Friends of Classical Music at The Sands

Version 31, June 2011

Latest News (June 2011).
  • Family Concert - please note the details below of this concert at 3.00 pm on Sunday 12 June by the Hallé, designed for all the family.
  • Carlisle Leisure Ltd has heard that they have been successful in their application for grant-funding of the International Classical Series of concerts for the next three years. This is a substatial grant from the Arts Council of England (ACE) at a time when their funding by governemnt has been reduced. This is good news indeed!
  • The dates and programme for the 2011 - 2012 season are given below. The details appear at the bottom of the page. The last concert of the season now includes a performance of Brahms' mighty Symphony No 1 - the first time that it's being played in Carlisle in at leats the last 10 years.
  • The AGM of the Friends will be held on the night of the opening concert, Friday 7 October 2011. The committee has agreed that we should once again ask members for a subscription of £5 per annum. This will be used principally to pay for floral displays at the front of the hall; and also to buy books to give to the guest speakers at the pre-concert talks as a token of our appreciation.
  • Pre-concert talks. Will be at 6.30 pm. As usual tickets are free of charge to subscribers from the Sands Centre box office.

The Friends has been set up with the following objectives:

The Friends have been set up on a formal basis. You can find a copy of our constitution here (this is the revised version, agreed at the AGM in November 2006).  If you are interested in being involved, please send an E-mail with your details to: contact@thesandsfriends.org.uk  or, better still, complete a membership application form and send it with your subscription of £5.

The Sands Centre itself has a  web-site,

Dates of Concerts in the 2010 - 2011 Season

Unless otherwise noted, all works are being played for the first time in Carlisle since the 1999-2000 season

Sunday 12 June – 2011 (3.00 pm)  - FAMILY CONCERT

HEROES AND VILLAINS

The Hallé Orchestra - Conducted by the Assistant Conductor - Andrew Gourlay

Presented by Tom Redmond

  PROGRAMME:

NORMAN/arr. DUNK - James Bond Theme   BIZET - Carmen Suite: Prelude and Aragonaise   WILLIAMS         Star Wars - The Duel of the Fates

ROSSINI  Gallop from William Tell    ELFMAN Spiderman    STRAVINSKY - The Infernal Dance from Firebird

- INTERVAL -

WILLIAMS - Olympic Fanfare and Theme    MOZART - The Catalogue Aria    WILLIAMS - Harry's Wonderful World

COPLAND - Billy the Kid - The Prairie Night and Celebration Dance     ADELT/ZIMMER - Pirates of the Caribbean

WALTON - Henry V - The Charge and the Battle     WILLIAMS - Superman - March

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Dates of Concerts in the 2011 - 2012 Season

Friday 7th October 2011 — Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor - Yuri Botnari

Glazunov - Suite from the ballet Raimonde

Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto - soloist: Nikita Boriso_Glebsky [Last played  season 2005/2006]

Mussorgsky - Pictures from An Exhibition [Last played  season 2003/2004]

 

Friday 18th November 2011 — Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor - Antoni Wit

Panufnik - Sinfonia Rustica

Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto - solist: Kuba Jakowicz [Last played season 2002/2003]

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 2 (Little Russian) [Last played season 2006/2007]

 

Saturday 11th February 2012 — BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor - Leo Hussain

Walton - Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

Bruch - Scottish Fantasy - soloist: Tasmin Little, violin

Vaughan Williams -- The Lark Ascending 

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No 5 [Last played season 2007/2008]

 

Friday 23rd March 2012 — Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor - Vasily Petrenko

Debussy - Ronde de Printemps

Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No 2 - soloist: Simon Trpceski

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique [Last played season 2005/2006]

 

Friday 27th April 2012 — Hallé Orchestra

conductor - Andrew Gourlay

Humperdinck - Overture, Hansel & Gretel

Dvorak - Cello Concerto - soloist: Alban Gerhardt [Last played season 2008/2009]

Mendelssohn - Symphony No 3 (Scottish)

 

Friday 19th May 2012 — Berlin Symphony Orchestra

conductor - Alexander Liebrecht

Beethoven - Overture Egmont

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 21, K467 - soloist - Kit Armstrong

Brahms - Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op. 68

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