CLEVELAND Chamber Orchestra will perform in Stokesley Methodist Church on March 2 at 3pm.
The recently refurbished church provides a friendly, comfortable setting, where audience and players can enjoy the music together.
The informal atmosphere continues during the interval when musicians and audience mingle in the church hall for free drinks and home-made cakes. Children are welcome.
The orchestra has chosen an attractive programme of popular classics and unusual pieces.
Rossini’s popular overture, The Italian Girl in Algiers, provides a foot-tapping curtain raiser. Respighi’s suite, The Birds, is a delightful reworking of 17th and 18th century music to evoke the songs of birds, including cuckoo, dove, chicken and nightingale.
The orchestra continues to introduce audiences to unusual music with The Spider’s Feast by Roussel, a ballet suite in seven short movements, delicately scored with lots of orchestral colours.
The concert ends with a joyful and witty masterpiece by a genius who wrote to stimulate the intellect and delight the ears – Haydn’s Symphony by No 101, The Clock.
Tickets cost £10, under-18 free, at the door or from clevelandchamberorchestra.co.uk.
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