1998 Concerts
Spring Concert - 22 March
St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge
Conductor: Robin Gordon-Powell
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Mendelssohn: "Scottish" Symphony
Mayhem Again - June
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Conductor: Robin Gordon-Powell and François Evans
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Soloist: Jimmy Somerville
Programme included works by Gounod, Bizet, Sondheim, Somerville and Spice Girls
Camp? Moi? (Pride Arts Festival) - 11 July
St James' Church, Lancaster Gate
Conductor: Robin Gordon-Powell
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture
Patrick Nunn: Un Chant D'Amour
Robert Ely: Orchestral Suite from Boudica
Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (soloists David Nettle and Richard Markham)
Berners: Suite from The Triumph of Neptune
"The Waltons" - October
St Paul's, Knightsbridge
Conductor: Marion Wood
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Dvorak: Scherzo Cappricioso
Walton: Cello Concerto (soloist: Jamie Walton - cello)
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4
Free (World Aids Day Concert) - November
Spitalfields Market Opera, Aldgate
Conductor: Robert Ely
Leader: Robert Masarachi
Narrator: Simon Callow
Librettist: Eric Presland
Soloists: Martin Lindsay, Sally Triconnet, Graham Titus, Michael Harper, Sjaak van der Bent, Ann Thomas.
Performance with the Diversity Choir.
"Free" - An Anti-Requiem
Composed by: Suzanne Cross, Robert Ely, Yngvil Vatn Guttu, Stewart Lane, Peter Murphy, Jacques van Rhijn, Warwick Thompson.