Event Details
Peter Gardner - ICE, From Signal Hill
William Boyce - Symphony No. 4
Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5
-- Mark Latham, Music Director --
We begin with a new work, ICE, From Signal Hill by Peter Gardner. This is a musical dramatization of an iceberg passing by the easternmost point in North America, Signal Hill in Newfoundland. "ICE" represents the dawn breaking over the Atlantic, revealing a giant iceberg passing southward, cracking in the sunlight.
The delightful Symphony No. 4 was created by the 18th century composer and musician William Boyce. Benjamin Britten's Four Sea Interludes are adapted from his opera "Peter Grimes." These evocative scenes depict Dawn, Sunday Morning, Moonlight, and Storm.
Our concert ends with Ralph Vaughan Williams acclaimed Symphony No. 5. Premiered in 1943 with the horrors of WW2 all around them, it was said that this "work’s ‘serene loveliness is completely satisfying in these times and shows, as only music can, what we must work for when this madness is over’."
Please join us for this respite from our day-to-day. The concert will be at MassBay Community College in Wellesley with a reception after the concert. MassBay is minutes from Rt 95, easy to get to with free parking. Great dining and shopping is minutes away in nearby Wellesley Square. Tickets are pay-what-you-can. We hope to see you there!