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Serenade in G Major, R. 95: VIII. Epilogue. Allegro un poco maestoso
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Composer: Ernest John Moeran
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Serenade in G Major, R. 95: I. Prologue. Allegro
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Released on: 1990-09-01
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Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Composer: Ernest John Moeran
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Ernest John Moeran: Serenade in G Major
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Ernest John (E.J.) Moeran (1894-1950)
Serenade for Orchestra in G Major
I. Prologue: Allegro 0:00
II. Intermezzo: Allegretto 4:05
III. Air: Lento, ma non troppo 7:24
IV. Galop: Presto 10:12
V. Minuet: Tempo di minuetto 12:28
VI. Forlana: Andante con moto 16:25
VII. Rigadoon: 20:25
VIII. Epilogue: Allegro un poco maestoso 22:12
The Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Ernest John Moeran (1894 – 1950) was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland (his father was Irish, he spent much of his life there, and he died there).
Moeran was born in Heston (now in the London Borough of Hounslow), the son o...
published: 04 Sep 2017
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Capriol Suite: IV. Bransles (Version for Full Orchestra)
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Released on: 1990-09-01
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Composer: Peter Warlock
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Serenade For Tenor, Horn, And String Orchestra, Op. 31: VI. Hymn (Presto e leggiero)
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Elgar Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op.47 艾爾加 序奏與快板 作品47 エルガー 序奏 アレグロ Score Sheet 譜 谱【Kero】
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Elgar Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op.47
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艾尔加 序奏与快板 作品47
Elgar Introducción y Allegro para cuerdas
エルガー 序奏 と アレグロ
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#Elgar #Introduction #Allegro
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Allegro
Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47, was composed in 1905 for performance in an all-Elgar concert by the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra. Scored for string quartet and string orchestra, Elgar composed it to show off the players' virtuosity. Though initial critical reception was lukewarm at best, the score soon came to be recognized as a masterpiece. The work, which is roughly twelve to fourteen minutes in length, is like a multi-layered symphonic poem for string or...
published: 10 Mar 2022
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SMUS Large Ensembles Concert 2015: String Orchestra performs Sonata for Strings
The String Orchestra performs Jean-Marie Leclair's "Sonata for Strings" at the Large Ensembles Concert on January 21, 2015. The concert showcases the Senior School’s musically inclined students who participate in our concert bands, orchestras and choirs.
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published: 23 Jan 2015
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Serenade in G Major, R. 95: VIII. Epilogue. Allegro un poco maestoso
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Moeran: Serenade in G, No...
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Released on: 1990-09-01
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Composer: Ernest John Moeran
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Released on: 1990-09-01
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Composer: Ernest John Moeran
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Serenade in G Major, R. 95: I. Prologue. Allegro
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Composer: Ernest John Moeran
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Released on: 1990-09-01
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Composer: Ernest John Moeran
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Ernest John Moeran: Serenade in G Major
It us my genuine and sincere desire that any and all potential or actual remuneration that may accrue to me be instead directed towards all holders of copyright...
It us my genuine and sincere desire that any and all potential or actual remuneration that may accrue to me be instead directed towards all holders of copyright
Ernest John (E.J.) Moeran (1894-1950)
Serenade for Orchestra in G Major
I. Prologue: Allegro 0:00
II. Intermezzo: Allegretto 4:05
III. Air: Lento, ma non troppo 7:24
IV. Galop: Presto 10:12
V. Minuet: Tempo di minuetto 12:28
VI. Forlana: Andante con moto 16:25
VII. Rigadoon: 20:25
VIII. Epilogue: Allegro un poco maestoso 22:12
The Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Ernest John Moeran (1894 – 1950) was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland (his father was Irish, he spent much of his life there, and he died there).
Moeran was born in Heston (now in the London Borough of Hounslow), the son of the Rev Joseph William Wright Moeran, an Irish-born clergyman, and his wife Ada Esther (born Whall). The family moved around for several years as his father was appointed to various parishes but they eventually settled in Bacton, on the coast of Norfolk.
