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Launceston Youth and Community Orchestra Mid Year Concert. When: Friday, 17th June 2016, 7:30pm. Where: City Baptist Church, 11 Frederick St, Launceston. Web: www.lyco.org.au

2016 Mid Year Concert

Highlights will include the Intermezzo Strings playing movements from Peter Warlock’s “Capriol Suite” and the Launceston Symphony Orchestra playing the Overture to “William Tell” by Gioacchino Rossini.

Frequent concert guests may recognise the “Sixteen Sensations” by Australian composer Stephen Chin. Pieces from this collection have appeared at the Residential Summer String Camp in 2012, 2015 and 2016, and the LYCO 2015 Mid Year Concert and 2015 End of Year Concert. At the 2016 Residential Summer String Camp, the Preludio Strings played the first sensation, “Gecko Echo”. Now, at this concert, the Piccolo Strings will for the first time perform the final two sensations, “Bubbles” and “Fiddle Stick Fury”.

When Friday, 17th June 2016, 7:30pm
Where City Baptist Church, 11 Frederick St, Launceston
Entry Gold coin donation

Programme

Piccolo Strings

Asobu
(“Play”)
Keiko Yamada
Bubbles
from “Sixteen Sensations”
Stephen Chin
Fiddle Stick Fury
from “Sixteen Sensations”
Stephen Chin
Sea Suite
1. Shark Attack
2. Barrier Reef
3. Cap’n Jack’s Hornpipe
Kathy & David Blackwell
Stephen Chin
Rainbow

Intermezzo Strings

Cockles and Mussels
(Molly Malone)
James Yorkston & Edmund Forman (?)
Londonderry Air
(Danny Boy)
Traditional Irish
collected by Jane Ross
The Irish Washerwoman
Traditional Irish
Capriol Suite
1. Basse-Danse
2. Pavane
5. Pieds-en-l’air
6. Mattachins
Peter Warlock
The Addams Family Theme
Victor “Vic” Mizzy
arr. Paul Jennings

Launceston Symphony Orchestra

Melodies from Der Rosenkavalier
Richard Strauss
March to the Scaffold
Hector Berlioz
Symphony in C Major (GB115 / WD33)
3. Menuetto (Scherzo)
Georges Bizet
William Tell
Overture
Gioacchino Rossini

Poster

Poster advertising the Launceston Youth and Community Orchestra performing the William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Rossini.

2016 Winter Orchestra Workshop – Election Update

When we scheduled the 2016 Winter Orchestra Workshop, the first weekend in July looked like a good, quiet time of year to hold it. That weekend will no longer be so quiet, as the Saturday will be the day of the 2016 Federal Election. We have created a page of links to Australian Electoral Commission information on:

  • Postal voting,
  • Early voting at a polling place, and
  • Voting during the camp.

You may find it at Winter Orchestra Workshop – 2016 Federal Election.

Listening to the Capriol Suite

For the 2016 Mid Year Concert, the Intermezzo Strings are playing movements from the “Capriol Suite” by Peter Warlock. This work requires careful listening. Some moments are filled with beautiful harmonies, others are written to be so harsh that our teeth grind. How can we learn the difference?

Listening to a recording can help, especially if you read your part while listening. As it happens, the LYCO already has a recording of the Capriol Suite, made during the 2006 Residential Summer String Camp. You can listen to it in the RSSC 2006 Gallery.