The Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Hoelderlin- Gymnasium (Grammar School) from Nuertingen (on the River Neckar in Baden-Wuerttemberg just south of Stuttgart), Germany, will be performing at Greenhill School, Tenby, on Wednesday, July 23. The 86-player strong youth orchestra will be conducted by Walter Schuster. Soloists will be Victor Krause ('cello) and Johannes Schneeberger (piano), both of whom have just graduated from the school after passing their Abitur (A-Levels). The orchestra is a previous winner of the prize for the best youth orchestra in Germany, and the concert programme will appeal to every music lover. It includes well-known Russian romantic music, with Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakoff, Mahler, Haydn, and George Gershwin featured in a a most exciting and varied list of composers. The orchestra, whose members are aged between 14 and 20, will be having a morning rehearsal on July 23 and are inviting parents with children under 10 to watch this. Age is not important; from babies to toddlers to junior school children, all are welcome. At that age, they probably would not sit through a full concert without disturbing the concert goers, but this will give the youngsters the opportunity to experience the sound of a full symphony orchestra. The rehearsal starts at 10.30 am and entry is free. Ten free tickets are also being given to anyone who 'phones the promoters with the name of a relative of a Tenby resident who is over 80 and who can honestly say that he/she has never heard a full symphony orchestra before. The evening concert starts at 7.30 pm in the main hall at Greenhill School. Tickets are £10 each, with schoolchildren over the age of 10 going free. Tickets are on sale at Dales Music Shop, High Street, or 'phone the promoters, L. Phillips, Slaidburn Promotions, on 01348 881685.
