Our talented trio were on the road again in November 2005. They hunted for Bears in Lochaber, and in Stontianwere part of the Sunart Centre Book Festival.
The 7th weekend and 2nd time Scrapers & Tooters have visitied Aberdeen, local musicians worked with SCO players and Stephen Deazley on two pieces of music:
Rossini: Overture to the Italian Girl of Algiers
Beethoven: Allegretto Scherzando, Minuet and Trio
Symphony No 8 in F major
'You are making people happy'
'Thanks for an excellent weekend'
Scrapers & Tooters visitied Perth for the first time in September 2005. The orchestra took part in the opening weekend celebrations 'Come Away In'.
'It was such a joy to see the enthuaiasm of all the amateur players, and the pleasure they took in playing in the new hall'
On 2 June 2005, 35 flautists from 7 different schools attended a workshop given by the SCO flute section Alison Mitchell and Lis Dooner. They worked on warm-ups, technique, and a piece which was performed by all the participants at the end of the day. A few pupils also played solos and duest in a mini masterclass.
In June 2005 SCO Education took the Bear HUnt! trio to Sanday on Orkney as part of St. Magnus on Tour. The trio also worked with the Sanday Fiddle Club, preparing a programme of music for an evening perforamance in th Community Hall. Ther performane included news works by Peter Maxwell Davies and Kevin McCrae as well as an arrangemnet for Farkas' Early Hungarian Dances by Ruth Ellis.
The 4th weekend in Edinburgh tool place in March. Over 60 amateur musicians converged in the capital to look at two pieces of music:
Britten's Courtly Danes from Gloriana
Offenbach's Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
What happens when you have invited the Queen to tea, booked the orchestra to play her favourite tunes and asked all your friends to come too? Will she turn up at all?
The second in the SCO's family concert series, The Queen who Didn't Come to Tea! was a newly commissioned music drama from award-winning Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith. It brought delightfully quirky stories to an orchestra platform packed with fanfares, foibles, battles and bootstraps!
This project was an extension of the Scrapers & Tooters programme for amateur musicians. Sixteen amateur woodwind and brass players gathered at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh for an intensive weekend of music making. Forming a wind orchestra, the musicians tackled a new arrnagment of Perr Gynt by Peter Franks, commssisoned specially for the project and conducted by Stephen Deazley. the players also formed two wind quintets and a brass quintet, receiveing expert tuition from three SCO muscians.
The fruits of their labours were shared with friends and families at an informal performance at the Queen's Hall on the Sunday evening.
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