Venue, Timing and Cost
Programme:
Bizet, L'Arlesienne: Suite No. 1
William Grant Still, Afro-American Symphony
Dvorak, New World Symphony No. 9
Conducted by Dwight Pile-Gray
Come and join us for an exciting journey into music inspired by the American experience featuring late 19th-century romantic composer Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 “from the New World” and 20th-century African American composer William Grant Still'sSymphony No 1 “Afro-American”. Composed some 40 years apart by composers from very different backgrounds, the symphonies are bound together by the unique influence of Negro Spirituals.
The programme also includes Bizet’s popular “L’Arlesienne: Suite No. 1” whose melodies are rooted in Provençal traditional folk music.
Further Information
St Giles Orchestra Concert: Saturday 20 April, 7.30pm
St Andrew’s Church, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UG
Tickets are available at the door, £11, concessions £10 (under-18s free).
For more details see www.stgilesorchestra.org.uk