Remembrance Sunday Concert

Sun 13 November 2011  7:00pm - The Anvil, Basingstoke

Conductor:   Stephen Scotchmer

Programme to include:

John Williams Richard Addinsell Eric Coates William Walton   Shostakovich Elgar Powell Rodgers Parker  Charles Kent	Theme from Schindler's List  Warsaw Concerto  Dam Busters March  Spitfire Prelude and Fugue 1st Movt. of 'Leningrad' Symphony 'Nimrod' from 'Enigma Variations' 'Pack Up Your Troubles' 'With A Song In My Heart' 'We'll meet Again' 'The White Cliffs Of Dover'	James Lisney   Sorelle Marsh
Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Royal British Legion.
Leader - Rebecca Totterdell Soprano - Sorelle Marsh Piano - James Lisney

The Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra marks Remembrance Sunday and the 90th anniversary of the Royal British Legion with rousing and reflective music of war, including some of the great wartime film scores and popular songs. The Dam Busters March is evocative of some of the Second World War's momentous exploits, while the Warsaw Concerto, written for the film Dangerous Moonlight, features romantic melodies evoking a love story set in war-torn Poland. Four of the songs made famous by Vera Lynn during the war are sung by Sorelle Marsh (currently in Legally Blonde in the West End), accompanied by specially commissioned orchestral arrangements. The orchestra's leader, Rebecca Totterdell, plays John Williams's heartfelt theme from Schindler's List, a more recent reaction to the losses of war, while Walton's thrilling Spitfire Prelude and Fugue relives our 'finest hour' during the Battle of Britain. The concert finishes with the first movement of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, composed while the Russian city was under siege by the German army and smuggled out of the country to be performed around the world.