Stevenage Symphony Orchestra - Spring Concert at Hitchin Town Hall, Hitchin on Saturday 2nd April 2022

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Stevenage Symphony Orchestra - Spring Concert

Add to my Calendar 02-04-2022 19:30 02-04-2022 21:30 36 Stevenage Symphony Orchestra - Spring Concert We all expect music in TV and films. They tell us when to laugh and when to hide behind the sofa. When the music stops we know something terrible is about to happen. Music in plays however predate the silver screen and go back to the earliest Greek dramas. So it is no surprise that when the Burgtheatre in Vienna put on a production of the play Egmont by Germany's greatest living playwright, Johann Wolfgang von Göthe, they should ask Germany's greatest living composer to provide the music. Holst wrote eight operas. After the First World War Holst wrote the music and libretto for his sixth opera “The Perfect Fool”. The story concerns a Princess who will only marry a man who does what do other man will do, and a Magician who is determined to be that man, three operatic Heroes who think they are that man, and a Fool who is that man. Holst's "Two Songs with Words" were written in 1906 just as Holst was immersing himself in the Folk Song revival and are dedicated to his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams.  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade was first performed in Gloucester Cathedral in 1898 to great success. The Daily Graphic reported, “The work occupies barely a quarter of an hour in performance, but it is long since a Festival novelty has provided fifteen minutes packed so full of excitement and charm.  Mr. Coleridge-Taylor, who conducted his own work, was three times recalled and cheered to the echo at the close of an admirable performance.” Hitchin Town Hall, Hitchin DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Hitchin Town Hall
Brand Street
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG5 1HX
England

Saturday 2nd April 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – Egmont, Op.84: Overture
Gustav Holst – Two Songs without Words: Marching Song
Gustav Holst – The Perfect Fool, Op.39
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Ballade, Op.33

Performers

Tom Briers – Conductor

Stevenage Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

We all expect music in TV and films. They tell us when to laugh and when to hide behind the sofa. When the music stops we know something terrible is about to happen. Music in plays however predate the silver screen and go back to the earliest Greek dramas. So it is no surprise that when the Burgtheatre in Vienna put on a production of the play Egmont by Germany's greatest living playwright, Johann Wolfgang von Göthe, they should ask Germany's greatest living composer to provide the music.

Holst wrote eight operas. After the First World War Holst wrote the music and libretto for his sixth opera “The Perfect Fool”. The story concerns a Princess who will only marry a man who does what do other man will do, and a Magician who is determined to be that man, three operatic Heroes who think they are that man, and a Fool who is that man.

Holst's "Two Songs with Words" were written in 1906 just as Holst was immersing himself in the Folk Song revival and are dedicated to his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade was first performed in Gloucester Cathedral in 1898 to great success. The Daily Graphic reported, “The work occupies barely a quarter of an hour in performance, but it is long since a Festival novelty has provided fifteen minutes packed so full of excitement and charm. Mr. Coleridge-Taylor, who conducted his own work, was three times recalled and cheered to the echo at the close of an admirable performance.”

Stevenage Orchestra - Spring Concert Poster

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