Dear All
Firstly, massive congratulations to Sinfonia and thanks to Ian Smith, who have had a fabulous week with a mention on Radio 3 and a great concert yesterday as part of the Malcolm Arnold Festival in Northampton! I heard that it went very well and that the soloists were great. With coffee and homemade cake laid on for you too, it sounded like an enjoyable experience all round!
Karen and I are mid-handover in terms of the Chair role! Thank you for your patience whilst we sort out the final bits and pieces.
From now, to reach Karen, pelase email: [email protected]
I will be continuing with the Publicity and sending out the newsletter, so you can still hit reply to reach me or email me on my personal email address: [email protected].
Please note that our "from our friends" section is a space where you can share timely and relevant information for our Members. If you'd like to put something in, please email to me before midday on Friday for the Monday newsletter. If you have a graphic or an image, it's better. I can't promise to include everything, but if it is relevant to lots of people (and is music related!), I'm happy to put it in.
With best wishes
Ann
BSO Information:
Message from Bjorn: Double basses sounded wonderful this week! And great Horn sound too!
Next week we will rehearse:
Dvorak Complete play through
Mendelssohn Complete
REHEARSAL WEDNESDAY 22nd October
7.30-9.30pm at BGI
Please note there is NO rehearsal on Wednesday 29th October. (Half term)
Sinfonia Information:
Message from Ian:
Thank you to all the Sinfonia players who played in the concert in Northampton on Sunday. I shall add a further comment next week as I am writing this before we have played the concert!!
Message from Ann for Publicity:
Our target is to sell 100 full Season tickets, which would give us a fabulous head start to the season! With 10 days to go til the end of October when the 20% discount will be finished, let’s give it a final push!
Check it out for your family and friends here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bedfordshire-orchestral-society
Please note that the disocunt is applied at the end of the buying process!
For BSO, it's time to start selling your 10 tickets... 4 weeks to go
Book tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bedfordshire-orchestral-society
From our Friends:
All members of this wonderful sextet are members of BOS and perform with us on a regular basis! Their concert is next Saturday - not to be missed!
Concerts at St Andrew’s: Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, Saturday 8th November 2025 at St Andrew’s Church
The concert is going to be preceded at 6.45pm by a Q&A session, with Ian Smith leading the discussion and Carolyn, Joseph and the composer Deborah Pritchard contributing.
The performance will begin at 7.30pm. Sir Roger Wright will provide some introductions. The evening will include music by Bach, Britten, Poulenc and Purcell. Joseph will perform Erik Satie to show off the piano; as you know the St Andrew's Church Choir will also sing. There will be the world premiere of a new song cycle by Deborah Pritchard, featuring settings of poems by John Clare, Siegfried Sassoon and Emily Dickinson among others.
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