Philip Herbert
www.philipherbert.org
www.philipherbert.org
On July 14, 2015 AfriClassical posted:
Michael S. Wright comments:
Hi Bill,
As
previously said, this is a really welcome addition to the UK
‘classical’ music scene and I wish the project every success. Hopefully,
I will get to London to see this event despite the fact that my diary
is fairly full around the period. I am also hoping that the publicity
machine gets cranked up so that there are queues for tickets. The full
programme has now been announced:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade for orchestra, Op.33
Philip Herbert: Elegy - In memoriam Stephen Lawrence
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn (St. Anthony)
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No.7
The
first item makes a good starter and the new work by Philip Herbert is
most welcome and hopefully, be a landmark work that will commemorate a
most serious injustice and police corruption in the UK. At this point, I
must draw readers to the Stephen Lawrence Trust www.stephenlawrence.org.uk
and hope that awareness of this concert and awareness of the trust can
be increased as a result. I am hoping that Philip’s work will serve as a
future reminder to all who live in this ‘Land of Hope and Glory’.
With
some reluctance, I express a slight concern that the latter part of the
concert returns to well-known ‘standard Western European classical
repertoire’ works, sometimes dubbed orchestral ‘war horses’. Good as
these works are, I was expecting something else. I may be ‘sticking my
head out’ but feel that an opportunity may be lost here. This is a new
project and needs no ‘dumbing down to simply please typical British
audiences. Perhaps, a symphony by Still, Hailstork or one of those
amazingly accessible jazz styled orchestral works by Baker should be
included. Perhaps a major work by distinguished English composers
Errolyn Wallen MBE or Shirley Thompson – like ‘New Nation Rising, A 21st
Century Symphony’.
See links http://www.errollynwallen.com
Kind regards
Mike
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