OP staff getting into the spirit of the occasion
Music, flag-waving, cheering, and plenty of competitive spirit filled Oxford Town Hall on Sunday 27 March at Oxford Philomusica and Oxford City Council’s fifth FUNomusica family concert, Top Score!
The sports-themed afternoon began with a warm-up session of hands-on craft and musical activities. The hall was packed with children and adults in their finest sportswear – footballers, tennis players, ballerinas and gymnasts, all dashing from one activity to another. There was face painting, flag making, instrument playing, pom-pom creating, sports quizzing, banner decorating, and even the chance to play in your own football match (with finger puppets!).
Once everyone was suitably geared up with flags and pompoms in their chosen team colours (orange and black for Symphonic United, or yellow and green for the Philharmonic Rovers) the concert kicked-off with a procession of international flags, led by Team Captain Alasdair Malloy. (more…)
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Top Score! Top Concert!
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
STAFF UPDATE: New year, new staff
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
As the Oxford Philomusica’s new Marketing Administrator, I thought I would use my very first blog entry as an opportunity to introduce myself!
I am a recent music graduate of the University of Leeds, where I specialised in cello performance and spent a year studying abroad in Verona, Italy (a country I miss very much, especially at the moment with the gloomy English weather!). I have always wanted to work in the arts, and I was an Intern at the Royal Academy of Music, before being lucky enough to be offered the position of Marketing Administrator with the Oxford Philomusica.
I’ve really enjoyed my first week with the orchestra, and have been kept very busy! Having attended the fabulous New Year’s Viennese Concert at Oxford Town Hall I’m looking forward to the rest of the concert season, and I’m so pleased to be joining the orchestra at such an exciting time. As I am taking over much of the work of Alice Hyland, who did so much for the orchestra, I am aware that I have a hard act to follow, but I hope that I can make a really positive contribution to the Oxford Philomusica, and I very much look forward to meeting many of you as audience members and Friends of the Orchestra.
A Recapitulation of the Concert Season: Spring 2010
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010The focus of our 2010 season is on individual players from the Orchestra.
We began the new year with a traditional Viennese-style concert in the Town Hall featuring works by the Strauss family. This was the first time OP put on a concert reminiscent of those we all enjoy around this time of the year at Vienna’s Musikverein.
NEWS: Insect invaders flock to Oxford concert
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
LADYBIRDS and bumblebees flew into Oxford Town Hall for a celebration of musical fun.
A creepy-crawly concert entitled Bugs was staged by Oxford Philomusica, the city’s professional symphony orchestra, yesterday.
Numbers included the Ugly Bug Ball by the Sherman Brothers, which featured in the 1963 Disney animation Summer Magic, and The Flight of the Bumble Bee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Hundreds of children dressed as bugs tapped their feet to the well-known tunes during the show presented by Alasdair Malloy.
While the musicians were warming up, children had their faces painted and perfected their costumes with insect antennae.
