Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban


Music Events 2009

January

ST ALBANS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NEW YEAR'S DAY CONCERT

Thursday 1 January 2009

7.00pm

Conductor: James Ross
Leader: Jenny Wigram

COPLAND : Fanfare for the Common Man
ADAMS: The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra
GERSHWIN: GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue (Anna Le Hair, piano)
BERNSTEIN : Symphonic Dances: West Side Story
J STRAUSS : Farewell to America Waltz

Tickets: £18, £15, £10 Reserved (Nave); £5 Unreserved (Aisles); £1 Accompanied Children; £5 Students. Also available from Frances Rotchell, 53 Abbey Avenue, St Albans, AL3 4BA 01727 857422 or tickets@saso.org.uk For details of other concerts see www.saso.org.uk.

ST ALBANS CHAMBER CHOIR with the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Saturday 24 January

7.30pm

Conductor: John Gibbons

50th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
"MARTYRS & HEROES"
ANTON ARENSKY: VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF TCHAIKOVSKY
TARIK O'REGAN: MARTYR – premiere of a new
commission on the life of St Alban
JOSEPH HAYDN: NELSON MASS
plus short atmospheric works for unaccompanied choir

Tickets: Reserved: £22.50, £17.50, £12.50. Unreserved: £5. (Children / fulltime students: all tickets £1). Also available from the Ticket Secretary on 0845 658 8982 (local rate).

Pre concert talk by Tarik O'Regan at 6.45pm