I didn’t ever go to the “Third Orchestra” summer course – but I did help them out a couple of times at their ‘repeat’ concert and had worked with their conductor, Stuart Robertson, at the Glasgow Arts Centre Orchestra as well. Although these were “third choice” players the standard was still very good and the repertoire was challenging.
One of the pieces we played was a suite from Coppélia – I can’t remember precisely which bits were included – but this one certainly was.