Our Next Concert

Our first concert of 2018 has a nautical theme. Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman is all about a sea captain under a curse to sail the seven seas forever and whose only means of redemption was to find the love of a faithful woman. Although the story behind Khachaturian’s Ballet Spartacus is that of a slave uprising against the Roman Empire, the Adagio will always be remembered by British audiences as the theme music to the 1970s TV series, the Onedin Line, set in mid-19th century Liverpool about a shipping company owned by the Onedin family. Debussy’s orchestral masterpiece La Mer – subtitled three symphonic sketches for orchestra - is probably his most well-known and frequently performed orchestral work, and one which will surely make many appearances this year with 2018 being the 100th anniversary of Debussy’s death. Ravel – the other famous french impressionist composer of the late 19th and early 20th century – dedicated his Tombeau de Couperin to a series of close friends who lost their lives during the First World War – another anniversary being marked this year. Lastly the orchestra will perform the Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin – no nautical connection here but a fine piece of orchestral music!

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