Overview
BRILLIANT BRITS: ELGAR AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
January 8-10, 2016
Helzberg Hall | Kauffman Center
The celebrated American conductor Robert Spano leads a program replete with British composers. The concert opens with an excerpt from Oliver Knussen’s opera, based upon the children’s book Higglety, Pigglety Pop! Cellist Timotheos Petrin makes his KCS debut in Elgar’s Concerto, which mirrors the troubled soul of a man who witnessed the horrors of World War I. Vaughan Williams’ “London” Symphony, written before the Great War’s outbreak, is an affectionate tribute to the city. Bravo & Masterworks Series