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Sunday 4 December 1994 - 3.00pm
Carols for Christmas Time
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Conductor
concert.
Neville Creed
With celebrity presenter
Tickets: £7.00 & £5.00 (concessions £5.00 & £3.00)
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Thursday 9 March 1995
Sponsored by Technical & Science Division, National Grid Co Pic
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The Classical Road Show
“Game” by David Lyon
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An educational project for children and orchestra. A
musical football match between two teams singing
favourite football chants and making up new, songs
refereed by the conductor Hilary Davan Wetton.
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Price Concessions
(only one concession per ticket
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Half price on all seats for children 16
Two performances 11.15am and 1.45pm.
age of 60 and full-time students:
concessions (£6) apply to Rows A-D
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and R-S in the stalls at the Civic Hall
Civic Hall unless otherwise
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£30
£27
Special Discounts on 12
concerts for the under 16’s
(12 concerts for the
price of 6)
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£60
£54
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£1.50 off Jack Brymer’s 80th Birthday Concert on
27 January 1995
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Guildford Philharmonic
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Saturday 12 November 1994
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Saturday 25 February 1995
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Booking dates:
General booking opens 5 September.
Philharmonic Society Member
priority booking:
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Saturday 4 March 1995
Millmead House, Millmead
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South East Arts,
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Pantomime — Robin Hood & The Babes in the Wood —
goodwill of the
15 December 1994 at 7.30 pm at the Civic Hall.
Philbarmonic
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Wednesday 14 September 1994 at 7.30 pm
present illustrated
Stoke Park
highlights of the
Guildford
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to become Principal
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year
Tickets: £6.00
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(£4.50 for Society Members and
performance.ofScriabin’s ‘Prometheus’ with
Come and meet your
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speciallighting effects and the celebration of
fellow Friends of the
Guildford Philharmonic Office Millmead
Orchestra in the
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attractive setting of
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Burchatts Farm Barn.
another important musical birthday - Jack
House, Millmead Guildford, GU2 5BB
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established by
Choir
Sing with the
Guildford
Chorus Master: Neville Creed.
Guildford Borough
Rehearsals:
Council with Crossley
Mondays 7.30 - 9.30 pm
Clitheroe as Musical
at the Methodist Hall
Handley was Principal
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from September 1994.
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varied programmes
ensuring something for
everyone. Educational
Sponsors
“Our predecessors who established the Guildford
optimism and foresight. Subsequent generations
have enjoyed a wide variety of music under the
Orchestra over the half century but it has to look
for sponsorship to maintain each series of
expect of this wonderful regional facility. We are
all grateful to the expanded list of sponsors who
projects are held
GASliexbasndor
Rimsky Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4
Sibelius
Symphony No 5
Piano
Michael Roll
Conductor
Sir Alexander Gibson
SPONSORS:
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workshops and
concerts are organised
especially for school
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children.
and its JUBILEE SPONSORS:
National Grid
Symphony No. 101
Ian Bostridge
The Planets
Conductor
Brian Wright
Piano Concerto No. 20
The NatWest Christmas Concert
in D minor (K466)
Bach
Christmas Oratorio
Piano
Jobn Lill
:
Soprano
Ruth Holton
Conductor
James Lockhart
Ss
Alto
Catherine King
