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Family Concert at Truro School Chapel
Saturday, November 7th, 2015: 13:00 to 14:00
Programme:
| Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: Triumphal March |
Perhaps the best known triumphal march, composed in 1871 for Verdi’s grand opera, Aida. |
| Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations, Op.36: Nimrod |
Each of Elgar’s fourteen variations portrays a musical sketch of one of his circle of close acquaintances. |
| Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Op 23: In the Hall of the Mountain King |
A play put to music, the piece is played as the title character Peer Gynt, in a dream-like fantasy, enters the hall of “Dovregubben”, the Troll Mountain King. |
| Leonard Bernstein
Selection from West Side Story |
Themes from the Broadway musical West Side Story, based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set in the 1950’s on Manhattan’s West Side. |
| Robert & Kristen Lopez
Themes from “Frozen” |
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen, “Frozen” tells the story of a fearless princess who sets off on an epic journey to find her estranged sister, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter. |
| Leroy Anderson
Sandpaper Ballet |
This “non-ballet” was a tribute to the soft-shoe style of dancing associated with Vaudeville; dancers often rubbed sheets of sandpaper together to create the right rhythmic accompaniment to their soft-shoe routines. |
| Henry Wood (arr.)
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs: Jack’s the Lad (Hornpipe); Home, Sweet Home |
A medley of British sea songs arranged by Sir Henry Wood in 1905 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. For many years it has been an indispensable item at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. |
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