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62 & 63 – Musica Youth Orchestra conducted by Thom Meredith
Date(s) – 22nd & 23rd March 2017, 7:30 pm
Venue – Huddersfield Town Hall, HD1 2TA, Huddersfield

The Battle of the Somme at Huddersfield Town Hall

Kirkless Programme

This was a very moving performance which received a 5 star review in The Huddersfield Examiner (click on the image to read)

http://www.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/kirklees-musica-youth-orchestra-the-12807959

Here’s Laura being interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds:

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Ellen Thomson and Laura Rossi led a Sounding the Somme teacher training session which culminated in compositions performed by students from the orchestra:

This was filmed and projected on the screen in Huddersfield Town Hall as the audience entered. They also made a slide show of the orchestra’s own connections to the Somme battle and other local audience connections (following a call-out for stories in the local paper). This was projected at the start of the concert while the orchestra performed Barber’s Adagio for Strings which was very moving and fitting start to the concert.

See the slide show here:

Somme MYO families

Foreword from Thom Meredith – Musical Director, Musica Youth Orchestra (MYO)

On behalf of MYO I would like to thank you for joining us this evening.

MYO is honoured to be part of the Somme100 FILM project. We are always keen to widen our involvement beyond the traditional orchestral works and performances that lie at the core of our events programme. We are also delighted that we are able to support the excellent work that our Mayor, Cllr Jim Dodds, has done to promote and support the work of the Royal British Legion.

Somme100 FILM has enabled us to explore the process of writing a film score through workshops and composition projects; we’ve also been looking into the history of the film and the battle. Members of MYO and their families have been sharing their own personal links with the Somme campaign and some of their photos and stories will be on display this evening.

Many of the faces looking out at us from the cinema screen this evening are teenagers; many of them are the same age or even younger than our musicians. 100 years may have passed since the footage was taken but through Laura Rossi’s score we are able to feel a little closer to the soldiers we see before us.

I am proud of the way in which the orchestra has responded to the challenges and issues raised in the film and the accompanying score and I am very grateful to each one of them for the hard work and maturity they have shown throughout our involvement in this project.

Thom Meredith
Musical Director, MYO Principal, Musica Kirklees

Young musicians to perform live as 1916 film is broadcast in Huddersfield

A plea has gone out to find people who are direct descendants of soldiers who fought on the Somme.

On Thursday, March 23, the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme will be screened at Huddersfield Town Hall accompanied by a live orchestral soundtrack performed by the Musica Youth Orchestra.

Now organisers want to pay tribute to local men who fought in the battle – and dozens lost their lives.

Nick Dolling, Assistant Principal Musica Kirklees, said: “We are also researching local people who are direct descendants of soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme prior to the film showing. We are hoping to have a continuous power point with photos and details of the soldiers to help bring a local link to the event.

“The film received several showings back in 1916 at The Empire, The Picture House and Birkby Palladium.

“An integral part of the Huddersfield screening on March 23 will be the live music courtesy of the MYO, an orchestra comprised of some of the most talented young musicians from our area.”

Laura Rossi, lecturer in Music in Film at the London Film Academy and the composer commissioned to write the orchestral score, will talk the audience as a prelude to the screening.

There will also be an introductory talk by Dr Toby Haggith, senior curator at the Imperial War Museums and composer Laura Rossi.

http://www.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/see-battle-somme-new-live-12716548

The Audience

At every screening we attended audience members wanted to come and speak to IWM curator Toby Haggith and me about their own connections with the battle, and many brought along photos and mementos to show us. This really says a lot about how much these performances mean to people and how much people still feel connected to the Somme battle. It also shows how for so many these performances were a commemorative event.

Here is Mrs J Ware from Huddersfield talking about her father who fought in the Somme battle. She’d brought along her photo album to show us.

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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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