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University of Southampton Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Antony Dennant
Leader: Rachel Adams
Mozart – Overture Cosi Fan Tutte
Brahms – Hungarian Dances
Schuman – Symphony No. 1
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University Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Antony Dennant
Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 1
Autumn 1993
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 1
De Falla – Ritual Fire Dance
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Saturday 12th March 1994
Southampton University Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Antony Dennant
Leader: Claire Weyland
Wagner – Overture Rienzi
Brahms – Schicksalslied (Song of Fate) (with members of the Southampton University Choral Society)
Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 1 in D minor
Saturday 28th May 1994
Southampton University Symphony Orchestra
Turner Sims
Conductor: Antony Dennant
Leader: Claire Weyland
Shostakovich – Festive Overture
Malcolm Arnold – Little Suites 1 and 2
Glazunov – Autumn
After a series of performances at the Edinburgh Festival including repertoire such as Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4, Antony Dennant left due to increasing work as a freelance violinist in London. These were his final performances with SUSO.
Quote from Simon Pickering, President from Xmas 1993 – pre-tour 1995:
“It was a fairly tumultuous time as Antony Dennant was retiring, along with the entire committee. Membership was low and there was no money. As an entirely first year committee we pretty-much had to reboot the orchestra. We took the orchestra to the NAYO festival in Edinburgh, (I can’t vouch for the history, but no-one at the time had known the orchestra to have toured before) and got the orchestra back in the black by doubling the concerts programme and increasing the membership from 60 to 90. We held auditions for a new conductor.”