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5 May 2008
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1997 Concert Season

Music Director: Paul Payton

Saturday, January 18th 7.30pm

New Year Concert

The Albert Hall, Bolton
With soloists and Chorus of Opera'74

An evening of Viennese musical magic featuring favourite waltzes and polkas by the Strauss Family, music from Lehar's operetta 'The Land of Smiles' and Richard Strauss's 'Der Rosenkavalier'.

Sunday March 9th 3.00pm

Invitation to the Dance

The Great Hall, Boys Division, Bolton School

Programme including:
Weber: Invitation to dance
Dvorak: Slavonic dances
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite
Ravel: Valse nobels et sentimentales
Liszt: Totentanz
(Soloist - Jacqueline Davies (piano))
Stravinsky: Firebird Ballet Suite

Saturday April 19th 7.30pm

Bolton Sinfonietta

Stravinsky and the Swiss Connection
Thornleigh Salesian College Chapel

Programme including:
Mozart: Symphony No. 5
Stravinsky: Concerto in D (Basle)
Weber: Bassoon Concerto
(Soloist - Karen Thorp)

Saturday May 17th 7.30pm

Victoria Hall, Bolton

With the Bolton Catholic Musical & Choral Society
Soloists: Jane Evans - Soprano
Martin Roche - Tenor
Alan Roscoe - Baritone

Orff: Carmina Burana
Faure: Requiem

Sunday June 29th 7.30pm

A Night at the Cinema

The Albert Hall, Bolton

A concert of memorable melodies from the silver screen featuring music from 'Star Wars', 'Chariots of Fire' and 'The Damsbusters'.

Saturday August 23rd 7.30pm

Bolton Festival Orchestra

Victoria Hall, Bolton

Programme including:

Violin Concerto Soloist - Leland Chan

Saturday, October 4th 7.30pm

The British Muse I

Bolton Sinfonietta
Thornleigh Salesian College Chapel

Programme including:
Elgar: Dream Children
Butterworth: The banks of green willow
Alwyn: Scottish Dances
Vinter: Hunters Moon
(Soloist - Mark Almond (French Horn))
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 'The London'

Sunday November 23rd 3.00pm

The British Muse II

The Great Hall, Boys Division, Bolton School

Programme including:
Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne'
Ireland: Piano concerto
(Soloist - Jacqueline Davies)
Walton: Symphony No. 1

Saturday December 20th 7.30pm

Bolton Sinfonietta
Thornleigh Salesian College Chapel

Christmas by Candlelight
Seasonal orchestral and vocal music in a candlelit setting

Programme including:
Correlli: Christmas Concerto
Telemann: Christmas Aria; 'Leibster Jesu'
(Soloist - Jane Hyde (Soprano))
Gade: Children's Christmas Eve
Rowley: The Boyhood of Christ - Five Scenes

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