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Festive Finale

Part of the The Yehudi Menuhin School - Autumn/Winter 2023/24 Season

Add to my Calendar 13-12-2023 19:30 13-12-2023 21:30 36 Festive Finale Wednesday 13 December 7.30pm  Tickets: £10–£27, under 30s half price  According to tradition, our Winter Festival will close with works for choir as well as orchestra, featuring two Bach concerti, one for violin and one for keyboard, framing a brand-new commission by our very own Deputy Director of Music, Marco Galvani. This piece is a large-scale work for choir and strings, setting newly written poems by Gillian Clarke, who was the National Poet of Wales from 2008–2016. The Year’s Midnight is a meditation on the frost and cold of deep winter emerging into the joy and renewal of spring. To finish, we will bid the year farewell and wish our audience a very merry, peaceful Christmas with Vaughan Williams’ glorious Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, which will be directed by internationally renowned violinist David Grimal.  Running time: 90 minutes plus interval The Menuhin Hall, Cobham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Menuhin Hall
The Yehudi Menuhin School
Stoke Road
Stoke D'Abernon
Cobham
Surrey
KT11 3QQ
England

Programme

Marco Galvani – The Year's Midnight
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Performers

Yehudi Menuhin School

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Programme Note

Wednesday 13 December 7.30pm 

Tickets: £10–£27, under 30s half price 

According to tradition, our Winter Festival will close with works for choir as well as orchestra, featuring two Bach concerti, one for violin and one for keyboard, framing a brand-new commission by our very own Deputy Director of Music, Marco Galvani. This piece is a large-scale work for choir and strings, setting newly written poems by Gillian Clarke, who was the National Poet of Wales from 2008–2016. The Year’s Midnight is a meditation on the frost and cold of deep winter emerging into the joy and renewal of spring. To finish, we will bid the year farewell and wish our audience a very merry, peaceful Christmas with Vaughan Williams’ glorious Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, which will be directed by internationally renowned violinist David Grimal. 

Running time: 90 minutes plus interval

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