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Valentine's Day Concert
Worthing Symphony Orchestra
Part of the Worthing Symphony Orchestra 2015-16 Season
Add to my Calendar 14-02-2016 14:45 14-02-2016 16:45 36 Valentine's Day Concert Love is in the air as we welcome back sensational cellist, Leonard Elschenbroich performing Walton's cello concerto, a work inspired by Walton’s love for his wife Susana. The theme of love continues with Puccini’s first great operatic success Manon Lescaut. The concert also features a rarely performed work by British female composer Doreen Carwithen, herOverture O.D.T.A.A. premiered in Covent Garden in 1947, and concludes with Stravinsky's first great ballet masterpiece The Firebird Suite – currently one of the BBC's Ten Pieces for Primary Children. The Assembly Hall, Worthing DD/MM/YYYYDetails
The Assembly Hall
Stoke Abbott Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 1HQ
England
Programme
Doreen Carwithen – O. D. T. A. A. Overture
William Walton – Cello Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night's Dream, overture, Op.21
Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite, 1919: Finale
Giacomo Puccini – Manon Lescaut
Edward Elgar – Salut d'amour, Op.12
Performers
Leonard Elschenbroich – cello
John Gibbons – Conductor
Worthing Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Love is in the air as we welcome back sensational cellist, Leonard Elschenbroich performing Walton's cello concerto, a work inspired by Walton’s love for his wife Susana. The theme of love continues with Puccini’s first great operatic success Manon Lescaut. The concert also features a rarely performed work by British female composer Doreen Carwithen, herOverture O.D.T.A.A. premiered in Covent Garden in 1947, and concludes with Stravinsky's first great ballet masterpiece The Firebird Suite – currently one of the BBC's Ten Pieces for Primary Children.
