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CBSO announces its centenary celebrations
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has launched its centenary celebrations by announcing a busy 2019-20 concert programme. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla returns for her fourth season
as the CBSO’s music director and will lead more than 40 concerts at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. Mirga said: “Launching our centenary celebrations
with the 2019-2020 season is an honour for me and the CBSO. “It is exciting to look back at our proud history but
also explore the role of an orchestra for the next 100 years.” The CBSO was founded in 1920, and its
diverse history is the starting point for a series of concerts exploring the orchestra’s most important moments - as well as its connections with composers, conductors, artists and its home city. Among the performances to launch the season are Elgar’s ‘Cello Concerto’ with soloist Sheku Kanneh-
Mason, Tippett’s ‘A Child of Our Time,’ and former CBSO oboist Ruth Gipps’ ‘Symphony No.2’. A series of CBSO Centenary Commissions are to be
premiered. These include 20 commissions from established
international composers which will be given world or UK premieres. Other highlights include the CBSO Youth Orchestra
– celebrating its 15th birthday – with its inaugural performance of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’, conducted by Andrew Gourlay.
Full season details can be found at
www.cbso.co.uk
Concert classics: Mirga conducting the CBSO
...The Griffin Report from page 16 And yet, against the odds, St Basils – with 275
employees across the West Midlands and more than 30 supported accommodation schemes – continues vital round the clock work to help the most vulnerable members of society find a path out of the despair of homelessness. “Are we always struggling to do the most we
possibly can with limited resources? Yes. Are we dealing with constant change? Yes. You are adapting all the time. Homelessness should not be a part of growing up – growing up is hard enough without homelessness.
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“St Basils has a very proud history. Today's
environment is more complex and the financial pressures are greater. But I have fantastic, dedicated, skilled, compassionate staff doing important work. We have the trust of the community and the public. It is a huge privilege to do the job that I do. I love it. Our margins are tiny – like lots of charities we have to raise money – there are huge pressures on income.” The Birmingham charity, whose annual turnover
is £11.4m, requires a bare minimum of £1.2m a year to maintain the service it has provided for the homeless for nearly five decades.
But at its heart Jean says St Basils' aims
remain the same they have been for nearly 50 years, since its foundation in Birmingham as the 60s gave way to the 70s. The St Basils' mission statement reads: “We
want young people to feel cared about, to have trusted support, somewhere safe, suitable and affordable to live that enables them to learn and work.” Many thousands of former homeless
youngsters, some of whom have transformed their lives to go on to work at the Birmingham charity, would testify to that.
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