Hitchin Symphony Orchestra: Autumn Concert at St Mary's Church, Hitchin on Saturday 26th November 2022

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Hitchin Symphony Orchestra

Autumn Concert

Add to my Calendar 26-11-2022 19:30 26-11-2022 21:30 36 Hitchin Symphony Orchestra For our concert on 26 November 2022 we are thrilled to be joined by flautist Emma Halnan to perform Lowell Liebermann’s tempestuous Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, a work of both staggering virtuosity and compositional rigour. We will open with a concert favourite, Smetana’s Vltava, which musically chronicles the journey of the eponymous river, from trickling mountain spring to wide open sea. The concert ends with Shostakovich’s momentous Fifth Symphony. Informally subtitled ‘A Soviet Artist’s Practical and Creative Response to Just Criticism’, its mix of deep tragedy, dark humour and sardonic triumph warrants its prestige as a symbol of art as covert political resistance. St Mary's Church, Hitchin DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary's Church
Church House
Churchyard
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG5 1HP
England

Saturday 26th November 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Bedřich Smetana – Vltava, JB 1:112/2
Lowell Liebermann – Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Op.39
~ Interval ~
Dmitry Shostakovich – Symphony no.5 in D minor, Op.47

Performers

Rowan Baker – Conductor
Janet Hicks – Leader
Emma Halnan – flute

Hitchin Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

For our concert on 26 November 2022 we are thrilled to be joined by flautist Emma Halnan to perform Lowell Liebermann’s tempestuous Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, a work of both staggering virtuosity and compositional rigour. We will open with a concert favourite, Smetana’s Vltava, which musically chronicles the journey of the eponymous river, from trickling mountain spring to wide open sea. The concert ends with Shostakovich’s momentous Fifth Symphony. Informally subtitled ‘A Soviet Artist’s Practical and Creative Response to Just Criticism’, its mix of deep tragedy, dark humour and sardonic triumph warrants its prestige as a symbol of art as covert political resistance.

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