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Welcome to our Autumn/ Winter season of Leap into Live Music! events, offering a fantastic range of new performances for our members.

As a Leap member you get access to free and discounted performances at Liverpool Philharmonic.

We are delighted to offer concerts over the Christmas period again this year.

We want to be able to offer as many tickets as possible, which means there will be a small charge of £10 per adult and £5 for under 16s for these events.

This is still a fantastic discounted rate of up to 75% and allows us to contribute towards the cost of tickets so that as many people as possible can benefit from live music in Liverpool.

If you’re not sure if a concert or performance will be suitable for you or your family please just get in touch, our team will be happy to advise.

We hope you like our latest brochure and the events we have on offer – if you think we have missed anything or have any comments please do let us know, we’d love to know what you think.

We look forward to seeing you at an event soon!

Liz | Leap into Live Music!

All tickets must be booked at least 1 week before the performance by sending an email to leap@liverpoolphil.com, or by calling Box Office on 0151 709 3789.

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How the scheme works…

Leap into Live Music! is generously funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to enable Liverpool Philharmonic to provide tickets for people to experience live music events. We offer a range of performances across Liverpool Philharmonic’s varied programme from orchestral performances to Rock ‘n’ Pop concerts.

What to do if you can’t make an event…

If you can’t make an event, we ask that you let us know as soon as you can. This will enable us to offer the tickets to other Leap members and make sure that the seats don’t go to waste. If you have a family emergency or something crops up don’t worry, but we’d appreciate that you let us know once things have settled down.

We are starting to implement a three strikes rule for members who consistently book, fail to attend and don’t let us know. This enables us to prioritise members who really want tickets.

To cancel: email leap@liverpoolphil.com call Box Office on 0151 709 3789 or text (make sure you give your name) 07834 790 760 Please note that normal telephone Box Office opening hours are: Monday to Saturday 9.30am - 6pm performance days 9.30am - 5.30pm non-performance days Sunday 12noon - 6pm performance days 12noon - 5pm non-performance days

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All or Nothing: The Mod Musical Sunday 10 September 7.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall –

This ‘Mod’ Musical celebrates the unique sound of the iconic 60s band, The Small Faces. The band encapsulated all that is Mod, a unique blend of taste and testosterone, neat, clothes obsessed and street-wise.

But these working class free spirits shared another passion, their dedication to Rhythm ‘n’ Blues.

Featuring the music of the Small Faces, including an arsenal of brilliant hits like ‘Whatcha Gonna Do About It’, ‘Lazy Sunday’, ‘Tin Soldier’, ‘Sha La La La Lee’, ‘Itchycoo Park’ and of course ‘All Or Nothing’.

“Funny, fiery and brave… you’ll have a rocking night out” The Daily Star Sunday

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CHAMBER MUSIC

Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Friday 22 September 1.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Barber Overture, School for Scandal Dvořák Cello Concerto Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

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Vasily Petrenko conductor Alexey Stadler cello

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When Vasily Petrenko conducts Russian music, you know to expect big emotions. And they don’t come much bigger than in Rachmaninov’s glorious Second Symphony. He’s paired it with Dvořák’s Cello Concerto: written in the New World and performed tonight, for the first time in Liverpool, by the young Russian star, Alexey Stadler.

It’s part of a celebration of music inspired by America: so Barber’s firecracker of an overture will set things off with a bang!

Red Priest: Gypsy Baroque Fantasy

Tuesday 26 September 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room –

Piers Adams recorders Adam Summerhayes violin Angela East cello David Wright harpsichord

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Tonight, it’s all about the gypsy spirit, with wild, folk-inspired music by Telemann, Handel and of course Vivaldi himself. If you’ve heard them before (they sold out last season), you won’t need telling twice: they’re hot stuff! Led by “superhuman” recorder player Piers Adams, “baroque supergroup” Red Priest puts the fire back into the baroque, making every performance into a carnival.

The Coal Porters

Wednesday 4 October 2017 8pm Music Room –

The Coal Porters are an exciting and dynamic bluegrass combo formed in the 1990s. They have wowed audiences at numerous UK and European venues, done no less than four North American tours and performed to tens of thousands at festivals.

The band has demonstrated the power of fiddle, mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar, harmonies and memorable melodies – and has taken this sound around the world.

“Sid Griffin was playing Americana years before the term was invented and that pioneer spirit shines on with his current band, the Coal Porters!”

