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Orchestra of Square Chapel

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46. Sunday March 16th 2008

· Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

· Brahms: Four Serious Songs

(Soloist: Rowena Burton)

· Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

45. Sunday January 6th 2008

· A traditional New Year concert by Orchestra of Square Chapel with invited soloists. Come and welcome in the New Year with a glass of champagne - and enjoy musical favourites from the Strauss family and other Viennese masters.

44. Sunday September 23rd 2007

· Sullivan: Overture Di Ballo

· Gluck: Ballet Suite No. 1

· Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey

· Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1

43. Sunday June 24th 2007

· Suppe: Light Cavalry Overture

· Colne Valley Intermediate Strings (led by Ralph Barker)

· Prokoviev: Peter and the Wolf

(Narrator Bruce Merlin)

42. Sunday March 18th 2007

· Weber: Ruler of the Spirits

· Jenkins: Palladio

· Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring/Summer Night on the River

· Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

41. January 7th 2007 7.30pm

40. January 7th 2007 3pm

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39. Sunday October 8th 2006

· Peter Maxwell Davies, Ojai Festival Overture

· Henry Purcell, Suite from Abdelazar

· Arthur Butterworth, Capriccio Pastorale (World Premiere)

· Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 2

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38. Sunday June 25th 2006

Beethoven: Overture: Leonora No. 3

· Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 (soloist: Chistopher Illingworth)

· Sibelius: Symphony No. 3

37. Sunday October 2nd 2005

· Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

· Schumann: Konzertstuck for Four Horns(soloists: Bob Shaw, Deborah Allon, Nick Barber, Rachel Rhodes)

· Faure: Dolly Suite

· Kalinnikov: 2nd Symphony

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36. Sunday 26th June 2005

· Dvorak: Czech Suite

· Shostakovitch: Piano Concerto No. 2

(soloist: Carl Schofield)

· Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

35. Sunday 20th March 2005

· Berkeley: Divertimento in B-flat

· Schubert: Overture in Italian Style

· Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto (soloist: Jane Robertson)

· Gounod: Symphony No. 1

34. Sunday December 12th 2004

Family Christmas Concert

· Mendelssohn, Overture, The Hebrides

· L. Mozart, Toy Symphony

· Strauss, Cuckoo Polka

· Delius, Sleigh Ride

· Mozart, Michael Turner's Waltz

· Carols with The Bluebirds

· Killian, Music for a Christmas Night

· ...and MORE!!...

33. Sunday September 19th 2004

· Beethoven, Overture, Coriolan

· Bach, Concerto in D for Harpsichord (soloist: Alan Horsey)

· Mozart, Divertimento for 5 Trumpets, Flutes and Drums

· Arriaga, Symphony No. 1

32. Sunday July 4th 2004

· Mozart, Overture, La Clemenza di Tito

· Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 2

· Telemann, Concerto for 2 Horns (Soloists: Bob Shaw, Deborah Allon)

· Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 1

31. Sunday February 29th 2004, 7.30pm,

· Cimarosa, Overture, The Secret Marriage

· Mozart, Serenade in C minor for Wind

· Boyce, Symphony No. 5

· Haydn, Symphony No. 99

30. Sunday December 14th 2003, 7.30pm

Family Christmas Concert Featuring Tubalate Tuba quartet.

· Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride

· Philip Henderson: The Brontes at Christmas

· Philip Henderson: Excerpts from "The Lowry Project"

· Music from Harry Potter (arranged: Stuart Coldwell)

· Traditional Christmas Carols (arranged: Lawrence Killian)

29. Sunday October 5th 2003, 7.30pm

· Rossini: Overture Tancredi

· Burgon: Brideshead Variations

· Golightly: Flute Concerto (World Premiere) - soloist Stuart Coldwell

· Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 2

28. Sunday June 22nd 2003, 7.30pm

· Clarke, Suite in D

· Strauss, Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments

· CPE Bach, Symphony in D (Hamburg)

· Handel, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

· Arensky, Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky

· Haydn, Symphony No. 22 (Philosopher)

27. Sunday March 23rd 2003, 3.00pm,
Leeds Town Hall

Heroes R' Here—An heroic children's concert compered by Chris Bradley. Featuring: Indiana Jones, Tin Soldiers, Dambusters, Superman, Evita, Th underbirds, Chariots of Fire, Robin Hood, Batman, and more!!

