UoW Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Concert
Sun 27 Jun 2010 4pm
Butterworth Hall £7 (£5)
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CloseViolin – Richard Gratwick
Tenor – Peter Wilman
Conductors – Lucy Griffiths, Paul McGrath
Tchaikovsky – Romeo & Juliet
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
The University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra presents two of Tchaikovsky’s best-loved works; his evocative Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet, and the beautiful Violin Concerto in D major Op.35, performed by concerto competition winner Richard Gratwick.
They also paint a musical picture of America with Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Originally a ballet score, the piece tells the story of a pioneer celebration in spring in the Pennsylvania hills in the early part of the eighteenth-century.
In 1898 Elgar described Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as ‘far and away the cleverest fellow amongst the young men’. A few weeks later came his triumphant Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, which captivated the public, and established him as one of Britain’s outstanding young composers. It is performed in this concert by the University’s Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
Butterworth Hall
With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .
