Lunchtime Concert - Blue Rose
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
- Cost: $20 general admission
- More information: Bookings
- Contact: Martin Victory Concert Manager
- Email: concertmanager@adelaide.edu.au
Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra
Vaughan Williams Toccata Marziale
Matthew Taylor Blasket Dances
Jan Sweelinck Variations on 'Mein Junges Leben Hat Ein End'
Grainger Molly on the Shore
Frank Ticheli Blue Shades
Vaughan Williams’s vigorous second work for band was written for the 1924 commemoration of the British Empire exhibition. Bernstein’s English protégé, Taylor, was inspired by traditional music from the Blasket Islands off the coast of Ireland, whilst Ricker transcribed Sweelincks’ baroque pipe organ work in 1975. Rose, the formidable mother of Grainger, received Molly on the Shore as a birthday gift from her son. This lively concert concludes with blues harmonies, rhythms and idioms in Ticheli’s work that offers strong nods to the styles of Bernstein and Gershwin.