From Bach to Star Wars, students enjoy orchestral spectacular
GCSE and A-level music students enjoyed a spectacular live concert at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, exploring the evolution of orchestral music from the Baroque period to modern film scores and popular hits. Report and photos by WILLIAM PARKES
GCSE and A-level musicians had the amazing opportunity to travel, with the Music Department, to The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to watchalive orchestra play a set
works concert called The Orchestra Through the Ages.
The Halle Orchestra played pieces from across all exam boards and offered a unique experience taking students from original chamber orchestrasto the full orchestra we know today. This vast span of time meant that many genres were covered during the concert, including pieces written in the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, and pieces from musicals, films and evenpopular music!
Music students said they found the music enjoyable, especially the performance of Star Wars and the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Director of Music, Mr Barker, said: "It’s always great to take students out to listen to live music and especially to the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to watch the Halle Orchestra.
“We heard superb performances including some solos by students of the Royal Northern College of Music. It was also wonderful to see so many other GCSE and A-level music students from around the north of England gathering in one place."
After the concert, some food was needed, and so we enjoyed a meal in a nearby restaurant for a post-concert debrief before heading back to Ripon.
Programme:
John Williams – Star Wars Suite 1: Main Title
Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1 Movement 2: Largo-Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach – Badinerie BWV 1067 Final Movement
Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 104 (London) Movement 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Magic Flute Overture
Modest Mussorgsky – Night On a Bare Mountain
Igor Stravinsky – Adoration of Earth, Augurs of Spring and Ritual of Abduction from The Rite of Spring
Bernard Herrmann – Prelude and Murder from Psycho
Rodgers & Hammerstein – You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel
Anna Clyne – Night Ferry
Hans Zimmer – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Toto – Africa
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