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Conducted by Susanna Wilson
Programme Notes (December 2026)
Susanna says
These additional notes are provided for you to give more information than we could fit on an A4 programme. We do ask you to make sure your phones are on ‘silent’ or ‘do not disturb’ during our concert so as not to disturb the players or fellow audience members.
Thank you.
A retiring collection will be evenly divided between the orchestra and
We wish to express our thanks to Chimes Music (Kensington) for their help
Images:
George Walker (1922 – 2018), composer and pianist, photographed by Frank Schramm (2010). Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990), photographed by Victor Kraft (c. 1945). Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809), portrait by Thomas Hardy (1791). Courtesy of the Royal College of Music Museum / Wikimedia Commons.
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713), portrait by Hugh Howard (1697). Courtesy of the Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery / Wikimedia Commons
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