Gorton Philharmonic and Bury Choral Society
  • Saturday 4 November 2023, 7:30pm
  • The Stoller Hall
  • Standard £15. FTE/U18 £5.50
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Gorton Philharmonic and Bury Choral Societystart their respective 2023-2024 seasons with a concert of music connected by war, joy and peace. Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, composed to celebrate the U.S joining WWII, will get proceedings off to a stirring start before The Banks of Green Willow, composed by George Butterworth before he lost his life in WWI, will bring a sense of pastoral calmness to the evening. Elgar’s joyous and life-affirming work for chorus and orchestra, From the Bavarian Highlands, will lift your spirits. The concert will end in glorious fashion with Karl Jenkins’ monumental and hugely popular anti-war work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, written as a plea for peace across the world and dedicated to those who lost their lives during the Kosovo conflict in the 1990s. 

 

 

Gorton Philharmonic and Bury Choral Society
  • The Stoller Hall
  • Standard £15. FTE/U18 £5.50

Performers

Performers

Juan Ortuño conductor
John Resek leader

Programme

Programme

COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
BUTTERWORTH The Banks of Green Willow
ELGAR From the Bavarian Highlands (Chorus and Orchestra Version)
Karl JENKINS The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace

Gorton Philharmonic and Bury Choral Societystart their respective 2023-2024 seasons with a concert of music connected by war, joy and peace. Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, composed to celebrate the U.S joining WWII, will get proceedings off to a stirring start before The Banks of Green Willow, composed by George Butterworth before he lost his life in WWI, will bring a sense of pastoral calmness to the evening. Elgar’s joyous and life-affirming work for chorus and orchestra, From the Bavarian Highlands, will lift your spirits. The concert will end in glorious fashion with Karl Jenkins’ monumental and hugely popular anti-war work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, written as a plea for peace across the world and dedicated to those who lost their lives during the Kosovo conflict in the 1990s.