GO: CLASSICAL: CONDUCTOR TAKES UP ARTS CENTRE BATON ONCE MORE.Byline: By Patsy Fuller MUSICAL giant Riccardo Muti is returning to Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, attracting around 280,000 visitors a year to over 2,000 individual events embracing music, drama, in Coventry 24 years after his memorable first visit. The maestro conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra in very first professional concert at the university's Butterworth Hall in 1981. He is coming back with the same orchestra in a special gala concert later this month to raise money for the Arts Centre's education programme. The concert also marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the university. Muti muti (mōōˑ·tē), n in African healing traditions, animal parts, herbs, or barks with medicinal value. is a giant on the international music circuit. He was born in Naples in 1941 and for nearly 20 years he has been the musical director of La Scala Milan. He has conducted opera and concert orchestras across the world to huge acclaim. The University of Warwick In the 1960s and 1970s, Warwick had a reputation as a politically radical institution.[3] More recently, the University has been seen as a favoured institution of the British New Labour government. concert is on January 28, and includes two major works from the early 19th Century - Beethoven's violin concerto, with the talented young Russian Vadim Repin as soloist, and Schubert's Great C Major Symphony. Muti is also back in the Midlands in May at Birmingham Symphony Hall with La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Elgar, Verdi, Busoni and Respighi. POLISH pianist Ewa Kupiec is making her debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. The orchestra was founded as the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1920, with Edward Elgar conducting its first concert in September of that year. next weekend. She will be playing Shostakovich's highly-entertaining concerto for piano, trumpet and strings in a programme of Russian music conducted by Vassily Sinaisky. Kupiec was a protAgA of the composer Witold Lutoslawski, who described her playing as "a true revelation". The concert on January 22 also includes Rimsky-Korsakov's May Night Overture, Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia, and Tchaikovsky's Suite No 3. A CHAMBER orchestra aiming to build up a following in Coventry is making its next visit to the city next week. Leamington-based Beauchamp Sinfonietta will be giving a concert at Earlsdon Methodist Church in Earlsdon Avenue South, Coventry, next Saturday at 7.30pm. The guest conductor is Roger Coull, founder member of the Coull Quartet. The concert will start with Brahms' Variations on a theme of Haydn followed by Delius' On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius; it was first performed in Leipzig on October 2, 1913. The work opens with a slow three-bar sequence; its first theme is an exchange of cuckoo calls, first for oboe, then for divided , Barber's Adagio for Strings "Adagio for Strings" is a work for string orchestra, arranged by the American composer Samuel Barber from his first string quartet. It is Barber's most popular piece. Genesis Barber's "Adagio for Strings" originated as part of his String Quartet No. 1, Op. and Schumann's Symphony No 3 in E flat, the Rhenish. And the following day, the orchestra will be doing it all over again at 3pm at the Town Hall, Leamington. It will be the orchestra's second venture into Coventry. It gave a concert in Earlsdon in October and a third concert is planned in April. Tickets for the Earlsdon concert are available from Sunderland Music, Earlsdon or on the door. Tickets for the Leamington concert on 01926 496277. IT IS hard to overstate the exceptional talents of Ex Cathedra and there is another chance to hear them in Warwick next week. The Birmingham-based choir never fail to inspire, and an all-Bach programme, with cellist Jonathan Manson, is particularly appealing. The concert, directed by the group's founder Jeffrey Skidmore, includes three motets and two cello suites. It takes place in the wonderful setting of St Mary's Church on Tuesday. Tickets on 01926 496277. CAPTION(S): DEBUT: Polish pianist Ewa Kupiec plays with the CBSO next weekend and Riccardo Muti (right) returns to Warwick Arts Centre after a gap of 24 years |
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