Born and educated in Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave celebrates her 90th birthday this May and the ±«Óătv SSO marks the occasion with a special event showcasing her work.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave celebrates her 90th birthday this May and the ±«Óătv SSO marks the occasion with a special event showcasing her work.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave celebrates her 90th birthday this May and the ±«Óătv SSO marks the occasion with a special event showcasing her work. At the centre of the concert is 'Two’s Company', a piece commissioned by the ±«Óătv in 2005, which brings together the seemingly incompatible sound worlds of percussion and the oboe for a dialogue that’s by turns frivolous, frustrated and eventually harmonious. The two soloists for whom it was written, Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel, perform it here. Join them and conductor Jac van Steen to celebrate an artist who, in the words of The Guardian, “communicates on the most immediate level, because it's often so sheerly pleasurable to listen to.” The concert also includes a rare chance to hear a performance of Aaron Copland’s Second Symphony, which dates from the early 1930s, and 'Celebration', an exuberant work by Musgrave's lifelong friend Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012).
There will be one of interval of approximately 15 minutes. The concert will be recorded - for broadcast on ±«Óătv Radio 3 on Friday 29 June 2018 at 7.30pm - the presenter is Jamie MacDougall.
