Bristol Schools Prom Concert

Sunday 27th March 2011 at 6pm David Ogden and Mark Finch conduct a mixed choir of 200 singers from more than 20 secondary schools in and around Bristol together with the 70-strong Bristol Schools’ Philharmonia in Bristol Arts and Music Service’s first Bristol Schools’ Proms.The programme includes Dvorak’s joyful Te Deum, Parry’s evergreen Blest Pair of Sirens and a medley of favourite songs by George Gershwin. Also included in the exciting programme are folksongs and choruses for separate boys and girls voices and orchestral numbers such as Holst’s Somerset Rhapsody, Bernstein West Side Story Suite and music by John Barry in Themes from 007. Martin le Poidevin (bass) and Tracey Hansford (soprano) will be joining in the fun and the evening will be compered by local celeb and BBC Archers vicar, John Telfer. The concert is in aid of the Cots for Tots Appeal which supports special care babies at St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol. Tickets are £10 for adults, £5 concessions, available from the Colston Hall box office on 0117 922 3686 or http://www.colstonhall.org/