Newsletter January 2024

Dear Friend

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2024 and it promises to be a busy year for the orchestra with concert dates in the diary already as far as September. This will include two concerts as part of the Melrose Music Festival, which is being rescheduled from May/June to September, and a Festival Preview Concert in May which will showcase a number of the artists who will be performing at the Festival. We will also be continuing our collaboration with the Borders Chamber Choir.

Our Winter Concert will take place on 17th February at 7pm in Melrose Parish Church. Further details below. We have introduced ticketing for this concert - adults £10, 18 years or under are free. The ticket price will include a programme and interval refreshments. Tickets can now be purchased in advance on our website or at the door on the evening of the concert. If you purchase your ticket in advance then you will be sent a confirmatory email with a pdf of your ticket(s) which you can either print out or present on your mobile phone at the door. There is also the option to store your ticket(s) in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet on your phone.

I will email an electronic version of our concert poster separately - please forward this to anyone who you think might be interested in coming to the concert. Our chosen charity for this concert is Marie Curie - further information below.

Future BCO concert dates for your diaries, all at Melrose Parish Church:
Saturday 30th March 2024: Bach - St John's Passion in conjunction with Borders Chamber Choir
Saturday 11th May 2024: Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music in conjunction with Borders Chamber Choir and soloists (Preview Concert for Melrose Music Festival)
Saturday 7th September 2024: Mozart - Requiem in conjunction with Borders Chamber Choir (opening concert of the Melrose Music Festival)
Saturday 14th September 2024: closing concert of Melrose Music Festival. Programme to be announced.

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Winter Concert 17th February 2024
Marie Curie will be our chosen charity for Winter Concert

Winter Concert 17th February 2024

Type of post:	Orchestra news item
Sub-type:	No sub-type
Posted By:	Paul Cormie
Status:	Archived
Date Posted:	Sun, 21 Jan 2024

Our winter concert will take place at Melrose Parish Church on Saturday 17th February 2024 at 7pm
Conductor: Alison Rushworth
Leader: Cath Cormie
Soprano: Claire Taylor

PROGRAMME
Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
Mozart: Aria "Parto, parto ma tu ben mio" from La Clemenza di Tito
Dvorak: Czech Suite Op.39
Interval
Elgar: Serenade for Strings Op.20
Beethoven: Symphony No.2

TICKETS
Adults £10, 18 years or under free. Tickets may be purchased in advance on our website (click here) or at the door on the evening of the concert. Programme and interval refreshments are included in the ticket price.

Marie Curie will be our chosen charity for Winter Concert

Type of post:	Orchestra news item
Sub-type:	No sub-type
Posted By:	Paul Cormie
Status:	Archived
Date Posted:	Tue, 9 Jan 2024

The orchestra committee has chosen Marie Curie to be the charity that we will support at our Winter Concert on 17th February 2024. Marie Curie is the leading charity for end of life care in the UK. They run a number of hospices in the UK, the nearest being in Edinburgh, but they are best known in the Borders for providing Marie Curie nurses to help care for terminally ill patients in their own homes. There will be an opportunity for audience members to donate at the end of the concert and Marie Curie daffodil badges will be available as this will be the start of their annual daffodil fundraising campaign.

For more information, see:

www.mariecurie.org.uk/