Saturday, 10 November, 11.00 and 14.00, Great Guild
LeNeSOns and Elgar’s Wand of Youth
Conductor Andris RASMANIS
Programme:
Edward ELGAR The Wand of Youth
Edward writes a few childish small-scale pieces for his relatives in teenage years, and composes some dances while working in the Worcester Lunatic Asylum. Fast forward forty years, a seasoned Elgar adapts his childhood works for an orchestra, turning them into elgaresque chimes, butterflies, fountains, tame and wild bears, fairies and giants, catnaps and bright sunlight.