Carl Davies to conduct classics for a summer evening at the CBSO Benevolent Fund Concert
The iconic conductor and composer Carl Davies will conduct his favourite selection of popular classics, at the CBSO Benevolent Fund’s annual fundraising event at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Friday 18 July 2008.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra musicians will perform much-loved music including Mendelssohn’s Hebrides overture, Debussy’s Claire de Lune, Walton’s Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, and Grainger’s arrangement of Danny Boy. The audience will also enjoy the world premiere of the suite from BBC’s hugely successful period drama Cranford, which was composed by Carl Davies. The proceeds of the concert will go to help CBSO musicians, past and present, through the CBSO Benevolent Fund.
The CBSO Benevolent Fund exists to help players of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in times of bereavement or ill health. The Orchestra is in constant demand, performing and rehearsing on a daily basis, recording and travelling as cultural representatives of Birmingham all over the world.
Having a long established Benevolent Fund enables the Orchestra to fulfil its obligations to an ever more challenging schedule of performing to the public, secure in the knowledge that individual health problems will keep a member off work for the shortest time possible. All performers are donating their services to this concert.
Taking centre stage as soloist in Beethoven’s Romance in F for violin and orchestra will be CBSO’s acclaimed leader, Laurence Jackson
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