Stravinsky & Ravel Ballets in Worcester at Swan Theatre, Worcester on Thursday 9th May 2019

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

Stravinsky & Ravel Ballets in Worcester

Add to my Calendar 09-05-2019 19:30 09-05-2019 21:30 36 Stravinsky & Ravel Ballets in Worcester Canadian conductor Bradley Thachuk takes the podium for this concert, which celebrates two of the greatest ballet scores of the 20th Century by composers whose love and understanding of dance are legendary. Ravel’s Mother Goose is a work of subtle colour, playful wit and heart-rending lyricism, while Stravinsky’s Danses Concertantes resonates with the kind of earthy rhythmic life that marked so much of his music. The brilliant young dancers of Academy Theatre Arts, whose performance of Copland’s Appalachian Spring was a highlight of the 2017-8 ESO season, return, promising another unforgettable fusion of dance and music on the Swan Theatre stage. Avoid disappointment by booking early. Swan Theatre, Worcester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Swan Theatre
The Moors
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 3ED
England

Thursday 9th May 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

William Grant Still – Summerland
William Grant Still – The Phantom Chapel
William Grant Still – The American Scene (Far West): Navaho Country
Igor Stravinsky – Danses Concertantes for Orchestra (1942)
~ Interval ~
Maurice Ravel – Mother Goose, ballet

Performers

Bradley Thachuk – Conductor

English Symphony Orchestra
Academy Theatre Arts

Programme Note

Canadian conductor Bradley Thachuk takes the podium for this concert, which celebrates two of the greatest ballet scores of the 20th Century by composers whose love and understanding of dance are legendary. Ravel’s Mother Goose is a work of subtle colour, playful wit and heart-rending lyricism, while Stravinsky’s Danses Concertantes resonates with the kind of earthy rhythmic life that marked so much of his music.

The brilliant young dancers of Academy Theatre Arts, whose performance of Copland’s Appalachian Spring was a highlight of the 2017-8 ESO season, return, promising another unforgettable fusion of dance and music on the Swan Theatre stage.

Avoid disappointment by booking early.

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