Programme
- The Wasps – overture(10 mins)
- Dancing Nights(8 mins)
- The Lark Ascending(15 mins)
- Seascapes(5 mins)´óÏó´«Ã½ commission: world premiere
- Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’(6 mins)
- Circus Polka(4 mins)
- Carousel – The Carousel Waltz(5 mins)arr. D. Walker
- interval
- Festive Overture(4 mins)
- Fiesta!(10 mins)
- Masquerade – Waltz(4 mins)
Performers
- Anna-Maria Helsingconductor
- Nathaniel Anderson-Frankviolin
About This Event
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra presents a programme of orchestral favourites at Great Yarmouth’s Hippodrome. Whirligig waltzes from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel and from Khachaturian’s ballet Masquerade set things spinning. Written for a dance spectacle featuring 50 elephants, Stravinsky’s Circus Polka brings all the colour and wit of the big top, reflecting the Hippodrome’s original purpose as a circus venue. As well as a new commission from British composer Sarah Rodgers, the programme features pieces by two earlier towering figures of English music: Walton’s stirring coronation march Crown Imperial and Vaughan Williams’s ever-popular soaring piece for solo violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending.
Image: Anna-Maria Helsing © Heikki Tuuli