Welcome to the
RUSTY PLAYERS OF OUNDLE!
LINKS TO THINGS THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST
◊ RESIDENTIAL and DAY COURSES
| Year round | Benslow Music Courses, Hitchin - throughout the year Courses for all groups and all standards. |
| Wed 2 - Sun 6 January 2019 |
Mid-Winter Strings Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College |
| Sat 5 Jan 2019 | 'Blow the Dust off" Orchestra and Recorder day 10am-6pm Albert Hall, Nottingham |
| Sun 20 Jan 2019 | Off the String with Nic Fallowfield (Benslow) |
| Mon 29 April - Thu 2 May 2019 |
Benslow String Orchestra Course, Hitchin Josef Suk's Serenade for Strings in E flat |
| Fri 12 - Thu 18 April 2019 |
Easter Orchestral Week Ellesmere College, Shropshire [Grade 8 required] |
| Mon 27 May - Sat 1 June 2019 |
Pennine Spring Music Hebden Bridge |
| July and August 2019 |
Wind Quintet Ensemble Retreat -  Parcevall Hall in the Yorkshire Dales |
| Thu 8 - Sun 11 August 2019 |
Nantwen Chamber Music Summer School Pembrokeshire Coast National Park |
| Sat 27 July - Sat 24 Aug 2019 |
Dartington International School School & Festival Week 3 Dartington, Totnes, Devon |
| Sun 28 July - Sun 4 August 2019 |
Sherborne Summer School of Music - week 1 Sherborne, Dorset |
| Sun 4 - Sun 11 August 2019 |
Sherborne Summer School of Music - week 2 Sherborne, Dorset |
| Sat 3 - Sat 10 August 2019 |
CSSM: Summer School of Music - Uppingham School - Chamber/String/Symphony Orchestra/Wind Emsemble, Choirs |
| Sat 3 - Sat 10 August 2019 |
Music for People: Summer School of Music Giggleswick School, Settle, North Yorkshire |
| Sat 3 - Sat 10 August 2019 |
NLMS: Music Summer School (New London Music Society) Downe House School, Newbury |
| Sun 4 - Sat 10 August 2019 |
ELLSO: Summer School (strings) - Oakham School Douglas' video from July 2014 |
| Sat 3 - Sat 9 August 2019 |
The Rehearsal Orchestra: Edinburgh Residenntial Course Edinburgh |
| Sat 10 - Sun 17 August 2019 |
Dartington International School School & Festival Week 3 Dartington, Totnes, Devon |
| Sat 10 - Sat 18 August 2019 |
Uppingham Summer School Orchestra Course Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Wind Orchestra |
| Mon 12 - Wed 14 August 2019 |
Music for Everyone Summer school Trent College, Long Eaton |
| Thu 16 - Mon 18 August 2019 |
Port Sunlight Orchestral Weekend Moreton Hall School, Weston Rhyn, Shropshire |
| Sat 17 - Sat 24 August 2019 |
The Summer School of the Workers' Music Assoc (WMA) Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire |
◊ SUPPORT GROUPS, and SUPPLIERS, etc
| Making Music | Support for amateur music makers, music exchange |
| Peterborough Music Making | Localised support group |
| CatS Music Instrument Repairs | 68 West St, Oundle Clive Oakes: 01832 274244 |
| Simon Watkin Violins | 2 North Street, Coates, Peterborough: 01733 840235 |
| East Midland Music Ltd | Rectory Farm, Warmington: Email - Facebook page |
| The String Zone | 192 High Street, Egham, TW20 9ED: 01784 473985 |
◊ SOURCES OF FREE MUSIC AND PARTS ON THE WEB:
| IMSLP | International Music Score Library Project - Petrucci Music Library |
| Petrucci-Merton | Booklet service from any IMSLP score - Full list if titles!! Ordering - contact Jem Bradley |
| Free Scores | French site offering scores and parts for out-of-copyright music |
| Score Exchange | contact (Andrew Davis) -
powered by Sibelius Scorch Selection for String Orchestra |
◊ SOURCES OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC AND PARTS FOR ORCHESTRA:
◊ OTHER LOCAL AMATEUR MUSICAL GROUPS AND ORCHESTRAS
| LOCAL AMATEUR THEATRICAL GROUPS | LOCAL AMATEUR ORCHESTRAS |
| Oundle Gilbert and Sullivan Players | The Rusty Players of Oundle (RPO) |
| Oundle Amateur Theatrical Society (OATS) | BARDI Symphony Orchestra (Leicester) |
| Peterborough Opera | Huntingdon Symphony Orchestra |
| Thrapston Plaza Opera | Kettering Symphony Orchestra |
| Barnwell Entertainers | Leicester Symphony Orchestra |
| City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra | |
| Rutland Sinfonia (Oakham/Oundle) | |
| The Charnwood Orchestra (Leicestershire) | |
| Stamford Chamber Orchestra |
◊ OTHER ORGANISATIONS WITH SYMPATHETIC AIMS:
- UK Amateur Orchestras (map) - we are not alone!!
- Orchestras Live - support for amateur orchestras
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- BBC Music: GET PLAYING - Countrywidei initiative to get eople playing again!
- The Really Terrible Orchestra - inspired by Alexander McCall Smith, Edinburgh
- Blow the Dust off your Instrument - Nottingham (Music for Everyone)
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- The COBWEB ORCHESTRA - 8 groups in North of England
- Do Come and Play Orchestra (DA CAPO) - Padworth, West Berkshire
- East London Late-Starters Orchestras (ELLSO) - Pheonix School, near Stratford
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- SILLARS Orchestra, Norwich
- Yorkshire Late-Starters Strings (YLSS) - Allerton High School, Leeds
- The Jan Modelski Community Orchestra - Chester
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- The Hindhead Symphony Orchestra - Hindhead Music Centre, Hindhead, Surrey
- The Exeter Harmony Orchestra - Music Dept, Exeter School
- Peterborough Community Orchestra - formed January 2018
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- The Seriously Awful Sinfonia - Camelford, Cornwall
- Ellesmere Sinfonia - Shropshire
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in USA: - New York Late-Starters String Orchestra (NYLSO) - Manhattan, NY (Elena Rahona)
- Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra, Palo Alto - California, USA
- Pretty Shaky String Band - East Lansing, Michigan USA
Updated 20th Novl 2018