Kirklees Concert Season 2011/12
classic discovery
ticket hotline 01484 223200 online booking www.kirklees.gov.uk/townhalls
Welcome to the Kirklees Concert Season 2011/12
Kirklees Concert Season 2011/12
After a year in which audiences were treated to many wonderful performances in each of the orchestral, organ and lunchtime chamber series, and with the partnership between Kirklees Council and Opera North reaffirmed, we launch the new season in good spirits and hope our programming this season will only build on that experience.
Thursday 22 September 2011 7.30pm Huddersfield
classic discovery
Our theme of Classic Discovery affirms our belief that hearing wonderful music live is always a special experience, especially when it is performed for you in a fabulous venue such as our Town Halls here in Huddersfield and Dewsbury. In the orchestral season our resident ensemble, the Orchestra of Opera North, continues its cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies and concertos, a cycle which we will now complete towards the end of 2012. The orchestra also finds time to mark two important anniversaries: the 100th Anniversary of Sir Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition reaching the South Pole, and, in a special extra concert in the season, the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our new relationship with Classic FM, the UK’s largest commercial radio station, which we launched last year has helped spread the word more widely than ever about the season and we are delighted that their support continues. More people listen to classical music across the UK through Classic FM than through any other medium. Once again we have selected four concerts that we think make ideal introductions to the power and variety of great classical music. If you’ve never tried one before, these ‘Classic FM recommends’ concerts are the perfect place to start; if you come already, how about bringing your friends? As ever we are delighted to be joined in the season by the wonderful musicians of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia and Manchester Camerata.
Orchestral concerts
Huddersfield and Dewsbury Talking Music: Before most of the concerts this year we’ll be Talking Music with some of our soloists and conductors, and members of the orchestra. Please see individual concerts for start times. We do hope you’ll be able to join us for some lively discussion about each performance.
Orchestra of Opera North The Organ Symphony French Maestro, Frédéric Chaslin, and our resident Orchestra launch the season in spectacular style in a programme full of Gallic romance and virtuosity – with a Yorkshire twist! Saint-Saëns’ ever-popular Organ Symphony is the perfect vehicle to showcase Huddersfield’s magnificent Father Willis instrument and, after the wonderful colours of Debussy and Ravel, we celebrate one of the great love stories with the World Première of Maestro Chaslin’s own Gypsy Dance from his opera Wuthering Heights. Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
The organ and lunchtime chamber concerts continue to thrive and there is a wealth and breadth of music on offer, including, to open the Dewsbury lunchtime series, Voces8, who once again will show why they are widely recognised as Britain’s most exciting young vocal ensemble.
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
We hope that you will join us as often as possible in the year ahead for more world-class music-making on your doorstep.
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ’
Dougie Scarfe
Cllr Mehboob Khan
Concerts Director, Opera North
Leader of the Council
Frédéric Chaslin
Chaslin
Joseph Cullen
Wuthering Heights: Gypsy Dance (World Première)
Director/Piano:
Frédéric Chaslin
Organ:
Joseph Cullen
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm
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Yasuo Shinozaki
Friday 7 October 2011 7.30pm Dewsbury
Thursday 20 October 2011 7.30pm Huddersfield
Wednesday 30 November 2011 7.30pm Huddersfield
Wednesday 21 December 2011 7.30pm Dewsbury
Orchestra of Opera North Mozart and Beethoven
BBC Philharmonic The Dramatic Symphony
Orchestra of Opera North Mahler 5
Orchestra of Opera North Christmas
We open the season in Dewsbury with Mozart at his most romantic and Beethoven at his most classical. Mozart’s dramatic and impassioned Piano Concerto No. 20 was one of the works which most closely cemented the perception of him as the harbinger of the coming Romantic age. It’s set beside two of Beethoven’s most dramatic overtures and his most light-hearted symphony, full of Haydnesque high spirits.
Last season the BBC Philharmonic thrilled our audience with a magnificent performance of Mozart’s great Symphony No. 40 in G minor. This season they open with the so called ‘Little G minor’, but there’s nothing ‘little’ about this work. Written when the composer was just seventeen, it’s a full-blooded, stormy, dramatic symphony and a great prelude to Sibelius’ atmospheric concerto and Brahms’ final symphony. Brahms was a composer able to meld the classical architecture of the past with the rich expressiveness of his own era, and nowhere more so than in the work that crowned his symphonic career.
