Children's Music, Programme Notes, Suitable for Youth Orchestras, Symphony Orchestra
I. Intrada; II. Pastoral; III. Dance Variations The “Three Shire Songs for Orchestra” is essentially a sequence of three short fantasias based on legendary folk songs from Derbyshire. The composer uses the folk song melodies as a starting point to create a new musical...
Programme Notes, Symphony Orchestra
Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music for the re-opening of the Duke’s Hall in 1993 and subsequently performed by the Cracow Philharmonic in a concert to mark the 60th birthday of Krzystof Penderecki, to whom the piece is dedicated. Rhythm is the dominant...
Programme Notes, Symphony Orchestra
Patterson has described Overture – Songs of the West, a rousing 10-minute concert overture, as something of a “musical mystery tour” through the folk songs of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Somerset. He takes ten well-known songs and reveals...
Programme Notes, Symphony Orchestra
Upside Down-Under Variations were commissioned by the Australian Wine Company Leeuwin Estate for Klaus Tennstedat and the LPO. It was first performed in October 1985 at a Royal Gala Concert for Save the Children Fund at the Royal Festival Hall and it has since become...
Suitable for Youth Orchestras, Symphony Orchestra
Details Written 1988 Suitable for Youth Orchestras Symphony Orchestra. picc.1.2.1.bcl.1.cbn/Timp/5Perc/Strings Length 18′ Commission: Kent Youth Orchestra Dedication: ‘To Gerald and Elizabeth Kingsley’ Publisher: Josef...
Children's Music, Narrated, Programme Notes, Symphony Orchestra + Narrator
Also available in the following versions: Chamber Orchestra. Opus 73b Symphonic Wind Band. Opus 73c Narrator (1-3) and Solo Piano. Opus 73d Narrator and 11 instruments. Opus 73e Wind Quintet and Piano. Opus 73f and the Little Red Riding Hood Song Book: For SSA Chorus...