Keeping the tickets at 2012 level strikes the right chords

The City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra have announced their 2013 programme, which includes three Sunday afternoon concerts and a Saturday evening event in the Summer.

They kick off on Sunday, March 17, with Elgar’s Froissart overture, Bruch’s violin concerto No1 ( soloist David Le Page, right) and Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony, with Paul Hilliam conducting.

The venue for this Spring concert is the Voyager Academy concert hall in Mountsteven Avenue, Walton, and it will last from 3pm- 5pm.

Tickets are £ 12.50 and £ 10.50 ( concessions), with accompanied children free.

They are available from the orchestra website and the Visitor Information Centre in Bridge Street.

Musical quiz sheets will be on sale at the concert to raise funds for the orchestra.

The sheets will cost £ 1 and many of the answers to the forty questions are places.

If you want to know the style of the questions here is a sneak preview:

Question: Gene Pitney was a day away from this place.

Answer: 24 hours from Tulsa.

Next up is the Summer Concert at the Voyager Academy on Saturday, June 15, from 7.30pm- 9.30pm.

Music is the Marriage of Figaro overture, Britten’s Simple Symphony, Strauss’s horn concerto and Beethoven’s 7th Symphony.

Steve Bingham will conduct.

The Autumn concert is at the Voyager on Sunday, October 20, and the Christmas concert is at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Netherton, on Sunday, December 8.

The orchestra have pegged the ticket prices to 2012 levels because of the financial support of sponsors Moore Stephens and Van Hage.

For more information on the City of Peterborough Symphony orchestra go to www.cpso.org.uk