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2008 concerts

5 October
Sunday, 2.45pm

26 October
Sunday, 2.45pm

15 November
Saturday, 7.30pm

23 November
Sunday, 2.45pm

7 December
Sunday, 2.45pm

31 December
Wednesday, 2.45pm


2009 concerts

18 January
Sunday, 2.45pm

8 February
Sunday, 2.45pm

1 March
Sunday, 2.45pm

15 March
Sunday, 2.45pm

29 March
Sunday, 2.45pm

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
40th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Sunday 5 October 2008 2.45pm
Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music (choral version)
The Lark Ascending
A Sea Symphony

Brighton Festival Chorus
Barry Wordsworth conductor
Judith Howarth soprano
Mark Stone baritone
John Bradbury violin

President of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra from 1947-1958, Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the country's most celebrated, most distinctive, composers. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death, this concert features three very different kinds of song by a composer adept at capturing beauty and poetry in music.

The Serenade to Music is a paean to music itself, to words from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, performed here in its version for full chorus and orchestra as part of Brighton Festival Chorus' own 40th anniversary celebrations.

A solo violin takes flight over the orchestra in the birdsong of his most popular work, The Lark Ascending, played by BPO Leader John Bradbury, and the 'Sea Symphony' harnesses the power of orchestra, chorus, soloists and the evocative poetry of Walt Whitman to depict 'the sea itself' with its 'winds piping and blowing'.

Tickets £8 - £30 (Click here to book online)

Sponsored by Esther Welch

1.45pm Pre-concert interview onstage with Barry Wordsworth and James Morgan (Music Director, Brighton Festival Chorus) (Tickets £2.50)

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