Born and educated in Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave celebrates her 90th birthday this May and the 麻豆社 SSO marks the occasion with a special event showcasing her work.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave celebrates her 90th birthday this May and the 麻豆社 SSO marks the occasion with a special event showcasing her work.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave celebrates her 90th birthday this May and the 麻豆社 SSO marks the occasion with a special event showcasing her work. At the centre of the concert is 'Two鈥檚 Company', a piece commissioned by the 麻豆社 in 2005, which brings together the seemingly incompatible sound worlds of percussion and the oboe for a dialogue that鈥檚 by turns frivolous, frustrated and eventually harmonious. The two soloists for whom it was written, Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel, perform it here. Join them and conductor Jac van Steen to celebrate an artist who, in the words of The Guardian, 鈥渃ommunicates on the most immediate level, because it's often so sheerly pleasurable to listen to.鈥� The concert also includes a rare chance to hear a performance of Aaron Copland鈥檚 Second Symphony, which dates from the early 1930s, and 'Celebration', an exuberant work by Musgrave's lifelong friend Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012).
There will be one of interval of approximately 15 minutes. The concert will be recorded - for broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 3 on Friday 29 June 2018 at 7.30pm - the presenter is Jamie MacDougall.
