The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is an English orchestra which, despite its name, is now based in the adjacent town of Poole rather than in Bournemouth where its former home in the Winter Gardens concert hall was demolished in May 2006. The orchestra had some time before moved to the Poole Arts Centre, later renamed the Lighthouse Centre for Performing Arts, where the concert hall has 1596 seats. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For the song titled Orchestra, see The Servant (band). ... Poole is a coastal town, port and tourist destination, situated on the shores of the English Channel, in the ceremonial county of Dorset in southern England. ... , Bournemouth is a large town and tourist resort, situated on the south coast of England. ...

Origins

It was originally the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, which was founded in 1893 as a small group of wind players. It quickly expanded to become a full orchestra and gained a name for championing contemporary British music. Elgar and Holst (among others) conducted the orchestra in their own works. A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. ...

Conductors

• 1893-1934 Sir Dan Godfrey
• 1934-1939 Richard Austin
• 1939-1947 Montague Birch
• 1947-1951 Rudolf Schwarz
• 1951-1961 Sir Charles Groves
• 1962-1969 Constantin Silvestri
• 1969-1972 George Hurst (never actually appointed Principal Conductor)
• 1972-1979 Paavo Berglund
• 1974-1976 Simon Rattle (Young "conductor-in-residence")
• 1980-1982 Uri Segal
• 1982-1988 Rudolf Barshai
• 1988-1994 Andrew Litton
• 1990-2000 Kees Bakels (Chief Guest Conductor)
• 1992-1995 Richard Hickox (Principal Guest Conductor)
• 1995-2000 Yakov Kreizberg
• 2001- Marin Alsop

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Offshoots

In 1968, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta was founded. Despite considerable artistic acclaim as a small orchestra, funding difficulties led to its sudden closure in November 1999. The Bournemouth Sinfonietta was founded in 1968 by the conductor George Hurst as a splinter group of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, in order to perform the classical reportoire in the smaller venues of the south and west of England. ...

Concert programme

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra currently gives around 150 concerts a year. Many highly acclaimed recordings include Deryck Cooke's completion of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10, conducted by Simon Rattle, Elgar's "In The South" with Silvestri, Tchaikovsky's 2nd piano concerto with Rudolf Barshai and Peter Donohoe, and more recently Elgar's 3rd Symphony with Paul Daniel, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Marin Alsop. Deryck Cooke (September 14, 1919 - October 27, 1975) was a British musicologist who was born in Leicester. ... “Mahler” redirects here. ... The Symphony No. ... Simon Rattle recording Porgy and Bess with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road in 1988, aged 33. ... Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, Bt OM GCVO (June 2, 1857 – February 23, 1934) was a British composer, born in the small Worcestershire village of Broadheath to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann. ... “Tchaikovsky” redirects here. ... Peter Donohoe (born 1953) is a British pianist. ... Paul Daniel is an English conductor who began to come to the fore in the 1990s and is particularly noted for performances and recordings of British music. ... Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (IPA pronunciation: )[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. ... Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956) is a professional musician and conductor. ...

The orchestra performs regularly in the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and in the other great halls of the world, such as the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Musikverein, Vienna.

External links

• Official site

See Grammy awards in Wikpedia "Grammy Awards of 1997 Andrew Litton (conductor), Neville Creed, David Hill (chorus masters) & the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Walton: Belshazzar's Feast"