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Players' Information

Rehearsals

The rehearsals for the next Radcliffe concert will take place at 8pm-10pm on Tuesdays and one Monday, in either Tingewick Hall, either St Clements Family Centre (here's how to find the Centre) or Beckley Village Hall*, Sandhills School**, or St Andrews***.at the John Radcliffe Hospital (directions to Tingewick Hall).

The first rehearsal is on Tuesday 21st April 2026, then on the five subsequent Tuesdays followed by one Monday at 7:30pm - see below.

There will also be a rehearsal on the afternoon of the day of the concert, Saturday 14th March 2025, starting at 1:45pm, in St. Andrew's Church.

The rehearsal schedule is as follows:


Location 8:00pm 9:00pm (or as stated)
Tuesday 21 April Beckley Village Hall

Tuesday 28 April
Tingewick Hall

Tuesday   5 May Tingewick Hall

Tuesday 12 May Tingewick Hall

Tuesday 19 May Tingewick Hall

Tuesday 26 May Tingewick Hall

Monday    1 June St. Andrew's Church 7:30pm with Choir


Saturday 06 June
St. Andrew's Church 1:45pm to 4:15pm approx.

Publicity

Poster: Radcliffe poster (contains information described below)      Flyer: Concert Flyer

*Beckley Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, OX3 9UZ

**Sandhills Community Primary School, Terrett Avenue, Sandhills, OX3 8FN

***St. Andrew's Church, Linton Road. OX2 6UG

Dress Code

Dress code for our concerts is as follows:

Ladies: plain coloured (preferably red, purple, or dark blue) top and black bottoms (long black or short black with black tights)

Gentlemen: DJ with plain coloured (preferably red, purple, or dark blue) shirt and suitably matching bow tie. (If no such colours, black/white tops as fall back!).

A qr code on a white background

Donations

There is no subscription for playing with the orchestra, but we do ask players to consider making a voluntary contribution of £30 or more per concert to help us to cover our costs.

On the right is a QR code for donations which will take you to https://www.hospitalcharity.co.uk/donate/area-of-greatest-need-2023

Please tick ‘Yes’ to add Gift Aid and in the ‘leave a comment’ box put ‘For Radcliffe Orchestra Fund 0307’ (important!). 

Instrumentation

Dukas - Fanfare pour précéder La Péri (for Brass)
0.0.0.0 4.3.3.1
Dvorak Violin Concerto
2.2.2.2 4.2.0.0 timp, strings
Holst - The Planets
4.4.4.2+1 6.4.3.2, timp, perc, organ, celesta, harp, strings, soprano choir


Dates of Future concerts

  • Saturday 14th November 2026
  • Saturday 13th March 2027
  • Saturday 12th June 2027
  • Saturday 13th November 2027


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