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Soirées Musicales

Add to my Calendar 21-05-2022 19:00 21-05-2022 21:00 36 Soirées Musicales The Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra will round its 76th Concert Series with an evening celebrating the music of four significant 20th-century composers inspired by twilight, evening and night. Britten’s sparkling orchestral suite Soirées Musicales, based on Themes by Rossini, gets the evening off to a toe-tapping start before exploring the darker sound world of Lili Boulanger's D’un Soir Triste. Lili Boulanger, the sister of celebrated French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, completed D’un Soir Triste only months before her tragic death at the age of just 24. It was, in fact, the last piece of music that Boulanger was able to score by hand, with the writing on the manuscript becomes ever weaker and more indistinct until it’s difficult to make out the notes. The SPO will then take you to the American Deep South with Florence Price's Dances in the Canebrakes.  Composed in 1953, again just months before Price’s unexpected death from a stroke, Dances in the Canebrakes is a short three movement suite for piano, orchestrated by William Grant Still later that year. Elgar’s explosive First Symphony was written when he was an already world-famous 51-year-old and was instantly an international hit– the perfect piece to round off our season! #SheffieldPhilharmonic #SoirreesMusicales All Saints Church, Sheffield DD/MM/YYYY

Details

All Saints Church
Ringinglow Road
Ecclesall

Sheffield
S11 7PP
England


Programme

Benjamin BrittenSoirées musicales
Lili BoulangerD'un soir triste
Florence PriceDances in the Canebrakes (arr. W G Still)
~ Interval ~
Edward ElgarSymphony no.1 in A flat major, Op.55

Performers

George Morton – Conductor
Charlotte Pinder – Leader

Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme Note

The Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra will round its 76th Concert Series with an evening celebrating the music of four significant 20th-century composers inspired by twilight, evening and night.

Britten’s sparkling orchestral suite Soirées Musicales, based on Themes by Rossini, gets the evening off to a toe-tapping start before exploring the darker sound world of Lili Boulanger's D’un Soir Triste.


Lili Boulanger, the sister of celebrated French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, completed D’un Soir Triste only months before her tragic death at the age of just 24. It was, in fact, the last piece of music that Boulanger was able to score by hand, with the writing on the manuscript becomes ever weaker and more indistinct until it’s difficult to make out the notes.


The SPO will then take you to the American Deep South with Florence Price's Dances in the Canebrakes.  Composed in 1953, again just months before Price’s unexpected death from a stroke, Dances in the Canebrakes is a short three movement suite for piano, orchestrated by William Grant Still later that year.


Elgar’s explosive First Symphony was written when he was an already world-famous 51-year-old and was instantly an international hit– the perfect piece to round off our season!


#SheffieldPhilharmonic #SoirreesMusicales

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