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SUMMARY:Spring concert "Rivers of music"
DESCRIPTION:Rivers are a powerful metaphor representing the passage of time
  and the journey of life. Many composers have been inspired to write music
  that take brooks\, streams and rivers as means of exploring these themes.
  This concert features four ‘rivers of music’.\n\nWagner’s ‘Siegfr
 ied’s Rhine Journey’ is an orchestral interlude from the opera Götter
 dämmerung. It beautifully depicts a sunrise\, the flow of the river and S
 iegfried’s mixture of emotions including pain at leaving his beloved Br
 ünnhilde\, stirrings of courage\, and an increasing sense of foreboding.\
 n\nCzech composer Smetana’s folk-style influenced Vltava is one of the b
 est-known pieces of classical music about a river. Vltava’s source lies 
 in the Bohemian forest: two flutes represent the two streams which burble 
 and then merge as the musical river journeys past a peasant wedding\, moon
 lit meadows\, castles and wild ruins\, the Rapids of St. John until it bro
 adens at Prague and feeds into the Elbe River.\n\nErrollyn Wallen CBE is M
 aster of the King’s Music. Mighty River was written in 2007 to mark the 
 bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Wallen writes\, “Th
 e work makes reference to the hymn Amazing Grace and the spirituals Dee
 p River and Go Down Moses. It is as if the perpetual motion of the music
 \, like water\, like time\, through its sheer momentum\, comes across the 
 cries and echoes of human hearts and voices\, singing out of suffering\, r
 epentance\, humility and hope.”\n\nAfter the interval our programme retu
 rns to the Rhine with Robert Schumann’s Symphony no. 3\, the ‘Rhenish
 ’. Schumann wrote this five-movement symphony in 1850\, the year in whic
 h he\, his wife Clara\, and their seven children moved to Düsseldorf. The
  mood of the symphony is euphoric and includes an awe-inspiring depiction 
 of Cologne Cathedral which the family had visited by train. The whole symp
 hony was sketched and orchestrated in just five weeks.\n\n\nFor full event
  details\, visit: https://wmorch.makingmusicplatform.com/dbpage.php?pg=vie
 w&dbase=events&id=306711
LOCATION:Kendal Parish Church\, Kirkland\, Kendal\, LA9 5AF
URL:https://wmorch.makingmusicplatform.com/dbpage.php?pg=view&dbase=events&
 id=306711
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