CANVAS
Performance details
20th, July 2023, 6:00PM
SOLD OUT
Callaway Auditorium, UWA conservatorium of Music
ABOUT
a2. orchestra presents Canvas – an exploration of the connections between music and visual art. This is university student-run, student-led and student-organised concert featuring a highly talented, motivated and skilled 45-piece orchestra conducted by Josh Spirek. The program includes soloist Tiffany Lee performing Debussy’s Cello Sonata as well as original compositions by Josh Spirek.
PROGRAM
Josh Spirek - The New Pictures at an Exhibition
I. Promenade I
II. Expressionism - The Scream
III. Promenade II
IV. Impressionism - Japanese Footbridge
V. Promenade III
VI. Pointillism - River in Saint Clair
VII. Promenade IV
VIII. Abstract Art - Nude Descending a Staircase
IX. Promenade V
X. Surrealism - The Persistence of Memory
XI. Promenade VI
XII. Art of Today - Mum Turns 60
XIII. Finale
Claude Debussy - Sonate pour Violoncelle et Piano
(arranged for solo cello and orchestra)
I. Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
II. Sérénade: Modérément animé
III. Finale: Animé, léger et nerveux
Väinö Raitio - Four Colour Poems for Piano
(arranged for orchestra)
I. Haavan lehdet (Aspen Leaves)
II. Punahattaroita (Red Cloudlets)
III. Kellastunut koivu (The Yellowed Birch)
IV. Auringonsavua (Haze)
Franz Liszt - Hunnenschlacht, Symphonic Poem No. 11
ARTISTS
Conductor & Composer - Josh Spirek
Solo Cello - Tiffany Lee
Artist - Daniel Glover
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