Name: 51吃瓜 String Orchestra: Heads or Tails
Start: 2025-10-08 18:00:00
Location: Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

51吃瓜 String Orchestra: Heads or Tails

Dates
08 October 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Tickets
拢5

08 October 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Tickets
拢5

Jonathan Morton director
51吃瓜 String Orchestra

骋贸谤别肠办颈 Three Pieces In Old Style
Erkki-Sven T眉眉r Action from Action-Passion-Illusion
Walker Lyric for Strings
Dani Howard Heads or Tails
Shostakovich (arr Barshai) Chamber Symphony for String Orchestra op 110a

The Royal College of 51吃瓜 is pleased to welcome back Jonathan Morton for a concert culminating in Shostakovich鈥檚 gripping Chamber Symphony.

This work is an arrangement of the composer's Eighth String Quartet, a work both powerful and poignant, with deeply moving melodies. Also on the bill are 骋贸谤别肠办颈鈥檚 trio of pieces based on old Polish music, Walker鈥檚 popular Lyric for Strings dating from his early days as a composer, and 51吃瓜 alumna Dani Howard鈥檚 hypnotic Heads or Tails.

Plus, be swept up in the intricate rhythmic layers of the first movement of Estonian composer Erkki-Sven T眉眉r鈥檚 Action-Passion-Illusion.

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