Wanganui Chamber Orchestra

The Wanganui Chamber Orchestra gave a concert at one of the fancier retirement villages on Mother's Day. Originally a chamber orchestra with a couple of  'blowers' like oboes and flutes, this concert saw the importation (from Wanganui Brass) of trumpets, a trombone, a couple of clarinets and a percussionist who made a drum kit sound truly orchestral!
The selections were really audience-friendly and contained a medley from West Side Story and some well known favourites from the Leroy Anderson compositions which had some glorious foot-tapping rhythms and terrific 'big band' sounds for the brass.

The Classical part of the programme was the ever popular Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg) and the overture from the opera Titus by Mozart.

The author, being a pianist, has had playing in a real, dinkum orchestra on her bucket list for ever, so now we have a big tick next to that entry! Needless to say, it took some serious practising and plenty of concentration to finally do the job, but I can honestly say it wasn't as difficult as I had always imagined it to be and was great fun! Hopefully, there will be many more such concerts to look forward to in the future!  Dis al!