RPO - Rehearsals

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Welcome to the
RUSTY PLAYERS OF OUNDLE!

Our regular rehearsal venue is the Oundle Primary School Hall.
Location: Cotterstock Road, Oundle PE8 5HA. Map
Sadly the COVID-19 epidemic has caused an major interruption to our activities.
Please watch this page for further announcements concerning our rehearsals.

REHEARSALS and CONCERTS: SPRING 2020
Sunday 5 April "FILM MATINÉE" OUNDLE PRIMARY SCHOOL	POSTPONED POSTER - Video Clips
REHEARSALS and CONCERTS: SUMMER 2020
Saturday 11 July ST PETER'S CHURCH, Oundle The Rusty Strings	CANCELLED 4:30pm JOINT CONCERT + COCKTAILS with The Rusty Strings of Callander
Sunday 12 July OUNDLE SCHOOL CHAPEL Rusty Players of Oundle	CANCELLED 4:30pm RPO FESTIVAL CONCERT 5:15pm Festival Tea, O.S. Common Room
REHEARSALS and CONCERTS: AUTUMN 2020
Monday 14 September Monday 21 September Monday 5 October Monday 19 October	Under review Under review Under review Under review
Monday 2 November Monday 16 October Monday 30 November	Under review Under review Under review
Sunday 6th December CHRISTMAS CONCERT Titchmarsh Church	To be announced 4pm Concert 5pm TEA!
Rehearsals: 7.45 for 8pm start, ending 9.30pm (then in the 'George') The Rusty Strings also rehearse from 7pm on marked dates (*)

RPO Repertoire:

RUSTY VIOLINS: COVID-19 PRACTISING:

SCALES
- Online Metronome
- All possible Violin and Viola scales!
- Violin scale charts

- Douglas' Exercises: 1st Position - 1st to 3rd Position
- 3-octave scales fingering - Arpeggios

STUDIES
- Kreutzer: Studies #2, 3, 5

SHIFTING EXERCISES
-"The Seven Position of the Violin" by Basil Althus (Cramer Music)
- - Positions 1-5 on the Violin

- Douglas: Violin Shifting Exercises (all keys!) (pdf) - Sound (midi)

INTERMEDIATE PIECES
- Elgar: 'Chanson de Matin' and 'Nimrod'
- Hess: 'Ladies in Lavender' - piano accomp.
- Gershwin: Embraceable You - piano accomp.

JANE'S FOLK TUNES
- 'Winster Gallop': Jane - Melodeon
- 'Salmon Tails': Jane - Melodion - fiddle band - sheet music

ADVANCED PIECES
- Bach: 'Matthew Passion' #47 - YouTube (Tim Mead) - YouTube (A440)
- Gershwin: Summertime - piano accomp.
- Gershwin: I Got Rhythm - piano accomp.
- Elgar: Salut d'Amour (E) - piano accomp. (E) - 5 lessons Nicola Benedetti
- Elgar: Salut d'Amour (D) - piano accomp (D)

Interested? Please contact us

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Take a look at our Facebook Group page (you will need to join first)


REHEARSING WITH DAVID MILSTED in Oundle Primary School, Monday 2nd March 2020 - just before Covid-19 lock-down . . .


REHEARSING IN OUNDLE PRIMARY SCHOOL (from Sept 2017) Here: rehearsaing for our Norfolk Tour in April 2018. [click on any photo to enlarge]
Rusty Strings rehearsing Bach Concerto with Sophia	Vince with the RPO and Sorcerer's Apprentice	Vince with the RPO and Dambuster's March


REHEARSING IN THE QUEEN VICTORIA HALL - until July 2017 Here: rehearsing for our Titchmarsh concert, June 2015 [click on any photo to enlarge]
Chris Gill's last rehearsal, in the Queen Victoria Hall
Chris Gill's last rehearsal, in the Queen Victoria Hall



	... and afterwards ...	... in The Ship!