West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra

We miss you! Thanks for the plug though 😘

Pink & yellow (think Battenberg cake but on a) poster with information about our upcoming Spring concert. WYSO at the OLD WOOLLEN Sunday 22nd March 2026 3:00pm Beethoven - Overture: Fidelio Fauré - Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande Mascagni - Zanetto Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance John Lyon - conductor Alison Major - leader Elizabeth Hardman - soprano Beth Moxon - mezzo soprano OLD WOOLLEN Farsley LS28 5UJ

Rehearsing all the non-opera pieces tonight, starting with #Beethoven and followed by some #Faure

And the marvellous @judeabb.bsky.social has designed our concert flyers

Text: WYSO AT THE OLD WOOLLEN On a bright pink background

Hello! We’re busy rehearsing for our next concert on Sunday 22nd March at 3pm - Sunnybank Mills in Farsley (where they film #SewingBee) - it’s a lovely mixture of pieces 🎼🎵🎶

Beethoven - Overture: Fidelio
Fauré - Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande
Mascagni - Zanetto
Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance

Rehearsing the Vaughan Williams with the soloist this evening, his name is Sam and he is wonderful.
The piece is coming together really well #TubaConcerto

Tonight’s first half was focused on the Vaughan Williams Tuba concerto.
Looking forward to rehearsing it with the soloist, it’s settling down nicely #MadRhythms

False advertising! We did the other two movements of the Dvorak instead!

A forest scene, advertising WYSO’s November concert. Info is in the post.

Here is a slightly dodgy (sorry about the flash!) photo of the concert flyer.

Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture
Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto (soloist Sam Dodd)
Dvorak Symphony No8

Conductor Nick Meredith
Leader Alison Major

November 22nd 3:00pm
St Matthew’s Church Chapel Allerton

Tonight’s first half has been fun, rehearsing the even mvts of the Dvorak; upping the tempo A Lot for the 4th, it’s all sounding very exciting (whooping horns! stormy strings!) so we’ll be calming down a bit after the break with some Mendelssohn 🎶🎵

Good evening!
Apologies for being rubbish at posting the last couple of weeks … we had sectionals - so the strings got to talk about bowings in peace and the winds went and had fun doing dectets 😁
(Brass had the night off)

Waiting to see what’s in store for the second half - the third movement is the trickiest!
We’ll be ready for the soloist soon - second movement sounding gorgeous #TubaConcerto

Rhythm games tonight while we wrestle with the VW Tuba Concerto.
The conductor is using 70s and 80s kids tv titles and the orchestra is very much split by age regarding what is going on 😂
Captain Pugwash/Tales of the Riverbank/Bagpuss/Roobarb & Custard

Hello!
We are back for a new term, looking forward to getting our teeth into Dvorak 8, Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture and most exciting… a tuba concerto!
Concert day is the 22nd November 🎼🎶🎵

Looking from inside the castle walls, there is a path curving away towards the left of the picture. The wall has a large PROMS sign in in white letters.

A long shot of a large display screen on the left, in front of some large trees. To the right of the screen is a large tan-coloured tent/marquee, under which the orchestra are playing. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds.

A photo looking over the top of the marquee, showing the Pride Flag fluttering magnificently in the (quite strong!) breeze.

Looking towards the walls opposite the first photo; there is a fenced off VIP area, comprising several picnic tables and some massive bean bags, each one a different colour, arranged in roughly rainbow order, with three vertical flagpoles flying small triangular pennants in rainbow order. In the foreground, sat on the grass with both arms in the air, is one of our lovely violists, Lindsay

A few photos from this afternoon before that gates open later #PontefractCastle

We are here at Pontefract Castle, and it is warm & dry (and quite breezy but that just means the flags look fantastic 😁)
Sound check & rehearsal in progress at the moment. #PromInTheCastle

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Just for you 😉

Good morning!
Today’s concert day!
There are still a few tickets left, so if you’re free later on, why not come to Pontefract Castle?
There’ll be music (lots of music!) and fireworks 🎆

We’re really looking forward to it, it’s always a brilliant event 🎼🎶

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Well, indeed.
And a very lovely Ben he is too 😊

Tickets are on sale for our #PromInTheCastle on Saturday 28th June:

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A black and white cat investigating Ben, a bassoon player (bassoon not shown!) in the car park. Ben, wearing jeans and a light blue shirt is bending towards the cat with his hand out

Break time - and we have our regular visitor back again #ProofOfCat

Absolutely rammed rehearsal room tonight, all our lovely deps are here, making a glorious noise 🎼🎶🎵
It’s quite warm in here too - and it should be on Saturday in Pontefract, the weather forecast looks promising 🌞😎
#PromInTheCastle

Not had one for a while, but here’s a banger in relation to dynamics:
“Could I invite you to partake of the hairpins?”
#ConductorQuotes

Ooh hello!
Message passed on to them as decides 🙂

Less than a month to go now!
Get your tickets here:

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The last of the Prom music has been handed out this evening.
Currently listening to the woodwind & upper strings pretending to be birds - this is one of five pieces we’ll be performing with a singer #PromInTheCastle

Did we mention..? 🤔

Tickets available now!
#PromInTheCastle

And back again getting ready for Pontefract #PromInTheCastle
Tonight’s rehearsal is tricky joins and corners - we have a lot more music to get through than in a normal term so it’s more of a challenge, but always fun 🎼🎶🎵

🏃‍♀️ Some of #TeamHallé were out showing off their new pink running tees in #Manchester yesterday! 🏃‍♀️

Make sure to give our team a big cheer and a wave as they run the course! 👋

You can support our cause here 👇
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Here’s the link for the #PromInTheCastle tickets - they do usually sell out so get yours early!

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More music being handed out as we prepare for the #PromInTheCastle - looks like we’re preparing for singing 🎵🎶🎵