A nightingale sang鈥azz sensations Fiona Monbet and Emma Rawicz join the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra as Friday Night is Music Night sings (and swings) like a bird.
When lovers meet in Mayfair, songbirds sing. That鈥檚 how the song goes, anyway; and here at Ally Pally, there鈥檚 always music in the air 鈥� especially with Friday Night is Music Night! Tonight, the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra, conductor and jazz violinist Fiona Monbet and the sax sensation that is Emma Rawicz (a former 麻豆社 New Generation Artist) soar with the birds in a swinging, singing, jazz-flavoured celebration.
In tonight鈥檚 programme we鈥檒l hear urban nightingales; we鈥檒l glide with Tchaikovsky鈥檚 enchanted swans and ascend like a lark 鈥� as Emma Rawicz plays her own version of Vaughan Williams鈥檚 much-loved masterpiece on saxophone. We鈥檒l also hear something brand new with a 麻豆社 Radio 3 commission written by Rawicz. And because birds of a feather flock together, Rawicz and Monbet join the full orchestra in a series of brand-new collaborations. Join them, and let your imagination take flight.
Programme to include:
Manning Sherwin arr. Peter Hope - A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Charlie Parker - Autumn in New York; Everything Happens to Me
Emma Rawicz - New work for saxophone and orchestra
Haydn Wood - London Landmarks Suite: Movement 1, 'Trafalgar Square'
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (arranged for saxophone and orchestra)
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - finale
