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Soprano Solo, Rita Cullis

City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra bring you a bright and cheery concert near the start of the year, and what better way to celebrate than with a programme of Viennese music featuring everybody’s favourite composers, Mozart and the Waltz King Johann Strauss the younger.  Strauss concerts are the highlight of the Viennese New Year and the City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra aspires to emulate that tradition.  The orchestra will be directed by our Principal Violinist and Leader, Angus Gibbon, in the style of Johann Strauss himself!  Also to further brighten up the event, popular arias by Mozart and Strauss from the world of light opera sung by international singing star, Rita Cullis.  Come along and tell us if you want this to be the new tradition for Peterborough!

at the Broadway Theatre, Peterborough

Piano Soloist, To be announced

	Overture Leonora No 3
	Piano Concerto No 4
	Symphony No 3, The Eroica

What could be better than an evening in the company of Ludwig van Beethoven in three of his greatest works ably conducted by Russell Keable?  The clarion calls of the trumpet fanfares in Overture Leonora No 3 lead into the quietly revolutionary but excitingly taut 4^th Piano Concerto. The Eroica Symphony was epoch making in its time because of its sheer length and fantastic depth of emotion.  If you have not yet heard the tragic funeral march in the middle of the symphony you have missed one of the most heart wrenching pieces of music ever written.  Join us to hear this epic work at the Broadway

at the Broadway Theatre, Peterborough

Soprano Soloist, To be announced

	Bernstein   Symphonic Suite from West Side Story
	Barber       Knoxville (The Summer of 1915)  Soprano and orchestra
	Copland     Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
	Gershwin   An American in Paris

Come with us to the other side of the Atlantic and celebrate the invigorating and energetic rhythms of America, brought to life by our wonderful conductor, Russell Keable.  Soak up the jazzy rhythms and poignant lyrical melodies of Bernstein’s West Side Story suite.  Imagine a rocking chair outside the porch of your house in Knoxville, Tennessee, with Barber’s lovely picture of a gentle Summer day there in 1915.  Get into Cowboy mode with Copland’s Rodeo, surely the epitome of music expressing the wild West.  Finally, join Gershwin on his visit to Paris – NY regular guy meets European sophisticate.  See you there!

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