The Cloud Messenger: Enigma Variations & Finzi's St Cecilia at Tonbridge School Chapel, Tonbridge on Saturday 19th November 2016

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The Cloud Messenger

Enigma Variations & Finzi's St Cecilia

Part of the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society 71st Season

Add to my Calendar 19-11-2016 19:30 19-11-2016 21:30 36 The Cloud Messenger Music Director, Matthew Willis, is ramping up the demands on all the forces under his baton as he prepares for the Society's first concert of the new season, bringing you the much-loved Enigma Variations by Elgar, Gerald Finzi’s setting of Edmund Blunden’s text, For St Cecilia, and then an amazing but little-known piece by Gustav Holst, The Cloud Messenger. The largest of his ‘Indian’ works, it tells the story of an exiled Indian poet who sends a cloud towards the Himalayan mountains to relay the message of his love to his lonely wife. Described by Vaughan Williams as ‘beautiful’, Holst translated the original Sanskrit words himself. These works are rooted in England in the twentieth century. These were turbulent times, when societal and musical norms were being challenged, shocking and exciting audiences in equal measure. Tonbridge School Chapel, Tonbridge DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Tonbridge School Chapel
High Street
Tonbridge
Kent
TN9 1JP
England

Saturday 19th November 2016
7:30 PM

Programme

Gerald Finzi – For St Cecilia, Op.30
Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations, Op.36
Gustav Holst – The Cloud Messenger, Op.30

Performers

Matthew Willis – Conductor

Tonbridge Philharmonic Society

Programme Note

Music Director, Matthew Willis, is ramping up the demands on all the forces under his baton as he prepares for the Society's first concert of the new season, bringing you the much-loved Enigma Variations by Elgar, Gerald Finzi’s setting of Edmund Blunden’s text, For St Cecilia, and then an amazing but little-known piece by Gustav Holst, The Cloud Messenger. The largest of his ‘Indian’ works, it tells the story of an exiled Indian poet who sends a cloud towards the Himalayan mountains to relay the message of his love to his lonely wife. Described by Vaughan Williams as ‘beautiful’, Holst translated the original Sanskrit words himself.

These works are rooted in England in the twentieth century. These were turbulent times, when societal and musical norms were being challenged, shocking and exciting audiences in equal measure.

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