Leicester Grand Music Festival 2027

22/08/2016

POSTPONED to Q1 2017 due to some key players unavailable and cannot do an 189yo music festival justice.

We could use the Guildhall for an exLSSO reunion from 7pm. Get in touch if you're free and if enough people we can get something social going.

19/08/2016

Tick tock only need a few more confirmations - worst case we can have a LSSO reunion at the Guildhall anyway a (Strung out Sisters providing the music ? )

16/08/2016

# players at evening time Tuesday - still some key parts to fill and generally more string players - if you have not got in touch please do so - likewise if you have any friends etc who can play please pass them on


Instrument Count of Players
Bassoon 1
Cello 7
Clarinet 2
Flute 1
French Horn 1
Harp 1
Oboe 2
Percussion 1
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Trombone 1
Trumpet 3
Viola 3
Violin 7

Grand Total 30

15/08/2016

John Whitmore who runs the lsso.co.uk website has asked if anyone from the Don era has any audio/visual tapes of the LSSO from the 1990s.
If you do please upload to http://www.lsso.co.uk/audiovisual.html or send an email (data transfer can also be arranged)

1) PYE Tippett / Ridout / Mathias / Arnold Klassic Haus

14/08/2016

I might need to rethink my travel plans -

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/british-airways-stops-musician-from-flying-with-cello-as-it-didnt-have-a-visa-a7187516.html

- although so people might be glad to hear I'm leaving my cello in Vietnam.......

An amateur musician has said she was stopped from carrying her cello on board a British Airways flight as the instrument needed a visa to travel in the extra seat she had booked for it. Jane Bevan, 35, based in Switzerland, was attempting to board a flight from Zurich to Baltimore, where she was att...

13/08/2016

Had an interview with BBC Radio Leicester yesterday for a piece on the concert .
Staring to work on the media promotion but we still need to recruit players.

I'll send out a map and details for both rehearsals tomorrow and if anyone wants the music in advance please email [email protected]

We def need a pianist and a celeste players as well as fattening out the orchestra so please spread the word.

Tickets will go on sale in the next few days
I'm thinking £5 , £10 family ticket and £1 current LSSO players - any thoughts ?

The afterparty is basically a party for players and friends and suggest we all get warmed up at The Guildhall and leave your stuff there then head back after the concert

Regards
Patrick
+84 167 812 0508
+65 9126 4965
+852 6338 9089

13/08/2016

I'm now late for football kick off but the visa application for our young Vietnamese violinist soloist is in.

Dear Keith Vaz, if you are coming to the concert please give the Ambassador a ring to expedite.

08/08/2016

We are pending scores and orchestral parts to be delivered with the provisional programme below, anyone a bit rusty and needing some extra practice get in touch and will figure out the easiest way to get parts to you ahead of the first rehearsal on Thu 25th August

# Title
1 Mozart: Overture Magic Flute
2 Creston: Concertino for Marimba
3 Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast Moldau (Vltava)
4 Ravel: Tzigane Rapsodie de Concert
5 Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
6 William Walton: Richard III (Prelude) (1955)
7 Ramin Djawadi: Main Title (Extended) [Game of Thrones]

08/08/2016

Last call for exLSSO people during the Don Blakeson years before widen the search for orchestral members - 2 rehearsals scheduled for Thu 25th Aug and Thu 1st Sep. There will be an afternoon rehearsal on the day in the afternoon.