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2010 - 2011 Season
Brian
Wright, our Music Director, writes:
It is with immense pride that I introduce MSO’s Centenary Season. Our celebratory season includes two exciting first performances, both commissions by the Society. Well-known local composer Malcolm Riley gives us Fairmeadow, an “overture for Maidstone”, and one of our country’s most distinguished composers, John McCabe, also a Kent resident, presents a new suite of three concert hall “portraits” taken from his acclaimed ballets based on Arthurian legend.
I’m delighted to welcome some of our most popular soloists of recent years to celebrate with us, led by our President and master-pianist John Lill playing his favourite Brahms. The eminent German violinist Ulf Hoelscher brings the virtuoso thrills of Tchaikovsky and the superb clarinettist Emma Johnson plays one of Weber’s highly entertaining concertos. There’s also a welcome return for the brilliant young pianist Tom Poster in Beethoven and four of MSO’s horn-playing alumni take time off from their top professional orchestras to join us in Schumann’s famous Concertstuck.
With magnificent orchestral works by Rachmaninov, Schubert, Elgar, Holst, Dvorak, Walton, Britten and Mahler, our season has something to slake everyone’s thirst for classical music and there’s really nothing like the buzz of live music-making. Please support us, help spread the word and make our Centenary Season a truly bumper musical celebration.
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