Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra

Year : 1970

Leader : Robert Heard

Easter Course : Oxford with Sir Michael Tippett, Sir Arthur Bliss, Bryan Kelly,

Frank Wibaut, William Glock, Fred Woods and Herbert Chappell

Overseas Tour : Germany ( Munster, Herford, Ludinghausen )

Radio : BBC : Bliss, Ives, Tippett and Gershwin from Cheltenham

BBC : Arnold Divertimento from Pye record

Television : Midlands Today : Sir Arthur Bliss at Oxford

Records : Dead in Tune for Argo

Bliss / Tippett / Previn / Chappell / Kelly / Ireland for Argo

Concerts : De Montfort Hall with Pinkett

Peterborough Festival

Cheltenham Festival with Bliss and Tippett

Cheltenham Ladies College

Long Eaton Festival

Loughborough University with Bliss

Stadt Theater, Munster

Conductors : Sir Michael Tippett, Sir Arthur Bliss, Bryan Kelly,

Herbert Chappell and Andre Previn

Soloists : Andrea Sharpe, Eleanor Cooke and Robert Heard ( violin )

Vanessa Hood ( oboe )

Frank Wibaut, Richard Fairhead and Stephen Whittaker ( piano )

Karl - Jurgen Kemmelmeyer and Nigel Allcoat ( organ )

Kathryn Marcer ( soprano )

Repertoire : Tippett Shires Suite, Kelly Cuban Suite, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Bliss Piano Concerto, Delius La Calinda, Gould Spirituals,

Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture, Chappell Panache Overture,

Poulenc Organ Concerto, Bliss Introduction and Allegro,

Albinoni Oboe Concerto No. 3, Ireland Elegy, Bruch Violin Concerto, Rossini - Respighi Boutique Fantasque, Dvorak Romance,

Ives Circus Band, Elgar Cockaigne Overture, Chappell Dead in Tune,

Kelly Sancho Panza Overture, Chappell George and the Dragonfly,

Arnold Trevelyan Suite, Copland Fanfare for the Common Man,

Gabrieli Canzona, Handel O, Had I Jubel's Lyre,

Previn Overture to a Comedy, Shostakovitch Festive Overture