Billy Bragg

Music by Vivaldi, Telemann, Handel, Biber, Byrd and Mielczewski and Hungarian folk melodies.

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FAMILY CONCERTS

Casablanca: Film with Live Orchestra

Saturday 14 October 2.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Dirk Brossé conductor

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You must remember this… Rick and Sam, Bogart and Bergman, and a love story amidst the turmoil of wartime North Africa. Casablanca is a thriller, a film noir, and an unforgettable weepie – and these screenings, with Max Steiner’s score played live by the full Orchestra, it’ll spring urgently to life, sounding as rich and as passionate as it did when it was first released in 1942. The fundamental things apply – so play it again, Sam… Film Courtesy of Warner Bros.

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Fingal’s Cave

Friday 27 October 2017 1.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) Sibelius Violin Concerto Brahms Symphony No. 4

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Johannes Brahms’ last symphony is one of classical music’s most stirring spiritual journeys, and guest conductor Jacek Kaspszyk knows how to make it sing – just as the charismatic Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud will wring every last drop of feeling from the fire and ice of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. But first, all aboard for a boat-trip, as the young Felix Mendelssohn sets sail for the Hebrides. You can almost taste the salt as the orchestra conjures up the sights and sounds of the Scottish island of Staffa and its famous Fingal’s Cave.

Spooktacular!

Sunday 29 October 2.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Alasdair Malloy presenter Kevin Field conductor

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Calling all Ghostbusters! Come and hear the Orchestra at their spookiest and spinechilling best in this concert combining the creepiest classics with a gruesome mix of all manner of haunting Halloween music. The concert includes The Devil’s Galop, Overture from The Flying Dutchman, Phantom Fairground, and, of course, music from Ghostbusters!

Liverpool Philharmonic Family Concerts are a great way for children and adults to come together to experience a full symphony orchestra performing music live. Concerts last about one hour. Fidgeting is allowed and the whole family is welcome, so come along and give it a try!

Come along in your devilish disguises!

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The Lark Ascending

Thursday 9 November 2017 7.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Carlos Miguel Prieto © Benjamin Ealovega

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Pictures at an Exhibition

Sunday 5 November 2.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition

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Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor Boris Giltburg piano

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A hut on hen’s legs, an angry gnome, and all the bells of old Russia. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition overflows with glowing colours and fantastic tales – and that’s just the climax of this evening’s Russian adventure. First comes the piece they call the “Everest of Piano Concertos”, a concerto so overwhelming that even Rachmaninov himself had to practise extra-hard before playing it! So we can’t wait to hear it performed by the phenomenal Boris Giltburg.

Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto will be with him every step of the way.

David Matthews Norfolk March Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Hamish MacCunn Overture, The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)

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Andrew Manze conductor James Ehnes violin Sarah Fox soprano Andrew Foster-Williams bassbaritone Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

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Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony takes the poems of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates to a spring tide of inspiration. Andrew Manze’s Vaughan Williams recordings with the Orchestra have been praised for their “rare sensitivity and warmth”, and the Choir has this music in its blood. Violinist James Ehnes, meanwhile, loves The Lark Ascending so much that he’s come here specially to play it – though when you hear the tunes in Hamish MacCunn’s delightful The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, you’ll wonder why it isn’t just as popular.

The Music of Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers

Islands in the Stream

Saturday 11 November 2017 7.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Leave your 9 to 5 worries at the door and get ready for a night in the company of Country Music Royalty! This thigh-slapping stage show brings together the beloved glamour of Dolly, along with Kenny’s energy with hit after hit including: ‘Jolene’, ‘Ruby’, ‘9 to 5’, ‘Lucille, Here You Come Again’, ‘The Gambler’, ‘I Will Always Love You’, plus the smash hit Islands in the Stream.

Enjoy a superb score and supreme musicianship as we bring the house down with the ultimate tribute to two country music legends.

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A Russian Christmas

Friday 8 December 2017 1.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Prokofiev Suite from Lieutenant Kijé Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite from The Snow Maiden Delius Sleigh Ride Tchaikovsky Suite from The Nutcracker

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Thick white snow, jingling sleighbells and stories by the fireside: there’s no Christmas quite like a Russian Christmas.

