Celebration of the Sea
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This event took place on Friday 3 July 2015.
- Friday 3 July 2015
- Lowestoft Marina Theatre
Celebration of the Sea
Fri 3 Jul 2015
Lowestoft Marina Theatre
Need to know
Repertoire
- Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance: Overture
- Sullivan HMS Pinafore: Overture
- Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
- Elgar Sea Pictures
- Vaughan Williams Sea Songs: March
- Binge Sailing By
- Coates By the Sleepy Lagoon
- Khachaturian Spartacus Suite No.2: Adagio
- Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Features
- Nicholas Cleobury Conductor
- Jeanette Ager Mezzo-soprano
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Location
Lowestoft Marina Theatre
350 years after the English Naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft, join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as they celebrate all things nautical!
Led by popular English conductor Nicholas Cleobury, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs rousing renditions of the Overtures to Gilbert and Sullivan favourites The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore.
Up-beat and jovial tributes to Naval history continue with music from Vaughan Williams’ Sea Songs, Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Coates’ By the Sleepy Lagoon, which invokes the tranquil peace of being by the sea. This theme continues with Binge’s Sailing By, which is noted for being played every night on BBC Radio 4 before the late Shipping Forecast.
Closing the concert is English composer Henry Wood’s tribute to the sea shanties of the Victorian era; from fast paced jigs to the calm before the storm.