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Concert Programme
Winter/Spring 2021
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Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Born: 7 May 1840 Votkinsk, Vyatka Governorate (present-day Udmurtia), Russia
Died: 6 November 1893 Saint Petersburg, Russia
The remarkable Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) In this final form it soon made such a strong
was a fine composer in his own right as impression that when the composer went
well as one of the most important figures in on his various conducting tours of Europe
Russian music, especially in terms of giving and America, its popularity compelled him to
encouragement to his fellow artists. The feature it on practically every programme.
leader of the nationalist group known as
The Five, he also enjoyed the confidence That the music is constructed in sonata
of Tchaikovsky, to whom he made several form is less important than the sequence
suggestions which resulted in significant of characters and events it contains. For
projects. Among these were the Manfred Tchaikovsky’s plan was to capture the
Symphony and the fantasy-overture Romeo essential moods and characters of the
and Juliet. drama rather than attempt to retell the story
in music. The opening music is a character-
In 1869, following the completion of his own study of Friar Laurence, while the other
King Lear Overture, Balakirev recommended themes clearly outline their relationship to
to Tchaikovsky that he should compose a the strife between the Montagues and the
concert piece on Romeo and Juliet, even Capulets, the love of Romeo and Juliet, the
going so far as to write down a few bars resumption of inter-family hostilities, the
of music which could be used in relation poignancy of the tragic final scene.
to the feuding Montagues and Capulets.
Tchaikovsky undertook the project readily In 1893, the last year of his life, Tchaikovsky
enough, but decided to create his own drew upon material from his fantasy-
musical material. However, after the first overture to compose a further setting of
performance in 1870, he was dissatisfied the love scene, now in the form of a duet for
with the results. It was only when he tenor and soprano. In the event this scene
returned to revise the score, a full ten had to be completed by Sergei Taneyev.
years later, after he had composed the 4th Had Tchaikovsky lived longer, he might have
Symphony, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin, turned his Romeo and Juliet into a full-scale
that Romeo and Juliet became known in the opera.
version which is familiar today.
Terry BarfootBiography 3
Frank Zielhorst
Conductor
Since January 2018, Frank Frank worked as assistant- In the last few years Frank
Zielhorst has held the position conductor for Garsington has done a lot of education
of Principal Conductor Opera, where he conducted and outreach work ranging
Designate with Sinfonia Viva. the Philharmonia Orchestra from rehearsing Ulster Youth
Before that, he worked with the and the Garsington Festival Orchestra to CPD trainings for
BSO as their Young Conductor Orchestra during productions music teachers and from big
in Association. of Intermezzo and Pelleas et school’s concerts with the BSO
Melisande. He has assisted to working with people on the
Recently, Frank had the on several other opera autistic spectrum with Sinfonia
opportunity to conduct productions with the BSO, the Viva.
orchestras the Ulster Dutch Reisopera, Opera Zuid
Orchestra, the Residentie and the Dutch National Opera Frank is a devoted advocate
Orchestra The Hague, the Academy. of music in the community and
Prague Symphony Orchestra believes music can and should
and the Tomsk Philharmonic. During his studies at the touch everyone.
Royal Conservatoire in The
Frank has always combined his Hague with Jac van Steen and
symphonic work with operatic Kenneth Montgomery, Frank
productions and has in recent had the opportunity to assist
years conducted performances and learn with all professional
of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser orchestras in The Netherlands
von Atlantis, written during through a programme set up by
the Second World War in the Kersjes Foundation.
the concentration camp
Theresienstadt, and Woody
Allen’s Death Knocks on music
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