2012 Season

Saturday 17 March
Tuesday 27 March
Friday 6 April
Saturday 21 April
Saturday 28 April
Monday 7 May
Saturday 12 May
Wednesday 30 May

***Elgar Festival***
Thursday 31 May
Friday 1 June
Saturday 2nd June

ROYAL JUBILEE ELGAR FESTIVAL NEWS

ESO, in partnership with the Elgar Foundation, is promoting an Elgar Festival in Worcester over the course of the Elgar "birthday" weekend, which leads up to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on the Monday, June 4th.

The Festival box office will open on February 1st, when a festival brochure will also be produced. Priority booking for Festival Passes allowing access to all the main concerts has been made available to ESO Friends and members of the Elgar Society. These passes will be issued at the end of January, after which they will be available to everyone.

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ESO Beginners and Intermediate Orchestra Courses

The 2011 courses were hugely successful, especially the Intermediate course, which almost outgrew the space available for it. Please register an interest for future courses either by contacting Peter Sheeran at peter.sheeran@btinternet.com or the ESO head office at info@eso.co.uk. 2012 - Download application form here. February 11,12 Beginners Course February 18, 19 Intermediate Course These courses will take place at the Downs, Malvern, a school in in Colwall that backs on to the hills - a spectacular setting.

STORYTIME

ESO performed Storytime, a programme designed for pre-schools devised by Margaret Archibald of the Londopn Mozart Players, to a delighted audience of about 100 under-5s on August 17th. At the concert the name of the Conductor Bear was revealed - Guiseppe Berdi (chosen from a hat!) - but this had mutated to Sir Ted by the end of the hour's concert....

CONCERTS IN CARE HOMES AND HOSPICES

Recent Series:

Thursday 22nd December 2011

11 - 12 Perrins House, Malvern (new) Julie Gardener 01684 562701 WR14 2TZ
2 - 3 Storer Court, Barnards Green
4 - 5 Hastings, Barnards Green Rd
6 - 7.30 Leadon Bank, Ledbury (new) Ursula Ashworth 01531 632657 HR8 1BY

Featuring Downside Up (Corinne Frost and Stephen Warner

Last series - July 13th 2011 in Ledbury and Leominster featuring the ESO Winds (Catherine Handley, Graeme Adams, Alison Lambert and Keith Rubach). Here is some feedback from one of the venues:

"It was absolutely fantastic! So many people came up to me and said 'can we have them again next year' and 'do they have a DVD out?'.

The band of musicians were wonderful and I think they really enjoyed it too - they mentioned that it was great to have such an interactive audience! Bob Anderson, our photographer, said he will let me have the photos asap and I will forward them on to you when I get them.

Please add me to your newsletter mailing list so that I can promote in our own literature. I really hope we have the opportunity to do something else together in the very near future. Please pass on my sincere thanks to the musicians involved."

Wendy Rutter-Butcher Leominster Day-Care Centre

We had in fact already decided to make a DVD of the concert programme and are investigating the costs with a local film-maker. Both for this and for more series we are raising funds NOW. If you would like to contribute please call 01386 791021. There is no worthier cause.

English String Orchestra at Berkeley Castle