Reid Chamber Concert

Date:

Thursday, March 2, 1978

Time:

7.30 pm

Season/No:

1977-1978

An Evening of Twentieth-Century Music directed by Geoffrey King and Peter Nelson

Venue:

Reid Concert Hall

Participant(s):

Geoffrey King - director
Peter Nelson - director and celeste
John Grant - flute
Raymond McKeown - clarinet
Alasdair Malloy - percussion
Francis Cowan - guitar
Richard Beauchamp - piano and harmonium
Winifred Freeman - harp
and
Poppy Holden - soprano

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s):

Programme

Four Songs for voice, flute, harp and guitar (1953) ... Stravinsky 1882-1971

Five Sarcasms for solo piano, op. 17 (1912-14) ... Prokofiev 1891-1953

Refrain no. 11 (1959)... Stockhausen b. 1928
for piano, celesta and vibraphone

Herzgewächse op. 20 (1911) ... Schoenberg 1874-1951
for high soprano, celesta, harmonium and harp

INTERVAL

Abime des Oiseaux ... Messiaen b. 1908
(3rd movement of Quatuor pur la Fin du Temps)

Corona Stellarum for piano solo (1978) ... Geoffrey King b. 1949

'Trope' - Ave Maris Stella (1972) ... Monteverdi-King

Gaelic Songs (1978) ... Geoffrey King
for flute, clarinet, percussion, celesta, piano, harp and guitar

1. Sad am I
2. What will I do now?
3. Mór, do you think you'll marry?
4. A thousand curses
5. 3 Dances
(a) I wish the other pullet would lay
(b) Bogiemen in the hill
(c) Bring Alan over to me
6. My dear one
7. The old woman would reel

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