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LINKS TO THINGS THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

◊ RESIDENTIAL and DAY COURSES in 2020

Year round	Benslow Music Courses, Hitchin - throughout the year Courses for all groups and all standards.
Thu 2 - Mon 6 January 2020	Mid-Winter Strings Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Sat 4 January 2020	'Blow the Dust off" Orchestra and Recorder day 10am-6pm Albert Hall, Nottingham
Fri 24 - Sun 26 January 2020	Q558 Cello Weekend (Jenny Curtis) Knuston Hall, Irchester, Wellingborough NN29 7EU
Fri 21 - Sun 23 February 2020	Q544 Strings Orchestra Weekend (Nic Fallowfield) Knuston Hall, Irchester, Wellingborough NN29 7EU
Mon 27 - Thu 30 April 2020	Benslow String Orchestra Course, Hitchin with Tadeska Quartet
Fri 3 - Thu 9 April 2020	Easter Orchestral Week Ellesmere College, Shropshire [Grade 8 required]
Tue 26 - Sat 30 May 2020	Pennine Spring Music Hebden Bridge
Mon 22 - Thu 25 June 2020	The Benslow Chamber Orchestra Beethoven and Mozart
Thu 6 - Sun 9 August 2020	Nantwen Chamber Music Summer School Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Sat 1 - Sat 8 August 2020	CSSM: Summer School of Music - Uppingham School - Chamber/String/Symphony Orchestra/Wind Emsemble, Choirs
Sat 1 - Sat 8 August 2020	Music for People: Summer School of Music Giggleswick School, Settle, North Yorkshire
Sat 1 - Sat 8 August 2020	NLMS: Music Summer School (New London Music Society) Downe House School, Newbury
Sat 1 - Sat 8 August 2020	The Rehearsal Orchestra: Edinburgh Residenntial Course Edinburgh
Sun 2 -Sun 9 August 2020	Sherborne Summer School of Music - week 1 Sherborne, Dorset
Sun 9 - Sun 16 August 2020	Sherborne Summer School of Music - week 2 Sherborne, Dorset
Mon 10 - Wed 12 August 2020	Music for Everyone Summer school Trent College, Long Eaton
Sat 15 - Sat 22 August 2020	Dartington International School & Festival Week 3 Dartington, Totnes, Devon
Sat 15 - Sat 22 August 2020	The Summer School of the Workers' Music Assoc (WMA) Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire
July and August 2019	Wind Quintet Ensemble Retreat - Parcevall Hall in the Yorkshire Dales
Sun 4 - Sat 10 August 2019	ELLSO: Summer School (strings) - Oakham School Douglas' video from July 2014
Sat 10 - Sat 18 August 2019	Uppingham Summer School Orchestra Course Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Wind Orchestra
Fri 16 - Sun 18 August 2019	Port Sunlight Orchestral Weekend Moreton Hall School, Weston Rhyn, Shropshire

◊ SUPPORT GROUPS, and SUPPLIERS, etc

◊ SOURCES OF FREE MUSIC AND PARTS ON THE WEB:

◊ SOURCES OF ORCHESTRAL PARTS FOR HIRE:

◊ SOURCES OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC AND PARTS FOR ORCHESTRA:

◊ OTHER LOCAL AMATEUR MUSICAL GROUPS AND ORCHESTRAS

◊ 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 Rusty Strings of Callander, <-> meeting Rusty Strngs of Oundle in May 2019!
• The Seriously Awful Sinfonia - Camelford, Cornwall
• Ellesmere Sinfonia - Shropshire
• The Colwell Arts Orchestra - Gloucester. Contact Richard Ling:01453 330300
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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

Any suggested items please to Douglas Butler
Updated 9th Seotenber 2019