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About the Mornington Sinfonia

The Mornington Sinfonia is a friendly, welcoming orchestra in North London which is particularly suitable for intermediate players.

Come and join us for a drink this coming Thursday evening, 2 September 2010, 7.45pm, at The Pineapple, 51 Leverton Street, London, NW5 2NX.

The orchestra meets each Thursday evening during term time. We're currently on our well-earned summer break, having played in a concert on 8 July 2010, but we begin rehearsing again soon, on Thursday 23 September 2010. (Half term break is on Thursday 28 October - no rehearsal that day - and the last rehearsal of term is on 2 December 2010.)

Since October 2008 we've had great fun playing Brahms' Hungarian Dance No 5, Mozart's Laudate Dominum (with soprano soloist Marije Rommes and the Leon Singers), two of Copland's Old American Songs, Weber's overture Der Freischutz, Schumann's Symphony No 2, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No 1, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (with our leader, Ann Binks, as soloist), Haydn's Symphony No 102 and Surprise Symphony, Beethoven's Fidelio Overture, Brahms' Symphony No 1, Mendelssohn's Symphony No 1, Rossini's overture The Italian Girl in Algiers, Beethoven's Symphony No 4, Dvorak's Symphony No 7, Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Haydn's Clock Symphony, Bruch's Violin Concerto (soloist: Ann Binks), Schubert's Marche Militaire No 1 (orchestrated by Richard Lawrence), Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel Overture, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Tchaikovsky's Little Russian Symphony, Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage overture, Schubert's Overture in the Italian Style (in C), Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony (No 5 in D minor), Dvorak's Symphony No 6, Weber's Euryanthe Overture, Elgar's Three Dances From the Bavarian Highlands, Beethoven's Symphony No 1 and Mozart's Don Giovanni Overture.

We often change the repertoire twice a term to get experience performing different pieces.