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Music for Spring
With Nick Concannon Hodges recovering from a recent illness, Todmorden Orchestra’s Spring Concert had Connor Lyster on the podium. Lyster, a professional…
Twentieth Century Fest
Todmorden Orchestra under their conductor Nicholas Concannon Hodges, promised us a “20th Century Fest”. The programme featured music by Britten, Debussy, D’Indy,…
Purely Classical
Edward Elgar – Overture ‘Cockaigne’ (1901) Carl Nielsen – Flute Concerto (1926) Johannes Brahms – Symphony no. 2 (1877) Adding zest to…
From Finland to London
The evening of Saturday 19 November offered another opportunity to assess the strengths of the Todmorden Symphony Orchestra in their mixed programme…
Where Scotland Meets Ireland
Celtic Collisions Hamish MacCunn – The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1887) Max Bruch – Scottish Fantasy (1880) with Shuwei…
New Beginnings
Old and new worlds jostle in a traditional programme Todmorden with its motto ‘By Industry We Prosper’ has a gleamingly spruced up…
Vienna… and beyond
On Saturday 18 January 2020, to welcome another musical year, Todmorden Orchestra presented a varied evening of masterpieces largely from the European…
Music for a century
Tragedy, fairy-tales and childhood visions in Yorkshire Malcolm Arnold – Overture: Peterloo (1967) Igor Stravinsky – Firebird Suite (1919) Gustav Mahler –…
Fame and farewell
Todmorden’s magnificent, Grade 1-listed Town Hall, dating from 1875, straddles county boundaries and county loyalties. The latter seems tired in the face…
From Italy to England
From the first wind entry with its undercurrent of string pizzicato, Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances developed its courtly ambiance. Variously rhythmic…