High octane virtuosity is promised with Opera North’s Music Director Richard Farnes returning to the season with Mahler’s glorious 5th Symphony. From the dramatic opening funeral march through the incomparably beautiful adagietto to the blazing glory of the final movement, this is a symphony which in every way fulfils Mahler’s aspiration to encompass a whole world of emotion in his works. International star Dmitry Sitkovetsky joins us for Samuel Barber’s sublime violin concerto.
This concert celebrates both Christmas and the wonderful music, old and new, that has been inspired by it. Borough Organist and consummate compère Gordon Stewart is at the helm and we are joined for the occasion by the Chorus of Opera North and, making their concert début, the newly formed Opera North Children’s Chorus. With the Christmas shopping out of the way(!) this joyous concert will be the perfect way to complete your seasonal preparations.
Beethoven
Overture: Coriolan
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor [K466]
Beethoven
Grand Overture in C: Die Namensfeier
Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F
Piers Lane
Jonathan Schiffman
Conductor:
Yasuo Shinozaki
Piano:
Piers Lane
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm
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Violin Concerto
Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C# minor
Mozart
Symphony No. 25 in G minor
Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Conductor:
Richard Farnes
Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Violin:
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Bach
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm Conductor:
Jonathan Schiffman
Violin:
Alexandra Soumm
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm
Alexandra Soumm
Torelli Barber
Concerto Grosso in G Minor ‘in forma di pastorale per il Santissimo Natale’
Richard Farnes
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Cantata No. 140: Wachet auf
Once in Royal David’s City Sasha Johnson Manning
The Manchester Carols
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Conductor:
Gordon Stewart
Gordon Stewart
Chorus of Opera North Opera North Children’s Chorus Talking Music starts at 6.40pm Book online at www.kirklees.gov.uk/townhalls
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classic discovery Friday 30 December 2011 3pm Huddersfield (NOTE TIME)
Sunday 15 January 2012 3pm Huddersfield (NOTE TIME)
Orchestra of Opera North Viennese Whirl
Orchestra of Opera North Classic FM at the Ballet
Definitely a highlight of the season for many – book early to avoid disappointment for our ever-popular afternoon of Viennese classics.
Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus: Overture Josef Strauss
Sphärenklänge
This concert has special ticket pricing and is a non-subscription concert. However if you subscribe to both Dewsbury and Huddersfield orchestral seasons, you can get a ticket for this concert FREE.
Zeller
The Mine Foreman – Don’t be cross
Lehár
The Merry Widow: Vilja
Johann Strauss II The Gypsy Baron: Overture
Josef Strauss
Die Libelle
Lumbye
Champagner Galopp
Johann Strauss II Pizzicato Polka
Josef Strauss
Brennende Liebe
Johann Strauss II Blue Danube Waltz
Lehár
Eva: Wär’ es auch nichts als ein Augenblick
Conductor:
Markus Poschner
Soloist:
Stephanie Corley
Presenter:
Dougie Scarfe
Zeller
The Bird Seller – I’m Christel, the post girl
Johann Strauss II Wiener Bonbons Ohne Sorgen Ritter Pázmán: Czardas INTERVAL
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Markus Poschner
Stephanie Corley
Dougie Scarfe
Sunday afternoon concerts in Huddersfield have proved hugely popular and we welcome 2012 with an afternoon of popular highlights from the wonderful world of ballet. Conducted by ballet aficionado Martin André and presented by Classic FM’s weekday breakfast presenter Mark Forrest, this concert is the perfect introduction to the joys of classical music for all the family. Delibes
Coppélia: Prelude and Mazurka
Valse de la poupée and Czardas
Hérold
La Fille mal gardée: Clog Dance
Khachaturian
Sabre Dance
Spartacus: Adagio
Chopin (orch Glazunov)
Les Sylphides: Excerpts
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet: Excerpts
Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Suite Swan Lake: Act IV
Conductor:
Martin André
Presenter:
Mark Forrest
Talking Music starts at 2.10pm
Martin André
Mark Forrest
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Richard Farnes
Sunday 12 February 2012 4pm Huddersfield (NOTE TIME)
Thursday 8 March 2012 7.30pm Dewsbury
Thursday 22 March 2012 7.30pm Huddersfield
Orchestra of Opera North Scott of the Antarctic
Northern Sinfonia Young Genius
Orchestra of Opera North Beethoven and � Dvorák
When Vaughan Williams wrote the music for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic he confirmed his status as one of the 20th century’s great film composers. His Sinfonia Antartica was written using themes from the film music, and retains much of the remarkable colour and drama of the original score. As our celebration of the 100th anniversary of the heroic quest of Scott and his men, we present this great work in a dramatised version with narrator and specially commissioned film using images from the original expedition. A unique, unmissable event.
