day. Thanks also to the refreshment team, some of whom made up a small but appreciative audience. It seemed to me that everyone went home feeling very satisfied after having tackled some challenging music and making new friends along the way.

The Pulham Orchestra’s ‘Come and Play’ Days are open to players of all ages and experience (preferably having sight-reading skills to at least Grade 3). The atmosphere is informal and we are always pleased to meet new players. Our next ‘Come and Play’ is on Saturday 13th April 2019.

Claire Duncan

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“ALL IN THE APRIL EVENING”, CONCERT AT THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, GISSING, SATURDAY 21ST APRIL

This concert will probably be remembered by most of us as “The Gissing Challenge”. Gissing Church is a small, picturesque, stone church with a round tower and has recently been restored to a very high standard. Improvements have been made to many aspects of the church including, rather unusually, installation of very efficient heating. Despite all of this it still remains a small church and from an orchestra point of view the challenge facing Margery was how to fit over twenty musicians and instruments into a very confined and restricted space. A dry run ahead of the concert date proved that it would be possible to do but there was certainly scope for improvement. Adjustments were made on the day itself and everyone was accommodated, although Mike Bishop was overheard telling Jean that she would need to take on ferret-like abilities to get behind her keyboard!

Despite the restricted space there were no major incidents, although one or two people had near misses when climbing over pews and a pile of chairs took a tumble during the afternoon rehearsal!

Once the string section were installed in the central aisle, the wind section were in the choir stalls and the soloist was in the pulpit we were ready to perform to a pretty full church. Our guest descant recorder soloist for the day was 16 year old Toby Barnwell who played all three movements of the Sammartini Recorder Concerto in F. This was very well received by the audience and the closing speaker said that it was the best thing that had been heard from the pulpit for many months! - the rector didn't seem too upset! At the end of the performance Toby was presented with an award for his excellent result in his Grade 6 treble recorder exam - 145 marks out of a possible 149!

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Our wind players performed from Mozart's Divertimento No. 14 in Bb and this very catchy piece had members of the audience humming along. Flute duettists Claire Duncan and Linda Roy played Valse des Fleurs by Köhler accompanied by the orchestra. This piece has a great feel good factor and it brought a smile to the whole church. The concert was opened and closed by Elgar, starting with the beautiful Chanson de Matin, and ending, very appropriately with Chanson de Nuit. Completing the line-up was our clarinetist Mike Bishop playing the ever-popular Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart accompanied by the strings.

The evening was dedicated to two late members of the orchestra who played an integral part not only in our music making but also in the running of our organisation – John Herschel-Shorland (flute) and Les Sandeman (clarinet). The Ave Verum Corpus solo and Valse Des Fleurs flute duet were played as a tribute to these wonderful gentlemen with our love and thanks.

The concert was very well received and Margery was presented with a nice bunch of flowers by the church. I am sure she was pleased with these, but probably more pleased that the Challenge had been resolved. George Hammond, on behalf of Gissing Church, said that they had really enjoyed the performance and that he hoped that we would return and play again...once the choir stalls have been made moveable to open out into a performing area. Thanks to Gissing Church Members who made us feel so welcome and for providing such excellent after-performance refreshments.

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Paul Kay

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CONCERT AT EAST HARLING CHURCH, SATURDAY 12TH MAY

2018 saw the return visit of the orchestra to East Harling Church after a gap of several years. As members of the church choir Wilma and I were very happy to welcome ‘our’ orchestra. The church choir and church friends rallied round and provided substantial tasty refreshments for the players to enjoy between rehearsal and performance.

The evening opened with a lively rendition of the overture Iphigenia in Aulis by Gluck. This was followed by Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus which, at Margery’s invitation, was performed by the East Harling Church choir, accompanied by the string section of the orchestra. This was very well received by the audience - a number of whom said how much they were moved by it. After that we played the whole of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major, the fourth and final movement of which brought the first half of the concert to a rousing end.

A twenty-minute interval, with more refreshments, was followed by a varied choice, starting with the delightful Chanson de Matin by Elgar, followed by Edward German’s Three Dances from Henry VIII – ‘Morris Dance’, ‘Shepherd’s Dance’ and ‘Torch Dance’. After this Linda Roy and Claire Duncan gave a lovely performance of Köhler’s flute duet Valse des Fleurs. The evening concluded with the appropriately entitled Chanson de Nuit also by Elgar.

This was an excellent occasion from many points of view. A good level of performance, an appreciative audience, and a warm welcome from the church.

