28th and 29th November 2000

Each year, the orchestra decamps to a hotel for a weekend of play-throughs, workshops and partying. This year we went to the seaside resort of Bournemouth. It was a really fun weekend, with everyone enjoying the opportunity to play a wider variety of music than we normally manage in concert rehearsals in a more informal environment.

Some of the music we just rattled through for fun, some we spent some time over to rehearse and draw out some subtleties - the pieces we got through included:

Mozart - Jupiter Symphony
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia
Sullivan - Overture
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scherazade
and others from Ravel, Debussy, Haydn etc

So, here our our holiday snaps for you to enjoy - which perhaps show a different side to the orchestra to the one you see on the stage...

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