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PLEASE NOTE - Due to the incelment weather, today's rehearsal has been cancelled.

Any changes, if any are made, to next weeks rehearsal schedule will be posted on this site in due course.

The Apex concert is now on sale!

Rehearsals for the February and May concerts are in Copleston High School, IP4 5HD
Copleston Centre

Note - please use the entrance via Foxhall Road next to the St Elizabeth Hospice


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Saturday 15th October 2011
Conductor: William Carslake
Rosemary Hinton: Violin

Verdi - Overture - La Forza Destino [7m]
1+222: 4231: 2 Harps. Timp + 1

Brahms - Violin Concerto [35m +/-]
2222: 4200: Timp

Elgar - Symphony No 1 in Ab [50m]
3(1)2+2+bs2+: 4331: 2 Harps. Timp +2/3

Saturday 11th February 2012
Conductor: Anthony Weeden

Shostakovich - Festive Overture [7m]
2+3 3 2+: 4331: Timp +4

Stravinsky - Divertimento - The Fairy's Kiss [28m]
2+2+2+bs2: 4331: Harp. Timp+1

Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade [50m]
2+2(1)22: 4231: Harp. Timp+5

Rehearsals Sundays 29th January and 5th February: 10.30 - 5.00

Sunday 29 Jan
10:30 Scheherazade (IV)
11:10 Scheherazade (III)

[break 11:50 - 12:10]

12:10 Scheherazade (II)
12:50 Scheherazade (I)

[lunch 13:30 - 14:30]

14:30 Festive Overture (percussion not required)
14:50 Divertimento (I % II)
[break 15:40 - 16:10]
16:10 Divertimento (IV & III)
Sunday 5 Feb
10:30 Scheherazade (IV)
11:10 Scheherazade (III)

[break 11:50 - 12:10]
12:10 Scheherazade (II)
12:50 Scheherazade (I)

[lunch 13:30 - 14:30]
14:30 Festive Overture (percussion not required)
14:40 Divertimento (I & II)
[break 15:40 - 16:00]
16:00 Divertimento (IV & III)
Saturday 11 Feb
14:30 Divertimento 15:30 Festive Overture
[break 15:40 - 16:00]
16:00 Scheherazade

Saturday 12th May 2012
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Erdem Misirlioglu

Torke - Javelin (Commissioned for the 1994 Atlanta Olympics)[9m]
2+2+2+Eb+Bs2 : 4331: Harp. Timp+3

Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq D'Or[28m]
3(2)2+2+2+: 4331: 2 Harp. Timp+4. Celeste

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor[35m]
2222: 4231: Timp+2

Rehearsals Sundays 28 April and 6 May: 10.30 - 5.00


Next Season's concert dates

13 October 2012 - Corn Exchange, Ipswich
9 February 2013 - Bury St Edmunds, Apex
11 May 2013 - Ipswich Corn Exchange

Provisional future dates

12 October 2013 - Ipswich Corn Exchange

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