Wednesday 7 December 7.30pm
Emma Lewis mezzo-soprano
John Stringer conductor
John Adams The Chairman Dances
Elgar Sea Pictures
Shostakovitch Symphony no. 6 in B minor op. 54
An eclectic and colourful programme starts the UYSO’s year. The Chairman Dances is a lively work that relates to Adams’ opera Nixon in China and depicts Madam Mao dancing seductively, which requires a certain suspension of belief! Sea Pictures, performed by third-year student emma Lewis, is one of elgar’s most sensitive settings of english verse and the concert concludes with Shostakovitch undermining the gravitas of what a Sixth Symphony in B minor was supposed to be in Stalinist Russia
John Stringer conductor
John Adams The Chairman Dances
Elgar Sea Pictures
Shostakovitch Symphony no. 6 in B minor op. 54
An eclectic and colourful programme starts the UYSO’s year. The Chairman Dances is a lively work that relates to Adams’ opera Nixon in China and depicts Madam Mao dancing seductively, which requires a certain suspension of belief! Sea Pictures, performed by third-year student emma Lewis, is one of elgar’s most sensitive settings of english verse and the concert concludes with Shostakovitch undermining the gravitas of what a Sixth Symphony in B minor was supposed to be in Stalinist Russia