hertfordshire chamber orchestra
2025
The next Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra concerts:
Saturday 13 September 2025
St Nicholas Church Harpenden
Sunday 14 September 2025
St Mary-at-Hill, London EC3
Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) Pandora - ballet suite (movts 1, 3, 5)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Appalachian Spring
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony no.6 in F major, Op.68 'Pastoral'
leader Benedict Wong
conductor Edmon Colomer
Tickets:
Harpenden £20 (£15 concessions) under 18s free
Harpenden Trust office Mon-Fri 10am-12pm, 90 Southdown Road, Harpenden
T: 01582 460457
London £20, under 16s free
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The Allies enlisted ballet as a patriotic art form during World War 2. Exiled in Cambridge, Catalan Roberto Gerhard, a refugee from Franco's Spain, commissioned by the Ballet Jooss which had fled Hitler's Germany, portrayed Pandora's release of all the evils of the world. At the same time, Aaron Copland partnered with Martha Graham to evoke America and its pioneer spirit in 'Appalachian Spring'.
Our programme featuring the significance of musical expression during times of upheaval concludes with Beethoven's idealised 'Recollections of Country Life' created in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars.

