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Our Spring 2010 concert in The Ryan Centre, Stranraer was a success with the highlight being Tom Rathbone's stunning performance of Schumann's Cello Concerto. The arrangements with a bus for our members starting in Carlisle worked well although many were exhausted by the time they got home very late at night. The collaboration with Westfest also worked out well and we are grateful to them for all the hard work they put into the venture. The Ryan Centre is a superb facility.
One of the orchestra's members, Dr Jo Zakrzewski (bassoon) is looking for sponsorship in aid of Marie Curie nursing in Dumfries & Galloway. She has entered a 250Km "race" run over 6 days across the highest and driest desert in the world - the Atacama in Chile. If you are interested in sponsoring her, please click on this link -
http://original.justgiving.com/jozakrzewski
This year's summer musical party at Threave Gardens for the benefit of our Patrons and Sponsors will be held on Sunday 16 May 2010.
The Autumn concert was a great success. Leland Chen's playing was spectaular and we all thoroughly enjoyed playing in Easterbrook Hall again.
Our summer musical party at Threave Gardens for the benefit of our Partons and Sponsors was held on Sunday 17 May and was once again a great success.
Once again there were questions about the acoustic at DG One for our combined concert with Dumfries Choral Society on 22 March 2009. Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem was conducted by Nicola Junor and theVariations on a theme by Haydn (St Anthony Chorale) by Goeff Keating. There is shortly to be a meeting of interested parties to consider what might be done to improve matters.
Our recent concert in the new concert hall in Dumfries, DG One, seem to have been well received. An excellent audience of 400 turned out. The acoustic has caused a lot of debate with some praising it but others finding it very variable, depending on where you sat. Further to the back of the hall seemed to be the better. From the orchestra's perspective, the addition of substantial baffles at the back behind the wind made it much easier to hear each other - at the rehearsal the preceding weekend this had proved difficult. Our new set of copper Adams timpani that we have just purchased sounded great.
The new rehearsal venue at Lochside Church looks as if it is going to be very successful - bright and with a useful acoustic for Geoff to get the best out of us.
The following links are to various newsletters published primarily for the benefit of our patrons and sponsors and to accounts of previous events (other than concerts).
We recently ran a caption competition for this picture:
The winner was:
"Bass perhaps, but never vulgar!"
.... with three equal runners up:
"Three little maids on stools are we!"
"Base motives"
"Make mine a double!"
Many thanks to all those who contributed!
Threave summer party - chamber group playing the final movement of the Spohr Nonet
