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Ron Dough
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« Reply #15 on: 00:16:22, 19-12-2007 »
He's in charge of Carmen at Glyndebourne next season. And yes, it was a fun time. The RSNO are doing some smaller concerts and workshops around here in early Jan, so I'll see if I get get to some of those....
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« Reply #16 on: 20:50:52, 01-01-2008 »
Our excellent local amateur string orchestra is performing the following on Feb 2nd:

Vivaldi: Four Seasons   

Ireland: Concertino Pastorale

Tippett: Little Suite

Not surprisingly I know the first, but is anyone here familiar with the other two? Would my 11 year old enjoy them? I'm confident that she'll like the Vivaldi, especially as the soloist will be introducing each Season with an explanation of what all the special sound effects are.
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« Reply #17 on: 22:33:32, 01-01-2008 »
MJ, is the Tippett the Little Music for String Orchestra of 1946? I've got a couple of recordings of that but I haven't listened to either for years. From what I remember it's fairly accessible music - although it is Tippett, so not so accessible as the Four Seasons.



Edit: I've got a Nimbus recording (English String Orchestra/William Broughton) of the Tippett on now. It's certainly towards the easier end of Tippett's composing spectrum, although whether your 11 year old would like it is another matter.

Don't know the Ireland, although he's not going to be very difficult either is he?
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« Reply #18 on: 23:56:27, 01-01-2008 »
Quote from: Andy D on 22:33:32, 01-01-2008
MJ, is the Tippett the Little Music for String Orchestra of 1946?

I don't know. That's what it said in the email telling me about their forthcoming concerts. I was hoping it would be early Tippett!
Quote from: Andy D on 22:33:32, 01-01-2008
Don't know the Ireland, although he's not going to be very difficult either is he?

I must have heard some Ireland in the past though I can't recall any. When I have time I'll read up on him.
Thanks for your reply! Kiss
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« Reply #19 on: 10:53:09, 02-01-2008 »
The Tippett's lovely, MJ, and at least as accessible as anything else a string orchestra might be likely to play (IMHO and all that). Might even prove to your 11-year-old that not all composers have been dead for 100 years. I'd say go for it!
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« Reply #20 on: 11:23:09, 02-01-2008 »
It has to be the Little Music, MJ: the only Tippett suite is the one in D for the birthday of Prince Charles, which needs a full orchestra.

Little Music (the title is a sideways reference to 'eine kleine') was the first Tippett piece I ever heard: I'd have been in my very early teens, and had never even heard of him at that point, but I fell in love with it immediately: the start of a lifelong passion for his music. It's a gorgeous piece, influenced by older forms (Prelude - Air - Fugue - Finale) from a time when he was still predominantly interested in counterpoint. It was written in 1946, just before he started work on The Midsummer Marriage and something of the same sense of elation can be heard in the final movement. It's only about a ten minute piece, and with its four distinct sections, it's just right for a beginner.
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« Reply #21 on: 11:29:12, 02-01-2008 »
Quote from: MabelJane on 20:50:52, 01-01-2008
Ireland: Concertino Pastorale

I have this piece. It's about 20 minutes long, in three movements, and was written for the Boyd Neel String Orchestra. Ireland wrote it in the months before WW2 and the threat of war certainly casts a shadow over the piece. It opens with a dark, slow intro and contains some impassioned music. The Threnody (2nd mvt) is quite beautiful and the piece concludes with a lively Toccata. Good piece.
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« Reply #22 on: 23:28:34, 03-01-2008 »
Thanks also to tinners, Ron and IGI for your replies. I'm now very much looking forward to this concert.  Smiley
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« Reply #23 on: 18:56:48, 07-01-2008 »
Got a leaflet in the post today which advertised the following concert by Ensemble 360 in Warwick on 3rd February:

Dirty Beasts

Ensemble 360 presents this revolting concert featuring Roald Dahl's Dirty Beasts (music by Martin Butler) [is that him at the top of the cover? Cheesy]

and Jan Page's Goulash the Ghoul (set to Bartok's fourth string quartet).

The wonderful musical versions of three of Roald Dahl's Dirty Beasts stories includes Crocky-Wock the Crocodile, who likes to crunch six juicy children for his lunch, the pig that hatches a plan to avoid being eaten by Farmer Bland and the Tummy Beast hiding in the depths of your stomach.

Then follows a greedy and grotesque story of Goulash the Ghoul, who stomps his way from town to town in search for the perfect feast!

I'm going to hear Ensemble 360 on Saturday 12th January but their programme doesn't sound half so much fun!
HAAS, Wind Quintet No 10
BEETHOVEN , Duo for Clarinet & Bassoon
IBERT, Trois Pièces Brève
BRITTEN, Pan
DEBUSSY, Syrinx
HINDEMITH, Kleine Kammermusik
ARNOLD, Three Sea Shanties
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« Reply #24 on: 19:01:47, 07-01-2008 »
Quote from: Andy D on 18:56:48, 07-01-2008
Ensemble 360 presents this revolting concert featuring Roald Dahl's Dirty Beasts (music by Martin Butler) [is that him at the top of the cover? Cheesy]

Andy, someone just told me that Ensemble 360 were guests on In Tune today and performed some of that dirty piece live on air.  Shocked Angry
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« Reply #25 on: 19:25:37, 07-01-2008 »
Bugler!

One of the disadvantages of avoiding that programme like the plague is that every now and then one misses something worthwhile. If I'd known, I'd have backed it up and edited it away from all the babble... Was it trailed at all, does anybody know?
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« Reply #26 on: 10:44:48, 10-01-2008 »
Anyone going to the Wigmore tonight?
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« Reply #27 on: 11:12:20, 10-01-2008 »
That's all lovely stuff but for me it doesn't really all add up to a concert programme (& I couldn't go anyway). An entire concert by any of those composers would suit me better. Are you playing, strina?
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« Reply #28 on: 11:23:54, 10-01-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 11:12:20, 10-01-2008
That's all lovely stuff but for me it doesn't really all add up to a concert programme (& I couldn't go anyway). An entire concert by any of those composers would suit me better. Are you playing, strina?

Yes I am.  I know what you mean about the programme - it's a bit of a whirlwind through the early history of (specifically) string writing.  But I'm finding it quite exciting and inspiring.  Maybe from the audience point of view it's too much, though?  Then again, maybe from the audience point of view an entire programme of Castello would be too much, too...

If there's anyone here who can come, I think it will be (at the very least) interesting:

http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/academy-of-ancient-music-20566
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« Reply #29 on: 12:35:50, 10-01-2008 »
I wish you a good turnout, Stri, and I'd go in a heartbeat.   Undecided
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