Narrated, Suitable for Youth Orchestras, Symphony Orchestra + Narrator
Text: Chris JarvisReworking of Orchestra on Parade (op 94) to include narratorScoring: Symphony Orchestra and Narrator2+Picc.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/Timp/3Perc/Hp/StringsDuration: 5 mins First performance:27th February 2011Chris Jarvis (narr), London Philharmonic...
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
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
Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music for the re-opening of the Duke’s Hall in 1993 and subsequently performed by the Krakow Philharmonic in a concert to mark the 60th birthday of Krzystof Penderecki, to whom the piece is dedicated. Rhythm is the dominant...
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...
Suitable for Youth Orchestras, Symphony Orchestra
Details Written 1988 Scoring: Suitable for Youth Orchestras Symphony Orchestra. picc.1.2.1.bcl.1.cbn/Timp/5Perc/Strings Duration 18′ Commission: Kent Youth Orchestra Dedication: ‘To Gerald and Elizabeth Kingsley’ Publisher: Josef Weinberger About...