York Guildhall Orchestra

We are advising customers to allow extra time for their journey to this show as a result of traffic light repairs happening along the road. More information can be found here: https://www.york.gov.uk/news/article/1061/traffic-signals-to-be-upgraded-on-barbican-road-junction

Programme:

Shostakovich – Festive Overture
Porter – Aother op’nin’, another show (Kiss me Kate)
Wagner – Prelude to Act III (Lohengrin)
Fauré – Pavane
Berlioz – Rakoczy March (Damnation of Faust)
Lambert – Rio Grande (Piano soloist: Rebecca Taylor)
Offenbach – Can Can (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Handel – Zadok the Priest 
Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending (Violin soloist: Will Clark)
Tavener – Song for Athene
Coleridge Taylor – The Death of Minnehaha (The Song of Hiawatha)
Márquez – Danzón No.2

The first concert in the orchestra’s 42nd season features a programme of popular music. It will be a delight to welcome local lad Will Clark to perform the Vaughan Williams with us; although he has played with the orchestra as a youngster, this will be his first outing as soloist with us. We are also joined by our old friends, Leeds Festival Chorus in the Lambert and Fauré. The wonderfully rousing Festive Overture is a great way to start any concert – and finishing with a foot-tapping rendition of the superb Danzón No.2 will send everyone skipping home with a smile on their face!