Mendelssohn and Mozart vie for the title of ‘youthful genius’. Mendelssohn’s astonishing Octet was written when the composer was just 16, and Mozart wrote his Sinfonia Concertante at the ripe old age of 23. Mozart displays remarkable maturity in his writing for the solo violin and viola, and the slow movement of this work contains some of his most emotionally expressive music. The first of Mozart’s extraordinary final three symphonies, completed in just six weeks in the summer of 1788, rounds off a programme of peerless masterpieces from our great friends in Northern Sinfonia.
Our Beethoven Symphony and Concerto cycle continues with the welcome return of Maestro Bamert to conduct the sunny Symphony No. 2 in D alongside the most popular of his Romances for violin and orchestra. Complementing these masterworks is Dvorák’s Cello Concerto, � the most popular of its kind composed in the Romantic era.
Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody
Grieg
Piano Concerto
Danny Driver
Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 7 Sinfonia Antartica
Geoffrey Dolton
Conductor:
Richard Farnes
Piano:
Danny Driver
Narrator:
Geoffrey Dolton
� Dvorák
Carnival Overture Cello Concerto
Beethoven
Romance No. 2 in F Symphony No. 2 in D Michael Gerrard
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola [K364]
Cello:
Alban Gerhardt
Violin:
David Greed
Symphony No. 39 in Eb
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm
Leader/Director:
Bradley Creswick
Viola:
Michael Gerrard
Mendelssohn Octet Mozart
Bradley Creswick
Matthias Bamert
Huddersfield University Choir Talking Music starts at 6.40pm Talking Music starts at 3.10pm David Greed
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Alban Gerhardt
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Jac van Steen
Peter Donohoe
Thursday 12 April 2012 7.30pm Huddersfield
Thursday 10 May 2012 7.30pm Huddersfield
Thursday 17 May 2012 7.30pm Dewsbury
Orchestra of Opera North Russian Spectacular
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic The New World
Manchester Camerata From Salzburg to Paris
An evening of full blooded Russian Romanticism in a programme of flair, drama and character. A beautiful work displaying the myriad colours of French Impressionism, Liadov’s atmospheric Enchanted Lake makes for a refreshing contrast to the power and passion of Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Two world-class artists, each renowned for their interpretations of this music, join our resident orchestra for what is sure to be a compelling evening of music-making.
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic are firmly established as favourites with Kirklees audiences and this popular and accessible programme should be another hit. Dvorák’s New World Symphony is, � rightly, an enormously popular classic. Of the finale of Mozart’s great C minor Piano Concerto, Beethoven said to a pupil: ‘You and I will never be able to write anything ˚ like that’. Czech specialist Jakub Hruša completes the programme with one of Smetana’s most entertaining tone poems.
We welcome the return of the Manchester Camerata to the season with a delightful programme, ideally suited to the perfect Dewsbury acoustic. Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 is a joyous work, full of youthful energy and widely regarded as one of his earliest masterpieces, composed when he was 18. Haydn’s Paris Symphonies are a remarkable fusion of brilliance, elegance, and warmth – perfect for springtime in Kirklees!
Liadov
The Enchanted Lake
Smetana
Wallenstein’s Camp
Haydn
Symphony No. 87 in A Paris
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor [K491]
Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor Pathétique
� Dvorák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor From the New World
Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A
Adi Brett
Conductor:
Jac van Steen
Piano:
Peter Donohoe
Jakub Hruša ˚
Conductor:
Jakub Hruša ˚
Leader/Director:
Piano:
Yevgeny Sudbin
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm
Adi Brett
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm Talking Music starts at 6.40pm
Yevgeny Sudbin
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Organ Concerts
Kirklees Concert Season 2011/12
Mondays at 1 pm Huddersfield Town Hall
classic discovery
3 October 2011 Gordon Stewart with Tom Osborne (trumpet)
Thursday 31 May 2012 7.30pm Huddersfield
Orchestra of Opera North The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Official emblem for the 2012 Queen’s Diamond Jubilee designed by 10 year old Katherine Dewar
Garry Walker
G Telemann J B Leoillet G F Handel N Rawsthorne L Rogg C Höhne
An extra special concert to launch the weekend of national celebrations marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
17 October 2011 Gordon Stewart
A classic programme for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds includes the march written for the Queen’s Coronation, the suite from the opera Gloriana commissioned to mark the Coronation, a fabulous riot of a piece written by the Master of the Queen’s Music, plus two English gems, The Lark Ascending and Enigma Variations.
