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New Hall - Winchester College
College Walk
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9NG
England
Programme
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana
Leonard Bernstein – Overture Candide
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story Suite
Performers
Andrew Lumsden – Conductor
Emily Dickens – soprano
Simon Irwin – Tenor
Andrew De Silva – Bass
Roger Owens – piano
Francis Pott – piano
Waynflete Singers
Percussion Ensemble of London
Choristers of Romsey Abbey
Programme Note
Shakespeare seen through the eyes of New York’s teenage hoodlums and the earthy poetry of medieval scholars and clerics form this Waynflete Singers' Summer Concert. Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana sets medieval Latin and German poetry, penned by nomadic clerics, in praise of drinking, gambling, Spring, Fortune, Venus and the physical delights of love. The strict orders of monastic life are thrown into disarray by this poetic rebellion.
Shakespeare’s ‘star-cross’d lovers’ also create disarray and, through the vision of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins, the teenage rebels of West Side Story form a landmark in the history of American musical theatre. 2018 marks the centenary of Bernstein’s birth and the sixtieth anniversary of West Side Story.
Our two pianists will also play a glittering arrangement for double piano of Bernstein’s fun and frolicsome Overture to ‘Candide' (arr. Beeckmans).