Moeran studied the violin and the piano as a child. He was educated from an early age at home, by a governess. At the age of ten, he was sent to Suffield Park Preparatory School in Cromer, North Norfolk. In 1908, he was enrolled at Uppingham School where he spent the next five years. He was taught music by the director Robert Sterndale Bennett (grandson of Sir William Sterndale Bennett), who greatly encouraged his talents. On leaving Uppingham in 1913, he studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music with Charles Villiers Stanford. He was also a member of the prestigious Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club.
When war broke out Moeran enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment, in which he was later commissioned. In 1917 Moeran went to France, where he was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment, and wounded at Bullecourt on 3 May. His army records refer to a 'small gunshot wound' to the side of the neck, and a piece of shrapnel in his back, later removed. By the middle of August Moeran was declared 'free from any inconveniences' by a medical board and seconded to the Bedfordshire Regiment, at this time on garrison duty in Ireland around Boyle and County Roscommon. It was here that Moeran came to be bewitched by the Irish landscape which would later inform many of his best compositions. In October 1918 he tried out for the newly formed Royal Air Force, but after two months was returned to a reserve battalion of the Norfolk Regiment, and discharged in January 1919.
After the war he returned for a few months to Uppingham School, where he was employed as a teacher of music. This role did not satisfy him and he returned to the Royal College of Music to resume his composition studies, now with John Ireland, who had been a pupil of Moeran's earlier teacher Charles Villiers Stanford.
His first mature compositions, songs and chamber music, date from this time. He also began collecting and arranging folk music of Norfolk and other regions. He collected about 150 folk songs in Norfolk and Suffolk. His preferred method was to sit in a country pub and wait until an old man started singing. He noted the song down and then asked for more. According to the biography The Music of E. J. Moeran by Geoffrey Self (1986), he spent time living with gypsies, but no further details are available. He spent some time after the war living at Kington, Herefordshire.
By the mid-1920s, Moeran had become close friends with Peter Warlock and they lived for some years in Eynsford, Kent, notorious among the locals for their frequent drunken revelry. For the rest of his life, Moeran had problems with alcohol, later joined by mental instability. After Warlock's death in 1930, Moeran became interested in his Irish roots and began spending much of his time in Kenmare, County Kerry.
As a person, E. J. Moeran was greatly influenced by a number of people. However, it was the time spent with Peter Warlock in Eynsford that had the greatest impact on his life. While Warlock was seemingly capable of drinking alcohol to excess without any apparent long-term effects, Moeran developed a dependency which handicapped him for the remainder of his life. His later problems have been attributed to his war wound to the head, but this is incorrect. By 1930, Moeran had become an alcoholic.
He married the cellist Peers Coetmore on 26 July 1945. Although the marriage was not entirely happy, it inspired two of Moeran's finest late works, the Cello Concerto and Cello Sonata.
He died suddenly in 1950, probably from a cerebral haemorrhage, in Kenmare at the age of 55. He was found in the Kenmare River and it was at first assumed he had drowned. However, an inquest later established that he had died before falling into the water.
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It us my genuine and sincere desire that any and all potential or actual remuneration that may accrue to me be instead directed towards all holders of copyright
Ernest John (E.J.) Moeran (1894-1950)
Serenade for Orchestra in G Major
I. Prologue: Allegro 0:00
II. Intermezzo: Allegretto 4:05
III. Air: Lento, ma non troppo 7:24
IV. Galop: Presto 10:12
V. Minuet: Tempo di minuetto 12:28
VI. Forlana: Andante con moto 16:25
VII. Rigadoon: 20:25
VIII. Epilogue: Allegro un poco maestoso 22:12
The Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Ernest John Moeran (1894 – 1950) was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland (his father was Irish, he spent much of his life there, and he died there).
