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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Photos of our recent concert
Concert - Celebrating 20 Years of Playing
2019 sees BWO celebrate its 20th anniversary. Formed in 1999 from a select group of musicians, as part of Beenham’s millennium celebrations, the orchestra now boasts over 40 players.
As part of the celebration, the two concerts this year will include our favourite repertoire from the last 20 years.
If you enjoyed the first concert, the second concert is on Saturday 28th Septmber, 7.30pm and includes pieces by Philip Sparke,Richard Rodgers and John Williams.
Tickets Paid in advance £10 On the door: £12 U18s £2
Available from Orchestra Members, Picture iT, 17 High Street, Thatcham or phone (answerphone) 0118 9712575
Rehearsal and Performance Dates
Spring Term 2019
Jan 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
Feb 1st, 8th, 15th,
Mar 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 28th
Apr 5th
Summer Term 2019
Apr 26th
May 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st
Jun 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Jul 5th, 12th, 19th
Saturday 4th May - Whitchurch Fete
Sunday 9th June - Newbury Bandstand
Saturday 13th July - Englefield Flower Show
Friday 19th July - Band on the Rec
Autumn Term 2019
Aug 30th, First Rehearsal
Saturday 28th September - Concert, St Mary's Thatcham
Friday 13th December - Beenham Christmas Concert
Monday, December 3, 2018
Christmas Concert
Friday 14th December, 7.30pm
Beenham School Hall
Join us for a free concert of Carols and traditional Christmas music, mulled wine and mince pies.A collection will be taken for charity. This year we are supporting
Us in a Bus a not-for-profit charity organisation that offer opportunities for people with profound learning disabilities and complex needs.
http://usinabus.org.uk/
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Post Concert / Too early for Christmas Dinner
Lovely evening at The Six Bells in Beenham.
We raffled a beautiful pom pom wreath made by Daisy Hodgson and raised £100 for Cancer Relief.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Concert Review
Thank you for inviting Mr Redwood to attend the Beenham
Wind Orchestra concert. Mr Redwood very much enjoyed himself and wrote up the
event on his website. He has asked me to forward his article to you as he feels
yourself and the organisers might find this of interest:
Beenham Wind orchestra remembers 1918
I attended
the Beenham Wind Orchestra to hear their Poppies and Peace concert on Saturday.
They were magnificent. After two years in the planning, they delivered a moving
and well-orchestrated programme of music.
The concert
began with the powerful and threatening music from Holst’s Mars, reminding us
of the terrors of war and the sounds of the violence. Dartmoor 1912 evoked the
happy relations between man and horse before they went to war with suffering
for both. Music from Noel Coward’s Cavalcade sent us trying to identify the
popular songs of the First World War. I think I heard Tipperary, Keep the Home
Fires burning, Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and Take me back to
dear old Blighty. David Tredici’s alarming Wartime told us how the sounds of the
bugle and the intense fighting that ensued swamped the strains of Abide with Me
that the soldiers sang before battle.
Later in
the concert we were lulled by the softer tones of Holst’s Venus. The haunting
strains of the Benedictus from the Armed Man by Karl Jenkins were memorably
played. A newer piece, Sunset, by Richard Saucedo served to remind us that
conflict and death carries through to our own era. The evening was finished off
with the much happier and optimistic English country garden. Chris Guy our
compere kept us well informed of what we were to hear. Robert Roscoe conducted
it all in good humour and with great skill.
I would
like to say a big thank you to all the musicians for a wonderful concert, and
to the organisers for making us welcome.
Yours sincerely
Myles Larrington | Caseworker
and Parliamentary Assistant
Office of the Rt Hon John Redwood MP
Member of Parliament for Wokingham | House of Commons,
London, SW1A 0AA
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