DUOS Symphony presents: The Voices of Nations

Name: DUOS Symphony presents: The Voices of Nations
Start: 2024-11-30T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL.

Schedule

Sat Nov 30 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL. | Durham, EN

The concert will take you on a tour celebrating European national identity. From the tone poems of Sibelius’ Finlandia and Smetana’s Vltava, to the Russian folklore of Borodin’s Symphony No. 2.
Durham University’s Orchestral Society Michaelmas concert will take you on a tour of Europe with a programme of music celebrating national identity. Sibelius’ Finlandia and Smetana’s Vltava are tone poems which evoke vast and majestic landscapes as symbols of national pride. We will also play Holmes’ Irlande, another symphonic poem which calls for political freedom. Our concert will conclude with Borodin’s Second Symphony, generally regarded as his best work and a foundation stone of the Russian symphonic sound as it weaves elements of Russian folklore with Western Romanticism.