Settle Orchestra played in its 50th Anniversary concert on Saturday 24 June in Christ Church, Skipton. Here is a photographic record of the event.
[Photos by Tom Knapp]
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- The 50th birthday cake
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- Members of the orchestra enter.
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- Timpani and percussion ready for action
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- Awaiting the entry of…
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- …Vice-president and former conductor Howard Rogerson, who conducted the ‘Caliph of Bagdad’
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- Chairman Danny Powell with a list of some of the pieces that the orchestra has played in the last 50 years!
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- Julia Glossop recalling the early history of the orchestra
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- Edward Percival (centre), trombonist and composer of one of our commissioned new pieces.
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- Ola Ness conducted the remaining pieces…
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- including Elgar’s Cello Concerto…
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- …with Owain Smith as the soloist
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- Here’s to the next 50 years!