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Concert 150: Saturday 12 November 2016 at 19:30 "Romeo and Juliet" Cornerstone, Didcot OX11 7NE
"Romeo and Juliet" - Classical music to celebrate a pair of star-crossed lovers, also celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
Delius	A Village Romeo and Juliet: Walk to the Paradise Garden 232
Prokofiev	Romeo and Juliet: Suite no 2 45
Gounod	Romeo et Juliette: Ballet Music
Tchaikovsky	Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture 107

Concert 151: Saturday 28 January 2017 at 19:30 St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Glazunov	Poeme Lyrique
Brahms	Violin Concerto (Irmina Trynkos) 93
Dvorak	Symphony no 4 in D minor
International violin vituoso Irmina Trynkos, who has recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Naxos, joins us for the Brahms Violin Concerto, and we complete our cycle of the mature symphonies of Dvorak with the tuneful Fourth.

Concert 152: Saturday 29 April 2017 at 19:30 St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Wagner	Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
Bizet	Carmen: Suites 1 and 2 (Mary Pope, soprano) 99
Shostakovich	Jazz Suite no 2 136
Wagner	Gotterdammerung: Brunhilde's Immolation Scene and Finale (Mary Pope) 256
We welcome a return visit of soprano Mary Pope (after last performing with SGO in 1993 - 24 years ago!) to sing the contrasting repertoire of Bizet's lyrical Carmen and the dramatic end of Wagner's Ring cycle.

Concert 153: Sunday 7 May 2017 from 11:30 to 18:30 (concert at 17:00) "Maestro 2017 Conducting Masterclass" Silk Hall, Radley College, Abingdon OX14 2HR
Repertoire	To be announced
Having done so in 2013 and 2015, St Giles Orchestra is partnering with the Abingdon Music Festival, for "Maestro 2017" - a conducting competition led by internationally recognised expert Peter Stark. Maestro is based on the BBC programmes of the same name to which Peter was series consultant. For Maestro 2009 and 2011 the participating musicians were aged between 15-22 years, and Maestro 2013 focused on a musicians aged 25 years and over. In 2015, the eight participants were under the age of 16. SGO's Conductor and Musical Director, Geoffrey Bushell, observes all the masterclasses and with representatives of the orchestra assists Peter in selecting the winners. The First Prize will be the opportunity to conduct a piece in a future St Giles Orchestra public concert.

Concert 154: Saturday 1 July 2017 at 19:30 St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Svendsen	Zorahayda
Mozart	Sinfonia Concertante K297b (Matthias Winkel, oboe; Jackie Bushell, clarinet; Steve Guard, horn; Jonathan Ross, bassoon)
Elgar	Enigma Variations 8
Norwegian composer Johan Svendsen opens our concert with his unjustly neglected Zorahayda, a love story between a Moorish princess and a Christian Knight. Elgar's Enigma Variations remain one of the most popular pieces of classical music of all time. Four current and former members of SGO reassemble to play Mozart's evergreen Sinfonia Concertante.

Concert 155: Saturday 11 November 2017 at 19:30 "By the Sleepy Lagoon - Desert Island Discs" Cornerstone, Didcot OX11 7NE
"By the Sleepy Lagoon - Desert Island Discs" - a celebration of British Light Classical Music by Coates, Elgar and many others made famous in TV and radio signature tunes.
Eric Coates	London Everyday Suite
Ronald Binge	Elizabethan Serenade 279
Eric Coates	By the Sleepy Lagoon (Desert Island Discs)
Eric Coates	Calling All Workers (Mrs Dale's Diary)
Vivian Ellis	Coronation Scot
Eric Coates	Three Bears Phantasy
Edward Elgar	The Starlight Express: Waltz
Percy Grainger	Londonderry Air
Edward Elgar	Dream Children
Vaughan Williams	Fantasy on Greensleeves 125
Coleridge-Taylor	Petite Suite de Concert

Concert 156: Saturday 20 January 2018 at 19:30 St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Strauss, J II	Die Fledermaus: Overture 244
Waghalter	Violin Concerto (Irmina Trynkos)
Waghalter	Rhapsody (Irmina Trynkos)
Massenet	Thais: Meditation (Irmina Trynkos) 76
Strauss, J II	Roses from the South
Strauss, J II	Burning Love Polka
Strauss, J II	Morning Papers
Strauss, J II	Wine, Woman and Song
Strauss, J II	Wiener Blut
Strauss, J II	Voices of Spring
International violin vituoso Irmina Trynkos returns to play the long lost Violin Concerto by Ignatz Waghalter (1881-1949), after her acclaimed Naxos recording of the work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. We are hoping that the concert will be attended by Waghalter's grandson David Green who has been instrumental in promoting his grandfather's works on their rediscovery almost 100 years since they were written and first performed.

Concert 157: Saturday 21 April 2018 at 19:30 St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Berlioz	Hungarian March
Litolff	Concerto Symphonique: Scherzo and Adagio Religioso (Bethe Levvy) 188
Addinsell	Warsaw Concerto (Bethe Levvy) 154
Rachmaninov	Symphony no 2 in E minor 27
This programme features the popular Warsaw Concerto and two movements from the Litolff concerto that contains the famous scherzo. Rachmaninov's Second Symphony is unmissable.

Concert 158: Saturday 30 June 2018 at 19:30 St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Coleridge-Taylor	Ballade in A minor
Grieg	Piano Concerto (Olga Jegunova) 13
Suk	Elegie
Suk	Fairy Tale
St Giles Orchestra has been fortunate to attract celebrated Latvian pianist Olga Jegunova. Olga has won international piano competitions in France, Germany and Switzerland, and regularly performs at festivals and masterclasses throughout Europe. This performance of Grieg's immortal concerto is not to be missed. Also featuring rare opportunity to hear the unjustly neglected symphony-like Fairy Tale by Josef Suk and a commissioned offered to Coleridge-Taylor at the suggestion of Elgar.

Concert 159: November 2018 Cornerstone, Didcot OX11 7NE
Programme	To be announced

Concert 160: January 2019 St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Dvorak	The Golden Spinning Wheel
Mendelssohn	Two Concert Pieces for two clarinets (Peter Newman, Jackie Bushell)
Brahms	Symphony no 4 197
We could have called this concert "Master and Pupil" as Jackie Bushell and her former teacher Peter Newman are performing together for the first time since they met over 30 years ago. Dvorak's tone picture "The Golden Spinning Wheel" is not often played but has some memorable tunes, and the ever-popular Fourth Symphony of Brahms is not to be missed.