Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra is staging a Christmas concert that looks back hundreds of years at an attempt to cancel Christmas.
The orchestra is joined by guest soprano Rowena Burton who will sing Mozart and Tchaikovsky and narrate the story of the attempted cancellation of Christmas during the English Civil War.
This is a new work by composer Lawrence Killian and the evening will also include the music of Leroy Anderson, Tchaikovky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart and Mendelssohn.
It will also feature the work of much neglected Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), once thought to be more talented than Elgar.
The concert, called Mince Spies and Mozart, will be at Holy Trinity Church on Trinity Street, Huddersfield, on Saturday, December 7 at 7.30pm.
The orchestra’s publicity manager, Fionnuala Donnelly Schmidt, said: “You will meet a snow maiden, join some birds and a pompous procession and simply celebrate all that is good about December.
“So it’s a bit like a Christmas pudding mixing opera, carols, story-telling, film music and orchestral works into a comforting blend.”
The repertoire includes Coleridge-Taylor’s Christmas Overture, Snow Maiden Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart’s Three German Dances, Tchaikovsky’s Olga’s aria from Eugene Onegin op.24 and Mince Spies by Lawrence Killian.
Tickets are £10 adults with children free and are available from the box office at Huddersfield Visitor Information Centre, by phoning the box office on 01484 225755 or online at huddersfieldphilharmonic.co.uk
There is a 10% booking fee.
Written by ANDY HIRST who runs his own Yorkshire freelance journalism agency AH! PR (https://ah-pr.com/) specialising in press releases, blogging, website content, copywriting and ghost-writing autobiographies.
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