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Tonbridge School Chapel
High Street
Tonbridge
Kent
TN9 1JP
England
Programme
Aaron Copland – An Outdoor Overture
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue for piano and orchestra
Florence Price – Symphony no.1 in E minor
Performers
Naomi Butcher – Conductor
Jong-Gyung Park – piano
Tonbridge Philharmonic Society
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Programme Note
May’s concert takes TPS back across the Atlantic once more, and back to the first half of the 20th century. It opens with Aaron Copland’s Outdoor Overture, whose only connection with the great wilderness is that it was described as having an ‘open air’ feel, but which has all the excitement that we can expect from this composer.
Then we know you will love our own Jong-Gyung Park’s performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Jong-Gyung was kind enough to record it for us during the lockdown period, but in May we will have the much greater pleasure of hearing it played live – and you can imagine how wonderful that will be!
The prize-winning Symphony No 1 written by Florence Price, the first female Black American composer came as a surprise to everyone at the time – and may be a surprise for you too. Like Aaron Copland, Price was steeped in the music of the people around her, and you will hear the influence of African-American music mixed with that of European composers like Dvořák.
An evening like this, conjuring up all sorts of images of the land across the ‘Pond’, is one that you really shouldn’t miss.
