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Royal Northern Sinfonia directed by Maria Włoszczowska

Location: St Mary’s Church, Wooler

Royal Northern Sinfonia directed by Maria Włoszczowska

Sunday 17 January 2027, 3.00pm

Samuel Barber: Summer Music
John Adams: Shaker Loops
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing Suite for violin and piano
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

Tickets £20, Students/Unwaged £6, Under 18 free.

This concert of American music offers a wide range of American moods, from Barber’s lyrical Summer Music for wind quintet to the minimalist and hypnotic Shaker Loops for string ensemble,, and Copland’s quintessentially optimistic Appalachian Spring itself quotes the Shaker hymn ‘Simple Gifts’. Korngold, an Austrian composer who was allowed to stay in America in the late 1930s because of the Nazi invasion of his homeland, was a highly talented pianist and composer of classical scores as well as film music. He composed the incidental music for ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in 1918-19 and the suite, originally for chamber orchestra, was subsequently arranged by Korngold for violin and piano.

further details and booking information to be announced…