Symphony sign-off

YORK Symphony Orchestra‘s winter concert last Saturday at the University of York’s Jack Lyons Concert Hall opened with a salute to its president, Francis Jackson.

His overture, Brigantia, was written in 1970 for the orchestra, which he also conducted from 1947 to 1980.

In Elgar‘s Sea Pictures, there was some lovely singing from mezzo-soprano Olivia Ray. And, after a drinks interval spent in a very crowded bar area, the orchestra signed off for the year with some lighter pieces of Delius, Prokofiev and Hely-Hutchinson.

Alan Denney