October 3^rd, 1999

Our first concert was held on Sunday, 3 October, featuring Winston Webber as our guest conductor.(See attached personal sketch) Winston has agreed to be the Coach for The Strings this year making our first concert of the season a memorable one for both the audience and the orchestra.

Our programme for this concert was:

• Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No.2  (Arcangelo Corelli)
• Organ Concerto No. 13 in F   (George Frideric Handel)
• Battalia (Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber)
• Elegy  (Edward Elgar)
• Sarabande and Gavotte, from Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg)
• Playful Pizzicato, from Simple Symphony (Benjamin Britten)
• Organ Concerto (Robert Cundick)

November 7^th and 8^th, 1999

Our second concert featuring Karen Donnelly, principal trumpet of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, (See attached personal sketch) as our guest soloist was given on Sunday, November 7th, 1999 at 2:00 p.m. at The Church of St. John the Evangelist.  The programme was repeated the following evening, Monday, November 8th as a part of FestivArts '99, sponsored by the Gloucester Arts Council.

Our programme for this second concert:

• Short Overture for Strings (Jean Berger)
• Sinfonia in D (Giuseppe Tartini)
• Trumpet Concerto in E-flat (Johann Baptist Georg Neruda)
• The Hollow Men (Vincent Persichetti)
• Suite in F for strings (C. Hubert H. Parry)

For information on FestivArts '99, contact the Gloucester Arts Council at 749-4978.

December 19^th and 20^th, 1999

Christmas Concert

 Our third concert of the season was a Christmas Concert with guest soloist Shawne Elizabeth, soprano, accompanied by The Choir of St. John the Evangelist

Photographs of our Christmas Concert

Our Christmas Concert:

• Concerto VIII "Fatto per la notte di natale"
  (Arcangelo Corelli)
• Christmas Cantata (Allesandro Scarlatti)
• Magnificat (Francesco Durante)
• Noëls pour cordes (Marc Bélanger)
• Vocalise (Sergei Rachmaninov)
• Four Seasonal Songs
   

March 24^th and 26^th 2000

Our fourth concert of the season with our guest solist Tina Fedeski, solo flute, (see attached personal sketch) was held at Woodroffe United Church on Friday March 24^th and at The Church of St. John the Evangelist on Sunday March 26^th.

Photographs of our Fourth Concert

The programme for our Fourth Concert:

• Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 6 No. 1
         (George Frideric Handel)
• Incidental Music to "Amphitryon"
         (Henry Purcell)
• Flute Concerto in G major
         (Johann Joachim Quantz)
• An Irish Melody - "Londonderry Air"
         (Frank Bridge)
• Suite Antique, for flute, harpsichord and strings
         (John Rutter)
   

May 14,2000 - 2:00 p.m. at St. John's
May 15, 2000 - 8:00 p.m. at Orleans United Church

Our final concert of the 1999/2000 season  featured Jane Perry, piano as our guest soloist.

Photos from our Final Concert

The programme for our Final Concert was:

• Divertimento in D major, K. 136
           (W.A. Mozart)
• Concerto for Two Violas in G
           (Georg Phillipp Telemann)
• Piano Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
           (J.S. Bach)
• Poem for String Orchestra
           (Healey Willan)
• Valse-Caprice "Wedding-Cake"
           (Camille Saint-Saens)