RTWSO: Kodaly, Peaslee, Brahms at Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells on Sunday 24th November 2024

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RTWSO: Kodaly, Peaslee, Brahms

Part of the RTWSO 2024-25 Season

Add to my Calendar 24-11-2024 15:00 24-11-2024 17:00 36 RTWSO: Kodaly, Peaslee, Brahms Zoltán Kodály’s Peacock Variations are a veritable kaleidoscope of orchestral colours redolent of the bird itself. But it’s not just the sound that draws in the listener, it’s also the quirky rhythms and surprising twists between lush strings and bold brass that underpin the 16 variations. In a first for the RTWSO we welcome Carol Jarvis who will play the trombone in Arrows of Time by Richard Peaslee. The work dates from 1993/94 and has three movements. As if playing this challenging piece wasn’t enough, Carol is also in high demand as a session musician, presenter and voice-over artist and we are thrilled that she has found time to introduce us to this work. How appropriate that the RTWSO should be playing the third symphony by Brahms. The work was written in the summer of 1883 in Wiesbaden and, coincidentally, Royal Tunbridge Wells is twinned with this elegant German spa town! However, it is inconceivable to comprehend that when this symphony had its premiere in Vienna later that year, there were factions in the audience – Wagnerian fans – who demonstrated their displeasure by hissing! This very accessible symphony, the shortest in length of Brahms’s four symphonies, has the usual four movements but, fairly unusually does not end on a high in a flurry of majestic loud notes, instead fading away serenely. Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Assembly Hall Theatre
Crescent Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 2LU
England

Sunday 24th November 2024
3:00 PM

Programme

Zoltán Kodály – Variations on a Hugarian Folksong: The Peacock
Richard Peaslee – Arrows of Time
~ Interval ~
Johannes Brahms – Symphony no.3 in F major, Op.90

Performers

Carol Jarvis – trombone
Roderick Dunk – Conductor

Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

Zoltán Kodály’s Peacock Variations are a veritable kaleidoscope of orchestral colours redolent of the bird itself. But it’s not just the sound that draws in the listener, it’s also the quirky rhythms and surprising twists between lush strings and bold brass that underpin the 16 variations.

In a first for the RTWSO we welcome Carol Jarvis who will play the trombone in Arrows of Time by Richard Peaslee. The work dates from 1993/94 and has three movements. As if playing this challenging piece wasn’t enough, Carol is also in high demand as a session musician, presenter and voice-over artist and we are thrilled that she has found time to introduce us to this work.

How appropriate that the RTWSO should be playing the third symphony by Brahms. The work was written in the summer of 1883 in Wiesbaden and, coincidentally, Royal Tunbridge Wells is twinned with this elegant German spa town! However, it is inconceivable to comprehend that when this symphony had its premiere in Vienna later that year, there were factions in the audience – Wagnerian fans – who demonstrated their displeasure by hissing! This very accessible symphony, the shortest in length of Brahms’s four symphonies, has the usual four movements but, fairly unusually does not end on a high in a flurry of majestic loud notes, instead fading away serenely.

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