Anglia Ruskin
Orchest ra and Chorus
Wednesday 11 December 2013, 7.30pm West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge Tickets: £10.00
£7.00 concessions, £5.00 Anglia Ruskin students and children. Tickets available from the Mumford Theatre Box Office. Call: 01223 352932 (Open 2-5pm Monday-Friday) Email: mumford.boxoffice@anglia.ac.uk Book online: www.anglia.ac.uk/mumford Lou Harrison – Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra Percy Grainger – Shallow Brown Henry Cowell – Persian Set Bob Chilcott – A Little Jazz Mass Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols John Rutter – Gloria Conductors – Paul Jackson and Alan Rochford.
Anglia Ruskin Orchestra and Chorus join forces to present a programme of orchestral and choral works from the twentieth century. Lou Harrison’s Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra and Henry Cowell’s Persian Set represent two ‘reinvention’ of music from the east, both composers extracting a wonderfullyevocative range of textures from limited instrumental means. These pieces frame Percy Grainger’s achingly beautiful setting of the sea chanty, Shallow Brown, set for female voice, male chorus and instrumental ensemble, including a massed band of guitars, mandolins and mandolas. The second half of the concerts sees Anglia Chorus, under the baton of Alan Rochford, perform three miniature masterpieces of the choral repertory, Bob Chilcotts’ A Little Jazz Mass, John Rutter’s Gloria and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
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