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.
| 12th December 2019 | HSO players please note that the first rehearsal of 2020 on Friday 10th January is at St Joseph’s Church Hall in West Street. See the Rehearsals page for more details and a map link. |
| 29th November 2019 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for December 2019 is now available, including additional information about the HSO concert at Oaklands School, Waterlooville, on Saturday 7th December. |
| 24th October 2019 | To avoid browser warnings about the website being "not secure", we have turned on secure access, and any requests using the plain text http protocol are now automatically converted to use the encrypted https protocol instead. This should not make any difference to most users except to remove the warnings, which were mostly unnecessary anyway as the website does not currently store any information entered by users. However, users of very old browsers (for example the standard Android browser or Samsung Internet app in old mobile phones) may however find that they can no longer access the website unless they use a more modern browser such as Chrome. |
| 12th October 2019 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for October 2019 is now available, including additional information about the HCO strings concert at Fareham URC church, on Saturday 19th October. |
| 22nd July 2019 | We are delighted to announce that the Bob and Beryl Harding Bursary for Young Conductors for the 2019-20 season has been awarded to Avi Taler, nominated by the Royal College of Music. All four of the audition candidates were of an excellent standard and it was difficult to choose one, but we felt that Avi had a slight edge in experience. We are eagerly looking forward to working with him during the season. |
| 22nd July 2019 | We were very sorry to learn that our long-time supporter Beryl Harding passed away recently. Beryl was the widow of Bob Harding and together with Peter Craddock set up the Bob Harding Bursary award for Young Conductors in 1987 in his memory. Beryl was also a very keen supporter of the Havant Orchestras, being Chairman of the society for a while and Friends’ Secretary for many years. We plan to continue the excellent bursary scheme, and we have decided to rename it to honour Beryl’s memory, calling it the “Bob and Beryl Harding Bursary for Young Conductors”. |
| 16th July 2019 | The Havant Symphony Orchestra brought their season to its conclusion with an ambitious and challenging programme of masterpieces, which were performed with great commitment and skill.… See our Reviews page for a link to Terry Barfoot’s review of the HSO concert in the Portsmouth News. |
| 5th July 2019 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for July 2019 is now available, including additional information about the HSO concert at Oaklands School, Waterlooville, on Saturday 13th July. |
| 10th May 2019 | 2019-20 season announced! Full details of the Havant Orchestras concert programme for the 2019/20 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. Printed brochures and season ticket forms will be available at concerts, and brochures will also be made available via other locations such as local libraries and information centres. In addition to the main concerts, we also now have details of our ‘Popular Classics’ concert by Havant Symphony Orchestra at Hayling Island Community Centre on 21st September 2019. |
| 10th May 2019 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for May 2019 is now available, including additional information about the HCO concert at Ferneham Hall, Fareham, on Saturday 18th May. |
| 15th March 2019 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for March 2019 is now available, including additional information about the HSO concert at Oaklands School, Waterlooville, on Saturday 23rd March. |
| 15th March 2019 | Now that the celebration concert is over, we felt that a good way to ensure Peter Craddock’s name continues to be associated with the orchestras was to create the Peter Craddock Memorial Fund to contain the donations that enable the orchestras to develop and flourish. See our new Supporting page for details. |
| 6th March 2019 | Here's a review of our special concert, by Stuart Reed, for Music In Portsmouth: A celebration of the life of Peter Craddock |
| 27th February 2019 | Players please note that further details about the rehearsals for the Peter Craddock celebration concert (including approximate times for each work) are now available in the Additional information section on the Rehearsals page. |
| 2nd February 2019 | The Havant Orchestras Newsletter for February 2019 is now available, including additional information about the HCO concert at Ferneham Hall, Fareham, on Saturday 9th February. |
| 27th January 2019 | HSO players please note that the rehearsal on Friday February 1st is for the Peter Craddock Celebration concert, and that there is a normal HSO rehearsal on Friday February 8th (even though that is the day before an HCO concert). See the HSO rehearsal information on the Rehearsals page for more details. |