A Hollins Concert Overture in C G Telemann Trio in G J S Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor N Cocker Tuba Tune E Bossi Variations on an Original theme C Callahan Aria C-M Widor Toccata in F (Symphonie 5)
This concert has special ticket pricing and is a non-subscription concert, but please book early to avoid disappointment. Walton
31 October 2011 Gordon Stewart Music for Halloween
Coronation March: Orb & Sceptre
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor E Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King C Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre C Gounod Funeral March for a Marionette P Eben Walpurgisnacht from Faust M Mussorgsky Night on a bare mountain R Wagner Ride of the Valkyries J S Bach
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Britten David Greed
Gloriana: Symphonic Suite
Sir Peter Maxwell An Orkney Wedding, Davies with Sunrise
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Elgar
Enigma Variations
Conductor:
Garry Walker
Violin:
David Greed
Talking Music starts at 6.40pm
Four Heroic Marches Sonata for Trumpet and Organ Organ Concerto in F Aria for Trumpet and Organ Fandango Slavische Fantasie
14 November 2011 Gordon Stewart B Johnson D Buxtehude M Festing J S Bach B Johnson N Rawsthorne
28 November 2011 Stephen Disley (Southwark Cathedral) Fantasia in G Lied to the Flowers March on a theme of Handel J S Bach Sanctify us by thy arr M Duruflé goodness P Whitlock Carol Folk Tune Salix Toccata G Bovet Le Boléro du Divin Mozart J Bonnet Variations de Concert J S Bach F Peeters A Guilmant
5 December 2011 Gordon Stewart Music for Advent and Christmas J S Bach
J S Bach N Rawsthorne R Cockroft D Koomans N Rawsthorne Handel
Gordon Stewart
Concert Overture in C sharp minor Praeludium in D Largo, Allegro, Aria and Two Variations Prelude and Fugue in G Elfentanz Dance Suite
Two preludes on Nun komm der Heiden Heiland Fugue on the Magnificat Fantasia on Wachet auf! Variations on a new carol Magnificat Prelude on This is the truth The Hallelujah Chorus
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Organ Concerts Mondays at 1 pm Huddersfield Town Hall
12 December 2011 University of Huddersfield Brass Band
30 January 2012 Gordon Stewart with Andrew Long (violin)
The annual appearance of the University Brass Band is a Christmas highlight for many Kirklees concert-goers. Here they are again under their charismatic conductor Phillip McCann in a new programme for Christmas.
D Bédard J S Bach J S Bach
19 December 2011 Gordon Stewart with the Girl Choristers of Wakefield Cathedral and Flute Salad Gordon Stewart is again joined by the Girls’ Choir of Wakefield Cathedral and the Derbyshire-based flute ensemble Flute Salad for a concert full of Christmas cheer. Organ music includes Thomas Trotter’s arrangement of Anderson’s Sleigh Ride and Charles Quef’s Noel Parisien.
