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Theatre and arts review
Dramatic skake-up | < » for town orchestra | ©~ - oo
THE Guildford Philhar- to take it into the new audience excited again
monic Orchestra which = century.
has provided professional
Miss Goold has chal-
the broadest sense,” she
concerts for the town for
lenged the whole meaning
undergo
shake-up.
argues that it should nextsummer, at the end of
mean anything from a the current season of con-
more than 50 years, is to
a
of
dramatic
For the first time since
it was established as the
municipal provider of .
classical
music
under
Crossley
Clitheroe
in
1944, the philharmonic is
to free itself from the con-
philharmonic.
She
large symphony orchestra
of 75 musicians to a single percussionist: no combination or ensemble is
ruled out.
She wants children
involved in live perfor-
straints of a formal stan-
mances, workshops, com-
dardised concert series
and stretch its wings.
petitions, and music taken
into hospitals and day
centres.
The problems facing
the orchestra and the
solutions being planned
are similar to those facing
professional
over the UK.
music
all
- Traditional
concert
venues like the Civic Hall,
which
was
designed
specifically as the orches-
tra’s home in the 1960s,
are out of date, too big,
expensive and inflexible.
Concerts will no longer
be limited to Saturday
evening and Sunday after-
noon slots and a wide
flexible range of ticket
offers will be available,
with better prices and
incentives.
Miss Goold plans to
yse all sorts of different
venues from Holy Trinity
Church
to
the
Castle
Traditional audiences
are getting older, smaller
and less and less musical-
Grounds, Hatchlands and
~ Spectrum. The Electric
Theatre will also provide
Borough Council, which
~ hall.
ly adventurous. Guildford
funds and promotes the
orchestra, has been getting increasingly con-
cerned at the exclusive
and elitist market.
an important new concert
And
programmes
will be expanded to suit a
wide range of musical
taste. Pop classics, family
concerts, Viennese nights,
themed concerts, mini
" The
change
from
Conservative to Liberal
proms, jazz, cabaret, late
night soloists, music and
councillors arguing for a
be accommodated by the
Democrat control,
much
.
about classical music in |
wider
with
range
of
musical events, has challenged the orchestra’s
cherished position under
the council’s wing.
- With the appointment
of Nicola Goold as the
enthusiastic new orchestra manager
the clamour
for change has been translated into an action p]an
theatre, whatever
— all can
versatile musicians
who
make up the orchestra.
Miss Goold is strengthening
ties = with
the
Guildford business community and other borough arts’orgamsatlons
and wants the orchestra
to play a key part of the .
bOI'Ollgh’S PR profile.
“We have got to get the
said. The shake-up will
become noticeable from
certs.
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