Join Durham University Orchestral Society on a fantastical journey through some of the most popular and colourful pieces for full symphony orchestra.
The journey begins with adventure and heroism in the form of the instantly recognisable Overture to ‘William Tell’ by Rossini, famously featured as the theme music to The Lone Ranger. It is followed by Dorothy Howell’s symphonic poem ‘Lamia’, based on Keats’s popular poem of the same name, about an all-consuming but ill-fated love.
After the interval, the orchestra dazzles with Berlioz’s surreal and psychedelic masterwork, ‘Symphonie Fantastique’. The piece tells the story of a gifted artist who, in the depths of hopelessness and despair because of his unrequited love, poisons himself with opium. The music depicts the artist’s drug-fuelled hallucinations, beginning with a masked ball and an idyllic countryside scene and ending with a march to the scaffold and an exhilarating climax.
Tickets
£16 (£13 concession)
