WOW’s Programme:
Liberty Bell - J P Sousa
Funeral March - Gounod
Tales from the Vienna Woods - J Strauss
The Great Escape - E Bernstein
Pizzicato Polka - J Strauss
Rock around the Clock - Freedman & Knight
In spite of sweltering heat, a near capacity audience enjoyed a varied, well-chosen
programme by Freeland Orchestra and West Oxfordshire Winds, in Eynsham Village Hall,
with a collection in aid of the Nasio Trust, a local charity.
The orchestra played in the first half and in the second half the stage was taken
by West Oxfordshire Winds, a lively wind band with an exceptional number of clarinets,
who performed a very enjoyable programme of mostly well-known pieces. It was very
interesting to hear the theme from the old Hitchcock TV series...full of tricky chromatic
passages, confidently overcome by the players. The familiar "Great Escape" was followed
by the "Pizzicato Polka"...(what fun to hear this piece played by a wind band...surprisingly
effective).The rousing finale, by which time the performers and their conductor must
have been melting, was "Rock around the Clock", a great end to a most satisfying
concert.
(Rachael Sherlaw-Johnson)
