Varied programme from BSO (From Basingstoke Gazette)

Varied programme from BSO

2:50pm Friday 12th March 2010 in

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A VARIED programme is in store for the audience listening to the Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra at The Anvil on Saturday.

Under the baton of Stephen Scotchmer, the musicians are performing pieces inspired by, or created for dancing, beginning with Copland’s Buckaroo Holiday and Rodeo, with plenty of exciting percussion.

The orchestra will also be playing the younger Johann Strauss’s The Blue Danube and Ravel’s La Valse. The idea of La Valse began in Vienna as early as 1906, when Ravel intended to orchestrate a piece in tribute to the waltz form and to Johann Strauss.

Ravel returned to the project after the Great War, when European life had been drastically and irrevocably changed. The piece still echoes Strauss but also has a darker aspect, reflecting Ravel’s personal struggles as a soldier fighting against Germany.

Leroy Anderson’s Blue Tango, Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance in G Minor, extracts from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite, Manuel de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, Brahms’ Hungarian Dance in G Minor and an arrangement of Sting’s El Tango de Roxanne also feature on the programme.

The concert starts at 7.45pm and tickets, which start from £8 with concessions available, can be booked from the box office, on 01256 844244 or online at anvilarts.org.uk.