The John and Helen Schaefer Masterworks series
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
David Morgan, tuba
Coleridge-Taylor: Danse nègre from African Suite
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture
Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Saturday, February 1, 2020, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 2, 2020, 2:00 pm
Catalina Foothills High School
$55 • 70 • 85
- Coleridge-Taylor, son of a Sierra Leone Creole physician and English woman, achieved such success when touring the U.S. in the early 1900s that he was likened to Mahler
- The hugely popular The Wasps Overture is a brilliant marrying of Ravel’s French influence with broad, thoroughly English humor
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“The Vaughan Williams concerto is robust with fantastic melodies and gives the audience a chance to really hear what the tuba can do, both technically and musically.”
- A work of both seriousness and humor, Elgar dedicated the variations “to my friends pictured within,” each variation a musical sketch of one of his close acquaintances
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