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Newent Orchestral
Society Newent
Music Heritage 15 May, 2010, Newent Memorial Hall Savings on Reserved Concert Tickets:
Prebooked, £6.00 (concession, £5.00); on the door, £8.00 (concession, £7.00).
Accompanied children under 16, free. To prebook, email
or phone with your name and requirement. You can
then pay the reduced price on the door.
Heritage Exhibition The concert venue will be open throughout the day (free entry) with an exhibition of history and memorabilia and a talk commemorating Newent's Music Heritage. There will also be more live music provided by the specially formed "Boughton Quartet". Sandra Meek, Joe's niece, has offered to be on hand during the day to answer any questions and members of the Boughton family will attend the evening celebration. See here for other exhibition venues and dates. |
The evening concert and
celebration at 7:30 p.m., will include a short animated film of extracts from Rutland
Boughton's Arthurian opera, "The Immortal Hour". It will also premiere a
new work by Bill Anderton, "Telstar Revisited", written as a homage to Joe
Meek. In addition, the orchestra will be including in its programme music that was
played at its very first concert, to celebrate 70 years of continual music making:
Beethoven's 1st Symphony (final two movements); Merry England by Edward German.