7th December 2023 • The HERALD • Page 43 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PRODUCERS v Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Paula, Sarah, Sue and James at We would like to thank all our readers, contributors, advertisers and distribution points for all your support and see you in 2024 Rotarians serving their dishes and Ocean Harmony entertaining Taste the World is a regular event for Hythe & Waterside Rotary, and they recently celebrated with an Italian themed evening. Rotarians cooked a range of Italian dishes, including favourites like Lasagne and meatballs, for their families and friends to enjoy. Deserts included Tiramisu, Italian tri e and Semifreddo. e evening, which included an Italian quiz and a ra e, was rounded o with wonderful entertainment provided by local male barbershop chorus group, Ocean Harmony, who sang popular songs, show tunes and timeless classics in the barbershop style. TASTE THE WORLD – BUON APPETITO! When Nikki Pullen visited one of the co ee mornings held at the Healthy Haven garden recently, she was so taken with the garden that she asked her boss at Trant in Rushington if they could make a donation to the garden. On Sunday 19th November Nikki visited the garden again and presented Christine with a cheque for £100. Christine thanked Nikki and Trant, on behalf of the Healthy Haven Garden, for their kind donation. Le : Nikki Pullen with the donation from Trant Healthy Haven Receives Donation From Trant Concert Report – Solent Concert Orchestra By way of an encore the orchestra played what has become their ‘signature tune’, namely, ‘Lymington Quay’ which was composed by life-member and horn player Tony Kitcherside much to the delight of patron Sir Julian Lewis MP who was presented with a recording of the piece during the interval. e orchestra’s next concert will be at the Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Totton on Saturday 9th March at 7.30pm. Further details can be found on the orchestra’s website: www.solentconcertorchestra.org.uk ‘Passacaglia: Death of Falsta ’ and ‘Touch Her So Lips and Part’ depicts Henry’s soldiers departing for France and bidding farewell to their sweethearts. e programme concluded with the ‘Prelude and Mazurka, and the ‘Valse and Czardas, from Delibes’s ‘ballet ‘Copellia’. ese lovely, well-known pieces continue to delight audiences today just as they did in 19th century Paris. e Solent Concert Orchestra played to a full house under their Musical Director Simon Wilkins at e Cornerstone URC Church, Hythe on Saturday 18th November with a theme of ‘Music Inspired by Times Past’. e a ernoon got o to a rousing start with a robust rendition of Rossini’s well-known overture ‘La Cenerentola (Cinderella) followed by a trip from the 19th century to the Baroque of the 18th century provided by four pieces from a Suite of ‘Royal Birthday Odes’ by William Boyce. e major work of the concert was Brahms’s ‘Variations on a eme by Haydn’ which included the ever-popular ‘Saint Anthony Chorale’. e content is particularly challenging due to the frequent changes of key, timing and pace of which the climax of the ‘Finale’ is a prime example. However, the orchestra succeeded in conveying the various moods and melodies with both sensitivity and conviction. A er the interval one of the orchestra’s autists, Isabella Stocchetti, conducted the wind section in the ‘Allegro’ from a ‘Sinfonietta’ by Joachim Ra successfully bringing out the sensitivity and ‘joie de vivre’ of the piece. Next the music took on a more sombre tone with two pieces from William Walton’s ‘Henry V’, namely, Life-member Tony Kitcherside and Solent Concert Orchestra Chair Tim Leighton presenting recording of Lymington Quay to Sir Julian Lewis MP and not forgetting Max
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