2023
Past Events

Past Event

Brighton & East Sussex Youth Orchestra

Peter Davison, Conductor
Maciej Kułakowski, Cello

Brighton & East Sussex Youth Orchestra with Maciej Kułakowski (cello) & Peter Davison (conductor) and Brighton Festival Youth Choir

Brighton’s finest young musicians perform pieces with a folk feel.

Doreen Carwithen Suffolk Suite

Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in Emin, Op85

Trad. arr. Juliette Pochin Simple Gifts and Shenandoah

Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

Folk music and dancing feature in both Doreen Carwithen’s Suffolk Suite, created for a school orchestra and prominently picturing a troupe of morris dancers jangling down the street, and Aaron Copland’s American pioneer ballet Appalachian Spring.

‘I am folk music!’ Elgar once declared and, though his achingly nostalgic Cello Concerto – here played by prize-winning young Polish cellist Maciej Kułakowski – is entirely original, it’s as quintessentially English as any morris dance.

Brighton Festival Youth Choir will perform the Shaker Song Simple Gifts, which Copland uses in his orchestral suite Appalachian Spring alongside the traditional American folk song Shenandoah

Year
2023
When
Mon 15 May

Approximate times, subject to change:
Doors 6.45pm
Start 7.30pm
Interval 8.25pm
End 9.30pm
Tickets
£7.50, £10, £15
Under 26s £7.50
Festival Standby £10