The City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra (CCSO) is staging a special concert at West Road Concert Hall and donating funds from the event to Cambridge Past, Present & Future (CambridgePPF) – the local charity that campaigns to keep the city and its surroundings special.
Every year the CCSO performs six concerts. The orchestra’s third concert of 2013 will include Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler; the overture Baba Yaga by Liadov; and Shostakovich’s 1st Cello Concerto with soloist Guy Johnston.
Guy Johnston is well known to Cambridge audiences and a great favourite with the orchestra. Like his brothers, he sang in Kings College choir, and he then went on to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. After that, his career took off, and he has subsequently performed around the world with orchestras including the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia and the St. Petersburg Symphony. Guy has appeared as soloist at the first night of the Proms and is also Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music. This is Guy’s fourth appearance with the CCSO.
The Mahler symphony uses big forces, including seven horns, five trumpets and a large group of woodwind and percussion. The music alternates between delicate expressive melodies and a blaze of sound. At the end the woodwind players are instructed to play with their bells in the air, and horns are told to stand up in order to make the loudest possible sound. The overture Baba Yaga is about a witch who kidnaps and eats small children, and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs.So the audience should be prepared for an exciting evening!
Mary Nealon, Head of Development at CambridgePPF, said: “We are deeply grateful to the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra for gifting us funds from this event. Everyone at the charity – staff, trustees and members alike – is looking forward to an entertaining evening and the chance to hear some of the finest local musicians perform.”
The concert starts at 7:30pm. Beforehand CambridgePPF is holding a drinks reception for its supporters and their friends.
Tickets for the concert cost £18 / £16 for concessions; (there are reductions for children and students). A combined ticket for the concert and CambridgePPF’s reception – which begins at 6:30pm – costs £27 / £25 concessions.
Tickets can be purchased by calling Lorna Gough at CambridgePPF on 01223 243830, extension 201 or emailing her at: [email protected]
For more information about the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra please go to: http://ccso-online.org.uk/
For more information about CambridgePPF go to: www.cambridgeppf.org
About CambridgePPF
Founded as Cambridge Preservation Society in 1928, CambridgePPF is a registered charity campaigning to keep Cambridge and its surroundings special by positively influencing planning developments, delivering environmental education and managing the green spaces and historic buildings in its care. Its diverse property portfolio includes Wandlebury Country Park and its Iron Age Ring; Coton Countryside Reserve; Barnwell Leper Chapel; Bourn Windmill plus various wildlife sites and historic buildings. Key achievements include protecting sites such as Grantchester Meadows, the Gog Magog Hills and Wandlebury Estate from development and helping to establish the Cambridge Green Belt in the 1960s. CambridgePPF has a growing membership, which makes a vital contribution to the cost of conserving, managing and developing its sites. With its HQ at Wandlebury, the charity has a mix of busy full and part-time staff and is run by a Board of Trustees together with Advisory Committees staffed by dedicated volunteers. For more information about the charity and benefits of membership: www.cambridgeppf.org
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City Symphony Orchestra concert supports Cambridge charity
30 April 2013
Classical music lovers who are passionate about green spaces, environmental education and the future of Cambridge, are in for a treat on Saturday 18 May.