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North Staffs Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert

Part of the North Staffs Symphony Orchestra 2022/2023 Season

Add to my Calendar 25-03-2023 19:30 25-03-2023 21:30 36 North Staffs Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert The North Staffs Symphony Orchestra is delighted that its principal clarinettist, Marie Bateman, will be the soloist in Weber's sparkling Clarinet Concerto No.1. The concert opens with Tchaikovsky's Waltz and Polonaise from Eugene Onegin and concludes with Symphony No.1 by the black American composer, Florence Price.  This exciting work, with its inspiration coming from Afro-American folk music as well as Dvorak's New World Symphony, was composed in 1932 and first performed in 1933 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  St John Fisher Catholic College, Newcastle-under-Lyme DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John Fisher Catholic College
Ashfields New Road
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
ST5 2SJ
England

Programme

Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin: Waltz and Polonaise
Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor, Op.73
~ Interval ~
Florence Price – Symphony no.1 in E minor

Performers

Marie Bateman – clarinet
Jon Malaxetxebarria – Conductor

North Staffordshire Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

The North Staffs Symphony Orchestra is delighted that its principal clarinettist, Marie Bateman, will be the soloist in Weber's sparkling Clarinet Concerto No.1. The concert opens with Tchaikovsky's Waltz and Polonaise from Eugene Onegin and concludes with Symphony No.1 by the black American composer, Florence Price.  This exciting work, with its inspiration coming from Afro-American folk music as well as Dvorak's New World Symphony, was composed in 1932 and first performed in 1933 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 

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