Jonathan Tilbrook Conductor
Reisha Adams Soprano John Findon Tenor Thomas Humphreys Baritone
Li Huanzhi Spring Festival Overture Rachmaninov The Bells Holst The Planets
In a special gala concert, the University of Nottingham Philharmonia and Choir join with guest musicians from Zhejiang Conservatory of Music in China. The concert opens with Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture often performed at Chinese New Year festivities. Rachmaninov’s The Bells based on a Russian poem adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem of the same name evokes bells marking the passage of life.
Holst’s The Planets ascribes an astrological character to each of the known planets conveying a metaphorical progression of life from the physical (‘bringer of war’, ‘bringer of jollity’) to the mystical.
2 hours including interval.
Room A23, CI LibrarySi Yuan BuildingJubilee Campus Nottingham, NG8 1BB
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