So gather round, as conductor Elim Chan and the Orchestra tell a wintry fairy tale by RimskyKorsakov, take a sleigh ride with Delius and drop in on the most magical Christmas party of all time: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite. Prokofiev gets the fun started with a frosted shot of musical vodka – and then we welcome an old friend, pianist Kathryn Stott, in Shostakovich’s sparkling Second Piano Concerto. Music to make hearts warm – and cheeks glow! £10 adults, £5 under 16s for all members 8

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Family Concerts

Sing-Along with Santa!

Saturday 16 December 2017 11.30am & 2.30pm Sunday 17 December 2017 2.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Alasdair Malloy presenter Michael Seal conductor Liverpool Philharmonic Children’s Choirs and Melody Makers

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He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice – and now he’s asking you to join in and sing along!

That’s right, Santa himself is leading the musical fun today, and he really wants to hear how loud you can sing! That goes for the whole family: but don’t worry, the Liverpool Philharmonic Children’s Choirs are here to help, and this is a musical Christmas treat filled with seasonal songs that simply everyone will know.

Liverpool Philharmonic Family Concerts are a great way for children and adults to come together to experience a full symphony orchestra performing music live. Concerts last about one hour. Fidgeting is allowed, and the whole family is welcome, so come along and give it a try! £10 adults, £5 under 16s for all members

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Spirit of Christmas Saturday 16 December 7:30pm Tuesday 19 December 7:30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Ian Tracey conductor Jesús Leónten or John Suchet presenter Simon Emery Artistic Director, Youth Ensembles Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir

from our host, Classic FM’s John Suchet. And this year, there’s a very special surprise in the stocking. Returning after his success at Christmas in 2012, the show stopping Mexican tenor Jesús Léon stars! Join us for a good old festive singalong!

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£10 adults, £5 under 16s for all members

Liverpool Philharmonic’s annual Carol Concerts are a Christmas tradition. The full Orchestra and our terrific choirs serve up a mouthwatering spread of Yuletide music for the whole family: all your favourite carols, from ‘O Come all ye faithful’ to ‘Hark! the Herald Angels Sing’ mingled with seasonal readings

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Back to the Future: Film with Live Orchestra Saturday 30 December 2.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Dirk Brossé conductor

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Power up your DeLorean… recharge your flux capacitor… and get ready to celebrate this unforgettable movie classic as you’ve never seen and heard it before! Back to the Future, staring Michael J. Fox, is the blockbuster that topped the 1985 box office chart. In this timetraveling coming-of-age story, Marty McFly (Fox) suddenly finds himself transported back to 1955… where he struggles to change the destiny of his parents and rescue an eccentric scientist from terrorists … all while trying to ensure he has a future to get back to!

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Now, fans old and new will experience the thrill of Back to the Future like never before – on a big hi-def screen with a full symphony orchestra performing Alan Silverstri’s dazzling musical score live in synch with the movie.

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£10 adults, £5 under 16s for all members

How to find us Public Transport –

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is within walking distance of Lime Street and Central Stations. We are also on the frequent 74, 75, 80 and 86 bus routes. www.merseytravel. gov.uk has comprehensive transport information and a ‘Journey Planner Service’. You can also call Traveline on 0871 200 2233.

Directions from the M62 Postcode navigation > L1 9BP –

Continue along the motorway until its end and then follow the signs for the city centre, cathedrals and universities (approx.3 miles). Turn left at the Metropolitan Cathedral and head past the Everyman Theatre along Hope Street.

Music Room –

Situated on the corner of Myrtle Street and Sugnall Street at the back of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, the Music Room is a friendly and informal space offering a programme of roots, folk, classical ensembles and popular music in seating or standing format. Music Room is a home for emerging Liverpool artists, a new space for city festival events and a space to try out new things.

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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral - Reserve and pre-pay available (L3 5TQ) Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral is situated on Mount Pleasant and is a 5 minute walk along Hope Street from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

By car on entering the city follow the brown tourist signs to Cathedrals.

The car park is situated underneath the Cathedral itself. Please note there is no overnight parking Reserve and pre-pay for parking for Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Concerts for only £4.50.

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Secure Parking, Heathfield Street (L1 4EF) Situated on Heathfield Street, just off Renshaw Street. Located just a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, open 24/7 with all day and evening parking. You can book online at uk.secure-a-spot.com Cost > £4 4

Blackburne House Car Park (L8 7PE) Situated on Falkner Street, this car park is open on concert nights from 5pm, until 20mins after the end of concerts. Please note that gates will be locked after this period. Please do not use this car park if unstaffed.

