Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme connecting Vaughan Williams’s lyrical Serenade for Music – written for Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood – via Radiohead and the jazz of John Coltrane and Duke Ellington to the exhilarating invention of Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita. We also hear a world premiere from French-British soprano and composer Héloïse Werner.
British Sign Language-interpreted by Sean Chandler
There will be no interval
Evelyn Glennie © Philipp Rathme and Brigitte
Programme:
John Coltrane arr. Harry Baker Welcome
Duke Ellington arr. Harry Baker It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it Ain’t Got That Swing)
Héloïse Werner The Wood Pigeon (BBC commission: world premiere)
Vincent Ho Sandman’s Castle (excerpt)
Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel (excerpt)
Caroline Shaw Partita – Sarabande
Antonín Dvořák Czech Suite, Op. 39 – Finale (Furiant)
Ralph Vaughan Williams arr. R. Douglas Serenade to Music
Evelyn Glennie & Philip Sheppard Orologeria aureola
Radiohead arr. Simon Hale Pyramid Song
Meredith Monk Panda Chant II
Performers:
Evelyn Glennie (percussion)
BBC Singers
Fantasia Orchestra
Tom Fetherstonhaugh (conductor)
