Queen's Platinum Jubilee Concert
Price: £13 - £55
inc. per ticket commission
Featuring
Programme
- Trad. God Save the Queen
- Walton Orb & Sceptre: March, 7′
- Grainger Molly on the Shore, 3′
- Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto, 14′
- Elgar Nursery Suite: 2. The Serious Doll 5. The Wagon Passes 6. The Merry Doll, 7′
- Coates The Youth of Britain, 5′
- Selaocoe Ka Bohaleng , 6′
- Dembélé Shaka, 8′
- Wiseman Elizabeth II, 4′
- Loewe My Fair Lady (Selection), 12′
- Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, 13′
In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate seventy years of service having acceded to the throne in 1952. To mark this momentous occasion, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will perform a selection of works from throughout her reign that is as rich and varied as Her remarkable life and times.
The repertoire for the evening includes music from the coronation, works dedicated to The Queen and HRH The Princess Margaret, music from across the Commonwealth, personal favourites of Her Majesty (My Fair Lady) and even bagpipes, in former Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise.
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CONCERTS BY COACH
There will be coaches to and from Cheltenham & Lichfield for the concert on 2 June, click here to find out more.
Tickets
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