240317 Oakham School

Programme

arr. Murtha - Duke Ellington in Concert

Duke Ellington, arr. Murtha - Come Sunday

Jay Chattaway - Mazama

Kabalevsky - Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 49

Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: I, II, III & VII

INTERVAL

Reginal Wright - We are the music makers

Margaret Bonds - I believe in the Prince of Peace

John Rutter - Feel the Spirit

Performers

Chapel Choir

Chamber Choir

Concert Band

Symphony Orchestra

Ethan Taylor - solo 'cello

Peter Davis - conductor

Steve Foster - conductor

Box Office

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£12 General Admission; £7 Restricted view balcony tickets

Book tickets

Join us at West Road Concert Hall for a major celebration of Oakham Music. Our diverse programme embraces a celebration of music by Black composers with music by Margaret Bonds and Duke Ellington (marking the 50th anniversary of his death), as well as a captivating suite of spiritual arrangements by John Rutter. We also promise exhilarating solo ‘cello playing in Form 7 music scholar Ethan’s concerto performance.

more about Oakham School

Oakham is a vibrant, fully co-educational boarding and day school for over a thousand 10–18 year olds offering the IB Diploma and A-levels, located in the heart of rural England.

It's uniquely balanced pupil community of 50:50 boarding and day pupils and 50:50 girls and boys live and work together in our beautiful 70-acre school campus, which is part of the historic market town of Oakham. Pupils who live in the local area enjoy the company of students from international backgrounds and this social harmony forms the basis of Oakham School’s friendly, down-to-earth atmosphere.