Bewick Orchestra Charity Concert in aid of Marie Curie North East on 17th May

The Bewick Orchestra is once again giving a charity concert in Morpeth, this time in aid of Marie Curie North East, and the programme is guaranteed to entertain, inform and delight the audience! Not only will there be two works being given their first performance in the region but one will involve two outstanding local musicians. The concerto by Max Bruch for clarinet and viola is unjustly very rarely heard but is full of Bruch's romantic melodies and balances the two instruments wonderfully. Soloists Jonathan Caudle and Mike Gerrard are already well known to Morpeth audiences due to their appearances with the orchestra in previous concerts. Jonathan is a local GP and plays regularly with the New Tyneside and European Doctors Orchestras while Mike is Leader of the violas in the Royal Northern Sinfonia. The programme includes the overture to 'Cosi fan Tutte' by Mozart and a symphony by the quite recently 'rediscovered' French composer Louise Farrenc whose music has unjustly lain unknown since the nineteenth century. She became the first ever woman to be appointed to a professorship in the Paris Conservatory where she stayed for 30 years writing an impressive amount of classical music as well as teaching and playing the piano. Her third symphony, which will be the final item on the programme, is an amazingly energetic work equal to anything written by Beethoven or Mozart. Conductor for the concert will be Dave Tomson, a recently retired GP and long-standing member of the Bewick Orchestra who occasionally comes to the front to wield his baton. The concert will be held in St James' Church, Morpeth on Saturday 17^th May at 7.30. Tickets (£10, children free) are available from Morpeth Chantry tel: 01670 623455, and at the door.   Marie Curie is a charity that provides expert end-of-life care for people with any potentially fatal illness and supports their family and friends, both in its hospices and in their own homes.  It is the largest charity funder of palliative and end-of-life care research in the UK and campaigns to ensure everyone has a good end-of-life experience.