1997 Concerts
February - recording of the soundtrack to the fantasty-epic film Pervirella, composed and conducted by François Evans.
Spring Concert - 20 April
St James' Piccadilly
Conductor: Robin Gordon-Powell
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Soloists: Antony Gray - piano, Nicholas Riddle - organ
Ravel: Ma mére l'oye
De Falla: Noches en los jardines de España
Saint-Saëns - Third Symphony (Organ)
'Mayhem' - 25 May
Prince Edward Theatre, Soho.
Conductors: Robin Gordon-Powell, François Evans, Frido Ruth & Mladin Stankovich
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Performance with the Equality Choir, Susan Black, Tony Moriah, Suzie McKenna, Caron Pascoe, Adrella, Doreen Beaste, Ebony, Scarlett and Kate Copstick. Compared by Stella Duffy and Susan Maxwell.
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (soloists - Robert Masarachi and Hugh Thomas)
Mozart: Concerto Nº 3 for Horn, 2nd movement (soloist - Willie Deighan)
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Strauss: The Blue Danube (with the Equality Choir)
Tchaikovsky: Suite from Swan Lake (soloists Robert Masarachi - violin, Richard McKinnon - cello, Geoff Haimes - harp)
Willkommen, Bienvenu (from Caberet)
Hey, Big Spender (from Sweet Charity)
All That Drag, Anyone who had a heart, I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten
Title song from Pervirella
The Gypsy Song from Act 2 of Carmen (Bizet)
Un bel di vedremo from Madam Butterfly (Puccini)
Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
Television Debut Carlton Television - June
Conductor: Robin Gordon-Powell
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Tchaikovsky - Waltz from Swan Lake
Pride Arts Festival - 12 July
St James' Church, Lancaster Gate
Conductor: Robin Gordon-Powell
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin (soloists: Robert Masarachi - violin, Nick Theobald - oboe)
Bantock: Sapphic Poem (soloist: Ilsa Desiah - cello)
Borodin: Polotsvian Dances (with the combined Equality Choir/London Gay Men's Chorus)
Weill: Seven Deadly Sins
Wilfred Josephs Birthday Concert - 12 October
St John's, Smith Square
Conductor: François Evans & Robin Gordon-Powell
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Soloist: Michael Davis
Sibelius: Karelia Suite (conductor Robin Gordon-Powell)
Josephs - Violin Concerto (World Premiere) (soloist Michael Davis, conductor François Evans)
Josephs: Mortales (European Premiere) (soloists Loré Lixenberg - mezzo soprano, Elinor Carter - contralto, William Deighan - tenor, Damian Thantrey - baritone, Nigel Brookes - bass, the London Choral Society and Beechwood Park School Boys' Choir, Conductor François Evans)
World AIDS Day Concert - 30 November
St Paul's Church, Hammersmith
Conductor: Marion Wood
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Performance with the Keele Bach Choir
Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem
Duruflé - Requiem