Festive Flutes 40th Anniversary Concert

Our Musical Director, Liz Walker is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of being in the Festive Flutes ensemble.  They have been a professional flute “orchestra” for this length of time,and have included appearing on Opportunity Knocks as part of their CV.

Their programme is:

Nonsense and Fantasy

Mel Orriss/E.Lear              Nonsense!   flute quartet and narrator

Ravel arr. Orriss                 Ma Mère l’Oye

1) Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (2) Petit Poucet (3) Laideronnette, Impératice des pagodes

Mel Orriss/Trad                   The House that Jack Built           flute quartet and narrator

Flights of Fancy

W.A. Mozart                                     Out of Africa! Adagio from Clarinet Concerto K.622

Lennon/McCartney                      Blackbird                  flute quartet and metronome

Trad. arr. Orriss                  The Three Ravens

Sherwin/Maschwitz                      A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Interval

Whistlestop!

E White arr. Orriss             Puffin’ Billy

Walton arr. Orriss              Façade                      flute quartet and narrator

1) Popular Song (2) Jodelling Song (3) Tarantella

Lennon/McCartney                      Eleanor Rigby

Guildhall School of Music and Drama Flute Quartet

Overnight Sensations!

C.Porter arr. J. Carr                       In Love with Paris

Rodgers/Hammerstein   The Lonely Goatherd

Newmann               Sandman’s Coming from Faust