OCTAGON CONCERT SERIES 1997 - 98

in THE OCTAGON CHAPEL, Colegate, NORWICH


PROGRAMME OF CONCERTS - 14th SEASON 1997/98
After expenses, all proceeds from the concerts will be given to charity

This is the list of concerts (as known on11th February 1998). As in previous years further ones will be added.

Preview of the 15th Octagon Concert Series (1998 - 1999]

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Admission for all concerts is by programme: £4.00, concessions: £3.00 unless otherwise stated Available from: St. George' Music Shop, 17-19 St. George' Street, Norwich. Tel. 01603 626414

By post (please add 25p for P&P) from:
Mrs. Mary Rae, Octagon Concert Series Organiser,
7 Pine Road, Thorpe St. Andrew, Norwich, NR7 9LE. Tel. & Fax 01603 435045
Email RaeOctagon@aol.com
(Cheques should be made payable to Octagon Concert Series)

Tickets are generally on sale one month before each concert.
Season tickets are available, please contact the Octagon Concert Series Organiser for further details

The Martineau Hall is a Registered Charity, No. 232603

PREVIOUS CONCERT SERIES

1995-96
1996-97

Waveney Chamber Group

Sunday 14th September 1997 at 7-30pm

Carol Skinner: Flute
and the
Waveney Chamber Group

Last Night of the Proms with Drayton Band

Sunday 5th October 1997 at 7.30pm

  • Drayton Band: - Directed by David Aves
  • Choir led by member of the Octagon Singers

    Conducted by DAVID KETT
    Programme will include
    Choral Arrangements from 'EVITA' [ Rice and LLoyd Weber]

    'LES MISERABLES' [Kretzmer & Schonberg]

    'FINLANDIA [Sibelius]     		Famous British Marches
    [arranged G. Langford]

    Traditional "last Night of the Proms" favourites

    In aid of the Octagon Organ Improvement Fund

    Octagon Singers with Invited Orchestra

    Sunday 26th October 1997 at 3pm

    Octagon Singers with Invited Orchestra

    Leader: George Hallums

    Programme will include
    Zadok the Priest [Handel]
    Arrival of Queen of Sheba [Handel]
    Let the Bright Seraphim - from Samson [Handel]
    Ave Verum Corpus [Mozart]
    Ave Maria [Donizetti]
    Sing a Song of Sixpence [Diack]
    Handel in the Strand [Grainger]
    		 Psalm 150 [Britten]
    Intermezzo from Caverlleria Rusticana [Mascagni]
    Beim Schlafengehn - from Four last Songs [Richard Strauss]
    Lucus Iste [Bruckner]
    Lux Aeterna [Elgar]
    Va pensiero - from Nabucco [Verdi]
    Easter Hymn from Cavelleria Ruisticana [Mascagni]
    The Lord bless and keep you [Rutter]

    In aid of the Octagon Chapel

    A Concert for St Andrew's Day

    Sunday 30 November 1997 at 3pm

    Narrated by David Rae

    In aid of the Dragon Hall Project

    CANDLELIGHT SERVICE FOR CHRISTMAS

    Sunday 21 December 1997 at 7-30pm

    Admission free

    A Tribute to Norwich born composer WILLIAM CROTCH
    5th July 1775 - 29th Deecmber 1847

     Sunday 28 December 1997 at 3pm

    presented by:-

    • Gillian Ward Russell:- Organ and Piano
    • Alison Baker: Organ and Piano
    • Louise Ward Russell: Bassoon
    Music by William Crotch and some of his contemporaries including William Russell, Samuel Wesley and G F Handel.

    In aid of the Octagon Organ Improvement Fund

    University of East Anglia Students Union Music Society in Concert Sunday 8 March 1998 at 7-30pm

    Programme to include:-
    • Folk Song Suite by Vaughan Williams
    • Quintet in C minor by Mozart,
    • Suite in F by Holst
    • Choral music by Wood, Tallis, Elgar and Gilbert & Sullivan
    In aid of Musical Keys

    Good Friday Concert: Octagon Singers with Invited Orchestra

    Friday 10 April 1998 at 7-30pm Leader: George Hallums

    Judy Tovey Continuo

    Soloists:

    Conducted by Shirley Hallums
    MESSIAH
    by
    HANDEL

    In aid of the Octagon Concert Series

    FLOWER FESTIVAL [Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd & Monday 4th May 1998]

    including:-

    • at 2pm on Saturday 2 May Music in the Octagon garden
      from Drayton Band
    • at 11am on Sunday 3 May 'Songs of Praise' : Admission free


    Escape with it all with "Group 5"

    Sunday 17 May 1998 at 7-30pm

    Including a medley of melodies from Mozart to Gershwin
    sung by:-

    with Eileen Last: Pianoforte

    In aid of: Hebron Trust: Mother and Child Unit, Reg Charity No. 1020095

    George Hallums [Violin] and friends

    Sunday 21 June 1998 at 7-30pm

    including:-

    Programme to include the first performance of Duo Sonata for Violin and Cello by Kenneth H˙tch

    In aid of the Cooper Atkinson Charitable Trust for India Reg Charity No. 1001535

    Preview of the 15th Octagon Concert Series

    SONGS FROM THE SHOWS

    Sunday 13 September 1998 at 3pm
  • Susie Turner and Andrew Lofthouse
    with
  • Annette Jude Piano

    In aid of the National Meningitis Trust Reg. Charity No. 803016

    'LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS'

    Sunday 4th October 1998: at 7:30pm Conducted by: Mary Rae

    In aid of the Octagon Organ Improvement Fund

    A Concert on St Cecilia's Day

    Sunday 22 November 1998

    • St Cecilia Singers
    • Pulham Village Orchestra

    • Conducted by Margery Baker

    In aid of the Pulham Village Orchestra

    OCTAGON SINGERS with An Invited Orchestra

    Good Friday 2 April 1999 at 7-30pm

    In aid of the Octagon Concert Series