Category: Reviews
Orchestra’s night fever
Herts Advertiser critic John Manning thoroughly enjoyed SASO’s Orchestral Colours concert What a night the St Albans Symphony Orchestra gave its audience on Saturday. Orchestral Colours was the name of the programme it presented at St Saviour’s Church in St Albans and that was exactly what it gave, from the sparkling pyrotechnics of Shostakovich’s Festival …
Orchestra Rings the Changes
November 2012 – John Manning writes in the Herts Advertiser “Although the opening work of the evening was (Wagner’s) popular Ride of the Valkyries, the real sensation was a concert presentation of Act 1 Scene three, the famous love duet from the same opera. Superb in the role of Siegmund was tenor Jonathan Finney whose …
Celebrations for Symphony Orchestra
May 2012 – Lynn Carter reviews SASO’s 80th birthday concert for the Herts Advertiser “The concert was especially poignant as the musicians celebrated their legacy of 80 years of performances… drawing an incredible audience of over 300 people – their largest audience to date in St Saviour’s Church “The programme opened with Sibelius’ canonic work …
New Years Day Concert Review
January 2011 ~ John Manning writes in the Herts Advertiser
EVEN though Ellie Fagg has been one of the most popular young local musicians for many years her performance with St Albans Symphony Orchestra at its traditional New Year’s Day concert was her first appearance at St Albans Abbey.
Symphony orchestra’s full-scale success
March 2011 – John Manning writes in the Herts Advertiser
If the size of the audience was anything to go by St Albans Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Saturday must have been its most successful in years. And the overall high standard of the performances ensured that those who packed into St Saviour’s Church for the evening were not disappointed.
