Welcome to the
RUSTY PLAYERS OF OUNDLE!
LINKS TO THINGS THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST
◊ OCCASIONAL DAY COURSES
| 16-27 Nov 2016 | Cambridge Jazz Festival - Cambridge |
| Sat 10 June 2017 (also in January) |
Blow the Dust off your Instrument - Albert Hall, Nottingham Orchestral Day and Recorders Consort - details (pdf) |
◊ RESIDENTIAL COURSES
| Year round | Benslow Music Courses, Hitchin - throughout the year Courses for all groups and all standards. July-Dec 2017 Preview |
| Mon 24 - Thu 27 April 2017 |
Benslow String Orchestra Course, Hitchin Dvořák Serenade Op22 |
| Fri 3 - Sun 5 March 2017 |
Benslow: John Bass' String Orchestra, Hitchin Bartok, Mozart and Tchaikovsky |
| Sun 23 - Sat 29 July 2017 |
ELLSO Summer School (strings) - High Melton, Doncaster Douglas' video from July 2014 |
| Mon 24 - Sun 30 July 2017 |
Annual Sicily Orchestral Course (led by Peter Fender) Scicli, Val di Noto, Sicily - Application form |
| Fri 4 - Sun 6 August 2017 |
Wind Quintet Ensemble Retreat -  Parcevall Hall in the Yorkshire Dales |
| 10-13 & 17-20 August 2017 |
Nantwen Chamber Music Summer School Pembrokeshire Coast National Park |
| Mon 14 - Wed 16 August 2017 |
Music for Everyone Summer school Univ. of Nottingham School of Music and Lakeside Arts Centre |
| July - Aug 2017 | Cubertou Music/Arts Summer Courses - North of Toulouse Courses for strings, mixed chamber music, wind chamber music |
◊ 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 |
| Score Exchange | contact (Andrew Davis) -
powered by Sibelius Scorch Selection for String Orchestra |
◊ SOURCES OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC AND PARTS FOR 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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- Yorkshire Late-Starters Strings (YLSS) - Allerton High School, Leeds
- The Jan Modelski Community Orchestra - Chester
- The Hindhead Symphony Orchestra - Hindhead Music Centre, Hindhead, Surrey
- The Exeter Harmony Orchestra - Music Dept, Exeter School
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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 14th June 2017