Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra

Year : 1969

Leader : Andrea Sharpe

Easter Course : Cirencester with Sir Michael Tippett, Norman Del Mar,

Bryan Kelly, Gareth Morris and Marion Turner

Overseas Tour : Germany ( Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, Hanover, Cologne )

Radio : BBC : Glinka, Butterworth and Hamilton from De Montfort

BBC : Tippett Suite in D from Pye record

RIAS Berlin

Television : Music Now with Sir Michael Tippett : Putnam's Camp

and Interlude II from Cirencester

Concerts : De Montfort Hall with Pinkett

Loughborough Festival with Del Mar

Bath Festival with Tippett

Royal Festival Hall in the presence of The Queen Mother

Philharmonie, Berlin with Tippett

Theater am Aegi, Hanover with Tippett

Hans Sachs Haus, Gelsenkirchen with Tippett

Conductors : Sir Michael Tippett, Norman Del Mar,

Roy Slack and Bernard Keefe ( rehearsal only )

Soloists : Richard Rodney Bennett and Richard Fairhead ( piano )

Helen Attfield ( contralto )

James Watson ( trumpet )

Anne Smith ( cor anglais )

Marion Turner ( violin )

Nicola Swann ( oboe )

Repertoire : Tippett Prologue, Interlude II and Epilogue, Brahms Violin Concerto,

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture,

Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses, Lambert Rio Grande,

Vaughan Williams Old Hundredth, Kelly Sancho Panza Overture,

Butterworth Banks of Green Willow, Hamilton Scottish Dances,

Tippett Sellinger's Round, Copland Quiet City, Delius Brigg Fair,

Elgar Enigma Variations, Bennet American Dances,

Ibert Divertissement, Cimarosa Oboe Concerto, Ives Putnam's Camp