Avison Ensemble
Music Celebration Week 2011: Wopping Big Picnic, Gibside, 13 July 2011
Gibside 18th Century Pleasure Gardens, Rowlands Gill, welcomed young instrumentalists who learn in whole classes, and the massed band was joined by the Gateshead Youth Orchestra. The music celebration and WOPPING big picnic took place outside the Chapel in glorious July sunshine. Everyone was regally entertained!
The Avison Ensemble is proud to have sponsored this year’s Music Celebration Week presented by Gateshead Music Service. Hundreds of children across Gateshead were involved in workshops, sing-a-longs, demonstrations and concerts, as well as a WOPPING big, music-filled picnic at Gibside!
The Avison Ensemble is grateful to The Roland Cookson Fund at The Community Foundation and the Arts Council North East for supporting Music Celebration Week.
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
Music Celebration Week 2011: Wopping Big Picnic, Gibside, 13 July 2011
Gibside 18th Century Pleasure Gardens, Rowlands Gill, welcomed young instrumentalists who learn in whole classes, and the massed band was joined by the Gateshead Youth Orchestra. The music celebration and WOPPING big picnic took place outside the Chapel in glorious July sunshine. Everyone was regally entertained!
The Avison Ensemble is proud to have sponsored this year’s Music Celebration Week presented by Gateshead Music Service. Hundreds of children across Gateshead were involved in workshops, sing-a-longs, demonstrations and concerts, as well as a WOPPING big, music-filled picnic at Gibside!
The Avison Ensemble is grateful to The Roland Cookson Fund at The Community Foundation and the Arts Council North East for supporting Music Celebration Week.
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.