Halden Sound Music Group

The end of Halden Sound

2011-05-31T16:35:00.000-07:00

The orchestra is now known as Northiam Chamber Orchestra. Please contact the conductor Peter Fields by e-mail at peterfields@gmail.com for further information on activities, vacancies etc.

Please ignore the out of date contact details in the right hand panels, which I have been unable to amend.

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Update on orchestra activities

2009-09-17T06:12:00.000-07:00

The lack of recent postings on the Halden Sound blog does not mean that we have been inactive since March 2007. We have survived the departure of our leader, Howard Kilner, who headed north accompanied by three of our other string players, aka his family, to live in Derbyshire. Judy Hollis has continued as our director, and we have had a full programme of practices, weekly in term time, in the Northiam Village Hall. We start the next session on Thursday 24 September, at 7.30 pm, with tea and biscuits at half time, finishing at about 9.30. New recruits are always welcome, particularly in the violin section. For more information about us, contact me by phone (01797 224045) or e-mail (lyoulten@aol.com).

The culmination of last term's activities was an afternoon concert in Wittersham Church as part of the Flower Festival on Saturday 28 June. We're getting more and more ambitious, with works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bach, Bizet and Elgar included in this last concert.

To our great disappointment, Judy has said she wants to retire as Director at the end of this term, so we shall be looking for a successor to take over in 2010.

Watch this space for what I hope will now be more frequent news of our activities.

Current repertoire

2007-03-22T04:46:00.000-07:00

In the past few months we have been looking at Haydn's symphony Le Midi, Chaminade's Automne, La Boutique Fantasque by Rossini/ Respighi, Gounod's ballet music for Faust, Schubert's 3rd symphony and A Kentish Suite by Hubert Clifford. And that's not all. Chaminade was a first for us; she was our first woman composer. We know very little about either her or Clifford, so let us know what you know.

Vacancies

2007-03-22T04:40:00.000-07:00

We are still growing ! At the last count we had 31 members, ranging in age from 11 to 80. We aim to go on growing the orchestra, so we are looking for people to play the oboe and someone to join our new horn-player. And you can never have too many violins and violas.

Dates for the rest of 2007

2007-03-22T04:24:00.000-07:00

29th March
Last rehearsal before Easter

26th April
Start again

24th & 31st May
Half term

21st June
David Knights conducts rehearsal in Judy’s absence

12th July
End of term
Informal friends & family performance at Northiam

6th September
Start again