Noisy kids wanted for SASO’s musical fancy-dress party!
Children of all ages will be able to experience the thrilling sound of a symphony orchestra in full cry!
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Children of all ages will be able to experience the thrilling sound of a symphony orchestra in full cry!
Legacy helps SASO to scale the Alpine Symphony’s heights
St Albans Symphony Orchestra (SASO) has celebrated the life of a woman known to many in the city as ‘”the little lady on the bicycle” by performing one of the biggest and loudest pieces of…
Festival Concert is a family affair for SASO’s conductor
St Albans Symphony Orchestra’s Festival Concert promises to be a family affair on Saturday 23rd June when conductor Bjorn Bantock leads the performers in music composed 80 years ago by his great-grandfather, Sir Granville Bantock…
Conductors wield the cake knife at SASO’s 80th birthday party
Three conductors helped St Albans Symphony Orchestra to celebrate its 80th anniversary last week together with violinist Jennifer Wigram – the orchestra’s leader who has worked with all of them during the past 30 years….
SASO celebrates 80 years of music-making with top-ten classics
St Albans Symphony Orchestra is to celebrate its 80th anniversary by performing two of Britain’s best-loved classics: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto and the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven (7.30pm, Saturday 28th April, St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane, St Albans). The young Russian-born virtuoso Alissa Firsova will…
St Albans and Watford forces combine to perform Verdi’s searing Requiem
The musical forces of St Albans Symphony Orchestra and the Watford Philharmonic Society join together this month to perform Verdi’s blazing Requiem –the most famously spine-tingling of all settings of the Latin funeral mass (7.30pm,…
Donors invited to bang the drum for SASO
Conductor Bjorn Bantock (with SASO percussioni Kieran McGuirk) needs a bigger drum to bash. St Albans Symphony Orchestra is promising music lovers plenty of boom for their bucks if they contribute to a campaign to…
ORCHESTRA RAISES RECORD SUMS FOR CHARITY
As published in the letters column of the Herts Advertiser: Dear Editor We would like to thank warmly, through your columns, everyone who contributed so generously to three different Christmas and New Year charity collections…
Dear Santa…. please bring Bjorn a groovy güiro!
Urgent message for Santa: aftershave and novelty socks won’t do for conductor Bjorn Bantock as he prepares to conduct his first New Year’s Day concert in St Albans Abbey. What he really needs for Christmas…
Anything but a quiet life…
Bjorn Bantock, SASO’s new conductor, looks forward to the orchestra’s 2010-11 season Despite an increasingly successful international career, Bjorn Bantock, who has been appointed Principal Conductor of the St Albans Symphony Orchestra (SASO) for its…