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75th Birthday Concert

The concert is in aid of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation. Click this button to visit its site.

Michael's 75th birthday is on Sunday 11th January 2009. We are planning a concert to take place at the Bedford Corn Exchange. The concert will be in aid of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation.

We are drawing together a 'super-orchestra' of people who have passed through Michael's hands in the Youth Orchestra and the BBC Training Orchestra and are now playing professionally. See below if you are such a player and would like to take part.

The programme will be Britten's Variations on a Theme of Purcell (Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra); Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 and Elgar's Enigma Variations.

The soloist is John Lill, who has a long association with Michael since performing with him in the Proms just after he won the Tchaikovsky Prize in 1970.

Taking part ...

MICHAEL ROSE’S 75th BIRTHDAY CONCERT NEEDS YOU!

Were you a member of the BBC TRAINING ORCHESTRA (1968-72) or the BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (1972 onwards)?

We’re looking for ex-members of these two orchestras, who are now playing professionally, to play in a huge super-orchestra reunion concert to celebrate Michael’s 75th on Sunday, 11th January 2009 at Bedford Corn Exchange.

Rehearsal and concert on the same day. Programme to be announced. Food and lashings of cake provided.

If you would like to take part, please click on the link button above to fill in a form.

If you have any queries, please contact us by e-mail or call 01234 714959 for more details.

Michael E Rose

Composer, conductor and teacher