Dethroning Emperors
An event centred around the early romantic dream of tracing authority back to talent, rather than to privilege or violence.
Popular Music
Some music is simply more popular than other, meaning it better intercepts average taste at different times in human history. Some other music is incredibly unpopular at the time of its composition, but gains popularity as the years (and centuries!) elapse. Some other music aspired to be “music for a later age” but continues to puzzles generation after generation.
In this show putting together strictly works from the twentieth century, we will try to answer the question: what makes music popular? We have chosen three pieces which display three very different traits: either they enjoyed enormous popularity in their times (An American in Paris), or their fame was inflated through the decades following their appearance (La Valse) or yet they were deliberately written with the idea of being popular (Philip Glass’s violin concerto). What do these different works tell us about who we are and what we look for in an artistic experience?
PROGRAMME
G. Gershwin An American in Paris (Symphonic poem for orchestra)
M. Ravel La Valse (poème chorégraphique pour orchestre)
P. Glass Violin Concerto No. 1
Roberts Balanas, violin
Raffaello Morales, conductor
Fidelio Orchestra
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Brahms and Schumann
Fidelio Orchestra
Charles Owen, piano
Raffaello Morales, conductor
St Andrew Holborn
