Sunday, November 29, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Concert Competition
We are very please to announce that Dianne Rogers is the winner of the competition to match the raffle prizes to our programme of music. We hope you can take advantage of your prize of 2 tickets for our next concert on March 19th 2016.
The answers were
The Beer - Jurassic ParK
The Rum - Pirates of the Caribbean
The Baking Book - Hollywood Milestones (author, Paul Hollywood!)
Tin of Biscuits - Frozen (picture on the tin)
Cinema Voucher - Star Wars
For those of you who attempted to 'name that tune' in the Hollywood Milestones Medley...
Jaws
Love Story
Star Trek
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chariots of Fire
Back to the Future
E.T.
Beauty and the Beast
Jurassic Park
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
and.....E.T. again
The answers were
The Beer - Jurassic ParK
The Rum - Pirates of the Caribbean
The Baking Book - Hollywood Milestones (author, Paul Hollywood!)
Tin of Biscuits - Frozen (picture on the tin)
Cinema Voucher - Star Wars
For those of you who attempted to 'name that tune' in the Hollywood Milestones Medley...
Jaws
Love Story
Star Trek
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chariots of Fire
Back to the Future
E.T.
Beauty and the Beast
Jurassic Park
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
and.....E.T. again
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Autumn Concert 2015
Music from the Movies
A concert show-casing the film music of
John Williams
Saturday 10th October, 7.30pm,St Mary's Church, Thatcham
Conductor: Robert Roscoe
Conductor: Robert Roscoe
To include music from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, War Horse
Superman and Harry Potter along with some other film favourites,
Frozen, Pirates of the Caribbean and a bit of James Bond of course.
Featuring violinist Maxime Morise, playing the hauntingly beautiful theme from Schindler's List.
Scroll down to read about our Soloist, Maxime Morise
Friday, September 18, 2015
Maxime Morise
Maxime Morise is a French violinist studying at the Royal College
of Music under the tuition of Radu Blidar, whilst also continuing his studies
of the last 5 years with Richard Schmoucler, the founder of the Sirba Octet, in
France.
He began playing the violin at the age of 4, and found early
success as a soloist when invited to perform on “Qui est Qui?”, a program
broadcasted nationally by France 2.
Maxime moved to London in 2014 after gaining the “Diplôme d'Etudes
Musicales” from the CRR in Rueil Malmaison, and also studied at the CRR in
Boulogne in the class of Chrisophe Poiget where he completed the “Cycle
d'Orientation Professionnelle”.
Maxime has performed internationally as both a soloist and chamber
musician in such locations as Italy and Santa Barbara USA, and was also asked
to perform for the official reception of the French Ambassador to Rome at the
Palais Farnèse in 2013, playing a varied program of Mozart and Edith Piaf.
Indeed, Maxime enjoys a variety of musical styles; in 2013 he performed as a
guest soloist with the French pop group “les Poppys”.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Tour of Belgium 2015
A short record of Beenham Wind Orchestra's Tour in May 2015. We stayed in a very welcoming hotel on Blankenberge and played concerts in Bruges, Ypres, where we attended the Menin Gate ceremony but didn't play this time, and De Panne, which didn't quite work out as planned but we received wonderful hospitality from the town.
Friday, January 2, 2015
Spring Concert
Winds in Time 2
Great Music from Great Composers
The second in our series of concerts exploring the history of Wind Band music from
1900 to 1950
St Mary's Church, Thatcham
Saturday 14th March, 7.30pm
Our programme for this concert includes two of the very best pieces written for Wind Band in the early 1900s. Percy Grainger's masterpiece, Lincolnshire Posy, a collection of folk songs collected by the composer and dedicated to " the old folksingers who sang so sweetly to me" whose musical portraits he conveys in his arrangements and Suite of Old American Dances by Robert Russell Bennett, one of America's greatest Broadway composers and arrangers. This is a fun collection of rag time pieces inspired by the tunes heard in the dance hall of 'Electric Park' in 1940's Kansas City.
Of course we have to include works by Holst and Vaughan Williams, great composers who, as well as writing beautiful pieces for Orchestras, also wrote pieces that are played by Wind Bands all over the world today.
Tickets in advance £10 (Concessions £8, U18s £2)
Or from Wegottickets.com, Lily' s Boutique in Thatcham, Orchestra members or contact Gay Spackman dandyeve@pipex.com 0118 9712575
Special
offer for Concert Virgins: We really love our music and reckon that the sights and
sounds of a real live wind orchestra are something to behold. To encourage
people who’ve never been to one of our concerts before, we’ve set up our
Concert Virgin scheme, offering free tickets to first-timers to our concerts. For
more information on how to obtain your free tickets, please contact Gay.
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