Symphony orchestra’s free spring concert
Spring into spring with a free concert by a top local orchestra.
Sunderland Symphony Orchestra (SSO) will be staging its seasonal Spring Concert at Sunderland Minster on Saturday, March 25 at 7.30pm.
Audience members can look forward to a varied programme of well-known and popular pieces of classical and light music, including the playingofFranvonSuppeLight Cavalry Overture, a concert favourite depicting the gallop of a cavalry troop.
Other much-loved classical pieces of music will include Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco by Verdi, CarmenSuiteNo1byBizetand two of Mozart’s compositions will feature Ave Verum Corpus andSymphonyNo35(Haffner).
The audience also has the chance to get into the swing alongwiththeorchestra,when they play one of the all-time greatest jazz standards of the 1930s,LouisPrima’sSing,Sing, Sing popularised by the great Benny Goodman Orchestra.
March’s concert marks a change of venue for the orchestra, and they’re looking to utilise other locations in the future.
Mark Greenfield, the relational lead for SSO, said: “This concert marks the beginning of a new chapter for the orchestra.
"SincetheinceptionofSunderland Symphony Orchestra (formerly City of Sunderland Millennium Orchestral Society) in 1999, the orchestra has enjoyed a very happy and rewarding residency at West Park Church, and it was most touching that our last public performance at West Park Church last December was filled to capacity.
"Butwestartaneweralooking forward to taking our public performances to different venues across the city.”
MarksaysSSOislookingfor venues that can take up to 50 musiciansandanaudiencecapacity between 250-300.
Any interested theatres, churches, schools, colleges and community associations acrossthecityareaskedtocontact the orchestra via its websitewww.sunderlandso.org.uk
Future concerts will also include the Summer Concert public performance at St Gabriel’sChurchonChesterRoad on Saturday, July 19.
The Spring Concert will again be a free ticketed event, with an open retiring collection to support the activities oftheorchestra.Toobtainfree tickets visit the Sunderland Symphony Orchestra website at www.sunderlandso.org.uk or telephone 07887 881442.