Saturday 8 June 2024, Princes Hall, Aldershot. Family Concert – ‘Fantasy Worlds’
Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel Overture
Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov, Night on a Bare Mountain
arr. Miklós Rózsa The Jungle Book Suite
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Music from Frozen
Bray, Where Icebergs Dance Away
St Peter’s Junior School, Farnborough; All Saints Junior School, Fleet, Journey Into Space
Dukas, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Delighted to have worked with St Peter’s Junior School, Farnborough and All Saints Junior School, Fleet to create the composition, Journey Into Space, alongside my FSO colleague, Alison Wyld, Principal Horn. The children’s ideas were radical and fresh, as ever, and produced a unique and evocative performance of genuine power.
The concert included Charlotte Bray’s Where Icebergs Dance Away – a pristine piece that captures the precariousness of the Greenland coast-scape, with detailed and sheer writing for the woodwinds and high strings. It took me right back to East Greenland. FSO members produced a thrilling account of Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice to bring the concert to a close.