Tonight's Concert
You can see tonight's programme by viewing the pdf attached below:
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The Oxford University Sinfonietta (the associated chamber orchestra of OUO) presents a beautifully varied programme for its Hilary Term 2025 concert. The evening begins with Polish composer Noskowski (Morskie Oko Overture), before returning closer to home with Vaughan-Williams' Wasps Suite. The second half takes us back across the channel for Debussy's Petite Suite, before a short journey to Germany for the highlight of the evening, Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony. Be sure not to miss this thrilling evening of chamber orchestra repertoire at 7:30PM on Friday the 28th of February at the University Church.
On Saturday 24th May at 7.30pm at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford University Orchestra and conductor Daniel Hogan present:
An Evening of Orchestral Dances.
Young conductor Daniel Hogan joins OUO in an evening of orchestral dances, featuring as its main item Rachmaninoff’s electrifying final masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances. Entirely written in the United States, this work evokes a ghostly nostalgia of the composer’s Russian homeland, saturated with ecclesiastical chants such as the Dies irae, and enigmatic retrospections on his earlier works – the First Symphony and All-Night Vigil. John Adams’ captivating The Chairman Dances, an “outtake” from his first opera Nixon in China portraying Chairman and Madame Mao’s exuberant foxtrot, will open the concert, alongside the Dance Suite from Ginastera’s Estancia, a lively ballet – inspired by the epic Martin Fierro by José Hernández – saturated with spirited Argentinian rhythms.
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