2010 Concert programmes
Sunday 7th March
Whiteley Hall
Chetham’s School of Music (2.30 pm)
Conductor: Nicholas Simpson
A concert with three Chetham’s School pupils as soloists
in concertos by Handel. Neruda, Mozart and Glazounov
plus Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”) by Schubert
Jason Evans (trumpet)
Ann Douglass (horn)
Edward Pether (violin)
Saturday 8th May
Forum Theatre, Romiley (7.30 pm)
Conductor: Andrew Hodkinson
Heidi Johnson Memorial Concert
Land of the Mountain and the Flood (MacCunn)
English Folk Song Suite (Vaughan Williams)
Fiddler on the Roof – Symphonic Dances (Bock)
Symphony No. 2 (Borodin)
Sunday 11th July
Gorton Monastery (2.30 pm)
Conductor: Nicholas Simpson
Festive Overture (Shostakovich)
Four Last Songs (Strauss)
Soloist: Lorna James (soprano)
Finlandia (Sibelius)
Scherzo Capriccioso (Dvorak)
In a Summer Garden (Delius)
Prelude to Act III Lohengrin (Wagner)
Crown Imperial March (Walton)
Saturday 23rd October
Forum Theatre, Romiley (7.30 pm)
Conductor: Nicholas Simpson
Godfrey Somech Memorial Concert
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) (Elgar)
Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2 (Svendsen)
Sonata for Violin and Orchestra (Grieg arr. Simpson)
Soloist: Michael Vernon
Symphony No. 3 in C major (Sibelius)
Sunday 12th December
at Gorton Monastery (2pm to 4pm)
A Christmas Concert with carols
Conductor: Andrew Hodkinson
A festive afternoon concert of carols for the audience to sing interspersed with favourites played by the orchestra, including Hansel & Gretel Overture by Humperdinck, Bells across the Meadow by Ketelbey, Calling all Workers by Eric Coates, excerpts from Ernest Tomlinson’s English Folk Dances Suite, Grasshoppers Dance by Bucalossi and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.