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Beethoven and Music of the Dance

Part of the Northern Chamber Orchestra - Macclesfield 2023-24 Season

Add to my Calendar 04-05-2024 19:30 04-05-2024 21:30 36 Beethoven and Music of the Dance If nature inspires our February concert, dance inspires this one. Wagner proclaimed Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony as ‘the Apotheosis of the Dance; the Dance in its highest condition; the happiest realisation of the movements of the body in an ideal form’. Beethoven himself cited his Grand Symphony in A as ‘one of my best works’. At the risk of hyperbole, the symphony’s rhythmic vitality, forward drive and sheer joy make it one of the finest creations of Western art music. Music of the dance pervades the 21st century too. The contemporary American composer, Jennifer Higdon, wrote Dance Card in 2015. In her programme note she describes the piece as a celebration of the joy, lyricism and passion of a group of strings playing together, observing that each of the five movements can be performed as a separate work. The NCO plays a selection. It is sometimes forgotten that Mozart was an outstanding violinist. His Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola is really a double concerto in which each instrument plays an equal part. Filled with drama more reminiscent of his operas, it is an astonishing achievement, not least because Mozart was only 23 when he composed it. Christopher Jones (violin) and Kay Stephen (viola) make a welcome return following their virtuosic performance of Lera Auerbach’s Sogno di Stabat Mater at St Michael’s Church last season. Christopher also directs the entire concert from the violin. King's School Macclesfield, Macclesfield DD/MM/YYYY

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Alderley Road
Prestbury
Macclesfield
SK10 4SP
England

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Prices: £27 | Free for students & U18s
Booking line: 0161 706 1990

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Performers

– violin / director
 – viola


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Programme Note

If nature inspires our February concert, dance inspires this one. Wagner proclaimed Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony as ‘the Apotheosis of the Dance; the Dance in its highest condition; the happiest realisation of the movements of the body in an ideal form’. Beethoven himself cited his Grand Symphony in A as ‘one of my best works’. At the risk of hyperbole, the symphony’s rhythmic vitality, forward drive and sheer joy make it one of the finest creations of Western art music.

Music of the dance pervades the 21st century too. The contemporary American composer, Jennifer Higdon, wrote Dance Card in 2015. In her programme note she describes the piece as a celebration of the joy, lyricism and passion of a group of strings playing together, observing that each of the five movements can be performed as a separate work. The NCO plays a selection.

It is sometimes forgotten that Mozart was an outstanding violinist. His Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola is really a double concerto in which each instrument plays an equal part. Filled with drama more reminiscent of his operas, it is an astonishing achievement, not least because Mozart was only 23 when he composed it. Christopher Jones (violin) and Kay Stephen (viola) make a welcome return following their virtuosic performance of Lera Auerbach’s Sogno di Stabat Mater at St Michael’s Church last season. Christopher also directs the entire concert from the violin.

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