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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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