05/02/11….Crendon Chamber Orchestra meets Stravinsky

CRENDON Chamber Orchestra will hold its winter concert on Saturday, February 5, at St Mary’s Church, Thame, at 7.30 p.m. The guest conductor will be William Carslake who has wide experience of working with both professional and amateur orchestras. William has worked as Cover Conductor at the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, on several productions and is currently working on Swan Lake.

In this concert he is introducing the orchestra to the ballet music for Apollo by Stravinsky. The programme also features the premiere of a suite by Colin Ferris, one of the orchestra?s violists.

The concert opens with Bach?s energetic Brandenburg Concerto No 3, full of rhythm and melody, which ends with an exuberant dance. Anticipating the interval for refreshments, Colin Ferris, then wheels out his collection of Something from the Suite Trolley. The first half closes in contemplative mood with Grieg?s Two Elegiac Melodies. Grieg was inspired by the peasant-poet of Norway, Aasmund Vinje to set his texts as songs, two of which, The Last Spring and The Wounded Heart, he later arranged for string orchestra. The interval is followed by Stravinsky?s tuneful ballet Apollon Musag