ZIOS Flanders Symphony Orchestra

TITLE: Flanders Symphony Orchestra --- SUBTITLE: With Alexandra Soumm, violin --- DATE/TIME: Tuesday 3 November 2026, 7.30pm --- PROGRAMME: Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody for Orchestra; Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K.219; Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending; Dvořák – Symphony No. 8 --- PERFORMERS: Duncan Ward (conductor), Alexandra Soumm (violin), Flanders Symphony Orchestra --- BOOKING INFO: Priority booking opens Thursday 7 May, 10am; general booking opens Thursday 14 May, 10am --- EVENT COPY: From Flanders looking westwards across the Channel, and eastwards to Bohemia's hills and forests, this is a concert inspired by nature. Butterworth and Vaughan Williams' sumptuous works were set in motion by English poetry. But in a richly burnished orchestral tone poem, and in Vaughan Williams' ever-popular, ravishing violin rhapsody, you can almost smell the warm earth