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84 – City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Steve Bingham
Date – 17th June 2017, 7:30 pm
Venue – Voyager Concert Hall, Peterborough, PE4 6HX

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME in the centenary tour with live orchestral music

The City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra are playing a new score live with the film of The Battle of the Somme on Saturday, June 17, 7.30pm, at the Voyager Academy.

The Battle of the Somme remains one of the most successful British films ever made. The film was made by British official cinematographers, Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell. The Battle of the Somme gave its 1916 audience an unprecedented insight into the realities of trench warfare, controversially including the depiction of wounded and dead soldiers.  British-born Laura Rossi has written the score.

From 6.30pm there will be a pre-concert talk by historian Roger Smither, former keeper of the Imperial War Museum’s Film and Video Archive and Research Assistant at IWM until 2016.  The museum was responsible for the restoration the film. There will also be an exhibition of WW1 memorabilia and photographs

6.15pm Exhibition open to all Teas and coffees available
6.30pm Pre-concert talk in Atrium by historian Roger Smither
7pm Concert hall doors open – 7.30pm Film with orchestral soundtrack
8.45pm Film ends Exhibition remains open
Join us in the atrium for a glass of wine or soft drink after the film 9.30pm Finish

Roger Smither

I am the former Keeper of the Imperial War Museum’s Film and Video Archive (retired 2010, though I remained linked to IWM as a Research Associate until December 2016) and was in that post when IWM undertook the restoration of the film ‘The Battle of the Somme’ and commissioned Laura Rossi’s score for it; I also initiated the procedure to have the film inscribed on UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ register.  I have published a few articles about ‘Battle of the Somme’ and other First World War films and am the voice on the commentary soundtrack on IWM’s DVD release of the restored BOTS film.

Audience feedback

My family and I went to see the Battle of the Somme film yesterday as played by the Peterborough Symphony orchestra. 

I must say it was an amazing evening. The film is incredibly detailed and moving but your soundtrack made so much more emotive. 

I hope this make sense but we found we forgot that we were watching a silent movie because the music was so fitting with the images.

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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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