Norfolk Symphony Orchestra presents ‘An Inspirational Journey’. Sunday 15 March 2020, 3.30pm at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. Free tickets for under-18s (when accompanied by a paying adult).
Composer James Francis Brown talks about his clarinet concerto Lost Lanes, Shadow Groves and its connection with Norfolk:
The programme also features our leader Er-Gene Kahng playing Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending:
Malcolm Arnold’s Scottish Dances:
And Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra:
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra will be playing music by Brahms, Hindemith and Humperdinck on Sunday 19 January, 3.30pm at St Nicholas Chapel, King’s Lynn. Free tickets, as always, for young concertgoers!
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra opens its 2019-20 season with magic and mystery, from Mendelssohn’s music for a Midsummer Night’s Dream to a selection of themes from the Harry Potter films. Also featuring The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Night on Bare Mountain and Danse Macabre.
Free tickets for under-18s when accompanied by an adult, so bring along the wands from last term’s conducting workshop! With a family-friendly 3.30pm start, and even the chance to see some live magic in the foyer before the concert and during the interval, what better opportunity that this to experience the forces of a full orchestra? Tickets available from Alive Corn Exchange, King’s Lynn.
Smetana, Dvorak and Rimsky-Korsakov provide the music for the summer ‘friends’ concert. Everyone welcome for an afternoon of music from Norfolk Symphony Orchestra.
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra will be playing a varied programme of music on Sunday 19 May at St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn. Don’t forget, free tickets are available for young concertgoers when accompanied by a paying adult — ask at the box office for more details.
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra will be playing a programme of music from the USA on Sunday 24 March at St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn. Music Centre members will enjoy this afternoon concert, and young members can attend for free when accompanied by a paying adult.
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra’s afternoon concert on 11 November, with King’s Lynn Festival Chorus, is based around the themes of remembrance and hope:
“During the past four years, as Centenaries have passed, we have had to endure the horrific memories of the Great War. In November this year, we mark the Armistice – but do we celebrate an ending or mourn the terrible consequences? In the first part of our final Remembrance programme, which includes the music of two brilliant young composers killed in the trenches, we experience a journey through the emotions of the time. Beginning in the beauty of the English countryside, we move to the feeling of national pride, through excitement, terror, violence, bleak despair and, finally, desperate heartbreak. In the second part of the concert, moving towards Hope, we are joined by soloists from English National Opera and the King’s Lynn Festival Chorus in perhaps the most inspiring music ever written. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony shows us how we can, with fortitude, courage and brotherhood, win our way from darkness and despair to triumph and hope. In Beethoven’s world, if we all just pull together, the human spirit can conquer all.”
Book tickets in advance at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange box office, and don’t forget that a number of free tickets are allocated for young concertgoers (when accompanied by a paying adult).
Enjoy music by Schubert and Strauss on Saturday 19 May, 7.30pm at St Nicholas Chapel, King’s Lynn, played by Norfolk Symphony Orchestra.
“As a man and as a musician, Schubert personifies many of the main characteristics of 19th Century Romanticism. The world is a bad place and getting worse, nothing can be done – we must all just sit together and wait for the end. Art, therefore, is an escape from this awfulness. His Fifth Symphony, is, perhaps his lightest and most charmingly cheerful work, he expresses his love for Mozart and yearns for what he sees as the “brighter, better life” when he was still alive.
“The massive and monumental work Ein Heldenleben, (A Hero’s Life), is clearly based on the life of Richard Strauss himself, although he was slow to admit this. The orchestra is vast. The Hero, played by eight horns, faces his enemies, the critics who he felt were unfair in his early career. His beloved wife, the singer Pauline de Ahna, takes centre stage, represented by beautiful and extremely virtuosic violin solos. With her by his side he faces his foes and, after a great battle, vanquishes them, retiring afterwards into tranquillity and fulfilment.”
Free tickets for under-18s accompanied by a paying adult.
This Sunday, 25 March 2018, Norfolk Symphony Orchestra will be playing a programme of French music at St Nicholas Chapel, King’s Lynn. The concert starts at 3.30pm, and tickets for young concert-goers (under 18) are free — up to 3 per adult ticket, so this an ideal way to spend the afternoon with the family.
Read more about the concert and about the music in the flyer, or at the Norfolk Symphony Orchestra website.
Coming up on 19 November, Norfolk Symphony Orchestra’s next concert has something to appeal to all Music Centre members. Enjoy music from films including Star Wars, Schindler’s List and Out of Africa.
Also featuring the musical whodunnit ‘The Composer is Dead’, by Lemony Snicket and Nathaniel Stookey. Young members may well know Lemony Snicket’s books, and they will enjoy exploring the orchestra through the story as narrated by local and West End actor Charlie Hotson. Even better, there are up to 100 free tickets available for under-18s when accompanied by an adult (up to 3 children per adult) to enjoy this family-friendly mid-afternoon performance.
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