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One Giant Leap | Hertfordshire Chorus

When
Sunday April 28, 2019 at 15:00
Where
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Tickets
£26, £22, £16, £12; £5 for children under 18
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  1. One Giant Leap - James McCarthy
  2. Toward the unknown region - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  3. Serenade to Music - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  4. Adagio for Strings Op 11 - Samuel Barber

A concert of lunar-themed works, featuring the world premiere of British composer James McCarthy’s One Giant Leap. Commissioned by the Chorus to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, McCarthy’s work for large chorus, children’s choir and symphony orchestra conveys the spirit of adventure, the sense of risk and the danger of the Apollo mission.

Conceived as a love story between the Moon and the Earth, the text includes quotes from poet Sara Teasdale, President John F Kennedy ('We choose to go to the Moon') and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong. We get a sense of danger in the Moon's closeness in a line from Shakespeare's Othello: 'She comes more nearer earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.'

In the first half of the concert, Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music begins with the words ‘How sweet the moonlight’, his Toward the unknown region is about travelling to the unknown, and Barber’s Adagio for Strings was played at President Kennedy’s funeral – six years before his moon landing vision was fulfilled in 1969.


Venue
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
South Bank
London
London
SE1 8XX
England


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