Wednesday 6th July 2016 Now we are in a mood for music – today we are in the spa town of Podebrady to the east of Prague. For over a century, Poděbrady has been one of the most important Czech spa towns. This is chiefly thanks to its springs, stable weather, pleasantly situated on …
Prague 2016 (2) – Ss Simon and Jude
Tuesday 5th July 2016 Today, a visit to Prague’s magnificent castle and St Vitus Cathedral, home to relics of St Wenceslas and the Czech state crown. Also known as the Bohemian Crown, it was made for the coronation of Charles IV in 1347, making it the fourth oldest in Europe. Virtual tour Wearied by …
Prague Tour (1) – Arrival
Monday 4th July 2016 Prague airport[/caption]Thanks to all our families who turned up at the departure point at an incredibly early hour of Monday morning ensuring that the coaches got off to a very prompt start – 14 mins early. It was a smooth pick up at Kinross too and soon we found ourselves …
Prague Souvenir Programme
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At the cutting edge of musical performance
Our Chief Patron – Su-a Lee, accompanied by Matt Hardy on marimba, delighted her audience in St John’s Kirk, Perth, with this encore based on a ‘jingle’ by composer Raymond Scott, for a ’43 year old sherry’. It must have been a really good sherry!
Raising funds for their fellow musicians
These young musicians from Kinross High School provided the perfect reply to their Chief Patron’s generous fund raising concert last weekend. The second part of her concert, given at St John’s Kirk, Perth, with her fellow Scottish Chamber Orchestra player, Matt Hardy, was performed by PYO members. All these young players are pupils at …
Su-a Lee and Matt Hardy
Osvaldo Golijov – Mariel COMPOSER’S NOTE “I wrote this piece in memory of my friend Mariel Stubrin. I attempted to capture that short instant before grief, in which one learns of the sudden death of a friend who was full of life: a single moment frozen forever in one’s memory, and which reverberates through …
Su-a Lee’s fund raiser in St John’s Kirk for PYO Tour Funds
Su-a Lee, the orchestra’s Patron-in-Chief, was joined by Matt Hardy and the pupils from Kinross High School’s Chamber Group as they gave their services free at a concert in aid of PYO Tour Funds on Sunday 24th April, at 3pm, in St John’s Kirk, Perth. The 80-strong orchestra is in the final stages of preparation …
Summer rehearsal/ concert dates
Thank you all for working so hard at music camp and I felt the two concerts on Saturday and Sunday were two of the best I can remember following music camp. Congratulations to all and to our two soloists on two excellent performances. We now have a busy remainder of the session with Perth …