Moeran was born in Heston (now in the London Borough of Hounslow), the son of the Rev Joseph William Wright Moeran, an Irish-born clergyman, and his wife Ada Esther (born Whall). The family moved around for several years as his father was appointed to various parishes but they eventually settled in Bacton, on the coast of Norfolk.
Moeran studied the violin and the piano as a child. He was educated from an early age at home, by a governess. At the age of ten, he was sent to Suffield Park Preparatory School in Cromer, North Norfolk. In 1908, he was enrolled at Uppingham School where he spent the next five years. He was taught music by the director Robert Sterndale Bennett (grandson of Sir William Sterndale Bennett), who greatly encouraged his talents. On leaving Uppingham in 1913, he studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music with Charles Villiers Stanford. He was also a member of the prestigious Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club.
When war broke out Moeran enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment, in which he was later commissioned. In 1917 Moeran went to France, where he was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment, and wounded at Bullecourt on 3 May. His army records refer to a 'small gunshot wound' to the side of the neck, and a piece of shrapnel in his back, later removed. By the middle of August Moeran was declared 'free from any inconveniences' by a medical board and seconded to the Bedfordshire Regiment, at this time on garrison duty in Ireland around Boyle and County Roscommon. It was here that Moeran came to be bewitched by the Irish landscape which would later inform many of his best compositions. In October 1918 he tried out for the newly formed Royal Air Force, but after two months was returned to a reserve battalion of the Norfolk Regiment, and discharged in January 1919.
After the war he returned for a few months to Uppingham School, where he was employed as a teacher of music. This role did not satisfy him and he returned to the Royal College of Music to resume his composition studies, now with John Ireland, who had been a pupil of Moeran's earlier teacher Charles Villiers Stanford.
His first mature compositions, songs and chamber music, date from this time. He also began collecting and arranging folk music of Norfolk and other regions. He collected about 150 folk songs in Norfolk and Suffolk. His preferred method was to sit in a country pub and wait until an old man started singing. He noted the song down and then asked for more. According to the biography The Music of E. J. Moeran by Geoffrey Self (1986), he spent time living with gypsies, but no further details are available. He spent some time after the war living at Kington, Herefordshire.
By the mid-1920s, Moeran had become close friends with Peter Warlock and they lived for some years in Eynsford, Kent, notorious among the locals for their frequent drunken revelry. For the rest of his life, Moeran had problems with alcohol, later joined by mental instability. After Warlock's death in 1930, Moeran became interested in his Irish roots and began spending much of his time in Kenmare, County Kerry.
As a person, E. J. Moeran was greatly influenced by a number of people. However, it was the time spent with Peter Warlock in Eynsford that had the greatest impact on his life. While Warlock was seemingly capable of drinking alcohol to excess without any apparent long-term effects, Moeran developed a dependency which handicapped him for the remainder of his life. His later problems have been attributed to his war wound to the head, but this is incorrect. By 1930, Moeran had become an alcoholic.
He married the cellist Peers Coetmore on 26 July 1945. Although the marriage was not entirely happy, it inspired two of Moeran's finest late works, the Cello Concerto and Cello Sonata.
He died suddenly in 1950, probably from a cerebral haemorrhage, in Kenmare at the age of 55. He was found in the Kenmare River and it was at first assumed he had drowned. However, an inquest later established that he had died before falling into the water.
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Capriol Suite: IV. Bransles (Version for Full Orchestra)
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - War...
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Released on: 1990-09-01
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Composer: Peter Warlock
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Moeran: Serenade in G, Nocturne - Warlock: Serenade, Capriol Suite
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Released on: 1990-09-01
Conductor: Vernon Handley
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Composer: Peter Warlock
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Serenade For Tenor, Horn, And String Orchestra, Op. 31: VI. Hymn (Presto e leggiero)
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Elgar Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op.47 艾爾加 序奏與快板 作品47 エルガー 序奏 アレグロ Score Sheet 譜 谱【Kero】
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Elgar Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op.47
艾爾加 序奏與快板 作品47
艾尔加 序奏与快板 作品47
Elgar Introducción y Allegro para cuerd...
