News Summary
This is a summary of older news items for this web site, with links to more details further down the page or elsewhere on the site. Note that some old links on this page may no longer work, or may no longer be active.
| 25th November 2017 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for December 2017 is now available, including additional information about the HSO concert at Oaklands School, Waterlooville, on Saturday 2nd December. | |
| 5th November 2017 | Terry Barfoot has kindly written an obituary for Peter Craddock which has now been published in The News. | |
| 3rd November 2017 | The funeral of Peter Craddock is on Tuesday 7th November. For details see the announcement in The News. | |
| 30th October 2017 | For those who would like to know more about Peter Craddock and the early years of Havant Symphony Orchestra, we have made a History page available on this website containing an informative and often amusing article from the July 1987 souvenir programme “Havant Symphony Orchestra – The First Twenty Five Years”. Peter Craddock wrote the first part for the 10th Anniversary of HSO in 1972, then added further updates for the 25th Anniversary in 1987. | |
| 21st October 2017 |
As the musical director of both Havant Orchestras, he conducted Havant Symphony Orchestra for 50 years and also Havant Chamber Orchestra for most of that time before retiring in December 2012 due to ill health. He will be sadly missed by all of us who enjoyed making music with him. We send our deepest sympathy to his wife Sandra and his family. If anyone needs to know details of the funeral arrangements, please contact the Havant Orchestras administrator, Stella Scott, and we will try to make sure you are kept informed. In the longer term we hope that there will be a memorial concert of some sort and we will let you know about arrangements for that when we have them.
We have also received many kind comments and reminiscences from those who
knew him, which we are passing on to his family, and we also hope
to share some of them more widely later.
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| 6th October 2017 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for October 2017 is now available, including additional information about the HCO concert at Ferneham Hall, Fareham, on Saturday 14th October. | |
| 16th July 2017 | We are very pleased to announce that the Bob Harding Bursary Award for Young Conductors for the season 2017-18 has been awarded to Richard Miller, nominated by the Royal College of Music. All three candidates at this year’s auditions were of an excellent standard and it was very difficult to choose between them, with the players and the selection panel being similarly supportive of all three candidates. However, the award aims to provide additional opportunities for a young conductor while giving the orchestra the exciting experience of being conducted by a developing musical talent, and we felt that Richard was in the best position to maximise the combined benefit to the student and to the orchestra. We are eagerly looking forward to working with Richard throughout the next season. | |
| 10th July 2017 | Yesterday we were treated to a wonderful evening of Classical music. … We are grateful to the Mayor of Havant for a very kind Facebook post and photo expressing appreciation for last Saturday’s HSO concert. | |
| 1st July 2017 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for July 2017 is now available, including additional information about the HSO concert including Holst’s Planets suite at Oaklands School, Waterlooville, on Saturday 8th July. | |
| 26th May 2017 | New photographs of HCO were taken by local photographer Kevin Diamond at the final rehearsal for the recent all-Beethoven concert. The HCO photo on the About page and HCO leader photo on the Leaders page have been updated with new pictures from this occasion. Players can see all of those photos (and other older photos) by logging in with the usual user name and password to see the private pages within the Members area. We hope to publish more of the photos on the public part of the site soon. | |
| 22nd May 2017 | … the orchestra and conductor Robin Browning are to be credited for conveying the sheer power and possibilities of this wonderful music in all its complexity. See our Reviews page for a link to Fi Alsop’s review of the HCO Beethoven concert in the Portsmouth News. | |
| 12th May 2017 | 2017-18 season announced! Full details of the Havant Orchestras concert programme for the 2017/18 season are now available on this website, together with information about booking season tickets. As there are still more concerts in the current season, the main Concerts and Tickets navigation buttons at the top of page will still take you to the current season’s details for now, but you can then select the button on the right for next season's details. Some information is also available about the ‘Popular Classics’ concert by Havant Symphony Orchestra at Hayling Island Community Centre on 30th September 2017. More details about the soloist and programme will be added later. Printed brochures and season ticket forms will be available at concerts, and supplies of brochures will also be made available in the Ferneham Hall foyer and via other locations such as local libraries and information centres. |
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| 12th May 2017 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for May is now available, including additional information about the HCO concert with Roger Owens at Ferneham Hall, Fareham, on Saturday 20th May. | |
| 27th March 2017 | At their latest concert, the mayor of Havant, Faith Ponsonby, thanked the Havant Symphony Orchestra for their work in presenting concerts in the borough. … See our Reviews page for a link to Geoff Porter’s review of the HSO concert in the Portsmouth News. | |
| 18th March 2017 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for March 2017 is now available, including additional information about the HSO concert with Tom Torley (tuba) at Oaklands School, Waterlooville, on Saturday 25th March. | |
| 4th February 2017 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for February is now available, including additional information about the HCO concert with James Turnbull at Ferneham Hall, Fareham, on Saturday 11th February and the HCO strings concert at Emsworth Baptist Church on Saturday 11th March. | |
| 13th January 2017 | In addition to our own Events page, another good source of information about local concerts is the Music In Portsmouth website, which provides listings of concerts for amateur classical musical groups (including choirs as well as orchestras) in the Portsmouth area, including Fareham, Petersfield, Chichester, Havant and Hayling Island. |
