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 72 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. LIVE LOCAL? BUY LOCAL! 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 continued on page 74 Eight issues in Culcheth • Lymm • Great Sankey & Penketh • Chapelford Stockton Heath & Appleton • Thelwall, Latchford & Grappenhall • Birchwood • Lowton & Golborne. To advertise in Please call 01925 766742 73