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Elgar Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op.47
艾爾加 序奏與快板 作品47
艾尔加 序奏与快板 作品47
Elgar Introducción y Allegro para cuerdas
エルガー 序奏 と アレグロ
Classical music Música clásica クラッシック 古典音樂 古典音乐
#Elgar #Introduction #Allegro
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Allegro
Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47, was composed in 1905 for performance in an all-Elgar concert by the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra. Scored for string quartet and string orchestra, Elgar composed it to show off the players' virtuosity. Though initial critical reception was lukewarm at best, the score soon came to be recognized as a masterpiece. The work, which is roughly twelve to fourteen minutes in length, is like a multi-layered symphonic poem for string orchestra, with several prominent themes.
The work is dedicated to Samuel Sanford, who had been instrumental in having Elgar awarded an honorary doctorate of music at Yale University on 28 June 1905,[2] where the Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 was played for the first time at such a conferral ceremony.
The piece opens with a tutti descending fanfare, which segues into a major-key moderato section, interspersed by an Allegretto e poco stringendo section consisting of two measures in length. Foreshadowing into a slow, lyrical theme played by the solo viola, Elgar cascades between solo voice and orchestra by use of echo. Elgar writes that this theme is a quotation of a song sung by a distant voice that he had heard during a holiday in Wales. An expressive, romantic section leads into a recapitulation of the opening fanfare and Welsh theme, ending the Introduction and transitioning jovially into the Allegro.
The Allegro begins with a theme in G major built around a quarter-eighth-eighth note motif. 21 measures of nonstop sixteenth-notes build from piano to a powerful forte as the piece arrives at a hemiola-infused G major restatement of the Introduction's opening fanfare. Instead of a development section as would be expected in traditional sonata form, a new theme is introduced, a vigorous fugue in which the piece returns to the opening key of G minor. In a letter to his good friend A. J. Jaeger ("Nimrod" of the Enigma Variations), Elgar referred to this section as a "devil of a fugue". After the fugue concludes, the piece's themes are all recapitulated in G major, initially begun by a unison orchestra before dividing across echo between orchestra and solo quartet. With the Welsh theme repeating a succession of three times before striking a momentous fff, on which the orchestra is in unison again (see Polyphony), it is this time echoed by the solo quartet, a change from the rest of the piece. The Welsh theme appears in all its splendour in a triumphant coda for the fifth and final time, before ending with a ternary perfect cadence followed by a G major chord in which the whole orchestra plays pizzicato, except for the double basses, who play with their bows.
Introduction and Allegro was composed in a neo-resurrected form of the Baroque concerto grosso. However, such solos are not confined solely to the solo quartet, but rather are distributed ever so often among the accompanying orchestra, such as at the first transition entering the Allegro. The solo quartet, however, often blend back into the orchestra, but rarely play exactly the same notes as the accompanying orchestra.
Polyphony dictates much of the piece, often with multiple themes or motifs interleaving with one another. Since polyphony is the most complex of all musical textures, it comes as no surprise that Introduction and Allegro is an attempt to show the virtuosity of each musician performing the piece.
Much of the piece focuses on the tremendous virtuoso-technicalities within the violin parts. After all, the piece "fully [reflects] Elgar's first-hand knowledge as a former violinist himself". This however adds complications in the lower-frequency instruments, particularly in the bass part, which can clearly be seen as one of the most challenging of string orchestra repertoire. This, however, could be Elgar reminiscing to the Baroque concerto grosso form, in which the cello and bass parts are sometimes the same.
