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58 – Project Orkest Somme100 Noord conducted by Hildo Flierman
Date – 5th March 2017, 3:30 pm
Venue – Grand Theatre, Grote Markt 35, 9711 LV Groningen

Conductor Hildo Flierman co-ordinated 4 orchestral concerts performing Laura Rossi’s score to The Battle of the Somme live with the film across the Netherlands. He put an orchestra together especially for these concerts called Project Orkest Somme100 Noord. The orchestra consists of enthusiastic advanced amateur musicians from various associations and professional string players including Minerva String Quartet. The players come from places including Harlingen, Franeker, Heerenveen, Oosterwolde, Groningen, Hair, Assen, Deventer, Emmen and Amsterdam.

Project Orkest Somme100 Noord also brought the Sounding the Somme project to students at Vincent Van Gogh college in Assen. Students composed their own music to footage from the Somme battle, using our resources, which were performed in a concert.

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Hildo Flierman took on this project and co-ordinated four concerts and brought together an orchestra especially for this project. His passion and enthusiasm for the project is shown in the letter below:

“When I first learned about the Somme100Film project, early 2016, I immediately felt I should bring it on in Holland, even though The Netherlands had a neutral status in WWI, and we, Dutchmen, don’t know too much about the Great War at all. The combination of history, by means of the film, the educational side-project and last but not least Laura’s moving and brilliant score, I knew, this would be my once in a lifetime opportunity.

My closest friend, and co-organizer in so many projects Erika Santinge joined forces, and we cycled through the Somme-fields in July ’16, we saw a performance in London, and later on in Teignmouth, we visited IWM, we met Laura and Neill and we started getting an amateur orchestra together for 2 live screenings in the Northern part of Holland. End of November we started rehearsing.

We had some troubles to get the instrumentation of the score complete, and reinforced some of the string parts by adding saxophones, and replaced the lower horn parts by Baritone/Euphonium. Professional players from Minerva String Quartet, some of their friends, and principal trumpet player Rani Elias from Syria joined our orchestra.

Our “première” was on March 5th, in Groningen, in Grand Theatre, a former cinema.

Apart from the Battle of the Somme we played Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. The second screening was on March 11th, in the historical church in the village of Smilde. For this particular venue the local Historical Association brought together stories and insights in life during the War years in Holland.

In the meantime Erika and I had introduced the “Sounding the Somme” project to Vincent van Gogh College in the city of Assen. Students composed, rehearsed and selected music to some of the clips provided in that project. How well they succeeded! On March 16th they presented their work.

Finally, our Somme 100 Noord Orchestra was invited for a screening at Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum. Laura and Neill joined us in what would become a true memory for life, for all players and conductor.

Thank you Laura, for your score and inspiration, thank you Somme100Noord orchestra to make it happen, thank you, Erika, for everlasting support, love and friendship.”

Hildo Flierman, conductor

Flute player Lesley posted on FB, march 5th:
“Opening Concert was today. Unbelievable work and concentration for our inspiring director Hildo Flierman. It was a fantastic piece of music to play with this historical film. Playing music makes you hungry!”

“We had a fantastic opening concert for Battle of the Somme in Groningen. We had an audience of nearly 150 people, and opened our concert with Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. Immediately after my brother, who is a historian, spoke an introduction – pointing out some aspects of European backgrounds of WW1, but focussing on the preparations for, and devastating results of the Battle of the Somme. Ending his speech with the impact the film had in England and in Holland as well.” 

Hildo Flierman (conductor)

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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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