If you love listening to quality orchestral music and beautiful soprano vocal music, don’t delay in booking tickets for Didcot Concert Orchestra’s next concert on Sunday 19 May at 4pm.
The concert will be performed at Cornerstone Arts Centre and will showcase the impressive voice of Didcot-based soprano Hannah Fraser-Mackenzie together with a variety of musical accompaniment in different styles. DCO will also perform highlights from the incidental music to Grieg’s Peer Gynt, a gorgeous vocal piece by Granados, a sparkling overture by Wolf-Ferrari and Offenbach's incomparable overture to Orpheus in the Underworld (of "Can-Can" fame). Johann Strauss's glittering introduction to Die Fledermaus opens the second half, accompanied by a very tuneful suite by Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Hannah Fraser-Mackenzie returns centre-stage to sing Strauss's Voices of Spring. There's no doubt – this is one concert where you'll go home humming several of the tunes!
Didcot Concert Orchestra is a not-for-profit, charitable organisation established in 2018 by Didcot residents Jackie and Geoff Bushell. They wanted to be able to offer local people the chance to participate in and enjoy performances of high quality orchestral music at an affordable price. DCO brings together the very best musicians in the area, with players meeting for four rehearsals starting ten days before each of their three annual concerts which are held in February, May and October.
DCO's repertoire focuses on a mixture of well-known concert classics and tuneful, unjustly neglected works from the late-Romantic era. A distinguishing feature of DCO is the inclusion of a piece of unfamiliar repertoire in each concert, and these neglected gems offer experienced musicians and audience who may be familiar with the mainstream concert repertoire the chance to experience something new alongside the better-known concert classics.
Tickets for “The Nightingale Sings” are available from cornerstone-arts.org/book/270802 or by calling 01235 515144.
For further information about Didcot Concert Orchestra please visit didcotconcertorchestra.org.uk