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Elgar Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op.47
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艾尔加 序奏与快板 作品47
Elgar Introducción y Allegro para cuerdas
エルガー 序奏 と アレグロ
Classical music Música clásica クラッシック 古典音樂 古典音乐
#Elgar #Introduction #Allegro
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Allegro
Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47, was composed in 1905 for performance in an all-Elgar concert by the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra. Scored for string quartet and string orchestra, Elgar composed it to show off the players' virtuosity. Though initial critical reception was lukewarm at best, the score soon came to be recognized as a masterpiece. The work, which is roughly twelve to fourteen minutes in length, is like a multi-layered symphonic poem for string orchestra, with several prominent themes.
The work is dedicated to Samuel Sanford, who had been instrumental in having Elgar awarded an honorary doctorate of music at Yale University on 28 June 1905,[2] where the Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 was played for the first time at such a conferral ceremony.
The piece opens with a tutti descending fanfare, which segues into a major-key moderato section, interspersed by an Allegretto e poco stringendo section consisting of two measures in length. Foreshadowing into a slow, lyrical theme played by the solo viola, Elgar cascades between solo voice and orchestra by use of echo. Elgar writes that this theme is a quotation of a song sung by a distant voice that he had heard during a holiday in Wales. An expressive, romantic section leads into a recapitulation of the opening fanfare and Welsh theme, ending the Introduction and transitioning jovially into the Allegro.
The Allegro begins with a theme in G major built around a quarter-eighth-eighth note motif. 21 measures of nonstop sixteenth-notes build from piano to a powerful forte as the piece arrives at a hemiola-infused G major restatement of the Introduction's opening fanfare. Instead of a development section as would be expected in traditional sonata form, a new theme is introduced, a vigorous fugue in which the piece returns to the opening key of G minor. In a letter to his good friend A. J. Jaeger ("Nimrod" of the Enigma Variations), Elgar referred to this section as a "devil of a fugue". After the fugue concludes, the piece's themes are all recapitulated in G major, initially begun by a unison orchestra before dividing across echo between orchestra and solo quartet. With the Welsh theme repeating a succession of three times before striking a momentous fff, on which the orchestra is in unison again (see Polyphony), it is this time echoed by the solo quartet, a change from the rest of the piece. The Welsh theme appears in all its splendour in a triumphant coda for the fifth and final time, before ending with a ternary perfect cadence followed by a G major chord in which the whole orchestra plays pizzicato, except for the double basses, who play with their bows.
Introduction and Allegro was composed in a neo-resurrected form of the Baroque concerto grosso. However, such solos are not confined solely to the solo quartet, but rather are distributed ever so often among the accompanying orchestra, such as at the first transition entering the Allegro. The solo quartet, however, often blend back into the orchestra, but rarely play exactly the same notes as the accompanying orchestra.
Polyphony dictates much of the piece, often with multiple themes or motifs interleaving with one another. Since polyphony is the most complex of all musical textures, it comes as no surprise that Introduction and Allegro is an attempt to show the virtuosity of each musician performing the piece.
Much of the piece focuses on the tremendous virtuoso-technicalities within the violin parts. After all, the piece "fully [reflects] Elgar's first-hand knowledge as a former violinist himself". This however adds complications in the lower-frequency instruments, particularly in the bass part, which can clearly be seen as one of the most challenging of string orchestra repertoire. This, however, could be Elgar reminiscing to the Baroque concerto grosso form, in which the cello and bass parts are sometimes the same.
- published: 10 Mar 2022
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SMUS Large Ensembles Concert 2015: String Orchestra performs Sonata for Strings
The String Orchestra performs Jean-Marie Leclair's "Sonata for Strings" at the Large Ensembles Concert on January 21, 2015. The concert showcases the Senior Sch...
The String Orchestra performs Jean-Marie Leclair's "Sonata for Strings" at the Large Ensembles Concert on January 21, 2015. The concert showcases the Senior School’s musically inclined students who participate in our concert bands, orchestras and choirs.
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The String Orchestra performs Jean-Marie Leclair's "Sonata for Strings" at the Large Ensembles Concert on January 21, 2015. The concert showcases the Senior School’s musically inclined students who participate in our concert bands, orchestras and choirs.
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- published: 23 Jan 2015
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