Richard and Wilma Oliver

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PULHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL SUMMER NATURE DAY, SATURDAY 7TH JULY

A group of Pulham Orchestra members had a lovely morning at Pulham Primary School on Saturday 7th July where we were made to feel very welcome on arrival and offered cold drinks. It was extremely warm outside so we made the decision to set up in the school hall. There was an opportunity to take the nature walk through the meadow and also to see hedgehogs, sheep and other animals. There were also stalls to look around, plus a chance to visit the RSPCA and The Owl Sanctuary. In one corner of the playground stood an exceedingly large yellow tractor. There was also a bouncy castle for the children.

The Pulham Orchestra had been invited along to put on a musical interlude during the proceedings. I spoke to one of the parents who said her little boy had been a bit reluctant to take part, but he came to our rehearsal the Tuesday before and was so excited by it that nothing was going to keep him from the morning’s performance. We started by playing the theme to Star Wars with the children’s school orchestra. It sounded so full of energy and it certainly seemed to capture the imaginations of the youngsters. The Pulham Orchestra then played Blue Tango and Sleeping Beauty. Of course we just had to finish with an encore of Star Wars - even more energetically this time!

It was the first time the school have attempted an event like this and they raised almost £700!

It was lovely to collaborate with the school again and play music with the children. Thank you to the school for inviting us to take part and to FOPPS (Friends of Pulham Primary School) for organising the event and making it such a fun occasion.

Linda Richmond

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PVO GARDEN PARTY, SUNDAY 1ST JULY

The annual summer event now known as the garden party (aka the ‘soirée’) has always enjoyed a special place in the Pulham Orchestra calendar. It’s the time when we have the chance to bring along our spouses and partners to meet Friends and other supporters of the orchestra in a relaxed social setting. This year’s event will, I’m sure, be remembered for a number of reasons.

In what turned out to be a remarkable summer, we enjoyed a beautiful day (above 25°C all afternoon) when we really needed it. With the accompanying gently cooling breeze, we had actually stumbled across the much sought-after, but elusive, perfect English summer afternoon.

The beautiful setting of Diana and Richard’s house and garden completed the picture. With plenty of shady seated areas to help while away the lovely afternoon it all felt very bucolic, with plenty of space to roam and explore. It was easy to imagine a Lully or Mozart opera scene...or, more prosaically, a Miss Marple/ Poirot/ Midsummer Murder story line with a body in the rose-bed and lead-piping in the conservatory...

Our thanks should also go to the wind quintet who provided a varied selection of light music, which was clearly much-appreciated by the audience. ( In fact, it even inspired one couple to start off a gentle tango...). As the quintet session progressed, the ‘gentle zephyrs’ from earlier in the afternoon turned rather more gusty and boisterous, so various impromptu methods of securing the music successfully came into play!

We all thank Diana and Richard for the ‘loan’ of their delightful house and garden which helped make the day. But as Diana’s poignant ‘Schwanengesang’, as she leaves the PVO after many years with us, it could hardly be bettered. The relaxed nature of these occasions always belies the hard work and planning by a small number of people to make things run successfully and enjoyably for the rest of us. So we should express our gratitude to the Committee and their helpers for making the arrangements; Garry and his team for catering; Richard for being Bar Manager; and many others.

Mike Franklin

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THE PULHAM ORCHRSTRA CHRISTMAS SOCIAL/CONCERTO AFTERNOON, TUESDAY 11TH DECEMBER

Our last rehearsal of the year turned into a Christmas Social/Concerto Afternoon. Garry Whitehead was soloist in J. S. Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor. Garry has been such an asset to the string section since he joined the orchestra a couple of years ago and it was wonderful to see him take centre stage. His performance was excellent and sounded really professional. He negotiated the finger work of the fast passages with ease and accuracy and the reprise of the first movement was particularly splendid. It was great to hear his lovely rich tone and beautiful vibrato in full flow. Garry says that being held for four hours in a wire cage at gun-point by East German (aka Russian) border guards at Checkpoint Charlie in the Berlin Wall during the Cold War certainly did wonders for his vibrato!! This happened when he was on a concert tour of Germany with London Schools' Symphony Orchestra in 1970! I suspect that this is just one of many interesting events from his musical journey over the years.

The orchestra also played one or two much loved festive pieces including LeRoy Anderson’s Christmas Festival – an amazing arrangement of Christmas tunes.

The afternoon was rounded of with a table of festive treats for everyone to savour – there was a copious amount of mulled wine and plates full of homemade mince pies and sausage rolls. A small group of Friends of the orchestra and our Patron Joy Wolton joined us for the festivity. Everyone seemed to leave in good spirits – it was a lovely way to round off the year.

LEVITY CORNER Q: What raised the musician’s car insurance?

