We would like to thank ALL those that helped to make Classics Galore! 2011 such a huge success!

Photographs from this year's event can be viewed and purchased here

Classics Galore!, in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity, which takes place on 12th November 2011, will repeat the highly successful format of similar concerts held in 2007 and 2009, when on each occasion over 1,100 people helped raise a combined total of over £20,000. Over 200 musicians and singers will again combine on stage in a unique and colourful spectacle to present an evening of virtually non-stop popular classical music. To accommodate everyone, the stage at the Great Hall will be specially extended for the performance.

The Exeter Symphony Orchestra, Lympstone South West Telecoms Brass Band , the Ottery Choral Society, and the chorus of The St David's Players will all play and sing items either individually or with one of the other groups taking part. The delightful soprano, Penny Daw, will be the soloist once again.

Items this year will include Wine, Women and Song by Strauss, Walton's Crown Imperial, Tchaikovsky's Valse des fleurs, Vilvadi's Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Handel's Hallelujah Chorus and Zadok The Priest, plus The Knightsbridge March by Eric Coates, and lighter pieces such as the Lympstone Band's medley of Lloyd Webber music, and Gordon Langford's arrangement of Marching with Sousa. There will be several other pieces that the public will recognise, even if they do not know the name or the composer, including Penny Daw singing the beautiful Lascia Ch'io Pianga. The evening ends with a "Proms-style" finale, including Jerusalem, Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory, with, of course, audience participation.

Classics Galore! starts at 7.30pm. (Doors open from 6.30pm.), and will finish at around 10.15pm.