CONCERT: Music for Ballet and Dance

Posted on 23rd October, 2024

PROMENADE CONCERT ORCHESTRA
THE PLATFORM, MORECAMBE. LA4 4DB

3pm
Sunday November 24th 2024

Discover the world of ballet and dance through hearing live music written over the past 200 years by well-known and lesser-known composers covering different dance and ballet styles found in, opera, ballrooms and dance halls.

 

 

Pineapple Poll No.1  

(Based on music of Arthur Sullivan. (1842-1900)

                                                      Arranged by Charles Mackerras

 

The Sleeping Princess Waltz from Sleeping Beauty      

                                                      Peter Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)

                                                                     Arranged by A. Schmidt

 

Comedians’ Galop                      Dimitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

                                                                Arranged by H. Swarsenski    

 

Concert Jig for Dulcimer and strings

Jim Cooke (1959-)

         Dulcimer Soloist – Chris Perry

 

Sabre Dance from the ballet ‘Gayaneh'                       

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)

                                                                                                         Arranged by  Swarsenski

 

Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker        

Peter Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)

                                                                                                         Arranged by A. Schmidt                                        

 

March of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride

                        Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

              Arranged by Bohuslav Leopold & Howard Rogerson

 

Village Hop-hop -  A Czech Galopade, 

based on a theme from the opera, The Two Widows

Bedrich Smetana

 

Three Dances from Nell Gwyn                                

Edward German (1862-1936)

1. Country Dance. No.2 Pastoral Dance. No.3 Merrymaker’s Dance.

 

Twenty minute interval

 

Waltz from the opera Eugene Onegin                          

Peter Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)

 

Molly on the Shore - an Irish Reel                                        

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

 

Graceful Dance for strings                                                  

Ernest Tomlinson (1924-2024)

Passepied

                                                     Ernest Tomlinson (1924-2024)

 

Waltz from Masquerade incidental music                    

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)

                                                             Aranged by H. Swarsenski

 

Scenes from An Imaginary Ballet                          

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

No.1 Molto vivace. No.2 Allegretto. No.3 Tempo di Minuetto. 

No.4 Andantino No.5 Vivacissimo

 

Pineapple Poll No. 8 Finale

Based on music of Arthur Sullivan. (1842-1900)

                                                   Arranged by Charles Mackerras

                        

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