Music from the Movies ... Romantic models in its musical language and has a wonderful fresh melodic ... programming Rave
Saturday 18 November 2017, 7.30pm
Saturday 20 January 2018, 3.30pm
The Jazz Age
Family Concert – Pictures at an Exhibition
Gershwin An American in Paris
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 (finale) Piano: Noah Zhou
Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from On the Town Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Piano: Angela Lau, Woking Young Musician 2017
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Saturday 24 March 2018, 7.30pm The Romantics Brahms Tragic Overture Strauss Oboe Concerto Oboe: Tom Blomfield Sibelius Symphony No.2
Saturday 23 June 2018, 7.30pm
Venue & Tickets
Music from the Movies
Concerts take place at HG Wells, Church Street East, Woking GU21 6HJ (satnav GU21 8EW)
Jarre Lawrence of Arabia Overture
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 (Shine) Piano: Dominic Doutney Beethoven Symphony No.7 (The King’s Speech)
2017 / 2018
Enter our children’s art competition. Be inspired by Pictures at an Exhibition – your chance to win prizes and see your painting displayed at the concert. Visit our website for entry details.
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Number of Tickets
Adult £14
U16/Student £7
Total Cost
18 Nov 2017 7.30pm
24 Mar 2018 7.30pm
23 Jun 2018 7.30pm
Season Ticket 3 x Evening Concerts
Adult £36
20 Jan 2018 Family Concert 3.30pm
All seats £7
Woking Young Musician 2017, Angela Lau, suggested programming Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major for her appearance with the orchestra in November. This wonderful piece is strongly influenced by jazz (the first movement has some notably ‘bluesy’ moments and the jazz pianist Herbie Hancock used the second as a basis for improvisation), so I thought I’d surround it with other great pieces Angela Lau influenced by jazz and popular music, including Gershwin’s An American in Paris in which the composer sought to ‘portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere’. West Side Story was Leonard Bernstein’s greatest hit and from some of its best tunes he fashioned a marvellous symphonic suite – perhaps the ultimate ‘crossover’ masterpiece! The irresistibly jazzy ‘Dance Episodes’ from the musical On The Town complete what promises to be a most entertaining evening.
U16/Student £15
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Great film music is the theme of our summer concert. Maurice Jarre’s score for David Lean’s epic Lawrence of Arabia has one of the most haunting and memorable tunes in all film music and will make a stunning opening. In The King’s Speech, Beethoven’s 7th Symphony is used to help cure the stammer of the future King George VI. Described by Wagner as ‘the apotheosis of the Dominic Doutney dance’, this extraordinary piece is bursting with an almost daemonic energy. Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto didn’t need Shine to promote it but I’m sure it helped it reach an even wider audience. We’re delighted to welcome back Dominic Doutney as soloist – he made a great impression in November 2016 with another titanic concerto: Brahms’ 2nd.
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Sibelius’s 2nd Symphony – the main work in our spring concert – has an extraordinary finale. It is based on a very simple rising three note figure which develops into a theme which is accompanied by music that sounds like the icy northern wind whistling through the Finnish forests. The music builds to a tremendous climax, and then seems to stand still in a passage of awesome power. Sibelius seems to capture the essence of the Tom Blomfield natural world in this music, its elemental power and ability to strike awe into the onlooker. Contrast is provided by the intimate world of Richard Strauss’s Concerto for Oboe, written in 1945. Tom Blomfield is our soloist for this lovely piece, which looks back to classical and Romantic models in its musical language and has a wonderful fresh melodic invention and lightness of touch.
Our family concert features Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s highly colourful piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, based on paintings by Viktor Hartmann – a work that offers great opportunities to both the audio and visual imaginations. The young pianist Noah Zhou joins us for the finale of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto Noah Zhou No.1 – a mixture of folk melody and pianistic bravura that is not to be missed.
Pre-concert Talks: 6.45pm Join our conductor, Roy Stratford, before each evening concert for a lively and engaging insight into the music.
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