Concert Programmes 1970
February 7th (at Sale Town Hall)
Overture Orpheus in the Underworld Offenbach
Ballet Suite Coppelia Delibes
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K488) Mozart
Soloist Caroline Loft
Symphony No. 8 in G major Dvorak
Gopak – Sorochintsky Fair Mussorgsky
Conductor: John Crosdale
May 15th (in Kings Hall, Belle Vue Gardens)
Nutcracker Suite (Part 1) Tchaikovsky
Songs – Love from the Power Handel
Habanera – Carmen Bizet
Soloist: Helen Neilson and the Neilson Singers
Three Dances from The Bartered Bride Smetana
Sylvia ballet suite Chopin
Dance of the Tumblers – The Snow Maiden Rimsky-Korsakov
Sleeping Beauty ballet suite (Part 2) Tchaikovsky
Pineapple Poll ballet suite Sullivan arr. Mackerras
Conductor: John Crosdale
June 12th (Belle Vue)
Overture Plymouth Hoe Ansell
Miniature Suite Coates
Songs – Never More – Marriage of Figaro Mozart
O Isis and Osiris – Magic Flute Mozart
Three Dances from Henry VIII German
Suite Things to Come Bliss
Overture Di Ballo Sullivan
The Walk to the Paradise Garden Delius
Trumpet Voluntary Clarke
Songs – Sea Fever (Ireland); Think of Me (Scott); Captain Mac (Sanderson).
Selection – The Gondoliers Sullivan
Conductor: John Crosdale
July 10th (Belle Vue)
Overture The Flying Dutchman Wagner
Valse de Concert No. 1 Glazounov
La Calinda – Koanga Delius
Praeludium Jarnfelt
Symphonie Espagnole Lalo
Les Preludes Liszt
Conductor: John Crosdale
August 7th (Belle Vue)
Overture Fierrabras Schubert
Songs – Haste to Battle- Il Seraglio)(Mozart); Serenade-Fair Maid of Perth (Bizet)
Symphony No. 39 in E flat K.543 Mozart
Perpetuum Mobile J. Strauss
Artist’s Life J. Strauss
Songs- Where e’er you Walk (Handel); Eriskay Love Lilt (trad); Santa Lucia (Neapolitan trad).
Selection – Der Rosenkavalier R.Strauss
Radetzky March J.Strauss
Conductor: John Crosdale
Concert Programmes 1970 (continued)
September 11th (Belle Vue)
Overture Oberon Weber
Moorside Suite Holst
Concerto for Oboe and Strings Cimarosa
soloist: Joe Elton
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 2 Friedmann
Overture Egmont Beethoven
Orchestral Song – “Dreams” Wagner
Ballet Music – Faust Gounod
March – The Dam Busters Coates
Conductor: John Crosdale
October 9th (Belle Vue)
Overture Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck
Capriccio Italien Tchaikovsky
Songs – Im Chambre Séparéé Heuberger
Selection from Carmen Bizet
Soloist Kathleen Lewis
Three Elizabeths Suite Coates
Overture The Arcadians Monckton
Tales from the Vienna Woods Strauss
Songs – Lo Hear the Gentle Lark Bishop
Gems from the Merry Widow Lehar
Fantasia on British Sea Songs arr. Wood.
Conductor John Crosdale
December 12th (Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
Overture The Mastersingers of Nuremburg Wagner
Sale and District Choir:
O Can Ye Sew Cushions G. Bantock
Eriskay Love Lilt arr. Hugh S. Robertson
She’s Like a Swallow arr. by Ed. T. Chapman
Three Hungarian Folk Songs Matyas Seiber
Balle suite La Boutique Fantasque Rossini/Respighi
Variations on a Nursery Theme Op. 25 Dohnanyi
Soloist: John Wilson
Overture Ruy Blas Mendelssohn
Songs:
Nobody Knows De Trouble I See arr. P.G.Wilkinson
Go Down Moses arr. Gordon Jacob
Little David, Play On Yo’ Harp arr. Malcolm Sargent
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand arr. Malcolm Sargent
Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin
Solist: John Wilson
Grand Chorus (Finale Act II) from Aida Verdi
Conductor John Crosdale