Symphony orchestra is back
Scarborough Symphony Orchestra promises music to warm its audience on a chilly night with the opening concert of its new season on Saturday November 25. Soloist Yuki Negisihi returns.
The Scarborough Symphony Orchestra promises music to warm its audience on a chilly night with the opening concert of its new season on Saturday November 25.
The first night programme includes two hugely popular favourites with unforgettable music and melodies from Grieg and Dvorak.
Soloist Yuki Negisihi returns to perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto, well known for its use in film and television, including the TV show Twin Peaks.
More famously it was used in th e the classic Morecambe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn (Mr Preview), with Eric Morecambe at the piano insisting he is playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
Yuki, whose performance of the Mozart Piano Concerto K467, wowed orchestra and audience alike in Scarborough two years ago, said: “I am delighted to be returning to Scarborough to play such an enduring mainstay of the classical repertoire with this wonderful orchestra”.
Born in Tokyo, Yuki Negishi started playing the piano at the age of five in New York.
Since coming to the UK in 2001, she has performed more than 350 concerts in the UK as well as her continuing international work.
Yuki has now established herself as an artist of rare passion and virtuosity with a charismatic stage personality.
Dvorak’s New World Symphony was the last he composed and needs little introduction.
A myriad familiar tunes are repeated throughout the work and are probably popular because they are so memorable.
In fact, the second movement theme, often described as the Goin’ home song, is mistakenly taken by many to be a Negro spiritual.
True to the orchestra’s commitment to introduce lesser known works to its audience, musical director Shaun Matthew, who lives in Holme on Spalding Moor, also includes Nielsen’s Rhapsody Overture in the programme.
The work depicts an imaginary sea crossing to the Faroe Isles from the composer’s Danish homeland, using folk song motifs from the Isles.
Last season’s performances by Scarborough Symphony Orchestra attracted audiences of up to 350 and this year’s programme hopes to repeat that.
Shaun, who studied the tuba at music college, has been the musical director of the Scarborough Symphony Orchestra since 2005. The orchestra draws its musicians from Scarborough, Whitby, Driffield and further afield.
Later concerts this season feature Copland’s Old American Songs, with the Scarborough Choral Society, and Brahms’s 2nd Symphony on Saturday February 3.
Last year’s BBC Young Musician finalist, Ben Goldscheider, plays the Pauer Horn Concerto, plus Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony feature on the programme on Saturday May 5.
Local cellist Christina Waldock, performing Honegger’s Cello Concerto, with two popular works from Debussy and Franck makes up the concert programme on Saturday July July 14. All concerts take place at 7.15pm at the Queen Street Methodist Hall in Scarborough. Admission is £11 (£9.50 for concessions). Entry for children up to 16 and full-time students is free.
Tickets can be bought direct from Revolutions Music in Huntriss Row, Scarborough, or The Art Cafe in Whitby, as well as through the orchestra’s website: www. scarborough-orchestra.co.uk or at the door on the night. There is ample parking.