Patron: Colin Horsley OBE

Leader: Tom Field

Conductor: Maurice Powell

PROGRAMME

 

Opening Waltz, ‘Skater’s Waltz’ – Emile Waldteufel

 

Overture ‘Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna’ – Franz von Suppé

 

Waltz  ‘Watercolours’ op.258 – Josef Strauss

 

‘Adele’s Laughing Song’ from ‘Die Fledermaus’ – Johann Strauss II

 

Karen Elliott, soprano

 

‘Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss’ from ‘Land of Smiles’ – Franz Lehár

 

‘Love, Live Forever’ from ‘Paganini’ – Franz Lehár

 

Michael Corkhill, tenor

 

Polka-Mazurka, ‘The Dragon Fly’ op.204 – Josef Strauss

 

Waltz ‘Roses from the South’ op.388 – Johann Strauss II

 

INTERVAL

 

Egyptian March op.335 – Johann Strauss II

 

Waltz ‘Wine, Women & Song’ op.333 – Johann Strauss II

 

‘Vilia’ from ‘The Merry Widow’ – Franz Lehár

 

‘Gypsy Fiddles Playing’ from ‘Gypsy Love’ – Franz Lehár

 

Karen Elliott, soprano

 

Czech Polka – Johann Strauss II

 

Waltz ‘The Blue Danube’ op.314 – Johann Strauss II

 

Radetzky March – Johann Strauss I

 

Winter Ball 2011

Saturday 15th January

Villa Marina

 

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An enthusiastic and fleet-footed audience entered into the spirit of this year’s Viennese Winter Ball with more people taking to the dance floor than  previously.

Charles Guard

Compere

Karen Elliott

Soprano

Our Compere for the evening, Charles Guard, kept up a lively, witty and well informed commentary about the music and the performers.  We were delighted that Soprano, Karen Elliott, and Tenor, Michael Corkhill, agreed to join us this year  and their performances of ‘Vilia’ from ‘The Merry Widow’ & ‘Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss’ from ‘Land of Smiles’, among others, added greatly to the occasion.

 

In the words of our Conductor, Maurice Powell

“ It was a glittering occasion to remember and an evening of great music to help see off those winter blues”

Michael Corkhill

Tenor

Photographs taken by Frank Warburton.

The Winter Ball was the first outing of the orchestra’s new set of 3 Premier pedal timpani which were purchased with the aid of a generous grant from the Manx Lottery Trust.                 

 

       

As an inducement to bashful would-be dancers, pupils from the Madigan’s School of Dance led the dance numbers, encouraging people to the floor. Ballerinas from the Academy of Dance performed the Dragonfly Polka-Mazurka, choreography by Marie-Louise Britz, to enthusiastic applause.