gtr 2010
Saturday
26th June, 2010
7.30pm
Worcester Arts Workshop,
21 Sansome Street,
WORCESTER. WR1 1UH
Tickets £6 (£4) under 16's free
Reservations: Tickets
01886 832715
The members of the award winning Worcester Classical Guitar Society present their annual Summer Concert with a distinctive dance theme to the programme.
Music director Stephen Begley will be performing five works based on South American dances by the Mexican composer Manuel Maria Ponce, originally commissioned by Segovia but rarely performed as a complete set today. Jake Brooks continues the Latin theme with the Spanish Dance No.5 by Enrique Granados and Danza Paraguaya No.1 by Agustín Barrios Mangoré.
The Worcester Guitar Quartet have chosen works by two undisputed past masters and a composition from the only living composer in the programme; the quartet’s own, Tim Phillips. In the mix you will find the twelve miniature Contredanses by Beethoven and Luigi Boccherini’s spectacular Introduction and Fandango. Tim has written quite a few pieces for the quartet now and this inventive tunesmith balances the originality of his writing with typically off-beat titles; Clap ‘em is no exception!
The WCGO combines the talents of all the members in the premiere of Gustav’s Holst’s, St Paul’s Suite specially arranged for the guitar orchestra by our music director, Stephen Begley. Holst wrote the suite for pupils of the St Paul’s School, a girls’ school in Hammersmith that continues with a strong musical tradition to this day and which Holst helped to establish in his years of teaching there.
Join us this summer for a musical treat that is a tad different to other classically oriented events.