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A BOY WAS BORN
A Festival of Music Celebrating 100 years of Benjamin Britten
The composer Benjamin Britten worked prolifically in almost every genre. His mastery of the orchestra, his brilliant and versatile approach to musical drama, his ingenuity and sensitivity in the marriage of music and text in song, and his commitment to making music accessible to all by composing for amateurs and children has ensured Britten’s music still continues to enthral and capture the imagination of audiences around the world.
A Boy Was Born aims to encourage performance of Benjamin Britten’s music throughout the 2013 centenary year. The festival will promote better understanding of his life, work as composer and musical innovator; in addition to examining the broader context of arts and culture in the 20th century.
Encompassing talks, concerts, films, musical theatre productions and education work, internationally acclaimed visiting artists perform alongside community musical organisations in the city in this yearlong Sheffield celebration of music, culture and Benjamin Britten.
For more information, ticket purchase and to request a festival brochure please visit the separate festival website
OTHER EVENING CONCERTS
SHEFFIELD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA MASTERWORKS CONCERT
SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY, 7.00pm
Firth Hall, Firth Court, S10 2TN
Mendelssohn: Overture, The Fair Melusine
Mozart: Piano concerto No23 in A major, K 488
J C Bach: Sinfonia in D Major, Op.18 No.4
Mozart: Piano concerto No27 in B-flat major, K595
All seats reservable. Early booking highly recommended
Tickets: Adults (including senior citizens) £10, £6 concessions, people in receipt of state benefit, students, under 18s, £6 Friends of Sheffield Chamber Orchestra (membership card required).
SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Premieres of compositions by Student Composers
TUESDAY 5 MARCH
Duration: 90 minutes +20 minute interval
Tickets: £8.50, £6 (concessions over-60's) £3 (under 26s, students, unwaged)
WHERE LIGHT FALLS - SONGS ABOUT JONI MITCHELL
TUESDAY 9 APRIL, 7.30pm
Duration: 90 minutes + 20 minute interval
Tickets: £8.50, £6 (concessions-over 60s), £3 (under 26s, students, unwaged)
The highly influential singer-songwriter and versatile musician Joni Mitchell is best known for hit songs such as ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ and ‘Woodstock’ but there is far more to her work than this.
GOLDILOCKS
TUESDAY 16 APRIL, 7.30pm
Duration: 90 minutes +20 minute interval
Tickets: £8.50, £6 (concessions-over 60s), £3 (under 26s, students, unwaged)
Premiered in 1958, the musical Goldilocks is a parody of the silent film era. Set in New York in 1913 Goldilocks tells the story of Maggie Harris, a glamorous leading lady of the theatre who is retiring to marry her millionaire fiancé George Randolph Brown. Before Maggie can retire she has one final engagement, as she is contracted to star in manipulative film director Max Grady’s latest flick. In Goldilocks we see Max’s attempts to woo Maggie away from her fiancé, aspiring actress Lois Lee’s attempts to seduce Max and the constant interference of Bessie, who owns the barn where much of the movie is shot. Not to be confused with the famous Children's story of the same name, this rarely performed sparkling adult comedy features witty, unforgettable songs with lyrics by Jean and Walter Kerr; a dazzling score composed by Leroy Anderson (famous for orchestral works Sleigh Ride and The Syncopated Clock) is performed by Department of Music students.
THE GOLD RUSH
SUNDAY 28 APRIL, 7.30pm
Duration: 90 minutes +20 minute interval
Tickets: £6
A sequel event to last year’s ‘Metropolis’ we screen another silent film with live orchestral accompaniment performed by the Sheffield University Salon Orchestra. Directed, written, starring and music by Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush sees Chaplin’s most memorable character ‘the tramp’ travel to the Klondike, Canada in search of gold. The film Chaplin himself repeatedly said he wanted to be remembered for is an epic slapstick comedy, packed full of outstanding gags, romance and heartbreak and features one of the most brilliant dance sequences in film history; ‘The Dance of the Dinner Rolls’
SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SUNDAY 12 MAY, 7.30pm
Duration: 90 minutes +20 minute interval
Tickets: £8.50, £6 (concessions over-60's), £3 (under 26s, students, unwaged)
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Ben Gaunt: New Composition
Walton: Symphony I
George Nicholson (conductor)
James Bingham (conductor)