Tenor
Andrew King
Bass
Richard Jackson
Sunday 30 October 1994 - 3.00pm
Mathias
Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Anniversary Dances
Conductor
Vernon Handley
Conductor
Neville Creed
Sponsored by National Westminster Bank
Sunday 12 February 1995 - 3.00pm
Mozart
Overture: La Clemenza di Tito
Hummel
Trumpet Concerto
Ravel
Pavane
Saturday 12 November 1994 - 7.30pm
Bizet
Symphony No. 1
Vaughan Williams = Fantasia on a theme of Thomas
Trumpet
Bernard Soustrot
Tallis
Conductor
Marc Soustrot
Alexander Gibson as the Orchestra's Bice Al
Britten
Saturday 25 February 1995 - 7.30pm
Symphony No. 5
Tenor
lan Bostridge
Horn
Richard Watkins
Conductor
John Forster
Pre-concert talk at 6.15pm in the Civic Hall with
John Forster
Sunday 26 March 1995 - 3.00pm
The ERICSSON Concert
Svendsen = Carnival in Paris
DTahuosmgrd
Grieg
Piano Concerto
Nielsen
Symphony No. 1
Piano
Jorge Luis Prats
Conductor
Thomas Dausgaard
Sponsored by ERICSSON Cellular Systems &
Special Networks Division
Sunday 23 April 1995 - 3.00pm
The Crossley Clitheroe Concert
Borodin
Overture: Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5
Violin
Andrea Cappelletti
Conductor
Edward Warren
Saturday 6 May 1995 - 7.30pm
WLakeufocrdy
The Apostles
Marie Vassiliou
Soprano
Ginestera
Concerto for Harp & Orchestra
Mezzo Soprano = Ruthi Halvani
Lucy Wakeford
(artist supported by the Sir Charles Groves Endowment Fund)
Conductor
En Shao
Pre-concert talk at 6.15pm in the Civic Hall with En Shao
Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks
Baritone
Nick Gedge
Baritone
Jozik Koc
Bass
Tomas Tomadsson
Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Conductor
Sponsored by BOC
Mozart
Overture: The Marriage ofFigaro
Clarinet Concerto
o
Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)
E
Sinfonia Concertante
6
(Oboe, Clarinet, Horn & Bassoon)
Clarinet
Jack Brymer
Conductor
Sir Alexander Gibson
Tickets: £12.50, £11.50, £10.00
(Concessions: Half price on all seats for children under 106.
Retired people (60+) & students £7 in rows A-D & R-S in stalls.
Concessions for Subscribers: £1.50 off balcony &stalls, rows E-P).
Wednesday 22 March 1995 - 7.30pm
Guildford Cathedral
GUILDFORD 95
nternmational
MUSIC
FESTIVAL
Vaughan Williams
Overture: The Wasps
Delius
On hearing the first cuckoo in
spring
Blake
Animal Cantata (World Premieré)*
Tchaikovsky
Music from the Ballet
(massed choirs from Surrey Schools)
Howard Blake
Tickets: £12.50: (Front Nave), £10.00 (Rear Nave)
(Concessions: Half price on all seats for children under 10.
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Harp
Civic Concert
Retired people (60+) & students £7 in rear nave). Concessions
Elgar
Tenor
80th Birthday Concert for Jack Brymer
Conductor
Borodin
Rachmaninov = Symphony No. 2
SEpvenctisal
Friday 27 January 1995 - 7.30pm
Surrey Youth Music Singers
Guildford Cathedral
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and
Strings
Beethoven
Pre-concert talk at 6.15pm in the Cathedral with Brian Wright
Saturday 10 December 1994 - 7.30pm
(The Clock)
Lionel Handy
Douglas May
Mayor of Guildford
Tenor
Grant Llewellyn
Cello
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Piano Concerto No. 2
Conductor
(arr. Beecham)
programme will attract an ever wider audience
of ‘adopt-a-player’ and
composition
Hart Brown & Co., Solicitors
Holst
Nikolai Demidenko
Gretel Dowdeswell
regularly in the form
The Orchestra acknowledges the generous support of its MAJOR
Chopin
Piano
Piano
Mozart
Te Deum
Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Ballet Suite: Zémire et Azor
Hugh Bean
January.”
Prometheus — The Poemof Fire
Goldsmiths Choral Union
Grétry
Violin
particularly look forward to his concert in
Scriabin
Choristers of Guildford Cathedral
Ladies of the Guildford Philharmonic Choir
the exciting range of concerts and I hope that the
Conductor coincided with the jubilee and
Te Deum
Berlioz
Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers
Haydn
FESTIVAL
(original scoring with special lighting effects)
Rossini
Symphony No. 2
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Saturday 22 October 1994 - 7.30pm
concerts at the standard we have all come to
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50th Anniversary.”
Guildford Borough Council is to be
position from 1986
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for Subscribers: £1.50 off ticket prices.
* Commissioned by Guildford’ Philharmonic with funds from South East
Arts, Guildford Borough, Surrey County Council and South East Music
Trust.