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Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra
Rehearsal and Concert Schedule 2019/20
Concert 1 – 27 October 2019 – St John’s Waterloo
Soloist: Isabella Fleming
Programme:
Buxtehude – Chaconne in E minor BuxWV 160 arranged by Chavez (2112 – 2220 – strings)
Mozart – Violin Concerto No.2 in D Major K.211 (strings, 2 oboes, 2 horns)
Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 5 in D major op 107 (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, serpent, timpani, strings)
Rehearsals (4 half days)
6 October 10am-1pm
13 October 10am-1pm (string sectional)
2–5pm (full orchestra NO LOWER BRASS CALLED)
20 October 2–5pm (includes soloist rehearsal)
27 October 2.30–5.30pm, concert 6.30pm
Concert 2 – 24 November – Children’s concert in Camden with Camden Girls School Choir
St Martin’s Gospel Oak
Programme
Stravinsky – Firebird Suite (1919 version) – (2(pic)2(ca)22/4231/timp.perc/hp.pf/str) – 22 mins
Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) – Night on a Bare Mountain (piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns 2 trumpet, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, bell (D), harp, strings) – 12 mins
Charpentier – Messe de Minuit (SSA version) – 2./2rec.0.0.0. – 0.0.0.0. – 2vl.2va.vc – bc(org) – 30 mins
Music for solo singers and orchestra
Rehearsals (4 half days)
3 November 2 – 5pm
10 Nov 10am-1pm (string sectionals) and 2–5pm (full orchestra)
17 Nov 2–5pm
24 Nov Concert at 6pm
Concert 3 – 9 February 2020 – St John’s Waterloo
Soloist: Joe (Chu-yu) Yang
Programme
Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending (2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, triangle, strings.)
Brahms – Symphony No. 1 in C minor (2.2.2.3-4.2.3.0-timps-strings)
Debussy – La Mer (2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets (A, B♭), 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns (F), 3 trumpets (F), 2 cornets (C), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam,triangle, glockenspiel, 2 harps, strings)
Rehearsals (6 half days)
12 January 2-5pm
19 January 10am-1pm (string sectionals) and 2-5pm (full orchestra)
26 January 10am-1pm and 2-5pm
2 February 10am-1pm
9 February 2.30–5.30pm
Concert 4 – 22 March 2020 – Concert with Camden Sinfonia – Camden Girls School
Soloist: TBA
Programme includes
Janacek – Cunning Little Vixen Suite arranged by: Sir Charles Mackerras – 4 3 3 3 – 4 2 3 1 – timp, perc(3), hp, cel (+car), str (22 mins)
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs (4333 – 4331 – timps, hp, cel, str) (22 mins)
Rehearsals (4 half days)
1 March 10am-1pm and 2-5pm
15 March 10am-1pm and 2-5pm
10am-1pm (string sectionals 10 – 11.30, full orchestra 11.45 – 1)
2–5pm (includes final for emerging composers competition)
22 March 10 – 12.30 and 1.30 – 4pm workshop on Janacek with the Camden Sonfonia
4.30 – 5.30pm Concert
Concert 5 – 21 June 2020 – Waterloo Festival concert at St John’s Waterloo
Concerto TBC (Winner of ERSO Finalist of the Year 2020)
Copland – Symphony No. 3 (3.picc.2.corA.2.Ebcl.bcl.2.dbn-4.4.3.1-timp.perc(5):glsp/t.bells/xyl/anvil/cyms/tam-t/tgl/claves/wdbl/whip/BD/SD/TD/rattle-2harps-cel-pft-strings)
Rehearsals (8 half days)
10 May 10am-1pm and 2-5pm.
Morning to include some time on tricky areas of the soloist’s concertos.
Afternoon will be Final of ERSO Soloist of the Year.
17 May 10am-1pm and 2-5pm.
31 May 2-5pm.
7 June 10am-1pm (string sectionas) and 2-5pm
14 June 2-5pm – Open Event at St John’s Waterloo.
21 June 2.30–5.30pm, concert 6.30pm
