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The orchestra involves a lot of musicians and organisers so in turn we need as many Friends as possible to secure our future.
As a Friend of the Orchestra you will have the following benefits:
£1 reduction off concert ticket
Reserved seating near the front
Recognition in the concert programmes
Invitation to the AGM in November each year
Two Newsletters each season
Membership/renewal is on an annual basis in January of each year.
As the orchestra is a registered Charity you will be invited to complete a "Gift Aid" form which enables us to reclaim tax from the Inland Revenue.
We therefore invite you to join us/renew as a Friend of the orchestra. The cost is held at £30 or more for the season.
Extract from the November 2008 newsletter:
Since I last wrote to you we have had 2 more concerts to which many of you were able to come. We were again welcomed at St Mary’s Church, Frampton for both events with good attendance at the September concert and this was particularly encouraging as we were competing with the Last Night of the Proms. The November concert brought an audience of just 90. It was a very wet night with unpleasant conditions when we left the Church to reach our cars. The September concert opened with Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1, so familiar to us all........... The audience on 13th September gave enthusiastic applause to the Sinfonia’s lively performance of this well-known work and it was the perfect opening for the concert.
We next listened to Delius’ Prelude and Idyll, not so often performed nor so familiar, the orchestra being joined by soprano Helen Winter and baritone Howard Wong. We were grateful to the Delius Society for their sponsorship of this concert............................................... You may be interested and very surprised to know that due to the difficulty in obtaining the copies, the Boston Sinfonia was able to see the Prelude and Idyll score for the first time on the Friday night, the evening before the concert and it is to their and Nigel Morley’s great credit that they were able to play this work so beautifully the next evening.
I made seat leaflets for both concerts with an impassioned plea .......................................................................... Our Friends’ list has increased by a small number over the past few months but we need more support so if you can think of anyone who might become a Friend of Boston Sinfonia please tell me and I will be happy to write to them.
After the interval we had our own Jeremy Ard, Principal Cello with the Sinfonia, as soloist in Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei “All vows”, ..............................................
Jeremy Ard, who played with great pathos, gave a performance which was most warmly received and appreciated. He more than did justice to this beautiful and touching Adagio. He plays a French cello made by Georges Chanot in 1870, an instrument he has owned since 1960.
Those of us who have been attending the Sinfonia concerts for many years have come to know the familiar faces of the regular players and will have seen cellist Roy Phillips at each concert. His daughter Lucy also plays the violin quite regularly...............................................
There followed a big contrast after the Kol Nidrei with Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and there is not much that can be added here about that great and well-known work. Beethoven himself conducted its first performance in Vienna in 1808.........................................................................
The great work ended the Autumn concert to enthusiastic applause and once again the Sinfonia had given us an evening to remember. It was not like 1808; St Mary’s Church was thankfully warm and the Sinfonia was not under-rehearsed.
The curtain was raised at our final concert of 2008 on the very wet evening of 1st November with Rossini’s overture The Thieving Magpie............................................. The opening side-drum bars gained our immediate attention on 1st November and the Sinfonia played with great enthusiasm. Despite the heavy rain which we could hear despite the music, we all settled down in a happy mood to await the Dvořák cello concerto next.....................................................................
We were privileged to have playing the concerto Rebecca Hewes who grew up in Lincolnshire and has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in concerts throughout Europe, working alongside some of the world’s leading musicians. The Sinfonia with conductor Nigel Morley certainly showed it is able to stand beside such distinguished company. It was a fine performance of this beautiful concerto. We still had Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 4 to look forward to after the interval. ..........................................................................The pizzicato strings opening the 3rd movement were a particular delight and the Sinfonia’s sparkling performance brought our highly successful 2008 season to a rousing close with prolonged applause. It is always encouraging to see young talent in the orchestra and playing at this concert was 16-year-old cellist Oliver Hamilton- Box. Oliver’s mother Elizabeth plays the violin...........................................
.........................................................................................We are also so reliant on the Friends, this wonderful group of people who offer regular support and I am doing my very best to increase that number. As you know, one of the advertised advantages in the Friends’ scheme is in reserved seating.................................................If you wish, I am very happy to put your name on a seat.
We are looking forward to next year, the 250th anniversary of the death of Handel and 200 years since Haydn’s death and......................................................... we shall be recognising both these occasions.
Current Friends:
| Mrs K Taylor |
Mr & Mrs Gerald Middleton |
| Michael Dales |
Mrs Dorothy Halliday |
| Jean & Peter Dyer |
Pat & Alan Pethybridge |
| Mr & Mrs Stuart M Smith |
Mr & Mrs J A Watson |
| Mr & Mrs Frank Cammack |
Mary Anderson |
| Brenda Lane |
Ronnie Robinson |
| Mr W B Moore & Diana Street |
Angela West |
| Brian & Mary Newton |
Mr A de Ostrikoff |
| Mr P D Daruwala |
Mr R A Carroll |
| Dr Cyril Nyman & Mrs Jill Nyman |
Mrs Jane Ålsnäs |
| Colin Owen |
Maggie Peberdy |
| Mr & Mrs G Bell, Nottingham |
Carole Stephens |
| Derek & Edna Thornhill |
David Stephens |
| Margaret Barker |
Mr Richard Barrett |
| Kate Brown |
Simon & Dorothea Spens |
| Mary and Brian Walsham |
Mike and Wendy Tarran |
| Rosamond & Ralf Galloway-Przybilla |
Graham Armer |
| Abby Johnson |
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