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Elgar The Music Makers
Choral Works by Elgar and Delius
Part of the Highgate Choral Society 2016-2017 Season
Add to my Calendar 11-03-2017 19:00 11-03-2017 21:00 36 Elgar The Music Makers Our first concert of 2017 is an all-British affair featuring two towering figures of 20th-century music, Delius and Elgar. The concert begins with the highly attractive Walk to the Paradise Garden, an orchestral interlude from Delius's opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet. The motion of waves is suggested throughout by the orchestra in Sea Drift, while the choir sings the tale of a pair of mocking birds nesting on the sea shore in a setting by Walt Whitman. In The Music Makers Elgar also sets an entire poem, Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, to much original music punctuated with quotes from previous compositions including The Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures, the First Symphony, the Enigma Variations and Rule, Britannia. All Hallows Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
All Hallows Church
Savernake Road
Gospel Oak
London
NW3 2JP
England
Programme
Edward Elgar – The Music Makers, Op.69
Frederick Delius – Sea Drift
Frederick Delius – A village Romeo and Juliet: Walk to the Paradise Garden
Performers
Catherine Hopper – mezzo-soprano
Marcus Farnsworth – baritone
Ronald Corp – Conductor
Highgate Choral Society
New London Orchestra
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Programme Note
Our first concert of 2017 is an all-British affair featuring two towering figures of 20th-century music, Delius and Elgar.
The concert begins with the highly attractive Walk to the Paradise Garden, an orchestral interlude from Delius's opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet. The motion of waves is suggested throughout by the orchestra in Sea Drift, while the choir sings the tale of a pair of mocking birds nesting on the sea shore in a setting by Walt Whitman.
In The Music Makers Elgar also sets an entire poem, Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, to much original music punctuated with quotes from previous compositions including The Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures, the First Symphony, the Enigma Variations and Rule, Britannia.
