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43 – Worthing Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Gibbons
Date – 13th November 2016, 2:45 pm
Venue – Worthing Assembly Hall, Worthing, BN11 1HQ

Worthing Symphony Orchestra commemorates the Battle of the Somme in its centenary year with a unique concert experience.

Along with performing iconic pieces from Elgar and Sibelius, the Remembrance Sunday concert features a special screening of the Imperial War Museum film. This film is accompanied with a commissioned score written by Laura Rossi, performed by the Worthing Symphony Orchestra.

Remembrance Day, The Battle of the Somme – Worthing Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Gibbons at Assembly Hall,

ARTISTIC director and conductor John Gibbons made Worthing Symphony Orchestra history and legend in a remarkable double fell swoop on Remembrance Sunday afternoon. He threw aside the cushions of comfort and consolation to which regulation Remembrance Day music normally takes us. How? By making us visually confront war in the raw. He staged the showing of the 79-minute Imperial War Museum silent film The Battle of The Somme, comprising digitally restored documentary footage shot around the front line, which half the British population saw on cinema screen across the nation in 1916. It was the first glimpse most non-service citizens had seen of killing fields in action and changed their view of the value of war. Timelessly harrowing to view, it was accompanied behind the screen in subdued light by the 52-players strong WSO, directed by Gibbons, playing young contemporary British film composer Laura Rossi’s admirably restrained, sympathetic and euphonious 2006 score in exact synchronisation. Afterwards, audience questions were answered by Rossi and Dr Toby Haggith, the Imperial War Museum’s research department senior curator, who had introduced the film following the concert interval. A large audience with their emotions wrenched apart departed into the evening, but in respect and awe, at the power of this whole programme masterminded by Gibbons.

Richard Amey (Chichester Observer)

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Gallery

100 Performances

(P1) = Performance 1, P2 etc
(SP) = Schools’ Performance
(OR) = Open Rehearsal

01 – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Thiepval, France
02 – Berkhamsted Schools Orchestra
03 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – Chetham’s
04 – Docklands Sinfonia
05 – Southend Orchestra 100
06 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – IWM North
07 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – Manchester Cathedral
08 – Camden Symphony Orchestra
09 – Chester Philharmonic Orchestra – 2 pm
10 – Chester Philharmonic Orchestra – 7:30 pm
11 – Chandos Symphony Orchestra
12 – Music Workshop’s Advanced Music Ensemble – Nottinghamshire
13 – Cambridge Concert Orchestra – Cambridge
14 – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – 3 pm
15 – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – 7 pm
16 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – IWM London
17 – The Angel Orchestra – Catford
18 – Memorial University Chamber Orchestra – 10:30 am
19 – Memorial University Chamber Orchestra – 7 pm
20 – Ealing Symphony Orchestra
21 – Leicester Symphony Orchestra
22 – Falkirk Tryst Orchestra – OR
23 – Falkirk Tryst Orchestra
24 – Studio Symphony Orchestra
25 – The King Edward Musical Society
26 – Jersey Academy of Music & Chetham’s Sinfonia
27 – Animate Orchestra
28 – Cambridge Concert Orchestra
29 – Durham University Symphony Orchestra – 2 pm
30 – Durham University Symphony Orchestra – 7:30 pm
31 – Thames Youth Orchestra – OR
32 – Thames Youth Orchestra
33 – Chichester University Orchestra
34 – Sutton Youth Symphony Orchestra
35 – Collegium Musicum Berlin
36 – Stockport Symphony Orchestra
37 – Westbourne Orchestral Society – P1
38 – Westbourne Orchestral Society – P2
39 – Leeds College of Music Community Orchestra
40 – BBC Concert Orchestra
41 – Glasgow Studio Orchestra
42 – Cardiff University Symphony Orchestra
43 – Worthing Symphony Orchestra
44 – Ealing Youth Orchestra – OR
45 – Ealing Youth Orchestra
46 – BBC Concert Orchestra – OR
47 – BBC Concert Orchestra
48 – Bristol Symphony Orchestra
49 – Camerata Ireland & Sinfonua
50 – Hull Philharmonic Orchestra
51 – Northants County Training Orchestra
52 – Aylesbury Symphony Orchestra
53 – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Exeter
54 – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Teignmouth P1
55 – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Teignmouth P2
56 – The Works’ Community Orchestra – OR
57 – The Works’ Community Orchestra
58 – Somme100 Noord – Groningen
59 – Somme100 Noord – Smilde
60 – Somme100 Noord – Assen
61 – Haringey Youth Orchestra
62 – Musica Kirklees – OR
63 – Musica Kirklees
64 – West of England Youth Orchestra
65 – Suffolk Youth Orchestra – Bury St Edmunds
66 – Suffolk Youth Orchestra – Snape
67 – Somme100 Noord – Amsterdam
68 – Musica Kirklees – OR
69 – Musica Kirklees
70 – Orchestral du Pau – Morlaàs – SP
71 – Orchestral du Pau – Morlaàs
72 – Oxford University Orchestra – OR
73 – Oxford University Orchestra
74 – Pulham Orchestra
75 – Orchestral du Pau – Nay
76 – Hastings Sinfonia – OR
77 – Hastings Sinfonia
78 – Orchestral du Pau – Billère
79 – Cobweb Orchestra – Newcastle P1
80 – Cobweb Orchestra – Newcastle P2
81 – Orchestral du Pau – Pau
82 – British Police Symphony Orchestra – OR
83 – British Police Symphony Orchestra
84 – Peterborough Symphony Orchestra
85 – Stafford Orchestra
86 – Waltham Forest Youth Orchestra – P1
87 – Waltham Forest Youth Orchestra – P2
88 – Combined Armed Forces Orchestra – P1
89 – Combined Armed Forces Orchestra – P2
90 – Airedale Symphony Orchestra – OR
91 – Airedale Symphony Orchestra
92 – Penzance Orchestral Society
93 – Sedbergh Orchestra – Sedburgh
94 – Sedbergh Orchestra – Skipton
95 – Oldham Symphony Orchestra
96 – Cobweb Orchestra – Stanley
97 – Endcliffe Orchestra – OR
98 – Endcliffe Orchestra
99 – Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra
100 – Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra

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