MUSIC FOR THE THEATRE with CSO - Markideion Municipal Theatre, Paphos - 9 October

 

MUSIC FOR THE THEATRE with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra

Wolfgang Schroeder (player/director)

Markideion Municipal Theatre Paphos

Friday 9 October 8.30pm

Tickets: €12, €7 (18-26 yrs, pensioners), €5 (under 18). Please kindly note that tickets will not be available at the theatre box offices on the concert day.

Box Office: Online at www.cyso.org.cy

Programme:

Scarlatti: Sonatas, set 2 (arr. J. Woolrich)

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture (arr. D. Matthews)

Copland: Music for the Theatre

Contemporary British composer John Woolrich made a magnificent version of selected Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas. As the composer himself told us: “These versions of three of Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas (he wrote 555 in all) aren’t simply orchestrations, although Scarlatti's notes are mostly left alone. Any liberties I have taken are there to underline the wit (and strangeness) of Scarlatti’s music.” Mendelssohn composed his Overture to the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1826, at the early age of seventeen, initially for two pianos. Orchestrated shortly after, the overture encapsulates all the characters and events that take place in the drama and evokes the fairy world like no other music had done before. The CySO will perform David Matthews’s arrangement of the overture for ensemble of eleven players, premiered by the Nash Ensemble in March 2016. Aaron Copland’s Music for the Theatre incorporates the energetic rhythms and catchy melodies of jazz in the 1920s and was written with no specific play in mind as one might think. As Copland explained, "The music seemed to suggest a certain theatrical atmosphere, so after developing the idea into five short movements, I chose the title."

Directions: The theatre is next to the Karavella bus station in the upper town, just off the Polis Road behind the petrol station. MARKIDEION MUNICIPAL THEATRE OF PAPHOS, 27 Andrea Geroudi Street, Paphos. Tel: 26222286.