Jubilee Concert Conductor’s Notes

I’m really looking forward to our concert at The Anstice tomorrow, it’s going to be absolutely stonking! It’s been a very short and intense term, but I’m sure you can all agree that on Monday it sounded amazing. Thank you all for your hard work.
This is just a reminder of the necessary information, as well as final details for tomorrow’s rehearsal, so please read carefully.

Rehearsal order:
13:00 – Set up percussion and stage
13:15 – Members arrive
13:25 – Orchestra tunes

13:00 – Brahms – Hungarian Dance 5
13:40 – Dvorak – Slavonic Dance 4
13:50 – Dvorak – Slavonic Dance 8
14:00 – Vaughan Williams – English Folk Song Suite
14:30 – Grainger – Irish Tune from County Derry
14:40 – Parry – Jerusalem

14:50 – Break

15:05 – Trad. – National Anthem
15:10 – Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance 1
15:25 – Wood – Fantasia on British Sea Songs
15:50 – Coates – Dambusters
16:00 – Strauss – Radetzky March
16:10 – Bizet – Carmen Suites

The concert:
Will begin at 19:00. Please be in seats, ready to go at 18:55. This concert will undoubtedly be more relaxed than out ‘usual’ concerts, especially as the bar will be open throughout, but it’s important we look professional in our stage management.
The concert will finish around 21:45.

Instrument cases:
For the rehearsal, in the main hall.
For the concert, please use the library downstairs to avoid trip hazards on the stage and in our limited space.

Dress Code:
Think “BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Last Night of the Proms”. Either:
Dinner Jackets (black jacket, white shirt, black trousers) with coloured bowtie, cummerbund, pocket square, etc.
OR
Block coloured dress/skirt/blouse with black trousers.
OR
All black with a splash of colour!

Concert Order:

You’ll be given a running order list, but just to completely clarify the concert order, it is:
Bizet – Movements from Carmen Suites 1 & 2
– Prelude and Aragonaise (1 & 1a)
– Habanera (7)
– Chanson du Toréador (9)
– Intermezzo (2)
– Les Toréadors (5)
Brahms – Hungarian Dance no. 5
Dvorak – Slavonic Dances, op. 46
– Number 4
– Number 8
Strauss – Radetzky March
Interval of 30 minutes (or so)
Coates – Dambusters
Vaughan Williams – English Folk Song Suite
Grainger – Irish Tune from County Derry
Parry – Jerusalem
Wood – Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance
Trad. – National Anthem

Thank you all for reading and your commitment this term, and a huge thank you to our guest players for joining in with the fun that this concert is.

See you all tomorrow.

– Ben