Autumn 2015 Family Concert

St. Edburg's Church, Bicester
Conductor: Sam Laughton

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Prokofiev: Troika (from 'Lieutenant Kije: Suite')
Howard Blake: The Snowman (Narrator: Lynn Farleigh)

Dukas: Fanfare pour precedere La Peri
Vivaldi: Winter (from 'The Four Seasons')
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite No. 1

Free admission for children under 16 and snowmen!

The children were dancing in the south aisle to the Nutcracker! And there were continual ripples of excitement across the audience during the Snowman.
Our aim in these concerts is to excite children into loving the sounds around them and, hopefully, make them want to learn to play those sounds themselves. I think we achieved our aim on Sunday!
- Janet Puddick
Great to see so many people there, it was a brilliant concert - well done to you all. Very inspirational to the kids now they are learning.
Thomas is still singing The Snowman..
Your concerts are the start of our Christmas.
The concert was great. I loved "Waltz of the Flowers", you sounded just like a professional orchestra - lovely balance of brass and strings.

Violin 1: Nancy Taylor (leader), Catherine Gough, Emma Callery, Eleanor Collins, Jen Truslove, Judy Hunter, Rachel Sansome

Violin 2: Jo Sandy-Goodey, Martin Gough, Alison Knowles, Janet Puddick, Jeremy Dickson, Rowan Fitz-Gibbon, Zoe Hudson

Viola: Ann Holloway, Gillian Warson, Jill Elliott, Helen Timms

Cello: Miranda Riccardo, Sandy Mackenzie, Simon Kingsley, Denise Lewin

Double bass: Jane Martin, Chris Seddon

Flute: Tina Gandy, Claire Humphries, Jane Settle

Oboe: Joanna Rhind-Tutt, Bridget Riley

Clarinet: Mark Etherton, Ian Adlington, Celia Bolton-King

Bassoon: Glyn Williams, Lowri Richards

Horn: Martin Priestley, Steve Guard, Dave Settle, Dan Blakey

Trumpet: Edward Paine, Chris Cox, Richard Waring

Trombone: Pat Kenny, Nick Abbott, Paul Coveney

Tuba: Shaun Humphries

Keyboard: Nigel Timms

Harp: Sarah Goss

Timpani: Justin Rhodes

Percussion: Hugh Laughton, Jonathan Lewin