English Spring Concert at St Peter and St Paul Church, Deddington on Saturday 23rd March 2019

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

English Spring Concert

Part of the Banbury Symphony Orchestra 2018/19 Season

Add to my Calendar 23-03-2019 19:30 23-03-2019 21:30 36 English Spring Concert Banbury Symphony Orchestra welcome in the Spring with a concert of English music! The orchestra will perform four lyrical pieces of music by English composers.  Gustav Holst wrote his short Fugal Overture in 1922, a composition which features spiky syncopations which add to the excitement he generates in the piece. Nick Barton is a local Oxfordshire composer, having taught music to Paul Willett, the orchestra’s current conductor.  His orchestral piece Accord was written especially with the orchestra in mind. Frederick Delius wrote his fantasy overture Over the Hills and Far Away in the late 1890s, at a time when the Bradford-born composer was living in Paris. Despite living much of his life abroad, Delius’s unique musical style has always evoked strong echoes of English pastoral scenes. The orchestra will also perform Elgar’s Enigma Variations, that quintessential expression of England and English friendships. We would like in this concert to play Enigma Variations in honour of the memory of our previous colleague and friend Geoffrey Kent, who died early in 2018. Geoff was a stalwart member of the BSO violin section for many years and the orchestra’s previous leader. He led the orchestra at a concert which the orchestra gave in Adderbury in June 1999, which played the Enigma Variations, 100 years to the day since its first performance in 1899. St Peter and St Paul Church, Deddington DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Peter and St Paul Church
Church Street
Deddington
Oxfordshire
OX15 0SA
England

Saturday 23rd March 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Gustav Holst – Fugal Overture, Op.40 no.1
Nick Barton – Accord
Frederick Delius – Over the Hills and Far Away, RTvi/11 (1897)
Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations, Op.36

Performers

Paul Willett – Conductor

Banbury Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

Banbury Symphony Orchestra welcome in the Spring with a concert of English music!

The orchestra will perform four lyrical pieces of music by English composers.

Gustav Holst wrote his short Fugal Overture in 1922, a composition which features spiky syncopations which add to the excitement he generates in the piece.

Nick Barton is a local Oxfordshire composer, having taught music to Paul Willett, the orchestra’s current conductor. His orchestral piece Accord was written especially with the orchestra in mind.

Frederick Delius wrote his fantasy overture Over the Hills and Far Away in the late 1890s, at a time when the Bradford-born composer was living in Paris. Despite living much of his life abroad, Delius’s unique musical style has always evoked strong echoes of English pastoral scenes.

The orchestra will also perform Elgar’s Enigma Variations, that quintessential expression of England and English friendships.

We would like in this concert to play Enigma Variations in honour of the memory of our previous colleague and friend Geoffrey Kent, who died early in 2018. Geoff was a stalwart member of the BSO violin section for many years and the orchestra’s previous leader. He led the orchestra at a concert which the orchestra gave in Adderbury in June 1999, which played the Enigma Variations, 100 years to the day since its first performance in 1899.

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