Morecambe orchestra returns for 18th season of concerts

The Promenade Concert Orchestra returns for a new season of concerts

A popular Morecambe-based orchestra returns for its 18th season of concerts.

The Promenade Concert Orchestra will present Music For You at The Platform on Sunday November 24 at 3pm.

The packed programme of well-known and loved tunes include, music from Tschaikowsky’s Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty ballets along with a waltz from his opera, Eugene Onegin; Khachaturian’s Masquerade Waltz and Sabre Dance, Kabalevsky’s Comedian’s Dance; Smetana’s opera dances, Comedian’s Galop and Hop-hop Dance; a rarely heard ballet suite by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Edward German’s Nell Gwyn Dances sit alongside an Irish Reel by Percy Grainger and English dances by Ernest Tomlinson and a recent work, Concert Jig for Dulcimer and strings, a first for Morecambe, with soloist, Chris Perry.

The orchestra will be conducted by founder and music director, Howard Rogerson.

Tickets cost £17 (accompanied children go free) and are available from the box office, Central Promenade, Tuesday and Thursday noon to 4pm, or 01524 582803 and or from www.lancaster.gov.uk/platform

 

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