Details of our 2006/2007 season are as follows:
- 30th September 2006: Happy Birthday Shostakovich
- 8th December 2006: Christmas Concert
- 3rd February 2007: Jazz Inspirations
- 31st March 2007: Music For All The Family
- 16th June 2007: That’s Entertainment
Happy Birthday Shostakovich
Saturday 30th September 2006
Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington
Pre-concert talk at 6:50 pm, Concert at 7:30 pm
North Cheshire Wind Orchestra
Mark Heron Conductor
Janet Fischer Soprano
Shostakovich – Two Scarlatti Pieces
Bach – Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
Mahler – Um Mitternacht for soprano and orchestral winds
Shostakovich – Finale from 5th Symphony
Mussourgsky – Excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition
Offenbach – Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
Shostakovich – Jazz Suite No 2
Christmas Concert
Friday 8th December 2006
St Johns URC, Wilderspool Causeway, Warrington
Concert at 7:30 pm
North Cheshire Wind Orchestra
Catherine Parsonage Conductor
Programme to include:
Dukas – Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Prokofiev – Troika
Nestico – A Fireside Christmas
Plus other seasonal favourites
Jazz Inspirations
Saturday 3rd February 2007
Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington
Pre-concert talk at 6:50 pm, Concert at 7:30 pm
North Cheshire Wind Orchestra
Dr Jazz and the Cheshire Cats Big Band
Catherine Parsonage Conductor
Peter Moss Trumpet
Elmer Bernstein – A Pennsylvania Overture
Shostakovich – Jazz Suite No 1
Horovitz – Bacchus on Blue Ridge
Richard Rodney Bennett arr. Parsonage – Elegy for Miles
Tchaikovsky arr. Strayhorn/Ellington – Nutcracker Suite
Music For All The Family
Saturday 31st March 2007
Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington
Pre-concert talk at 6:50 pm, Concert at 7:30 pm
North Cheshire Wind Orchestra
Mark Heron Conductor
Stephen McNeff – Ghosts
Constant Lambert – Tiresias
William Walton – Suite from Façade
Daniel Basford – Variations on a National Theme
Saint-Saens – Excerpts from Carnival of the Animals
That’s Entertainment
Saturday 16th June 2007
Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington
Pre-concert talk at 6:50 pm, Concert at 7:30 pm
North Cheshire Wind Orchestra
Catherine Parsonage Conductor
Alastair Burrows Trombone
William Schuman – Circus Overture
Rimsky-Korsakov – Trombone Concerto
Sullivan – Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite
Paul Hart – Cartoon
Robert Russell Bennett – Suite of Old American Dances
NCWO reserve the right to change any programme or soloist without prior notice.