16 January 2012 Gordon Stewart P J Mansfield J Pachelbel J S Bach R Cockroft C Franck A Renaud
Concert Overture in F Chaconne in F Minor Toccata, Adagio and Fugue Soliloquy A Good King chills out for Spring Pastorale Toccata in D Minor
J S Bach A Guilmant J Rheinberger
Festive Toccata Air in D Passacaglia and Fugue Music for solo violin Scherzo (Sonata 5) Three pieces for Violin and Organ
13 February 2012 David Hill Sonata No. 2 Villanella Minuetto – Impromptu Meditation A L J Lefébure-Wely Offertoire Verset Z Gardonyi Mozart Changes E Grieg Wedding Day at arr B A Drage Troldhaugen E Elgar J Ireland
27 February 2012 Gordon Stewart L Sowerby D Buxtehude J S Bach C Franck L Vierne A Carter Ian Hunt
Pageant Toccata in F Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor Fantasie in A Impromptu Aria Toccata Giocosa
12 March 2012 Gordon Stewart
16 April 2012 Mark Williams (Cambridge)
Grand Choeur in D Praeludium in E minor J S Bach Trio in Herr Jesus Christ W A Mozart Fantasia in F minor and major R Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre J Reubke Sonata ‘The 94th Psalm’
D Buxtehude
26 March 2012 Gordon Stewart
D Locklair
A Guilmant D Buxtehude
A Jubilee Concert E Elgar W Walton E Elgar W Walton W T Best E Coates
L Vierne W Walton J S Bach
F Liszt
W Byrd P Grainger
Praeludium in G minor Naïades Hymne au Soleil Sicilienne Popular Song Two Preludes on Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot Prelude and Fugue on BACH The Peace may be exchanged Fantasia in A minor Handel in the Strand
Coronation March Crown Imperial Imperial March Suite from Henry V Variations of God Save the Queen Princess Elizabeth March
Huddersfield Town Hall Organ Concert Information Tickets: £5 (£3.50 concessions) available from Huddersfield Town Hall Box Office. Season passes are also available for all 15 concerts for just £37.50. For full information please see the venue details on page 18 & 19. All organ concerts start at 1pm. Lunch is served in the Old Court Room from 11.30am.
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Lunchtime Chamber Concerts Wednesdays at 12.30pm at Dewsbury Town Hall
Andrew Long
12 October 2011 Voces8
11 January 2012 George King
Making their third Dewsbury appearance are Britain’s leading a cappella vocal group Voces8. Audience favourites, they present a programme which stretches from the 16th century to jazz standards of the 20th century. The perfect start to the series, and one which no music-lover in Kirklees will want to miss.
George King is unique amongst classical concert pianists as he is also an internationally respected jazz pianist and composer. This year he is bringing music by Beethoven and Rachmaninov, and between them he will improvise on themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
9 November 2011 Andrew Long (violin) with Ian Buckle (piano) Ian Buckle
George King
Rachel Major
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Andy Long is joined by Dewsbury regular Ian Buckle in a programme which is inspired by the great Russian violinist, David Oistrakh. Andy has found seldomplayed pieces which Oistrakh used to include in a programme featuring the wonderful César Franck Sonata. This is Andy’s tribute to one of the world’s greatest violinsts.
14 December 2011 University of Huddersfield Brass Band For many of the Dewsbury audience Christmas starts when they come to hear the wonderful University of Huddersfield Brass Band. Here they are in concert, with lots of new pieces to welcome in the Festive Season, and carols for all to sing.
8 February 2012 Kevin Gowland (flute) with David Gowland (piano) Principal Flute in the Orchestra of Opera North, Kevin Gowland, is one of the UK’s most highly regarded flautists. He is joined in this concert by his brother David and together they play Poulenc’s glorious Sonata and Borne’s virtuoso Fantasy on themes from Carmen. Wonderful lunchtime music!
11 April 2012 Rachel Major (soprano) with Henry Parkes (piano) Rachel Major last appeared at Dewsbury Town Hall in a Christmas concert with the Orchestra of Opera North. For her lunchtime début she has chosen a programme which stretches from Thomas Arne to Noël Coward.
16 May 2012 New World String Quartet When the New World String Quartet last appeared in the Dewsbury Season the audience immediately asked to hear them again! And here they are in a programme including Haydn’s famous Lark quartet and Smetana’s From my Life – and for good measure Kirchner’s Seven little drops. Real chamber music to end a Chamber Music series in great style!
Voces8
Dewsbury Town Hall Lunchtime Concert Information Tickets: £5 (£3.50 concessions) available from Dewsbury Town Hall Box Office. Season tickets are also available for all 8 concerts for just £20. For full information please see the venue details on page 18 & 19. All Dewsbury Lunchtime Concerts start at 12.30pm. Lunch is served in the main hall from 11.30am.
14 March 2012 Paul Chamberlain (classical accordion) This is a first for Dewsbury! The brilliant young Scottish accordionist Paul Chamberlain is currently UK Virtuoso Champion and he plays a repertoire which stretches from Bach to contemporary Russian music. Well-known for his imaginative programming, Paul is certain to thrill and inspire. To hear the accordion as you have never heard it, be sure to be at this concert!
