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WMSO Autumn Concert Nov 2024

WMSO Autumn Concert - Charity Gala night - "A night at the movies" 
in aid of Macmillan  Cancert support  

Saturday 9th November 2024 at 7.30 pm
at Baylis Theatre, Braywick Leisure Centre, Maidenhead SL6 1BN

Presented by David Emanuel    fashion designer for the Royal Family

The sound of Hollywood is coming to Maidenhead!  Our autumn fun filled, action packed, concert features the music from some classic movies:  From space - 2001 A Space Odyssey and Star Wars; from land - Lawrence of Arabia & Lord of the Rings & Where Eagles Dare; from the sea - Pirates of the Carribean;  probably from all three:  James Bond - and much much more.  We're also delighted to welcome Maddie Stewart who will be playing the saxophone solo in John Williams' piece called 'Escapades' based on the music for the film 'Catch me if you can'.      So why not come, if you can?

Solo Saxophone Maddie Stewart
WMSO Young Musician Concerto Competition winner 2023

Tickets: £15, £5 (student/child)

A handling fee of 70p will be added to the price of adult tickets and 50p to student tickets to cover our box office costs

 

WMSO Spring Concert 2025

Saturday 15th March 2025 at 7.30pm
in St Mary's Church, High St, Maidenhead. SL6 1YY

Weber            Overture: Oberon 
Prokofiev       Violin concerto No.2
Tchaikovsky  Eugene Onegin highlights
Beethoven     Symphony No. 5

Our spring concert comprises some great classics straddling the breadth of the romantic repertoire, from the early transition from classical to the romantic period through to a final look back as modernism takes over.  Beethoven's 5th symphony (1808) needs no introduction, as it has probably the most famous introduction of its own:  "Da da da daaa  Da da da daaa".  Weber's overture was to his early romantic  opera originally commissioned by Covent Garden in 1826, and then to Tchaikovsky's full on romantic opera Eugene Onegin (1879) which includes some wonderful arias and dances that will have you leaping about in the aisles. Finally Prokofiev's popular violin concerto No2, written in 1935, has a classical structure, lyrical and romantic elements including a Spanish theme that requires the percussion section to play castanets!  

Violin Soloist:  Chun Yi Kang - finalist, WMSO Young musician concerto competition 2023

Tickets: £15, £5 (student/child) 

A handling fee of 70p will be added to the price of adult tickets and 50p to student tickets to cover our box office costs

WMSO Summer Family Concert 2025

WMSO Family Concert   
Sunday 22nd June 2025 at 4pm
at Newbold College Church, Binfield RG42 4AN

Free tabla drumming workshop at 3pm
Concert starts at 4pm

Chabrier España
Wijeratne  Tabla Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov  Scheherazade

Our summer concert features works from or inspired by exotic lands!  We are very excited to be playing music that  mixes Indian and western music traditions in the Tabla concerto in what is surely a highlight of this season.  Alok Verma is an internationally renown exponent of the art of Indian drumming and we are very fortunate to have him perform this concerto with us. It was first premiered in 2012 to  a great reception and has continued to be performed regularly since.   Scheherazade also brings eastern sounds to the symphony orchestra in Rimksky-Korsakov's most popular work that tells the stories from 1001 Arabian nights in musical form:  The sea and Sindbad's ship, The Kalendar Prince, The young Prince and Princess and finally Festival at Baghdad.  And to open the concert we have pictures of Spain as imagined by Chabrier.

Tabla soloist - Alok Verma


Tickets: £15, £5 (student/child)
A handling fee of 70p will be added to the price of adult tickets and 50p to student tickets to cover our box office costs