Sinfonietta - UPDATED 30 September 2021

“A Christmas Carol” for Narrator and Orchestra

Almost there now ….. must be the sea air and the Benjamin Britten environs in Aldeburgh that have inspired me over the summer!

The final draft of the score is almost completed now with only a few amendments to the orchestration to refine. I will be working on the orchestral parts over the next couple of weeks and hope to to have a set ready by mid October.

Please feel free to make comments and give feedback on my Blog about this project.

If you like the music, and your group want to give it a go, then let me know and I will get a set of parts and score out to you. First one past the post gets the whole set for free at my expense!

PREVIOUS POST (March 2021)

The last orchestral concert where any of my arrangements or compositions were played was in February 2020. In Leeds Town Hall, this concert was conducted by my good friend John Anderson with the Airedale Symphony Orchestra and Leeds Choral Society. It was an incredibly memorable concert!

As a result of this John asked if I had any other compositions that the orchestra might perform in their November 2020 concert. I had just the piece, a fifteen-minute work for narrator and orchestra based on “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. John liked the idea, so I got to work last spring and summer.

The November concert, along with all the other concerts planned for 2020/21, has not been possible due to the pandemic.

Although the composition is now completed, the score and parts need to be edited and produced as an orchestral set ready for performance. The percussion parts also need to be composed and added to the score.

This is one of the projects I hope to complete before April 2021.

Hopefully, there will be an opportunity for Airedale to perform this work in one of their future concerts.

Soundfile of Orchestral Score without Narration