For evening performances a coach leaves Aughton Village Hall at 6.15 pm, returning at approximately 10.30 pm. Tickets, including coach fare, are normally £13.50. Please book and pay by cheque (Aughton and Ormskirk U3A) at any Horizon meeting
Programme:
Friday 12 September – Special Opening Concert with Vasily Petrenko. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 and Prokofiev Symphony( fully booked)
Saturday 27 September – Verdi Requiem at the Metropolitan Cathedral
Thursday 2 October – Sir Simon Rattle conducts Wagner, Sibelius and a new work “Songs of Joy” by Brett Dean
Saturday 4 October – European favourites – Rossini, William Tell Overture and others
Thursday 16 October – Strauss, Gershwin, Korngold (suite from Much Ado about Nothing)
Thursday 6 November – Tschaikovsky Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 5, a second coach has now been booked.
Sunday 16 November - Beethoven, Brahms. An afternoon concert with lunch of your own choice
Thursday 27 November - Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Beethoven's Egmont incidental music and Symphony No9 Choral.
Saturday 6 December - Beethoven Piano concerto No 5.
Saturday 13 December - Christmas Wishes with Alfie Boe, now fully booked.
Sunday 28 December and Wednesday 31 December - 2 special concerts.
After Christmas – The Nutcracker, The Messiah, Valentine’s Day and Sunday concerts with lunch at The Phil.
There are also plans to visit the Royal Albert Hall on 1 August; St. Petersburg in January 2009 and New York Philharmonic on 16 April 2009.
For full details see the RLPO desk at Horizons |
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