The Essential Guide Magazine Culcheth May - June 2014 | Page 72
Essential Feature
Northern Chamber
Orchestra
NCO’s Carnival of the Animals is coming
to town! - with a Carnival Classics concert
and an exciting schools project
What does an elephant, a lion, a rooster,
a tortoise, a kangaroo, a donkey, a swan,
a fossil, a wolf, a bear and a pianist have
in common? They’re all part of the
Northern Chamber Orchestra’s exciting
classical music extravaganza - The
Carnival of the Animals!
The critically-acclaimed NCO has teamed
up with Accent
Warrington
&
Halton
Music
Education Hub
to bring to town
one of the alltime favourite
pieces
of
classical music
for adults and
children alike
- Saint-Saëns’
Carnival of the
Animals - on
Thursday
26
June, 2014, at
Warrington’s Parr Hall, with
a participatory primary schools concert,
followed by a not-to-be-missed, popular
‘Carnival’ Classics evening concert, which
is open to the public.
The education project is one of the most
ambitious and innovative, schools multiart form initiatives ever presented across
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Wa r r i n g t o n
&
Halton.
NCO
and
Accent Music
Education Hub
are working in
partnership to
give hundreds
of children from
fifteen primary
schools,
the
opportunity to
participate
in
hands-on Carnival of the Animals music
composition, dance, poetry and visual
arts workshops. They will then get to
perform their work, alongside the NCO,
to an audience of classmates and teachers
at a dynamic schools concert at Parr Hall
on the afternoon of Thursday 26 June.
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Janice Pounds, Arts Advisor / Strategic
Lead, Accent Warrington & Halton Music
Education Hub said: ”The Carnival of the
Animal’s project will provide a wonderful
opportunity for approximately 450
children in Warrington and Halton to
participate in a cross-arts event, working
with a professional orchestra.”
Carnival Classics Evening Concert
NCO’s fabulous evening concert on the
same day will open up Carnival of the
Animals to the wider community, as
NCO players perform the quirkily comic
Saint-Saëns score, as part of a popular
classics concert at Parr Hall at 7.30pm accompanied by the imaginative poems
of renowned Liverpool poet, Terry Caffrey.
Copland’s stunning Appalachian Spring
and excerpts from Grieg’s Norwegian
Dances and Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances
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