Peter Bussereau (violin) with SYMPHONIA ACADEMICA

Unfortunately, Simon Callaghan is indisposed and has had to withdraw from the advertised programme at short notice.  Symphonia Academica, under their conductor David Beaman, will now also perform a selection of English music for string orchestra by Walton, Holst and Delius.  This will replace the Doreen Carwithen Concerto.  We all wish Simon well and look forward to welcoming him back to Luton later in the season.  Thank you to everyone who is helping to make our concert on Monday night possible and I’m happy to announce that everything else on the programme will remain unchanged.  Thanks also to The William Alwyn Foundation who were supporting this concert and have been most understanding about the way things have turned out.  We would very much like to programme the Carwithen Concerto again in the future as it is such a fine piece.  I myself will be taking the piano part in Finzi’s Eclogue and very much look forward to playing this beautiful music.  Peter Bussereau, a great friend of Luton Music over the last twenty years, will perform the much loved Four Seasons by Vivaldi as planned and it will be a special pleasure to hear them played in the beautiful acoustic of St Mary’s Church, Luton’s most remarkable building.

Richard Sisson (Programme Planner)