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ThePlace elt Festival

Concert and Electronic Organ Competition 2007

Event has already taken place. The following is kept here for posterity. elt Festival 2007 report can be found here.

 

Date: 14th October 2007 (Sunday)
Time: 1030am-430pm
Venue: The Place, Bradgate Road, Bedford MK40 3DE (The Place web site) see map

Event sponsored by Swift Music, Bristol

Pre-order your DVDs: £25 for 4-disc set, about 5 hours long!

Tickets are £7 and concessions £4. See below for Special Discount Tickets!

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Please see below for a provisional timetable (as at 24th Sept 2007)

 

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DVDs

Pre-order DVDs at special discounted "Sponsors Deal": £25 for FOUR DVD discs, about 5 hours in total. Filming and production will be done by a professional team. Pay this price and you are a sponsor for the event! Disc set expected to be ready in November. If interested, please go to Electone Society Plaza for more information and proceed with purchase if you like.

"Sponsors Deal" price available from August to 1st November 2007. After that, normal price £45 applies for the same 4-disc set. If you don't have an account on the Plaza, please create one. The Plaza will work out your postage and you then pay using paypal (if you don't know what this is, information is at http://www.paypal.com). If you are in the UK, you can print out your order and post it along with a UK cheque, payable to "Electone Society", to us at the address in the "Contact Us" page on the Plaza.

Thank you.

 

Tickets

Tickets are £7, or concession £4. You can purchase tickets as you arrive at the Festival. You can also purchase them in advance on our Electone Society Plaza http://plaza.electonesociety.com, further instructions on how to purchase is available on the ticket £7 or ticket £4 page. Discount for multiple tickets available.

 

Special Discount tickets

Please click here to get your Special Discount tickets.

Teachers - free tickets! click here for details.

 

Preliminary Information (Updated 1st October 2007)

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Provisional timetable

The provisional timetable is as shown below. We expect some minor adjustments nearer the day but we will endeavour to keep to the format. Start time (1030am) and finish time (430pm) will not be changed, but subject to programme on the day.

Time: 1030am-430pm (confirmed)
Masters of Ceremonies: Chris Stanbury (profile) and Matt Richardson (FameGen)

1030am Door opens
   
1045am-1130am Concert A
  Introducing special guest: Chris Stanbury (profile)
  Yoshiki Kawamoto
"Prelude from Carmen" (Georges Bizet, arr. by Genta Utsumi) ELS-01C (STAGEA model)
"Times Square: 1944 from On the Town" (Leonard Bernstein, arr. by Yoshiki Kawamoto) ELS-01C
  Carmen Domínguez
"Sous Le Ciel De Paris" (Hubert Giraud) EL900
  Luke Smith
"Arrival of the queen of Sheba" ELS-01C
"One note samba" ELS-01C
  Nidia Gómez
"Farandola" (Bizet) ELS-01C
   
1130am-1145am Break
   
1145am-1230pm Concert B
  Introducing special guest: Esquin Rijnaard (profile)
  Tingting Pan
"Marble Marble" (Hiroshi Kubota) EL900
  Introducing special guest: Hayley Gibbs
  Yoshiki Kawamoto
"Music from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" (Howard Shore, arr. by Yoshiki Kawamoto) ELS-01C
   
   
1230pm-200pm Lunch break
Please bring your own or eat at the nearby shops
Please be back in the hall promptly (200pm)
   
   
200pm-240pm Competition 2007 - two categories:
  Sequence of contestants will be decided on the day
   
  TRISTAN category
  Laura GÓMEZ (Palencia, Spain)
"Sing, Sing, Sing" (Louis Prima) ELS-01C
  Nidia GÓMEZ (Palencia, Spain)
"El Choclo" (Angel Villoldo) EL900
  Cristo Miguel HERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ (Tenerife, Spain)
"Bolero" (Ravel) EL900
  Francisco RODRÍGUEZ ROCHA (Tenerife, Spain)
"The Phantom of the Opera Medley" ELS-01C
  Sara SELVA ROMÁN (Palencia, Spain)
"Alvamar Overture" (James Barnes) EL900
  Jianyu ZHANG (Guangzhou, China)
"Real in D" (Hiroshi Kubota) EL900
   
240pm-250pm Break
   
250pm-325pm STOLTENHOFF category
  Silvia CORONA GONZÁLEZ (Tenerife, Spain)
"Rhapsody in Blue" (George Gershwin) ELS-01C
  Carmen DOMÍNGUEZ (Palencia, Spain)
"Adios Nonino" (Astor Piazzolla) EL900
  Yoshiki KAWAMOTO (Scotland)
"Prelude, Fugue and Riffs" (Leonard Bernstein, arr. by Yoshiki Kawamoto) ELS-01C
  Tingting PAN (Zhejiang, China)
"The Throne Room" (John Williams) EL900
  Ashley WITHEY (England)
"Back To The Future" (Alan Silvestri) EL900
   
   
325pm-345pm Adjudication Time - Audience vote on winners
  More performance delights from:
  Hayley Gibbs
  Luke Smith
"Moanin'" or/and "Fly me to the moon" ELS-01C
  Esquin Rijnaard
   
   
345pm-355pm Competition results, awards and Photos
   
   
355pm-410pm Finale
  Chris Stanbury
   
430pm Festival ends

 

Music Ensembles

We invite musicians/bands to come and show cast their skills and talents. In return for publicity, you will also be voted by the audience for one of several Awards, including "Entertainers", "Creative". We can still accept 1 or two ensembles. Please see entry requirements here.

Update 24th September - so far no confirmation of music ensembles.

Last Updated: 15th Oct 2007  10:42am GMT