Elsewhere / SCO: The Voice of a City – A Family Concert
SCO: The Voice of a City – A Family Concert
5 February 2011 at 3:00pmTickets for this performance are now available from the Usher Hall box office 0131 228 1155 / www.usherhall.co.uk
Blake: The Land of Counterpane
Harper: The Voice of a City
Garry Walker: conductor; John Kitchen: organ; Pupils from The Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools Choirs (The Land of Counterpane); A Chorus of 300 voices from schools and communities across the City of Edinburgh (The Voice of a City)
Edinburgh composer Edward Harper called on school choirs, adult choirs and the full SCO for his affectionate portrait of his home city. The One O’clock Gun goes off with a bang, and he brings the streets alive, populating them with many of the city’s most celebrated residents: John Knox, Miss Jean Brodie, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sean Connery. This is a heart-warming concert opening with The Land of Counterpane, Howard Blake’s setting of poems from Stevenson’s collection A Child’s Garden of Verses.
Presented In association with Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust as part of Let's Get Lyrical.
PLEASE NOTE This event takes place at the Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2EA.
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