HARROGATE actor and director Hugo Speer will make a guest appearance at Harrogate Symphony Orchestra’s 2pm concert on Saturday (June 22) when he will narrate Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf.
Speer, an enthusiastic supporter of the orchestra, will appear at the matinee performance alongside a professional puppeteer commissioned for this charity event at the Harrogate Royal Hall.
Held in addition to the HSO’s regular 7.30pm evening concert, the matinee is aimed at children and will raise money for the No Strings charity, of which Speer is a patron.
No Strings uses puppets created by artists from the original Muppet Show team to give life-saving messages to children across the globe.
The charity has run projects teaching orphans how to avoid land mines in Afghanistan and how to cope with natural disasters in Asia, as well as launching a programme of HIV awareness-raising films for children in sub-Saharan Africa.
The HSO matinee also will feature Britten’s Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra. Children will be encouraged to make their own sock puppet at home or school to bring to the concert.
The evening programme will feature Peter And The Wolf, Saint-Saens’s Danse Macabre and Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice, finishing with Beethoven's Symphony No 6, the Pastoral.
To aid the fund-raising, there will be a raffle, an auction and Peter And The Wolf T-shirts for sale. All monies raised will go directly to No Strings. To find out more about the charity, visit nostrings.org.uk
Tickets for each concert are available on 01423 502116 or at harrogatetheatre.co.uk
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