Company with pre-concert talk: Join Orchestra of the Swan for a compelling musical journey about human connection. at Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon on Tuesday 26th April 2022

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Company with pre-concert talk

Join Orchestra of the Swan for a compelling musical journey about human connection.

Add to my Calendar 26-04-2022 18:30 26-04-2022 20:30 36 Company with pre-concert talk The fascinating life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges reads like pure fiction. Born in the Caribbean in 1745 to a wealthy planter and a 16 year old African slave, he went on to become a champion fencer, virtuoso violinist, soldier, dancer and conductor of one of the finest orchestras in Paris, frequently performing for Marie Antoinette. Michael Nyman’s Trysting Fields is taken from the soundtrack of Peter Greenaway’s film Drowning by Numbers and uses elements of the slow movement of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Company by Philip Glass is a gorgeous palate cleanser, originally intended for use as incidental music for a stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novella of the same name. The concert concludes with Mozart’s sublime Sinfonia Concertante in which the melodic union of the solo violin and viola is akin to the vocal writing he employed in his operas. This programme also features a specially commissioned new work by our Associate Artist, Trish Clowes. Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Stratford Playhouse
14 Rother Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6LU
England

Tuesday 26th April 2022
6:30 PM

Programme

Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-George – L'Amant anonime: Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante in A Major, K.320e
Philip Glass – Company
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Oboe Concerto
Clowes Trish – The Historian
Michael Nyman – Trysting Fields

Performers

Trish Clowes – Saxophone
Michael Collins – Conductor

Orchestra of the Swan

Programme Note

The fascinating life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges reads like pure fiction. Born in the Caribbean in 1745 to a wealthy planter and a 16 year old African slave, he went on to become a champion fencer, virtuoso violinist, soldier, dancer and conductor of one of the finest orchestras in Paris, frequently performing for Marie Antoinette.

Michael Nyman’s Trysting Fields is taken from the soundtrack of Peter Greenaway’s film Drowning by Numbers and uses elements of the slow movement of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.

Company by Philip Glass is a gorgeous palate cleanser, originally intended for use as incidental music for a stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novella of the same name.

The concert concludes with Mozart’s sublime Sinfonia Concertante in which the melodic union of the solo violin and viola is akin to the vocal writing he employed in his operas. This programme also features a specially commissioned new work by our Associate Artist, Trish Clowes.

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