A: Accidentals

Q: How do you get two piccolo players to play in perfect unison? A: Shoot one!

Q: Why couldn’t the string quartet find the composer? A: He was Haydn

Linda Roy With contributions from one or two other PVO Members

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Wedding Congratulations Many congratulations go to Martin Wyatt and Frances Hardy who were married on 12th April 2018. This was followed by a blessing ceremony on Sunday 15th April (also Fran’s birthday) that was attended by a good number of Pulham Orchestra members. As many of you already know, Martin has been a member of the orchestra since the 1980s and the orchestra’s Leader since 1991. Fran has been associated with the orchestra since its early days too, she was a member for a good many years and led the cellos during the 1990s until health issues forced her to retire from playing. She became a patron of the orchestra in 2012. We wish you both every happiness and thank you both for all you do to help the orchestra flourish. (Fran has changed her name to Hardy-Wyatt.)

INSTRUMENTALISTS NEEDED

If you would like to join the orchestra please get in touch with us. We currently have space for more Bassoon players, Violas, Cellos and Percussion.

All additional String players would be welcome too. For more information contact The Pulham Orchestra at

www.pvo.org.uk or Tel. Jean Bishop on 01603 720586

HELPING HANDS REQUIRED ThePulhamOrchestraisalwayslookingfornon-playerswhoarewillingandabletohelpwiththefollowingwhenaconcert/eventistakingplace:

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2018 WAVENEY VALLEY ORCHESTRAL WORKSHOP/PLAYDAY, SUNDAY 28TH OCTOBER

This event, which is run in association with the Pulham Orchestra, was conceived many years ago by Margery Baker, our Music Director. Her vision was that a sizeable orchestra should be assembled biennially to study several substantial works, over a period of three days. Musicians with a wide range of instrumental expertise and ability were welcomed. However it was important that the event should occur at the end of the Autumn Half term to encourage younger players to join. A unique element of the course was the availability of a large corpus of professional sectional and instrumental tutors to provide technical and artistic instruction often on a one to one basis. Remarkably at the concluding public presentation the works were usually performed to a very high standard regarded by most as unachievable at the start of the workshop.

Initially sponsors contributed generously but in recent years numbers of paying applicants and external funding both dwindled threatening its viability. A careful audit undertaken immediately after the last workshop in October 2016 identified several possible generic and perhaps local reasons for waning popularity and a need for change. This year began with plans to alter the format, reducing it to two days duration and concentrating on a somewhat less elaborate work – replacing Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique with Holst’s Planet Suite! Despite frenetic activity by the committee to advertise the course widely, fees from the modest numbers responding were inadequate. The alternatives were abandoning the workshop, further reduction in duration or perhaps resorting to a simple “playday”. Two weeks before lift-off, with encouragement and even insistence by our Director, one day’s study of the The Planets and an extended version of the film score of John Williams’ Star Wars was planned, to include the team of tutors working in a smaller venue than usual, under the musical directorship of John Stephens. The package was re-advertised with a cheaper admission fee.

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Remarkably, 35 musicians applied and with the addition of 9 professional players a band of respectable numbers came to play together in the Pulham Market Memorial Hall. Despite last minute additions to some of the sections there were deficiencies - 3 or 4 double basses, some more trumpets and trombones and a harp and celeste would have been helpful. However, most sections were adequately serviced: especially noteworthy for providing thrilling waves of sound were 2 tubas, 3 horns and a wonderful percussion section which included 7 timps played by Colin Shaw and guest player Jason Thomas. It is unusual to find a score with so may timps in – Colin and Jason looked completely in their element as they beat out the 5/4 rhythms from Mars with military precision, what an awesome duo! Plenary sessions were directed by John Stephens who dazzled us all with his youthful energy, detailed knowledge of the scores and a clear understanding of our capabilities. After a run through of four of the six movements he wisely concentrated on Mars, The Bringer of War and Jupiter which initially may have brought tears but under John’s expert baton assisted by four excellent sectional leaders, ”jollity” was re-established.

Morale remained high throughout a busy day, receiving a boost from a wonderful buffet meal provided by Garry and Carolyn Whitehead and a team of supporters including Hilary Hardy and Friends Roger and Veronica Manley and Margaret Willy. Finally a very creditable presentation to friends and relatives seemed to justify the very hard work of tutors and players and the principles for the workshop format originally devised by Margery Baker.

The presentation was dedicated to cellist and professional percussionist Sheri Rutland who died suddenly a few days before the workshop at the age of 53. Sheri had attended previous workshops as a guest player and was very well respected by everyone in the local music community. She will be deeply missed by her friends and colleagues.

