Risingholme Orchestra invites you to their concert centred on music by British composers, and which draws its inspiration from some of the realm’s notable events, characters and locales. 

The title of this concert references the delightfully eccentric names of two British towns: Dull in Perthshire (twinned with Boring, USA and Bland, Australia), and Great Snoring in Norfolk.

In terms of geographical range our programme extends from Scotland (the traditional “Skye Boat Song” and Hamish MacCunn’s The Land of the Mountain and the Flood), to the south of England with Malcolm Arnold’s Four Cornish Dances.

The emotional range is equally wide: from the ceremonial splendour of an Overture from Händel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks to the pensive, wartime love-song “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”.

And for stylistic contrast we include a short festive work by Arthur Sullivan; the well-known Elizabethan Serenade; and an evergreen hornpipe from Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea Songs.

And bringing us up to modern times we feature an orchestral arrangement of hits by The Beatles, and the premiere of English Idyll by visiting British composer Christopher Mortlock from Essex, near Steeple Bumpstead.