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Saturday 10th July 2010, 6pm St Mary’s Church, Banbury. Family concert: Music from the movies Local talented young musicians, Jo and Kim Williams and Rachel Greene, are all set for the Banbury Symphony Orchestra family concert. This summer's exciting family concert features film music, ranging from recent highly popular films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings plus The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ by Dukas, used in the famous Disney film Fantasia. to other pieces of music that are extremely well known but perhaps not immediately linked with the movies: such as the soaring Barber's 'Adagio for Strings', which has been used in Oliver Stone's Platoon, The Elephant Man and Amélie, and the familiar 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', which Britten wrote for a documentary film, cleverly introducing each orchestral instrument that then knits together in a rousing finale. - Ireland Overlanders Suite (1946 Australian film about a large herd of cattle being driven 1600 miles overland)
- Barber Adagio for Strings (Oliver Stone's Platoon, The Elephant Man and Amélie)
- The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
- Britten Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (written for a documentary film in 1946)
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England’s supreme and pleasant soundsReview of our concert at St Mary’s Church, 27 March 2010 by John BulleymentBanbury Symphony Orchestra’s spring concert was a major triumph for the players and the conductor. It was an all-English affair and the better for it. The first work, William Walton’s Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, was played with appropriate panache. The prelude contains one of the those tunes which send shivers of pleasure down your back and the subject of the fugue will be replaying itself in my mind for days to come. Elgar’s Nursery Suite is full of the nostalgia and dreams of better times, a theme that haunts his other later work. In the quiet passages, of which there were many, the orchestra produced some ravishing sounds. My main reason for attending the concert was to hear Malcolm Arnold’s Fourth Symphony. Arnold, sadly, seems to have become unfashionable in recent years so it was rewarding to be given the chance to hear this wonderful symphony live. And what a performance it was! The orchestra playing with total commitment and enthusiasm did the composer proud. Much of the excitement was generated by the large percussion section. If it is possible to express rage in music, Arnold seems to have achieved it in the last movement. His outrage at the 1958 Notting Hill race riots produced a sustained musical assault, which was mind-numbing in its impact. So congratulations and thanks to the BSO and Paul Willett for a memorable concert. If they can produce this quality for English music, please may we have more. |
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Packed house not disappointedReview published in the Banbury Guardian, March 2009How satisfying for the players of the Banbury Symphony Orchestra to see St Mary's Church so full for their first concert of 2009. The audience was not disappointed as the orchestra's exuberant playing of Brahms's Academic Festival Overture, the composer's 'thank you' to Breslau University for his honorary doctorate, was a fitting start to a spring concert bursting with life and energy.
From the expansive sounds of Brahms, the orchestra skillfully adjusted to the different demands of accompanying Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C played by principal oboist Estevan Ellul. He gave a wonderfully shaded and articulated performance ranging from lyrical beauty to dynamic fireworks. His superb rapport with the orchestra and the audience, left everyone breathless and wanting more of this talented player. |
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