Leading local composer Ben Crick will take the audience on a glorious journey through the Yorkshire Dales, conducting his own work - the award winning ‘Soundscapes’, at the next Airedale Symphony Orchestra [ASO] concert at 7.30pm on Sunday 30th March.
Combined with original films of the Yorkshire Dales, being edited live with the music, ASO will create its own concert hall sized immersive experience at the King’s Hall in Ilkley.
Airedale Symphony Orchestra is fresh from recent success performing another fabulous composition by Ben Crick at ‘RISE’ - the opening of the City of Culture Bradford 2025, a spokesperson for ASO said:
“Come and hear this beautiful new work conducted by the composer, and be transported to experience all the glories of the local landscape, from deepest caves to soaring dales and moors.
“We will also perform Beethoven’s famous ‘Pastoral Symphony’. Beethoven loved nature, and his pastoral symphony takes us on a perfect tour of a rural idyll complete with birds singing, streams flowing, and even a picnic disturbed by a thunderstorm!
“A collection will be taken for Menston Area Nature Trust, a local charity supported by orchestra members that has recently purchased nearby Weston Woods as a new nature resource for our community.”
Tickets for Nature's Symphony [£10-£17/U11's free] are available online www.ticketsource.co.uk/airedale-symphony-orchestra, by phone 0333 666 3366, and on the door until sold out.

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