Cost > £6

(L1 9BP) Situated off Caledonia Street, this pay-on-entry car park is open from 8.30am and is available for concerts.

Please note that parking is limited and is on a first come, first served basis.

Blue Badge holders are able to reserve car park spaces at the Box Office (0151 709 3789). All reservations must be made at least one week in advance of the concert, and are subject to availability. Payment to be made on entry to car park.

Cost > £7 Please note that parking is very limited at this location, especially on Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra concert nights.

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University of Liverpool Visitor Car Parking Mount Pleasant (L3 5TQ) Situated opposite the Metropolitan Cathedral, this car park is available all day.

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Liverpool Cathedral (L1 7AZ)

Situated on Upper Duke Street, a few minutes’ walk away, the car park is generally open on concert nights from 5.30pm. Secure parking with CCTV monitoring and manned patrols.

Cost > £4 on production of your concert ticket. Please ensure that concert tickets are produced and payment for car park is made at the Constable’s Lodge on arrival.

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Mount Pleasant MultiStorey Car Park (L3 5TB) Situated on Mount Pleasant, the car park is open Monday to Saturday (7am to 8pm) and Sunday (9am to 8pm).

Cost > £1 per hour, £4 over 3 hours.

Free for blue badge holders all day, when parked in dedicated disabled parking places (level 5 only).

St George’s Hall Concert Room Postcode navigation > L1 1JJ

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Cambridge Street (L7 7EE) Situated opposite the Cambridge pub, this car park is available Monday - Friday after 5.30pm, and all day on Saturday and Sunday.

For both car parks take ticket on entry at the barrier, and pay with ticket at pay machine before leaving.

Cost > £4 up to 3 hours, £5 up to 4 hours, £6 over 4 hours

There are a number of nearby car parks, including Queen Square Car park, L1 1RH. Parking tariff £1.90 per hour (0-5 hours) Evening rate of £3.50 between 5pm and 9am.

By public transport Queen’s Square Bus Station and Lime Street Station are both less than 5 minutes walk away.

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Access at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Lifts There are two customer lifts providing level access from the foyer to all levels.

Spaces for wheelchairs with seats for companions are available in Boxes 7, 8, 15, & 16, Row A in the front of the stalls and Rows W & X in the Grand Circle.

A number of the aisle seats in the stalls are transfer seats.

Transfer seats have movable armrests for those who would like to transfer out of their wheelchair and can be used by others with limited mobility.

Accessible WCs Three ambulant accessible unisex WCs and two fully accessible WCs – allowing right hand or left hand transfer – are available in the foyer. A further fully accessible WC can be found at stalls level close to Box 16 and an additional ambulant accessible WC is located in both the male and female toilets in the basement.

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Hearing Induction Loop A Hearing Induction Loop system is available in Box Office and the Main Auditorium.

The loop system in the main Auditorium requires infrared equipment which can be requested from us. You can choose between equipment which works with a hearing aid or one which works independently.

Assistance Dogs Assistance dogs are welcome throughout the building and water is available to them.

Please advise us when booking your ticket if you are bringing an assistance dog as we recommend that you book an aisle seat.

Please note more information on access can be found on our website.

If you have any concerns about access needs please don’t hesitate to contact the Leap into Live Music! team at leap@ liverpoolphil.com or by calling 0151 210 2946.

P LEAO T IN E L I V S I C! MU Terms and conditions

Leap into Live Music! is a five year programme supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Limited to one membership per household.

Tickets for Leap into Live Music! members are subject to availability and offers may be withdrawn at any time. Tickets are allocated on a first come – first served basis.

Liverpool Philharmonic will do its best to accommodate Leap into Live Music! members. In addition, all tickets are subject to Liverpool Philharmonic’s normal terms and conditions. If you have any questions please contact Leap into Live Music!

Liverpool Philharmonic strives to be as accessible as possible to all.

We have been awarded Bronze Standard accreditation from Attitude is Everything.

Attitude is Everything improves Deaf and disabled people’s access to live music by working in partnership with audiences, artists and the music industry to implement a Charter of Best Practice across the UK. Read more at www.attitudeiseverything.org.uk

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Thanks to the City of Liverpool for its financial support

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