Big concert at Warwick School will be a family affair

The event entitled The Lost Slipper, which takes place at the Guy Nelson Hall at Warwick School from 3pm, will feature pieces by renowned composers including Benjamin Britten, Prokofiev and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Amanda Laidler, the orchestra’s publicity manager, said the concert was always very popular with adults and children alike.

She added: “This is our way of encouraging young people to get into listening to a full orchestra.

“There is no comparison between listening to a CD or hearing a full 60-piece symphony orchestra.

“We make it a fun event and while the musicians would normally wear evening dress we ask them to put on brightly coloured tops and at they end they put on a silly hat.

“Our conductor Guy Woolfenden does a quiz and at the end the audience can sing along to Christmas carols the orchestra will play, which is not something people get to do every say.”

The programme includes A Christmas Festival by American composer Leroy Anderson, French composer Emilie Waldteufel’s 1882 piece The Skaters’ Waltz, Britten’s Men of Goodwill, Prokofiev’s Cinderella Suite No 1, Polonsaise from Christmas Eve by Rimsky-Korsakov and Paul Reade’s Cinderella which will be narrated by Royal Shakespeare Company and television actor John Woodvine.

Amanda said: “We are always pleased to have a narrator who does it very well - especially one a lot of people will recognise.

“Guy is also well known for his work with the RSC, for which he was head of music for a long time, and he is also the only living composer to have written music for every single one of Shakespeare’s plays which is quite an accolade as well.”

For tickets, call 850385 or email [email protected]