26. Sunday March 16th 2003, 7.30pm

· George Butterworth, Banks of Green Willow

· Poulenc, Les Animaux Modeles

· Sibelius, Symphony No. 6

25. Sunday December 15th 2002, 3pm

· Patterson, Little Red Riding Hood

· Saint Saens, Carnival of the Animals

· Poulenc, L'Histoire de Barbar

24. Sunday October 6th 2002, 7.30pm

· Bach, Suite No. 3

· Cherubini, Symphony in D

· Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 Soloist - Daniel Gordon

23. Sunday June 30th 2002, 7.30pm

· Bartok - Divertimento

· Handel - Fireworks Music

· Haydn - Symphony no. 44 (Trauer)

22. Sunday 21st April, 3.00pm

Leeds Town Hall

Family Concert - "The World is a Circle" - a musical journey to the seven continents

Westminster Waltz (Farnon); Nessum Dorma (Puccini); Egyptian March (Strauss); Black Eyes (Ferraris); Sabre Dance (Khatchaturian); March of the Siamese Children (Rogers); Australia (arr. Sutherland);

World is a Circle Overture (arr. Sutherland); La Cumparsita (Rodriguez); Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa); Storm from William Tell Overture (Rossinis); Edelweiss; Can-Can (Offenbach); Tea for Two (Youmans); 1812 Overture - Finale (Tchaikovsky)

Presenter - Chris Bradley
Conductor - Lawrence Killian

21. Sunday March 10th 2002, 7.30pm

· Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks

· Mozart - Oboe Concerto Soloist - Susan Edwards

· Mendelssohn - Symphony no. 3 (Scottish)

20. 'A Night at The Opera' with Honley Male Voice Choir

Saturday February 2nd 2002, 7.30pm

in Huddersfield Town Hall Pieces including:

· Rossini, William Tell Overture (Gallop only)

· Beethoven, Prisoners' Chorus from Fidelio

· Donizetti, Chorus of the Wedding Guests from Lucia di Lammermoor

· Verdi, Brindisi from La Traviata

· Wagner, Flying Dutchman Sailors' Chorus

· Mozart, March of the Priests from The Magic Flute

· Verdi, Nabucco, Va Pensiero

· Verdi, In Death's Solemn Hour

· Bizet, Excerpts from Carmen No. 2

· Handel, Ombra mai fu

· and more!!

19. Sunday December 9th 2001, 3.00pm

· Rossini - La Cenerentola (Cinderella) Overture

· Vivaldi - Winter from the Four Seasons (Soloist - Tamsin Symons)

· Killian - A Christmas Carol

· Bond - The Frog Prince

· Carol Singing with the choir of Bolton Brow J, I & N School

· Children's Art Competition

18. Sunday September 23rd 2001, 7.30pm

· Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

· Shostakovitch - Concerto for Piano and Trumpet (Soloists - Daniel Gordon (piano) and Mike Briggs (trumpet))

· Gounod - Symphony No. 2

17. Sunday June 24th 2001, 7.30pm

· Beethoven - Egmont Overture

· Gounod - Petite Symphonie pour instruments a vents

· Suk - Serenade for Strings

· Prokoviev - Sinfonietta

16. Sunday March 18th 2001, 7.30pm

· Stravinsky - Pulcinella Suite

· Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.5 (Soloists - Stuart Coldwell (flute) and Tamsin Symonds (violin))

· Jacob - Divertimento in E flat for Wind Octet

· Haydn - Symphony No.104 in D

15. Sunday December 10th 2000, 3.00pm

· Moussorgsky - Night on a Bare Mountain

· Prokoviev - Lieutenant Kije

· Kleisinger - Tubby the Tuba (Narrator, Tim Mayfield)

· Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty (Narrator, Tim Mayfield)

· Various - Christmas Selection (arr. Killian)

14. Sunday September 24th 2000, 7.30pm

· Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (Bob Ashworth and Deborah Allon, horn)

· Arnold - Serenade for Small Orchestra

· Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

· Dvorak - Symphony No. 8

13. Sunday June 25th 2000, 7.30pm

· Delius - La Calinda

· Rodrigo - Guitar Concerto (Peter Cain, guitar)

· Schubert - Symphony No. 3

· Dvorak - Symphony No. 8

12. Sunday March 12th 2000, 7.30pm

· Mendelssohn - Marchen von der schonen Melusine