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What players thought about the day:

“I thoroughly enjoyed the day. It was so well organised, great musical director and lovely fellow musicians. I am really grateful for being afforded the opportunity to play The Planets which has been one of my favourite works since I was a boy. It was worth the journey from Sussex, would be delighted to join you again. My friends loved listening and said that the Mars movement was “very menacing” so I suppose that means we did it justice.”

“Thank you for the experience - my first time in an orchestra and it was a great experience and taught me how it all fits together. I thought the conductor was extremely good - friendly, helpful and clear. And of course the orchestra is welcoming - I got to know my little bit and felt supported.”

“…. a great opportunity to play some heavy-duty music and to be among professional and semi-professional musicians. Gives amateur players like me a challenge and lots of inspiration.”

“I think the orchestra really gave something special to the village on Sunday.”

Workshop Review by Mike Bishop

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LES SANDEMAN 15TH APRIL 1922 – 30TH MARCH 2018

Last March during the dreadful late winter weather my dear father passed away after a brief illness. He had been living with us for a few years as his sight was failing. Right up to the end he was bright and cheerful. Les had a very long and happy retirement and with my mother joined the Pulham Orchestra, or PVO as it was called then, when they both retired from teaching in 1982.

He had always loved music, but never learned to play an instrument. My mother, an accomplished pianist, had never learned to swim, so the challenge went out, she would learn to swim and he would learn an instrument!

The instrument he chose was the clarinet and he joined the woodwind section of the orchestra becoming firm friends with John Herschel-Shorland and Pat and Jocelyn Rawlence... along with many others in the orchestra.

Les loved being in the orchestra family, he was always very hands on, so he often helped with building staging, transporting instruments, serving on the committee and helping at the workshops, to name but a few of the things that he did!

Being part of the orchestra was such an important part of both my parents happy retirement, what a brilliant idea to start this orchestra, right on their doorstep and just at the right time too. Well done Pat and Margery!

Mary Perry

Below is an extract from an article about the early days of the PVO that Les wrote for the Pulham Orchestra Newsletter some time ago. It was shortly after we moved to Norfolk in 1983 that daughter Mary Perry persuaded me …..to buy a beginner’s clarinet and join her with lessons. Mary was already a pioneer member of the PVO having trundled along with her clarinet to the Brewhouse in Pulham Market …to join the other dozen or so hopefuls to form the Pulham Village Orchestra under the baton of Margery Baker. Struggling to master C major in the lower register of the clarinet, I had my arm further twisted by Mary to join her on the Tuesday afternoon rehearsals..! My wife Marion, an ex-music teacher would accompany Mary and me…and during one of the rehearsals – I rather think we were playing the Clog Dance at the time – Margery asked if there was a pianist who could help with percussion. We had no percussion section at this time. Mary and I pointed to Marion, who protested that she had no beaters or drum. “No problem” – a stick on a chair will do!” So Marion became part of the orchestra! Timpani and other beating, clashing and rattling instruments were soon acquired to satisfy requirements in that department…. …Sadly, increasing deafness and other problems forced me to stop playing with the orchestra, but it is a wonderful experience to find oneself actually playing Schubert’s Unfinished and thinking “Are we really producing this lovely music?”…. Our thanks must be to Pat Rawlence for starting the whole thing, and especially to Margery for her understanding and tolerance, and her wonderful ability to get the best out of everyone, whatever their ability.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS Events Planned for 2019:

LEVITY CORNER Q: How do you fix a broken brass instrument?

A: With a tuba glue.

Q: Why did the pirate buy a Pavarotti album?

A: Because he loved the high Cs.

AND FINALLY:

Arnold Schoenberg walks into a bar. "I'll have a gin please, but no tonic"

Saturday,23rdMarchCONCERTATST.PETER&ST.PAULCHURCH,EASTHARLING,7.30PM.Programmetoinclude:Mendelssohn-HebridesOvertureSchubert–SymphonyNo.3inDRonaldBinge–SailingByandElizabethanSerenadeSaturday,April13th‘COMEANDPLAY’DAY,10am–4pm,PulhamMarketMemorialHallTheDaywillincludethefollowing:GeraldineGreene:BalladeBizet:L’ArlesienneSuiteNo.1The Orchestra will be conducted byguestconductorIanHÿtchCost:£18Do join us for another informal day ofmusic-making.Saturday,11thMayCONCERTATST.MARTIN’SCHURCH,NEWBUCKENHAM,7.30PM.Programmetoinclude:Beethoven–EgmontOvertureBeethoven-SymphonyNo.1or8Please visit our website for updatesandmoredetailsonalltheseevents:

www.pvo.org.uk

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