Palm Court dancing – and a Wagner opera?: Barber and Wagner/de Vlieger at Trinity Church Centre, London on Saturday 22nd November 2025

Palm Court dancing – and a Wagner opera?

Barber and Wagner/de Vlieger

Add to my Calendar 22-11-2025 19:30 22-11-2025 21:30 36 Palm Court dancing – and a Wagner opera? Finchley Symphony Orchestra and Christopher Stark open their new season with an intriguing programme.  It brings together froth and fun inspired by 20th century New York with a condensed orchestral version of an operatic masterpiece. Samuel Barber is best known for his haunting ‘Adagio’.  The ‘Souvenirs’ suite by contrast is a set of dances for a ballet and in place of heavy emotion we get a joyous pastiche of the Palm Courts of New York hotels in the early twentieth century. If you enjoy the richness and passion of Wagner’s music but cannot afford five hours to see a full performance of Die Meistersinger, Henk de Vlieger’s ‘Tribute’ could be for you.  Some twenty years ago de Vlieger, dispensing with singers, assembled fifty minutes of music from the opera into a fine orchestral poem. Trinity Church Centre, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Trinity Church Centre
15 Nether Street
North Finchley
London
N12 7NN
England

Saturday 22nd November 2025
7:30 PM

Programme

Henk de Vlieger – Meistersinger - an orchestral tribute (Based on music by Wagner)
Samuel Barber – Souvenirs, ballet suite, Op.28

Performers

Christopher Stark – Conductor

Finchley Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

Finchley Symphony Orchestra and Christopher Stark open their new season with an intriguing programme. It brings together froth and fun inspired by 20th century New York with a condensed orchestral version of an operatic masterpiece.

Samuel Barber is best known for his haunting ‘Adagio’. The ‘Souvenirs’ suite by contrast is a set of dances for a ballet and in place of heavy emotion we get a joyous pastiche of the Palm Courts of New York hotels in the early twentieth century.

If you enjoy the richness and passion of Wagner’s music but cannot afford five hours to see a full performance of Die Meistersinger, Henk de Vlieger’s ‘Tribute’ could be for you. Some twenty years ago de Vlieger, dispensing with singers, assembled fifty minutes of music from the opera into a fine orchestral poem.

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