Free Family Concert

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Leys Orchestra celebrates their resumption of live concerts with a return to Warkworth. 

 

The programme is headlined with the beautiful Concertino for Cor Anglais and Orchestra by Donizetti. 

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Also featured is the triple Concerto in G for Flute, Oboe d'Amore and Viola by Graupner. He was a prolific composer, a contemporary of Handel and Telemann, and one-time rival of JS Bach. 

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The concert will premiere an early work by NZ composer David Hamilton recently revised and re-orchestrated for Leys Orchestra. Titled The Celestial Gate of Praise, influences of the Armenian/American composer Alan Hovhanes are apparent in this youthful piece. 

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The programme also includes instrumental extracts from Purcell's opera The Fairy Queen, and a short waltz by Elgar titled Mina. This is named after the composer's Cairn terrier, and is his last completed orchestral work written just weeks before the composer's death. 

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Admission is free.

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