Sunday 10 March - Spring Concert, 2.30pm at Oaklands Catholic School in Waterlooville.
Our afternoon concert will start with Mussorgsky’s ‘Night on the Bare Mountain’. Inspired by an ancient Russian legend of a witches’ sabbath in mid-summer, this exciting piece has been a perennial favourite for film scores, including Disney’s 1940 ‘Fantasia’, rearranged as Night on Disco Mountain for ‘Saturday Night Fever’ (1977) and most recently the 2022 film ‘Babylon’.
Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto may not be so familiar, but we are sure you will love its rhythms and sparking virtuosity, both of which are perfect for our returning soloist Joo Yeon Sir pictured.
Our concert will finish with Dvorak’s ‘New World’ 9th Symphony. Currently ranking in the top 20 of Classic FM’s Hall of Fame, the piece was a favourite of the astronaut Neil Armstrong who took a tape recording of the symphony along on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. For British audiences of a certain age, it is the second movement’s cor anglais solo which will bring back memories of a certain television advertisement shot on a steep hill, with a boy, a bicycle and basket full of bread. Tickets can be bought from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/