Paul Chamberlain
Kevin Gowland
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Huddersfield orchestral prices and discounts Seating Area Season Subscription Single Ticket Concessions Under 26s Viennese Whirl concert Jubilee concert
A £141 £23.50 £20.50 – £13.50 £13.50
B £126 £21 £18 – £13.50 £13.50
C £105 £17.50 £15 £4 £13.50 £13.50
D £69 £11.50 £9.50 £4 £13.50 £13.50
Venue information E £57 £9.50 £8 £4 £13.50 £13.50
F £45 £7.50 £6.50 £4 £13.50 £13.50
Concessions are available to Kirklees Passport holders, OAPs, under 26s, unwaged, disabled and Stagepass holders. Please note that there are no concessions on subscription tickets. Please note that the Viennese Whirl on the 30 December is not included in the season subscription and has a ticket price of £13.50 all areas, £4 for under 26s with no further concessions. Please note that the Queen’s Jubilee concert on 31 May is not included in the season subscription and has a ticket price of £13.50 all areas, £4 under 26s with no further concessions. Band A - Balcony
stage F
F C
Band B - Balcony
F
F D E
B
C
D
Band C - Balcony
B
Ground floor access to the box office and stairs/lift to the concert hall is at the front of the town hall. Access directly to the concert hall is up the main steps at the front of the town hall.
Box Office
Opening hours : Monday – Friday 9.15am – 5pm From 6.15pm on concert nights for collection of pre-booked tickets and ‘on the door’ sales.
Entrance
Corporation Street for access to box office, stalls and Old Court Room. Princess Street for access to balcony and gallery.
Dewsbury orchestral prices and discounts Seating Area Season Subscription Single Ticket Concessions Under 26s
A £55.50 £18.50 £16 –
B £46.50 £15.50 £13 –
C £33 £11 £9.50 £4
Box Office D £25.50 £8.50 £7 £4
E £19.50 £6.50 £5.50 £4
Concessions are available to Kirklees Passport holders, OAPs, under 26s, unwaged, disabled and Stagepass holders. Please provide proof of eligibility when booking. Please note that there are no concessions on subscription tickets. Band A - Balcony
stage D C
C
C
D
D
A
Entrance
Ramsden Street Huddersfield HD1 2TA
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Wakefield Old Road Dewsbury WF12 8DQ
Location
Band E - Stalls & Gallery
F
E D B C
Location
Huddersfield Town Hall
Band D - Stalls Band F - Stalls & Balcony
A
Dewsbury Town Hall
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Band B - Balcony
B
Band C - Stalls Band D - Stalls Band E - Stalls
Opening hours from 6.15pm on the evening of each concert for collection of pre-booked tickets and ‘on the door’ sales.
Facilities at Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls Talking Music:
For an extra insight into the music and an opportunity to meet some of the performers, there is a free talk before the concerts at 6.40pm (unless otherwise stated) in the main hall. Please ensure that you purchase your ticket before going into the hall.
Travel and Parking
All venues are located within walking distance of the rail and bus stations. Parking is available in local car parks, as well as limited free parking on surrounding streets during the evening. For further details of car parks please visit www.kirklees.gov.uk/townhalls
Induction Loop System
Both Town Halls have induction loops in the Concert Halls.
Wheelchair Access
A number of wheelchair positions are available in the Stalls only. Access is via the level access Corporation Street entrance at Huddersfield and the level access entrance at Dewsbury. A steward will be available to assist you. Please make it clear when booking that you require a wheelchair space. Wheelchair spaces are sold at the concessionary rate; one accompanying carer may claim a free seat.
Refreshments
Bar and catering facilities are available from 6.15pm. You may pre-order your interval drinks at the bars and beat the rush!
How to Book You can book your ticket in person, by phone or online as follows: Holmfirth Information Centre, tel: 01484 222444 Huddersfield Visitor Information Centre, tel: 01484 223200 Dewsbury Box Office, tel: 01924 324501 Book online at www.kirklees.gov.uk/townhalls
Single tickets for all concerts go on sale from Monday 1 August 2011.
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Kirklees Concert Season 2011/12
at Dewsbury and Huddersfield Town Halls
The information contained in this booklet was correct at the time of printing. However, Kirklees Council and Opera North reserve the right to alter the programme without prior notice.
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