The end of another season – and looking forward to the next!

July 8, 2016 Posted by ISWO Press

News

Once again we find ourselves at the end of another concert season, I hope you have enjoyed the concerts?

A big thank you to those of you who have been season ticket holders and I hope you will consider being a season ticket holder again for next season. Dates and programmes for the new season are now online.

For those of you who are not season ticket holders, but think you might be interested in becoming one, then we do have some spaces.

I am pleased to announce that ticket prices are being kept the same as for the 2015/16 season, so that the box office price will be £14.50 and the season ticket price £13 per concert. Season ticket holders also get a saving on their programme (normal cost £1.50, season ticket holders £1).

This means that season ticket holders will benefit by £2 per concert as well as knowing they have their chosen seat reserved for the whole season. It is worth noting that as from January 2017 there will be an even greater saving due to the fact the Medina Theatre are introducing a booking fee of £1 per ticket booked via the box office. This booking fee will not apply to season tickets.

If you would like to renew your season ticket then I would ask you to download and complete the attached form and return it to me by post (with a S.A.E.). For new season ticket holders it is probably best if you contact me either by phone or email so that I can tell you which seats are available.

Please note that due to poor attendance last year, we are not holding the cheese and wine evening this year.

Tim Isard

Upcoming Concerts and Events

Dmytro Fonariuk, Clarinet

Dmytro Fonariuk, Clarinet

Saturday 18th May 2024, 7.15pm Scenes from the Humber, Anthony Hedges Introduction, Theme and Variations, Gioacchino Rossini Soloist: Dmytro Fonariuk Night On Bare Mountain, Modeste Mussorgsky Concertino in E flat, Carl Maria von Weber Soloist: Dmytro Fonariuk Symphony No.2 in B minor, Alexander Borodin A musician of wide artistic tastes and talents, Anthony Hedges was initially educated at Bicester Grammar School. While there he became Organist of his local Methodist Church before heading to Oxford to study music. His abiding love of Yorkshire, including its dales and moors, developed during his years of National Service. He later moved to the East Riding which inspired a number of major works, not least the Scenes From The Humber which celebrated the Humber Bridge. Gioacchino Rossini is well known for his operatic output yet retired from composing in his early forties to concentrate on his other great loves —eating and drinking. His Introduction, Theme and Variations was composed when he was just 18 years old as a student project at the Bologna Conservatory of Music. It remains one of the most popular virtuosic works for clarinet to this day. The IWSO welcomes the you Ukrainian clarinettist, Dmytro Fonariuk, to perform with us for […]

Thomas Luke, Piano

Thomas Luke, Piano

Saturday 6th July 2024, 7.15pm Fanfare from La Péri, Paul Dukas Festivities, Roy Douglas Warsaw Concerto, Richard Addinsell Soloist: Thomas Luke Dance of the Hours, Amilcare Ponchielli Orb and Sceptre, William Walton Three Card Trick Suite, Pam Wedgwood Party Piece, Richard Rodney Bennett Billy The Kid, Aaron Copland Paul Dukas’ La Péri is a 1912 ballet in one act and is about a man’s search for immortality and an encounter with a mythological Péri (a winged, fairy-like creature). The original music to the ballet was written in 1911 as a Poème Dansé En Un Tableau (Dance Poem in One Scene), and was Dukas’ last published work. The opening fanfare is often performed separately and is a fitting start to our concert. Festivities, an orchestral overture by British composer Roy Douglas, was written 1972. Although having a large output of his own, Roy Douglas worked alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Richard Adinsell as editor, copyist and amanuensis. his favourite recreation was motorcycling, travelling throughout England on a Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub until his doctor ordered him to stop after his 80th birthday Roy Douglas also orchestrated Richard Adinsell’s music for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight, which contained the popular […]