Name: Program Seven - The Lark Ascending: British Music for Small Orchestra
Start: 2023-08-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Fisher Center

Organization

Bard Summerscape

Bard Music Festival

Conductor

James Bagwell

Zachary Schwartzman

Chorus master

Instrumentalist

Luosha Fang

Viola

Bella Hristova

Violin

Fisher Center at Bard

Others

Bard Festival Chorale

Orchestra

The Orchestra Now

Program Seven - The Lark Ascending: British Music for Small Orchestra

Annandale

United States

Fisher Center

Sosnoff Theater

Public

Private

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

Serenade for string orchestra Op.20

Flos Campi

Elegy for string orchestra

The Lark Ascending

Capriol Suite

2 Aquarelles

St Paul's Suite in C major Op. 29

Approved

Program Seven - The Lark Ascending: British Music for Small Orchestra: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Vaughan Williams (+7 More)

Program Seven celebrates the flowering of British orchestral writing in the first half of the last century. Vaughan Williams was not alone in drawing inspiration from his homeland’s Tudor roots; Warlock’s Capriol Suite is a charming Renaissance dance pastiche, while the final movement of Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite plays on the famous “Greensleeves” melody. Also on the program are works by Elgar, Delius, and under-sung Welsh composer Grace Williams, a star student of Vaughan Williams, who is himself represented by three very different works. Scored for harp and strings, his Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus” take their modal sonorities from the haunting folk melody that inspired them. Meditative and impressionistic, with pentatonic patterns that set its solo violin free to soar, The Lark Ascending is now in its second decade at the top of Classic FM’s annual audience poll. By contrast, Flos Campi is seldom programmed and persistently misunderstood; scored for solo viola, chorus, strings, and brass, this wordless setting of erotic verses from the biblical Song of Solomon is lush, sensuous, and boldly bitonal.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Co-Producer